New Notebook, Freshly Covered

Here's one of those notebooks I posted about yesterday - all "dolled up" in pretty paper and ribbon. To answer a question from Elizabeth, the size I use is 6 x 9 1/2 inches. I like this smaller size, even though I end up folding some of my clippings in half. And to answer a question from Michelle, I don't use the dividers in any specific way ...  I just work straight through the book, day by day. It's a rather crazy hodgepodge of things, but when I look back at these journals (and I've been keeping them for years) I truly get a feel for that time in my life. It's pretty self-explanatory, but I use the Mary Engelbreit page-a-day calendar on the front of every journal to mark the start-date. And finally, I add a coordinating ribbon as pagemarker.

An important part of my journaling sytem - and one I fall behind on rather regularly - is to sit down and read back over the journal, ideally once a week, but at least once a month. The hope is I won't just forget all those ideas and notes I found important/inspiring enough to "capture" in this way. I don't really have an index system for my journals, though several readers have asked about/recommended this, and it does certainly make sense. So I'm going to try indexing this next journal and see how that works. (You know I'll keep you all posted!)

And in completely unrelated news, look at what yummy thing arrived in my mail just now:

The Emma Bridgewater catalog ... ooh, so many nice things. Susan Branch, by the way, is over in England right now and posting a travel journal at her wonderful blog. She posted about a visit to the Emma Bridgewater factory the other day, and I enjoyed it very much. :)

Well my friends, I hope your day's going well. I seem to be falling behind all over the place this week so I'm a bit slow with posting at the moment. I thank you, though for stopping by and sharing in my day ... till next time, take care of yourselves and your loved ones ...

I'll see you again very soon!

❤