Crafting Dilemma: Was I Wrong to Rip Up a Book?

The useful part

I so enjoyed making a junk journal last month that I signed up for an online course to learn more about collaging with scrap paper. It consisted of 5 video classes over 10 days showing how to turn scraps of paper into material suitable for a work of art, then how to put them together into pictures. The paper includes things you might have around the house like magazines, tissue paper, and regular white paper, but also old books.

How it works

• I admit to having a twinge of conscience over using that last thing as part of the project.
• It was decades old and falling apart, I have no personal attachment to it as I've never been a member of the Church of England and I'm now Pagan.

Details worth keeping

I got over my qualms and tore out pages, painted them, ripped them...