Journal For Life

The Musings of A Journal Enthusiast 

[journal4life]

Yet another before and after addition to my journal collection 🍃

The journal? Michaels

The stickers? Dollar Tree

Here we go 🩷

[journal4life]

Another piece to the adventure

[journal4life]

Maybe it’s excessive, but I finally found the charms for my pocket Daredevil moleskine ❤️🎉

[cabeswaterwhisperer]

The 3 things I always take with me

[alwaysbeenjessica]

thinking a lot about journaling & journaling systems. i’ve been rereading the collected journals of writers i love (susan sontag in particular) and texts on writing by other writers i love (joan didion and bell hooks im looking at you!) and wondering how the simple act of taking pen to paper has become so so complicated. perhaps it’s due to marketing and hyperconsumerism, but journaling has become an activity more about the stationery themselves rather than the act. and i absolutely love stationery, i love my fountain pens and the wonderful experiencing of writing on creamy midori md paper. but i have been so focused on the materials, of perfecting a journaling system with the perfect pens, notebooks, and accessories, rather than the actual action of journaling, of writing to know what i think, paraphrased from didion.

[emolgana]

i don’t even like red much but i was inspired by the love and trip TN ❤️‍🩹

[commonrblog]

Obsessed with my new a6 journal cover and fountain pen ✒️ Cover is from Fin Studio in colour chocolate 🫶🏻

My a6 has one book for lists and another for any journaling when I’m out and about.

Still using my a5 for entries at my desk which is where I do most of my writing.

[elderjourney]

[commonrblog]

Made myself a new journal cover 🖤

[austere-academy]

My forever home combination ❤️‍🩹

[commonrblog]

Currently reading . . .

[cabinetteofcuriosities]

neat little stack of life savers. 💫

[mina-m]

🩵🤎⚜️ Old map spread today. Was planning on writing my entry on the map but I really liked adding all the symbols instead (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) ⚜️🤎🩵

I want to go back to some of my inktober drawings that I don't think did justice to my vision and redraw them on my new journal starting with the map from day 29.

If there's anything in particular any of you guys would like to see redrawn, let me know in the comments or wherever.

[mina-m]

♦️ 𝓥𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓹 (𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓼) ♦️

I have a feeling this might get flagged for all the wrong reasons because it's clearly a map 🙄🧐✨ but I'll just take the risk bc it feels like REAL ART™ and I really wanted to post it. I've had this idea for ages!!! Someone really hated me in a past life, I think ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯ 🏹⚔️🗡️✨

[mina-m]

𝓝𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓭 ; 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓪𝓵

Guys! Ignore my last post, this is actually me 🐑 another version under the cut bc the lighting is off in both of them, I took the pic so late at like 7pm but I really wanted to post it today:/

[mina-m]

I'm starting a separate journal mostly for reading and notes (I'm not planning on sharing much of it) but I did want to share the cover I made inspired by "The name of the Rose" because it's one of my favourite books ever and I'm planning on rereading it this summer (So excited to be using this journal while I do! AND I made a bookmark for it!)

Paintings I used for the collage under the cut ©

✨ "The Allegory of Good and Bad Government" or "Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country") by Ambrogio Lorenzetti 🧡

✨ Parts of the "Legend of St. Francis" frescoes by Giotto di Bondone ❤️

TNOTR moodboard because I can't help myself ❤️🧡🤎

[mina-m]

Today, I went to church, I read some more of the Name of the Rose and then worked on this journal. Tomorrow, who knows...

[mina-m]

𓆉 𓆝 𓇼 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓵 𓇼 𓆝 𓆡

It's finally time! ANDDD it feels so rewarding, I have waited for this long enough!

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ ...If you guys want to leave a (faceless) emoji in the comments, I'll make a spread with cute little doodles to remind myself of my precious online family (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠) I'd love to have as many of you as possible ✨🤍💛 ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

Vibes I'm going for:

[mina-m]

🍁🤍🍂 ₍⁠₍Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale⁾⁠⁾ 🍂🤍🍁

Lauren DeStefano, Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)