It's a very windy and wet day and I wondered what I could blog about. I try to post every second day but I don't always succeed. I thought today I'd post about keeping a journal. I looked up the difference between a journal and a diary and got this answer:
A journal is a personal record where you pen your thoughts, observations, and experiences, while a diary is a book where you note down important things to keep track of them.
I think what I do is a combination of the two. The journal I'm currently using has had room for 6 years. I'll need a new one for 2023.
I'd love to be able to sketch or paint to decorate my pages but since I don't have any talent in those areas I use collage to brighten up the pages. When I have extra time I work ahead so here a few of my upcoming pages. (My "bookmark" is an old necklace repurposed)
I have other books that I use for different uses. This one has lots of lists in it and bits glued in. Things I've cut out of magazines that I found inspiring.
This one has Random Ideas that I may or may not implement.
So, do you keep a diary or journal? If you do, do you try to make it pretty? I just wondered.
Thanks for visiting, Granny M.
These are exceptional. Each a work of art with a fabulous personal touch. I guess I don't do either unless I consider my blogging a journal. You should thumb thru your pages a share a page or two with us!!!
ReplyDeleteI have tried keeping a journal, but I always abandon it before long. The only times I am successful are when I am traveling on an extended trip. Then I have faithfully written every night before going to bed and those travel journals are full of detains and impressions.
ReplyDeleteHaha, we are so much the same! I have kept a journal for several years now and decorate mine with (quite awful) little sketches, and also have a couple of other books for different things (ideas and plans, quotes and sayings, clothing lists and ideas, random thoughts). I love the way your book covers are decorated. I went on a course once where they got us to glue collage into little books. It was so much fun and reminded me of the lovely stickers my grandmother used to give me to stick into my scrapbook (when I was a lot younger than now!).
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great day :) xx
I have journaled sporadically for several decades, more recently my blog has replaced the journal, which was a hybrid affair--thoughts, happenings, weather. In recent years with retirement and then covid lockdowns enforcing more sameness to our days I've jotted weather and errands in the daily spaces of a calendar. These rather mundane notes hopefully give my memory a nudge when needed Just now, planting/gardening notes make for a good record. I often wish I could sketch or draw, but I have no talent in that line.
ReplyDeleteDear Granny marigold, sorry, this evening I'm not able to translate . But: Fine pictures. I stepped on a hornet 2 hours ago, Terrible pain. Hope to be able to sleep some hour in the night. Best greetings to you, thank you for listening to me.
ReplyDeleteI love how you decorate your journals. I have journaled off and on for many years, but I'm not consistent.
ReplyDeleteNo I do not journal unless you count the blog! I probably should write some things down...I have an old journal that i write births etc in:)
ReplyDeleteI keep a journal, but it has mostly words in it, not pictures. I love your pages with the collaged bits and think it would add a lot of interest to a journal. Hope you didn't lose power with the windstorm. It's been wild!
ReplyDeleteNo I don't keep a journal but I have been witing down my main ingredient for meals and one little thing about the day. I like the other journals you h a very. I should start doing that instead of writing things on paper here and there! Nancy
ReplyDeleteOh, what a great post! I love your journals. I do keep little notebooks, but you are inspiring me to do more.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing your journals and reading about how you decorate and what you write in each one. I've tried at various times to keep a journal/diary but the only one I've been halfway successful with is my prayer journal where I write down the people I'm praying for along with going back and writing the outcome of those prayers, if I ever find out an outcome.
ReplyDeleteTake care my dear friend.
Blessings,
Betsy
I used to keep a journal...but dont now. I never tried to make them petty. Do you plan to leave your journals fircithers to read or do you plan to burn them or something?
ReplyDeleteI've kept a diary since I was about 14 years old (I am 88 now) but over the years I had some lapses in recording anything and now it has morphed into a combination of diary and journal. I do have what I call my scrapbook journal which I decorate the page with various things and add quotes etc. I love what you are doing. That's such a neat idea... the magazine cutting and who would have ever thought of using an old necklace as a book mark. You just inspire me so much. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI kept a journal/diary for years and years before I blogged. No, I didn't make it pretty - just a regular notebook.
ReplyDeleteBlogging has become my journal/diary now.
Actually last year I took all my many journals and threw them all in our fire barrel out back.
Oh I love your journals! And I love the way you are decorating them. I am trying to journal, I really am, it has sort of turned into a spot for grousing and carrying on but I guess that is ok. I just don’t want it to turn into a to-do list! You have given me inspiration!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea G.M. -keeping a Journal...just a great thing to do.
ReplyDeleteHow very creative and beautiful! I do keep several journals/diaries, each with their own "topic" but I don't decorate mine - I'm not creative that way. I tried scrapbooking years ago but found it too fiddly and realize that is not my forte at all. Thanks for sharing!
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Such an interesting topic! I was very confused about those two terms, and in my mind I had them backwards. That's a good clarification. Yours is really lovely, and so personal. I always called what I did diary-writing. I wrote in my diary every single day from when I was in 2nd grade until I was into college. At last I tapered off. But it was excellent writing practice. I still have books that might be called journals/diaries, that I write in occasionally, but less and less as I age. I think my blog replaced my journaling, in a way.
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