Crafting and Journaling

I hope you all had a great weekend. I’m continuing my baby steps to do a bit more outside of my home bubble and this weekend I thought, it’s been forever since I’ve been to a craft store so I went to browse around Michael’s. While I didn’t really have anything in mind I’m always on the look for stuff that I can use either to make journals with and/or to use in my art journaling.

It was great to be able to see things in person but it was a bit sad to see some of my favorite areas in the craft store almost non-existent. I feel like this is a common theme now when I go to stores. Same thing happened at the bookstore when I was disappointed with the available magazines. So I didn’t buy anything but luckily there are plenty of places online to get supplies.

Other than that I worked some in my TN Journal. I’ve mentioned before that I have several journals I keep and this one is a bit more of a scrapbook type journal. I do a lot of writing but also use stickers, stamping, magazine cut-outs, pictures, anything that I think will be interesting to hang on to. Sometimes the things I use go with the writing and sometimes not so much.

This particular spread that I’ve shown is where I’ll talk about places I’ve been exploring this summer, because that’s exactly what it feels like to go out and about again. I see new buildings going out, changes in different neighborhoods, new stores and restaurants and I want to capture a bit of those changes. The little tags you see on the blank page, those I basically just used a rubber stamp which is of a frame and used it on printed papers. Now I can use those little tags to add some journaling spots.

So that’s a bit about my weekend and now to catch up on some reading because I may just finish a book tonight.

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