This is what it looked like when I first started using it:
Pretty right? :) It was my first homemade notebook. ♥
This is what it looks like now.
It's a little beat up.
The edges of the cover are badly frayed (I ended up cutting off most of the corners because of this.) The butterfly "flew away" a few weeks ago- altho I know it's somewhere in my house >.> It has paint splotches on the back (from my not paying attention where I set it down). And it bears tell tale signs of weekends spent at my bestie's & visits to my gentleman friend's place. I somehow managed to yank the ribbon COMPLETELY off at least twice!. It is also about four times as thick as it was when I started.
It's funny- as soon as I know when I will be switching to a new journal, it's like a floodgate is opened & suddenly I have TONS of things to write about or add to the current one! I have filled up more pages in the past two week than I did in the past two months! This phenomenon happened with at least the last 3 journals.
I have started working on pages in my princess journal. One of my little "rituals" when I start a new journal is to do the "things that make me smile" page & an "all about me" page. It's a nice, positive way to start off a journal :)
Does anybody else have ways to break in a new journal?
That happens to me to - start a new journal and you have tons to write about. And they are supposed to be "loved" when you are done right? It just means you use them. :)
ReplyDeletehehe yep! that's what i say too- that is is well loved ;)
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