Want to teach at an art retreat where creativity meets catharsis… and a little autumn mischief? 🍂✨

I’m officially opening up applications for Muses (speakers/teachers) for the Autumn Muse Art & Junk Journal Retreat (coming this September)!

If you're new here, we run things a little differently. We don't do high-pressure perfectionism or perfectly curated studios. We believe art & junk journaling is therapy without calling itself therapy. We are all about the moments when you rip paper because the feeling demanded texture, or sew signatures like a crafty surgeon with a mission.

I am looking for Muses who want to share their magic:

✂️ The spread‑makers, the chunky‑journal architects, and the notebook‑transformers who say “rules are fake.”

✨ The season of making , sparkle, and creative chaos is HERE — and so is your invitation to join our Design Team.

We’re looking for makers who:

🌼 keep it real

🌼 create wildly + imperfectly

🌼 love creating like it’s a personality trait

🌙✨ Monique, the Misfit Crafter, and the rest of Misfit Team, want to welcome all of our new magic making souls!!! You’ve just stepped through the studio door into a world where scraps become stories, ideas become adventures, and every creative heart is celebrated exactly as it is.

In this little corner of the universe, we believe in: 🧵 the magic of making 📜 the poetry of paper 🎨 the joy of messy hands 💛 and the comfort of creating together.

Settle in and let your imagination stretch its wings. Your creative spark belongs here — and we can’t wait to see what you dream up next. ✨🕊️

✨We would love to get to know you better! Feel free to introduce yourself!

✨ Hello Beautiful Creative Souls! ✨

I hope this little note finds you well, inspired, and surrounded by scraps, splashes, textures, and all the delicious bits that make your art and junk journals come alive. If your hands have been busy making magic lately — or even if you’ve just started gathering ideas — we would love to see what you’re creating. Share whenever you feel called; your art lights up our whole space. Here are a couple pics fron the album I made for my neices graduation.

Monique also asked me to sprinkle in a heartfelt message from her: she sends her sincerest apologies to those who haven’t yet received their prizes. Life has a way of tugging us in unexpected directions, and she needed to tend to a few things these past couple of weeks. She’s back now, refreshed, inspired, and eager to create alongside all of us again. All…

Thank you so incredibly much for your participation and your patience with us this past week. Below is the list of winners from the Retreat.

If you won a physical prize, please email us your address to contact@junkjournalretreat.com if you have not already done so. If you won a digital prize, you will be contacted with redemption information shortly.

Physical Prizes (email your mailing address to contact@junkjournalretreat.com)

Glue Stick

Lauralee Cosgrove

Kelli Kern

✨ Hello Sparkling Creative Souls! ✨ We have a few little treasures to share with you — and while it may sound like I’m about to knock over a whole bottle of glitter… I promise, no actual spills today.

1. A Heartfelt Thank‑You Monique and I want to wrap each of you in the warmest, most glitter‑dusted gratitude for attending, participating, and sharing your magic in this year’s Art & Junk Journal Retreat. Your comments, posts, pictures, emails, and messages have filled our hearts to the brim. Truly — you’ve lit us up so much that we’re already weaving together the next gathering: The Autumn Muse Retreat. All I’ll whisper for now is… keep September open, especially around the first day of fall. 🍂 More details will flutter your way soon.

2. A Peek Behind the Curtain We’re working as quickly and carefully as two humans with glitter in their hair can — uploading videos, finalizing prize…

And we've got today's winners, thank you random number generator wizards on the internet:

•Shawn

• Noreen

• Melanie

• Monica

You're Creative Play Collage Kit is on its way to you.

The next round of prize winners for the Artful Play Collage Kit are:

• Shell

• M

• Heather

• Annette

The kit is on it's way to your inbox now.

Congratulations to Art, Nancy C, Nikki, and Sarah.

Your Artful Play Collage Kit is magically on its way to your inbox.

There's still time to enter the give away.

I'll choose 4 more names tomorrow.

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Hello All!

Two short things.

1. I would like to apologize to those of you that are having issues with downloads. We have been working on the issue since yesterday and are hopeful we will have a resolution soon. I do not want to promise a specific time frame but know that we have been and will continue to do what we can to fix it. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. We truly appreciate it!

2. What are your weekend crafty plans? There are only a few days to go until the retreat kicks off! Woo Hoo! I will be working on some albums, making a couple new shirts, making some paper crafts, and trying to figure out what to do for Artisan Pass Day! I am open to suggestions.....

I hope everyone has a restful and peaceful weekend! oooooo We could take some time this weekend and…

Hello All!!

If you come across technical problems, please send a detailed email to contact@junkjournalretreat.com for assistance. It is easier for me to track and check the issues we come across that way as I have to check in multiple areas.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we all learn a new platform together! You are greatly appreciated!

The doors have opened, the sparkles are swirling, and our little corner of the creative universe just got a whole lot brighter. ✨📜🌙

To everyone who has just joined us for the Art & Junk Journal Retreat — we’re so happy you’re here.   Truly. Your presence adds a new color, a new texture, a new story‑thread to this magical gathering. 🎨🧵💫

We’re gearing up to begin soon, and the energy already feels like a soft hum… pages waiting, scraps whispering, ideas stretching awake. 🌈📖🪽

While we settle in together, let’s warm up the space:

🌸 Share your latest junk journal or art journal creation below!

It can be a finished page, a messy middle, a tiny corner, a background you love, or even a scrap cluster that made your heart flutter. There’s no pressure — just a gentle invitation to sprinkle a little inspiration into the room. ✂️🖌️✨

Let us know all about you if you wish to share.

What do you hope to find here?

What do you like to do? Make junk journals, art journals, create in journals, journal in journals, plan in journals, all of the above?

Do you make anything else?

Did you attend any of our other retreats?

If so what did you like best, how was it?🎤

VIDEO ISSUES RESOLVED!!! if you still have issues refresh your screen, log out and back in, close your browser and reopen it. If that still does not work let us know.

🎨 Welcome to the 3rd Annual 2026 Art & Junk Journal Retreat!

Also I made this video to help with email notifications. Better like it. 🥰

Welcome to our dedicated online sanctuary! 🏡