Whistlestop Web Tour, Volume 30
The latest Whistlestop Web Tour is posted at MQResource. This week I shared links to several projects for you to make your own journals and books.
To be honest, I am great at keeping lists and “after the fact” journaling (blogging) but I have never been good at creative journaling. I have a journal that I keep for my dyeing – plans and results and I have numerous journals all over my sewing room with bits of clippings, lame sketches and notes. But I don’t have any discipline around journaling. So I’d like to know how you journal.
Do you keep journals? How do you use journals? What do you keep in them? Do you have a journaling routine? What kinds of journals do you use and why?
Please share, inquiring minds want to know!
I’ll admit that I’m no good at keeping a visual journal. I do, however, have a bookbinding journal, where I document my “recipes” (measurements, materials, etc.) for my production work.
I also document how long certain tasks take and record measurements for custom projects. I find that this journal has been invaluable as it keeps me from reinventing the bookbinding wheel.
I have been keeping a journal since grammar school. It is not much of a visual journal, but I have been trying to at least add in doodles and studies for my creative prompt responses (see http://artquiltmaker.com/blog/tag/creative-prompt/ for more information). I also use different colored pens and that makes it cheerful and interesting. I use the journal mostly to chronicle my daily life and work out issues I am dealing with. I don’t usually go back and read them.