Mod Podge Magazine

So, even though I thought I understood that completing this journal would be a challenge, it would seem that I vastly underestimated how hard it is to destroy.

One of my favorite pages that I did in my journal was the one instructing me to glue in pages from a magazine and circle words that I like. This page was practically made for me for several reasons.

1. I love cutting magazines. I don't know why, I just always have. Actually, I think it's because the paper just cuts so well, even when you're using incredibly dull, childproof scissors. When I was little I spent so much of my time just cutting up pages from catalogs that had come in the mail, and placing all of the strips and scraps of paper into old mayonnaise jars.

•  Anyways, the point of that little anecdote was to emphasize the fact that I was way too excited about cutting a magazine. 

 2.   I really like to glue things. There's something about glue that just works better than tape. Unless it's the really fancy roll of double sided tape. But glue can bind all things, so I was very excited.

3. Most importantly, I was instructed to circle the words that I like. This task was made for me. I love words. I enjoy circling words in books that I read for leisure-- so this, this was perfect. In the various articles I selected there were so many lovely words... fluke... shouty....leggy... adventure... wilderness... thwart...jaunt... clever...punctuate. It was so lovely. 

Now, because I was so excited about the project, I literally spent hours making it look exactly how I thought it should look. And just to be sure, I sealed the page with mod podge, because even though the point is to wreck the book, I could still protect my project.
 

Wrong.

 I was so so painfully wrong with this assumption. For those of you that are considering mod podging pages in a book, I urge you to not. The glue like substance is-- though smelly-- wonderful at binding to everything. Including itself.

Though the pages I had decorated were completely dry, the humidity in the air allowed the two pages to permanently cling together when the journal was closed. I have peeled apart these two pages countless times-- each time wrecking the journal more and more.


It has resulted in the following.

Mod Podge also makes pictures have a glare, so, that's that.

As promised I tried to get some better pictures of my journal. I even used a fancy camera, but I'm not in any way, shape or form a good photographer. I tried to be fancy with the angles, and this was the result. The point is, the magazine is peeling off of itself like crazy, and now, it does not at all resemble what I had in mind.

The once perfect images and quotes all regarding the incredible Harry Potter have been tainted almost beyond recognition.
Okay, so they're still very recognizable, but the once perfect collage is now just a mess.

It's painful to realize that no matter how hard I tried to protect this particular page from getting destroyed, my efforts ultimately backfired.
 Embracing the destruction of something that you spend so much time on is a difficult task.

But I have realized, that now, there's space for new creations where the pieces of magazine of torn off.

Where my meticulously planned out creation has flawed, there is now room for some spontaneous creation. Which can mean many things, but most likely, it means glitter.