Remember that lovely scene in the movie Practical Magic, where we got a peek at the Aunti’s spell book? It was the quintessential Junk Journal/ Altered book. And , for me at least, it really jump started my interest in the medium.
I’ve been thinking it would be really cool to have a swap where folks made up a page in a spell book that had the recipe for something magical … Like “Spell to attract crows to the garden” , or “Spell to ensure the mail arrives safely” etc etc.
You could specify ingredients, intentions, make believe ritual actions, special magic words, meditations, time of day, phase of moon, anything like that … could be very meaningful .. could be very goofy even.
There would be some sort of standard size for a “folio” on which you put your spell (like a folded sheet, and then you could do a title on one side, and there would be enough space on the other side to make words and art. This way, all the pages could fit to match in one binding.
And then they would swap it with someone else’s page.
Maybe it could work as a one to one, and then when you were done, you could try another page swap with someone else, like the claim a theme swaps?
Maybe , alternatively, everyone would make up three of the same one, and swap, so that everyone has three new pages for their spellbook?
And if there were repeated rounds, people could bind them all together into their own fun spellbook for their shelf at home.
