I think that this is the most personal handmade book I've created. I was very intraspective and used a lot of symbolism. I used a book by Margaret Sidney called "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew", published in 1909. I was a little disconcerting that I was altering this book, as it was my…
The concept for this handmade journal was to track what I did each day during the summer. Instead of the usual journal entry pages I normally create, I decided to use handmade paper, fold it in half and cut slits to create pockets. I then decorated tags and used them for the journal entries. Each…
One summer I decided to keep a journal of the things I did. This is the cover. I used scrapbooking paper, embroidery thread, book board, and crepe paper to create the cover and to bind it. The leaves are real. I had dried the leaves the previous year and decided to use them here. I…
I recently took a CPS Creative Workshop with Cathy Bluteau (Journaling from Inside). This page was inspired by the workshop but was not one of the assigned pages. In the workshop we did a page on our roles. I did one called "My Roles". But these seemed to cover my earthly roles, like mom, sister,…
I recently took a CPS Creative Workshop with Cathy Bluteau (Journaling from Inside). This page was inspired by the workshop but was not an assigned page. This was a fun page to do. I used scrapbooking paper as the base. Then I added a piece of torn paper which was actually paper I used to…
I recently took a CPS Creative Workshop with Cathy Bluteau (Journaling from Inside). This is the fifth and last page from the workshop that I created. I went a little overboard with decorating this page – but what the heck – this is about dreams afterall. I cut up some pretty cards I had on…
I recently took a CPS Creative Workshop with Cathy Bluteau (Journaling from Inside). This is the second page from the workshop. These are my earthly roles. I created another page named "Spiritual" which was not part of the workshop, but addressed my spiritual roles.
I recently took a CPS Creative Workshop with Cathy Bluteau (Journaling from Inside). This is the fourth page from the workshop. I used tags and ribbon on this page. I highlighted the priorities I'm making in my life and listed a few examples of things that relate to the priorities.
