2012 Gratitude Journal: Part 1

Once I read about other’s plans to create a gratitude journal, I knew this was something I wanted to do. I needed to keep it simple, and my first thought was to combine it with my Capture Your 365 project with a photograph and a word or two. That’s how it started, but yesterday when I was putting it together, I decided I wanted to journal a bit about each entry so I added some tags with journaling on both sides.

Here’s the journal. I found this charming photo album in my stash and knew it would work perfectly. The old typewriter key alpha was just perfect–another item from the stash.

The title page was created on an Archiver’s journaling card. I cut “grateful” with my Silhouette and used stamps for the date.

Here are the first two pages. Each tag slides in between two photos and the journaling for each is on one tag, so I wanted to keep all the photos back-to-back. This quote by Lemony Snicket was in Real Simple magazine this month, and is just perfect as an introdution.

Here’s a look at one of the tags. Since it’s difficult to avoid a glare photographing through the photo sleeve, I’ll post the photos and the journaling directly to the blog, but you can see what it looks like here:

I decided not to worry about the orientation of the photos so some are landscape and many are portraits. But that doesn’t bother me in the least.

So here are the first few days. I’ll be back tomorrow with another edition.

11.1 There is nothing better than the laughter in my house when both of my kids are home. Caleb just adds to everyone’s delight!

11.2 Blessed is how I feel to have Sarah and Caleb here for an extended visit.

11.3 We saw these blocks in a toy store last spring and knew we had them in the attic. Although Caleb’s too young to build with them, tossing them about has been one of his pleasures.

11.4 It’s been a long time since Sarah, Julie, and Stephanie have been together. What lovely young women they have become!

11.5 Ellie was here for dinner, and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to capture the four generations together.

11.6 Although I was delighted to have President Obama re-elected, I would be grateful for my right to vote regardless of the outcome.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a look at the next few pages.