Bikini-clad girls sat sipping canned cocktails by the shallow end of a swimming pool. Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air. But these sunbathers weren’t ...

From direct-mail advertisements, magazines and used envelopes, the scraps that humans are inclined to discard serve as the tools Jennifer Hansen uses to craft her junk journals — an eco-conscious and ...

I kept a daybook consistently throughout my high school years (ah, the ’90s) and well into my twenties, and I love to look at them now. Part scrapbook, part diary, they’re a chronicle of my teenage ...

I haven’t been this excited since I was 17 and toured Europe on my own. I am now 70, and this thrill is not nearly so dangerous, but just as fun. It involves a new art or craft called junk journaling.

Have you ever thought about collecting coffee shop loyalty cards or paper bags? Thousands of people are doing that or something similar around the world, using materials others could consider junk to ...

Opting for paper receipts and putting wrappers in tote bags instead of trash cans, young people are saving “junk” to collage in their journals. Yes, scrapbooking and collaging found items, aptly known ...