Adding pages to my US stamp journal

I can honestly say that it has been tremendous fun working on pages and adding content to this vintage US postal stamp junk journal that I made. I brought it along with me to the San Jose Stamp Show a few weeks ago and sat down with a local stamp dealer who helped me locate some of the sets of stamps I was looking for. There is a whole culture of stamp collecting that I know very little about. With my little journal, I am learning a lot; more that I ever expected to.I wrote about the journal a few posts ago. It looks like this.I took apart an old 1947 catalog from the H C Harris & Co and interspersed pages along with blank tea-dyed pages to make a new journal. Since I have blank pages that face catalog pages, I thought it would be fun to make collages with the stamps shown on the catalog page on to the facing page. Here's an example:I was looking for these parcel post stamps issued in 1912-1913. I showed the stamp dealer my page, and he was able to locate them pretty easily. I purchased these 5 for about 35 cents a piece. I could have gotten all of them, but I didn't want them all. I just wanted enough to make a nice collage.Fo the background, I wanted something that conveyed "transportation", so I went with an old California map and tore a page out of a railroad time book I have.I found a couple a couple of these pamphlets at a local antique dealer a few months ago. They contain so much information about a single month of work.The pamphlets are fragile and falling apart so I decided to use some of the pages in some of my art pieces. I tore out a page for my parcel post stamps.In addition to completing this page, I completed a page with stamps of national parks. I got all of these stamps for free. The folks at the San Jose Stamp Club are so generous!I used a survey map as a background on the left side.On the facing page I had an old envelope with three national park stamps (by the way, an envelope is referred to as a "cover" in the world of philately), and an old, damaged postcard that I tore to use. I love how it's so bug-eaten.Since the catalog includes US and North America, I have pages with Canadian stamps too. Here's one I did using a whole lot of repeats.I have more to do, but I am happy to wait -- to put it off for a time when I will happily sit down to it and make something interesting to look at.