All right, I love my journal. I do! I love the pen flying across the paper, leaving behind the hen scratch that is my hand writing. I use different coloured pens to write with, each day gets its own. I don't write every day, just when I feel I need to, a sort of therapy I suppose. Lately, much of my journal entries have been like my blog, depressing. But I think I'm going to start something new.
Smash book! Think of scrapbooking but without the Martha Stewart's of the world. (In case you didn't know, I loath Martha Stewart. She is not, in my most humble opinion, 'a good thing'.) Anyway, the basic rules are... there are no rules. If you like it, smash it in. Postcards, tickets, receipts from that coffee shop you love. You can also art up the pages with quotes and magazine cut outs. Whatever you like, do! I love that there are no rules like with "traditional" scrap booking, which always seems to have pretty pictures and stickers and dye cut frames and whatever. Not my gig.
I'm "organic" in my cooking, pouring a bit of whatever herb in my hand and saying 'yeh that's about right' before dumping it into the pot. I want the same freedom with my memory books.
Anyway, I just started one and so far I have a page from the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. I glued a copy of my ticket along with a 10 of hearts playing card that I found. David Tennent is my favourite Doctor and the card seemed perfect to smash in.
I like the idea of just writing things I like, or places I've been, or whatever. So we'll see how it goes.
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