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Sharing Journals
Creating a journal or diary that combines scrapbooking and
journaling, is a journal that you can share. Writing about
experiences and feelings, and including photos, ticket stubs,
magazine or newspaper clippings, fortune cookie fortunes,
drawings, and more, enhances and further explains those
experiences and feelings, becoming a treasured keepsake for you
and for your family and friends to share for years to come.
You can create a Sharing Journal for just yourself, for your
family, friends, for work, and groups. You can even pass the
journal around to friends and family, and have them contribute
pages, with their own ideas, feelings, pictures, experiences, and
more.
Materials needed:
Blank book, photo album, or a scrapbook
Colored pens, pencils, crayons, erasers, etc.
Glue
Scissors
Photo corners
Photos, ticket stubs, drawings, magazines, etc.
Decide if your book has a theme or not. Is it a family shared
journal, a book about your friends, a book about your birthday or
anniversary, an everyday "what is happening in my world today"
book, or is it a book about "my dreams"?
To start your Sharing Journal -- Using a blank book or a
scrapbook, you can glue and write throughout the whole book. Glue
your item, say a movie ticket stub, (photo, fortune cookie
fortune, articles or scenes from magazines, etc.) anywhere on the
page in your book. Then write about what you felt and
experienced, who you were with, what dreams and ideas were
stimulated. Write above the ticket, to the side, at the bottom,
all around. Be creative with both the placement of your ticket
and the writing. Use pens, pencils, crayons, of different colors
on one page to give the "feel" of your experience. Write in upper
and lower case, write large and small, slant your words on the
page. Glue letters or phrases from magazines on the page.
Whatever you do, whatever it looks like, is absolutely perfect.
Have fun with your book. Be proud of what you are creating. There
is no right or wrong way to create your journal, it is your book,
do what feels right for you. Then, share your journal.
Using a photo album - The same ideas can be incorporated using
a photo album that has plastic sleeves. Insert a photo into a
plastic sleeve. Then, in as many other sleeves as you want you
can use colored paper, index cards, anything you want to write
on, and tell the story of the picture. You can include a card
that you have cut to size, and that says just what the photo
means to you. You can write in detail about the vacation spot the
photo shows. Writing about the photo of a family member, friend,
favorite pet, favorite pet, your spouse, can be a wonderful way
to record and share what each photo meant to you.
Children can also create their own Sharing Journals. Purchase
a large book that is blank, or create your own from copy paper
and a stapler. Get out the crayons and colored pencils and have
the kids draw their day, their favorite experience with their
pet, or any idea they want to draw. After they are done drawing
sit with them and ask about what their drawing means to them. If
there is a cat in the picture ask them to write the word cat and
anything else they want to add in writing about their
drawing.
Your experiences are treasured keepsakes. Combining the visual
elements with your words creates an extended experience that you
can view through the years to come. Your Sharing Journal.
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Doreene Clement, a cancer victor and author of The 5 Year
Journal, is currently writing a new book, Blessed, about her life
and her cancer experience. For more information http://www.the5yearjournal.com
480.423.8095
Copyright 2005 OMDC, LLC All Rights Reserved
Feel free to pass this along to your friends. About
Journaling, http://www.the5yearjournal.com
 MORE RESOURCES updated Sat. December / 21 / 2024
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