Category: journal

The family history trail – Part 2 Gillingham, United Kingdom Gillingham, United Kingdom I mentioned that our Dad served in the Royal Engineers a few years after the end of World War II. His father had also served with them and had been posted overseas during the war. One...

So around about this time every year I have these grand plans about how I’m going to keep my photos, memorabilia and memories for the year. This generally involves some kind of Project Life album. I start off with all guns blazing, I get very excited about new products,...

Yeah I know, time is a human construct, and it isn’t really 2011 anyway because a few years got skipped over a few centuries ago, and it’s just a normal day and a normal minute, and who really cares because the same time will happen in 24 different time...

The view from the car while Juniordwarf and I were waiting for Slabs to finish his errrands. Also, I wrecked my journal a bit more today. And these were ideas I came up with myself – not instructions from the book. Backing the car over it Pigstabbering it...

Earlier this year I bought a book called Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith. The subtitle of the book is ‘To Create Is To Destroy’. Bascially it is, as the name suggests, a book that you are supposed to wreck. Each page has an instruction for something you’re supposed...

This week I was very excited to learn that pre-orders for Project Life were now open. This is the second year I’ve done this project, and I use it for most of my photos. I still scrapbook the special occasions and the photos I love, but for most of...

I mentioned Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project earlier this year. It’s a great book and I’ve been following Gretchen’s blog for a while, but have to admit that I haven’t been putting a lot of the strategies into practice. One idea I recently came across on the Happiness...