Book of Days

While making a daily visit to Brenda’s beautiful blog, Coffee, Tea, Books and Me, I found this post about daily journaling that she had read on another blog. On her own blog, Eyes of Wonder, Jewels had posted an explanation of how she journals her day/life. Visiting there I knew I had found not only another beautiful blog to visit each day but also a way for me to journal about my own days. I have often in the past tried to keep a daily journal but eventually became overwhelmed and then in the end stopped writing at all.

Now with supplies that I found I had on hand, I have created a wonderful place to record my life and my memories. The journal began with magazines I had lying around and then cut pictures and words etc out of to use to decorate the journal pages:

I organized them into gallon size storage bags in general categories such as food/cooking, nature and garden, home etc and then gathered together in a small jar; felt pens, scissors and glue stick.

I  found a sketchbook I had that would be perfect for my project and decorated it very simply by pasting a picture on the cover. I also found a basket to keep everything together in one place (it sits on an endtable next to “my spot” on the family room couch):

I have been having so much fun with this journal. I use a page for each day generally. I decorate the page with pictures that “speak” to me that morning and fill the page in with writing throughout the day. I put lists of things to do, what we are having for supper, litttle things that occur during the day etc. I even stapled in the samples of my first attempts at crocheting granny aquares :) Here’s a look at a few days:

I am so grateful for Brenda and Jewels for sharing on their blogs. This journal has become a part of my daily routine right along with my already established seasonal notebooks and reading journal . Maybe I’ll post about those another day :)