FIND AN OLD HARDCOVER BOOK, SAY FROM THE SALVATION ARMY, GLUE IT, PIERCE IT, CUT IT, ADD COLLAGES, PAINTINGS, POEMS, PICTURES.....

and you have "Altered Book Art". I found myself early the other morning on the web reading the list of Meet Up Groups and came across, yep an altered book art Meet Up group . At least an hour or more had passed as I got lost in the ABA (altered book art) world of blogs and web pages. The example below is from one of many online.



OR USE FOR STORAGE ONLY.........

I tear photos of architecturally interesting buildings out of magazines and I've accumulated a rather thick pile of these pages. I've tried every way possible to keep these pages both organized and easily accessible, and making a visit to a thrift shop and picking up large used books, as in used atlas's for a couple of bucks each, using a wrinkle free paste glue and placing the magazine pages right to the book pages gives me a fast and easy filing system. Note, every few pages I take out a few of the books pages by using a utility knife and cutting right down at the binding of the used book.