I’ve created a series of journals that encompass my talents for formatting and ideas about what I’ve wished I could go to the store and purchase. As I thought about how to organize one’s thoughts, recipes, and projects, I filled many pages with notes. The (current) end result of my efforts is listed below.
1: Recipe Journal. This fits neatly into a kitchen drawer and allows you to write in your own recipes. Spaces provided for recipes start off at a half-page and grow to a full page, two pages, and four pages. Different layout options are provided for recipes with fewer and more ingredients. The journal has over 100 pages dedicated to recipes, and I shared my husband’s authentic Spiced Sweet Tea recipe (from South Carolina!) as an example.
One of the things I wanted to capture with the Recipe Journal was handwriting. It’s a comfort to follow the instructions someone else wrote and see their handwriting in years to come, especially in those times when you can’t be together. Recipe Journal can be passed around to others, capturing not only their recipes but their handwriting as well. Recipes can be collected among a family or group and given as a gift to others.
2: Dream Insights Journal. Dreams have led to scientific breakthroughs and inspired songs, books, and all sorts of other works. They’ve helped people solve mysteries and problems. They’re gifts from our unconscious selves, containing messages that can help us with our everyday lives.
This journal can help you record those elusive images and sensations that you experience while dreaming. Keep it next to your bed with a pen or pencil so you can scribble down what you’ve dreamed about before it’s forgotten… and do it quickly, because memories of dreams can fade fast! Once you’ve recorded this information, you can research the symbols in each dream, such as the objects, people, animals, and activities you observed. By paying attention to these details, you might gain some helpful insights for your waking life.
The journal has over 100 pages dedicated to your notes and contains information about dream images and what they could mean.
3: Psychic Readings Journal. This can be a fun journal for anyone who follows psychics and astrologers online, or who travels to psychic hotspots like Sedona, Arizona, or Cassadaga, Florida, to indulge in a one-on-one psychic reading to find out what’s forecast for their own future. In addition, many like to study tarot and oracle cards, astrology, the I Ching, runes, and other items.
This can be a fun path to self-discovery as you learn to interpret symbols and signs. Recording these messages can help keep your thoughts, goals, and ideas organized. The journal has over 100 pages for notes.
4. Creative Life Journal. I used a draft version of this journal to–you guessed it–organize and launch my journal series. This was the first journal I was inspired to create and the hardest one to figure out the artwork for the cover, opting in the end for abstract artwork, since so much of what we create in life is individual to each of us.
Divided into twelve chapters, it starts off with a long Chapter 1 that allows you to get your thoughts together, then write out affirmations for the life you wish to create. Your affirmations, repeated daily, can cause some positive changes in your life. Further chapters allow you to explore the aspects of what you might need to make something happen, ranging from the mundane (like getting a permit) to the fun (like brainstorming and including other helpful people in the process). Whether you want to change careers, become a better cook, learn to play a musical instrument, renovate your home, or do something random and artistic, these prompts can help you get your thoughts together and create what’s in your imagination. The journal has over 100 pages dedicated to your notes.
And, because it’s fun, I’m providing journal prompts on my social media channels, for you to think about or write about. There’s two posted per week, unless it’s a holiday or I’m on vacation.
COMING LATER!
Information Journal. This one will be more in-depth and is taking a bit of time to get together. I imagine it’ll be longer than the other journals since it will encompass so much information. My goal is to create a journal that can be used to organize all the information about bills, investments, loans, property, important contacts, taxes, login information for a variety of categories, and other stuff that you’d want to have together just for the day-to-day as well as when you or someone you trust needs to deal with an emergency.
Travel Journal. We all like to leave the ordinary behind sometimes. My plan is to look through my many travel journals and include the best ideas from each into a new travel journal for Word Nerd Media. No concrete ideas about this Travel Journal currently, although my cover artist is pretty inspired by the idea of making a cover for it and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with.
STAY TUNED!
I’m going to share related information from time to time on this blog as well as on my Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. Recipes will be included! They will all be low-salt, wheat-free, and generally healthy because those are the only types of foods I’m able to consume. If you don’t have to eat like I do… hey, congratulations. Seriously.
As always, thanks for your support… and thanks for tuning in!
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