I have lots of blanks books that I use to keep recipes, clippings, gluebook type collages and doodling, but I've really never had a book that I said was "my journal".
I decided that the book I made in Karla's Journal Workshop would be an actual journal for the month of Feb.
To emphasize it, I wrote "This is my journal" on the inside cover. Pretty clever... That's a good way to start if you aren't sure what to write.
The paper in our class kits was vintage in all different shades of cream, white, sepia and tan. I used red toile tissue paper, red flocked paper from Paper Source and some advertising labels to add some color to my pages, and create journaling spots.
This is my first page- the picture of the girl cutting the doll's hair was the cover of a 1930s magazine. I liked the picture because I thought the girl was being just a little bit brave in cutting her doll's hair- I was always too afraid to do that.
On the right side of the page is a quote from Coco Chanel:
"A girl should be two things, who and what she wants".
The quote comes from a collection that you can find on the Ipad App Nostalgic Musings by Hope Wallace Kearney. It's the best $.99 you can spend.
Throughout the book, I've added touches of red and journaling spots.
The envelope is to hold labels that I'll use later.
Some pages may not have any writing, just pictures.
Different pages are in different stages-this page is ready for writing- or something else.
Karla's kits had an extra large page from an 1880s journal full of receipts with great lettering. I'm not sure if she picked this one out specially for me, but I sure like it- it's a invoice for ironstone from the Alfred Meakin company. I have a lot of Meakin ironstone, but this is the first Meakin invoice I've ever seen.
Some people used ribbon to tie the signatures in their journals, but I'm more of a twine girl. A nice thing about this kind of binding is that it can be untied, and more can be added to it.
If you'd like to try making your own journal, Karla is selling kits- but I think she's selling them about as fast as she's making them, so if you don't see them in her store, email her to have her reserve one.
Yes, I picked it out for you! I knew you'd like that page. I'm glad to see you are using your journal. I've about filled mine too.
If this is Feb.'s book, does that mean we need to meet once a month to make more? I've been thinking they are pretty cool to have around, I could keep making them too.
Posted by: karla nathan | February 05, 2013 at 05:23 PM
Oh...look at that Meakin invoice! How fun is that? Your journal is really filling up!
Posted by: Laurie | February 06, 2013 at 05:38 PM
This is a perfect journal! I love all the fun things you included and it's so pretty! Here's a true story. The second-grade me got what was then called a "three-year-old doll" -- it was life size, about the size of a three year old. She had lovely, shoulder length brown hair. I decided she needed a bob and since mine grew back I was sure hers would too. I think my mother cried.
Posted by: jeanie | February 08, 2013 at 03:39 PM