Gina Anderson’s junk journal is full of collaged spreads of pictures and papers from vacations with friends, daily mementos and creative projects. But her favorite pieces of junk that she’s collected weren’t really ‘junk’ at all.

The Las Vegas woman once told an antique store owner about her hobby: a scrapbook-like craft that features ephemera, giving the artisan a chance to reflect and create beauty out of the little items in life. She asked for a brochure from the store as a keepsake to remember her trip visiting family in Arkansas.

Instead, the store owner offered a trove of supplies that would make a collector’s heart soar: vintage newspapers — including one published the day after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination — and a woman’s mid-century scrapbooks found at an estate sal

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