A junk journal is a creative and personal notebook filled with clippings, memories, scraps of paper and small stories from everyday life. The word “junk” doesn't cover waste, but everything we would normally throw away, but which in a junk journal gets a new lease of life: tickets, wrapping paper, book pages, envelopes, receipts, labels and other small paper treasures.
It is a place where you can be free and creative without rules. Where the quirky and imperfect is part of the charm. And where there is no right or wrong.
What do you use a junk journal for?
A junk journal can be used for:
to collect memories from everyday life, holidays or celebrations
experimenting with paper, stickers and tape
writing thoughts, lists or quotes
playing with expressions and textures
making mood boards and collages.
It can be calm and poetic, colourful and chaotic or completely simple. You decide.
What do you need?
You don't need much to get started. Find:
a notebook (preferably with slightly thicker paper)
paper you want to use: old newspapers, maps, books, wrapping paper
glue, scissors and optionally tape
stickers, stamps, pictures or other decorations
See our selection of journals and notebooks
Find stickers and decorations for your pages
Why junk journaling?
Junk journaling gets you using your hands and your eye for detail. It can be relaxing as a creative break, or deeply personal as a form of visual diary. Many people use junk journaling as part of slow living. A counterweight to the digital and the fast-paced.
You can make a mess
A junk journal is allowed to be messy. It can be ugly, colourful, stuffed, tailored or random. It is not a product – it is a process. And you are the one who decides how it should feel.
Do you want to get started? You can find everything you need for your junk journal at Plan & Plot – from Notebooks until stickers traditional paper joy in many forms.
