An artistic retard's attempt to fingerpaint
Decoupage 2
Originally uploaded by CarminaGitana. I decoupaged my Moleskine! I went to Pearl Paint for decoupage medium (and ended up spending 2 hours touching things, buying glitter pens and chatting with a random artist), and then, I basically acted like a happy kindergartener, fiddling with sticky stuff and cutting out pretty pictures. I gotta tell you, it's fun to glop glaze on stuff.
I think I like the end result. For one thing, I like the picture (I found it in a calendar of old French ads). My work isn't as neat as my friend's (who gave me the decoupage idea in the first place), but it still came out a lot less hideous than I was half-sure it would. And I managed not to stick any pages together. And it also makes my notebook all shiny. It reminds me - a little - of those laquered address books my parents used to have, the ones with the faux-Palekh designs on the covers. And it's all textured. I like touching it now.
Side benefit - the Moleskine has lost its intimidating "virginal" feel - I have been scribbling and doodling much more in it now that I've marked it as "mah proper-tay."