WIP: Journals

I have four journals that are a work-in-progress...not sure how that happened, okay, maybe it's because I'm a hoarder saver.

This first journal is my 2014 journal...it's basically all my instagram photos.  The journal itself is an old book that I altered.

I actually had too many photos just for the first half of 2014 that I've decided to do four books broken down by quarter...this book is first quarter (I'm a little behind) so it ends with March.

I've got the other three books ready to go...I just need to order my prints from Origrami.com for second quarter so I can get caught up!

This is my junk journal...I always have one going.  As soon as every nook and cranny is filled with junk I've kept from everyday life, I will start on a new one.

This is a sewn journal made entirely of various size patterned papers, newspapers, book pages, old envelopes, etc.  Anything I thought would work as a "page" was folded in half, then sewn down the middle.  Outside cover is brown kraft paper.  These simple and inexpensive handmade journals are my favorite.

You can see there's still plenty of room for little odds and ends, bits of papers and other goodies that I stumble upon daily.  Anything that I think is pretty, interesting or has neat graphic goes in here.

This is my "treasured things" journal made from an old book cover.  I took out the inside pages and added a three ring binder insert with patterned papers and other cardstock weight papers as the pages.

Only treasured things from my daily life make it in this journal...concert tickets, theatre tickets, business cards from my favorite people/shops, etc.   I started this journal three years ago and still have lots of space.

And this last journal is my "Explore Minnesota" smash book that turned into my summer bucket list journal.   It seems every summer, around mid-July, I get a little panicked because we haven't DONE anything and summer is almost over...so this year I made a summer bucket list consisting of 23 things I'd like to do...we have 15 completed with a month to go!

 And the book is almost filled!

There's nothing I like more than filling a journal...except maybe ice cream!

Hope you're enjoying your summer!

Call me Crazy...or just Lazy?

I've known for weeks that Shelby's four closest girlfriends (Anna, Annie, Carolyn and Kelly) were having a combined graduation party today. I had been toying with the idea of making all five of the girls memory books with pictures from 9th through 12th grade. Of course, being the procrastinator I am, I didn't officially decide "yes" until yesterday around 11:00am. With a one day window, I frantically loaded my pictures to a neighborhood drug store for printing, I thought I could get 1 hour service but unfortunatley I wasn't able to pick them up until 4:30 pm. No need to panic, I decided to cut all the papers, make the front and back covers and get everything ready while waiting for the pictures. I stayed up until 12:30 working away, and continued at about 8:30 this morning. After sending Tom to the store to get more adhesive (I think I literally used every single source of adhesive I had in my posession) I finally finished glueing, stapling, sewing and wrapping at 1:00...one hour to spare. Wow I'm good under pressure! {HUGE SIGH}

Well, we're off to the party!