Karen and I volunteered to go to Folsom, to help my friend, Keri's, Girl Scout troop earn their Book Artist Badge.

For centuries, humans have been developing methods to create and bind paper in order to share ideas, knowledge and inspiration with each other and with future generations. In this badge, try gluing, stitching and folding your way to shaping your own book. You’ll create some spectacular gifts and keepsakes.

We began our day with thrift store shopping in super fun Placerville.
Eight girls, all attentive, learned the most difficult of our bookbinding techniques. "Badges, we totally need badges."