Journaling for a Cause Day 15

Today was rough. It's so hard going back to work after the weekend, especially a good weekend. Hopefully this means the week will only get better.

The journal prompt for today was 50 random things about yourself. These were harder to think of than I imagined they would be! Also, I have a small journal, so it was impossible to fit 50 things onto one page... or even two. I had to tape three pages together! I kind of like the way it looks.

Okay so I've been trying since last night to upload the pictures, and every time I try, my internet connection changes to "limited connectivity." I don't know what's going on, but I'm giving up on trying for now. There is a picture at flickr, but I had to take it with my phone, so it's not a great picture.

Journaling for a Cause Days 11-14

I had a kind of busy end of week/weekend. Didn't so much get behind on my journal; just on taking pictures and uploading.

Day 11, Thursday, was "3 Things I Can't Live Without":

I decided to focus on things rather than the obvious here (family, friends, food, water, etc.).

For day 12, it was all about today. What did you do today? How was your day? Good thing this fell on a Friday, or else I would have had a rather boring journal page for this prompt!

I had a really good day Friday, hanging out with my mom. I really do hope to make that happen more often.

Day 13 was a page about your childhood dreams. Thinking of my childhood always makes me think of my cousin, "Sally." We were so close when we were younger, always at my grandmother's house together, spending the weekend there. We argued like sisters (she is 2 or 3 years younger than I am), but otherwise played really well together, with lots of pretending. Even though we are completely different people now (both different from our childhood selves, and different as in complete opposites of each other), when we do get together, it's like no time has passed.

And finally, day 14. This was a fun challenge. Find 5 things lying around to use on your journal page. I used a cute card I bought in the dollar section of Target Friday, a piece of ribbon I love, a piece of a tag from the purse I bought a few weeks ago, some shrinky dink charms I made that were useless because I forgot to punch holes in them, and a piece of woodgrain scrapbook paper. I love how it all seems to go together so well! Then I just wrote a little bit about how I'm feeling today. It's been a pretty great weekend.

Journal for a Cause Day 10

This was a fun one. Create a list that deals with books. I decided to make a list of my favorite children's books. Some of these are favorites from my childhood, and some are new favorites that I've discovered while buying books for my nephew and niece. The two newest favorites on the list are The Gruffalo and Goodnight, Gorilla.

Caught Up

Here are my pages for Journaling for a Cause, Days 7-9. And with this, I am caught up again. Feels great!

Day 7. Pretty self-explanatory. What are you thankful for? I listed a bunch of stuff, big and small. Punched the border with two different sized hole punches.

Here's Day 8, what are your go-to clothes? Mine are pretty simple--t-shirts, jeans, cotton skirts, tank tops, and flip flops. This was supposed to look like a paper doll page.

Finally, Day 9. If a book was written about you, what would the cover look like? Mine is pretty simple, with a (very crude) copy of the tattoo that is on my shoulder. Each star stands for someone in my life. I love that tattoo.

Journaling for a Cause Days 5 & 6

Once again, a trip to the beach has set me a little bit behind. I did take some paper and my pens to attempt to work on Day 5 on the trip down, but the entire ride was spent deep in great conversation with great friends, and I'm so glad. The beach was HOT, but the trip was a good one, and I'm so thankful for the weekend getaway.

Here are my pages for Days 5 and 6.

Day 5 was "all about the details," whatever details we wanted to write about. I decided to write about some of the details that make up me.

For Day 6, we had a "free page." A chance to write or draw whatever came to mind. I decided to just write what came out. These are some of the things running through my head tonight.

I'm hoping to get completely caught up tomorrow afternoon. I don't like falling behind!

Journaling for a Cause Day 4

Funny that we should be asked to journal about happiness today. This has been a rough week. I'm convinced that the universe was conspiring against me so that I would not make it to my beach trip this weekend. I did survive, however, and I have a greater appreciation for what happiness means.

Day 3

I'm back-posting this, because we were without internet yesterday.

We were supposed to use a repeated image and alter it. I couldn't choose just one image, though, so I altered a few different images. I never was good at following directions...

Day 2

I do intend to write more blogs and not rely only on journaling posts. It's just that I'm having a rough week and I don't want to focus on that here. The good news, though, is that I'm off Friday and I am leaving Friday afternoon to spend the weekend at the beach for a friend's bachelorette weekend. I'm so excited!

On to today's journal page...

Today we were to write down our goals for this journal. I want to use my journaling time as a way to put more creativity into my life, a way to reduce stress (no thinking about work allowed when I'm working on my journal!), and I really want to become less critical of my art. I really dislike spending so much time on something and then hating it in the end.

Journaling for a Cause-Cover and Day 1

A new journaling journey. I'm so excited for this one!

Here is my cover. I chose a graph paper filled moleskine notebook this time. I decorated the cover with a white paint pen, and I may or may not add to the doodles on the front there.

And Day 1. This is the "welcome" page, where we were to use 5 adjectives to describe our life right now. I added adverbs to my adjectives, because I never follow directions very well.

Thanks for looking!