another kind of adventure journal

I posted this journal page on my other blog (www.weRpiecework.blogspot.com) because it relates to that blog, too.  The journal page pictured here is from my everyday adventure journal-- a little butter box book.  I carry it with me all the time, and this past weekend was a good example of why I find it as essential as my car keys!  My friend Fran and I were at our favorite antique place, an enormous old tobacco barn stuffed with unimaginable objects, looking for old buttons to use in our recycled wallet-making enterprise. 

Sifting through some old magazines down on the floor in a dark and dusty corner, I spied a framed collection of old coin purses.  The frame was a  memorabilia-type frame, about 2 inches deep and hinged at the top.  The coin purses were pressed between the filthy glass and a deeply-stained ancient piece of foam rubber.  And what a collection!  There were about a dozen little purses and bags, some as small as about an inch and a half wide and high.  Some were elaborately embroidered evening-type bags.   One looked like a child's marble sack.  My favorite of all was a leather pouch stamped in gold foil with the words First Farmers Bank.

The collection was priced at $250, over my budget for sure.  But I had my journal, so I was able to sketch a few of them, and I'll be back there next weekend to draw the rest of them!