I have to share this as it may be as validating for you as it was for me. 2 years ago I started a creative journal process that I fell in love with. But over the course of the year, it started to die off and I stopped writing in it. Fast forward to today as I watch your video, I zoned out a little as you were talking (thank you ADHD lmao) and started thinking about making a creative journal for 2025. When my vision came back into focus, you were on page 18 (my lucky number) and there was a cancer sticker (my zodiac). I've previously asked my spirit guides to show me signs through numbers and imagery when I'm on the right path, so I don’t see this as a coincidence. Thank you for your video! You have truly inspired me ❤
I'm so glad my video resonated with you and felt like it connected. That makes me so happy! Thanks so much for sharing your cool experience with me. How amazing!
I so wish there was a way to get all the thoughts and memories from the noggin onto the paper. Other than writing. Mine is so bad. While watching your video, and seeing all of the writing you do in yours, I thought maybe I’ll try speech-to-text, like some of my students use, then I can print it and use it in my journals. That way I could really get all the thoughts and memories in there. I don’t know…the “smashy-trash-junk journal planners” I started making myself January of this year, are similar to your collage calendar spreads. Visual on a larger scale. I’ve enjoyed so much making them and recording my memories using things from the day and photos. They’re chunky and squishy with bits and bobs and texture all over. They make me happy.
Your journals sound delightful! You can TOTALLY use speech to text. I've done that before when I was struggling with a hand injury and couldn't write. Definitely an option! Thanks lovely!
Your style is so inspiring to me. I switched to the methods you’re starting in 2025 to allow my memory keeping dictate the dates and not feel like I have to be restricted to a pre-dated page. When I first started memory keeping, this was my methods. Then I moved to pre-dated junk journals and haven’t been as successful in keeping up. I’m also playing around with tab binding and binding along the way. As time goes along, it feels limiting to use anything restrictive like pre-dated pages and even pre-bound books. Evidently I have become rebellious! 🤣
Hi! New subscriber here. I really appreciate your point about journaling helping you experience life more richly. Thank you for the wonderfully motivating video!
your explanation in spot on!! I just rewind when I sit down to reflect on my day! It is wonderful to be able to look back on memories because I would NOT remember hardly any of the "small" stuff! Would you do a flip thru of your Christmas book?
Thanks to your influence im really changing up my memory keeping this year. My december daily looks really different this year with so much more ephemera included and i love it but boy is she bulky!! 😂 So i think i need more space than a standard TN. Really looking forward to see where this new approach takes me and continuing to follow your journey too.
What an awesome, inspirational video. Thank you so much for this!!! I enjoyed your flip thru of your past journals. I love making them but always give to others and can’t keep going in one for me. This is my new ‘25 goal💕
I absolutely LOVE your creative journals! I want to do all the things; the monthly calendar, the daily journaling and the planner-type. I have tried but feel like I can't keep up. Thank you for the reminder to get off our phones! And thank you for the encouragement to start this in 2025!!
It's hard to keep up of you jump in with all the things. Maybe just start small and work your way up as you go. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Enjoy it! Thanks so much 💕
Thank you so much Lydia for sharing your journalling hobby with us. You have inspired me in so many ways that I can’t even being to list everything. I have been struggling in starting my own journey, and know that 2025 it the year. Thank you so much. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and all the best to you and James in 2025
I do not know why I have a hard time getting started but looking at your books and the way you've done your journaling makes me happy. They make me want to go create, but I still have a hard time getting started. Any suggestions let me know, please!
I'd just say, start! Don't worry if it's good or bad. Just start. That is definitely the hardest part. So once it's done, it's done! Then you're in! Thanks for being here lovely!
your journals are so col looking!! i want to do something like this for 2025. ive kind of fallen off the crafting bandwagon and really want to get back on. just documenting everyday life would be a good way to start. although i dont like writing in my journals, i can still use things from my days like food packaging/receipts, tags and whatnot. ive created some mini journals a few months ago that i might use for each month or possibly just take a composition notebook for the whole year. not sure which route i will take but thanks for the inspiration to start! im not good at daily anything so i think i will take a box and put things in it and maybe every week, take whats in the box and create pages. looking forward to starting. thank you!
I've recently started drawing doodles and sketches in my journal. I did make a junk journal but I find I don't use it. Because I just don't know what to put in it. But I came across something interesting recently soul collage. It's making cards with collage on usually magazine images. But you can use your own art. I think if I make some it may help me with my journalling.
Some magazines. Some old books, stickers etc. I love searching through thrift store and junk shops. There's so much stuff floating around out there in the world. It's such a fun treasure hunt to find it. Thanks so much!
Love this video - so glad you popped up on my feed this morning! I am ready to dive back into creative journaling this year. I love how you called it daily mindfulness. That really resonates with me. I have ADHD and my memory is pretty unreliable, I’ve journaled on and off and now I not only want to document 2025 but figure out how to capture random memories and fill in the gaps between my unfinished journals. I’m subscribed and excited for more inspiration!
I have to share this as it may be as validating for you as it was for me. 2 years ago I started a creative journal process that I fell in love with. But over the course of the year, it started to die off and I stopped writing in it. Fast forward to today as I watch your video, I zoned out a little as you were talking (thank you ADHD lmao) and started thinking about making a creative journal for 2025. When my vision came back into focus, you were on page 18 (my lucky number) and there was a cancer sticker (my zodiac). I've previously asked my spirit guides to show me signs through numbers and imagery when I'm on the right path, so I don’t see this as a coincidence. Thank you for your video! You have truly inspired me ❤
I'm so glad my video resonated with you and felt like it connected. That makes me so happy! Thanks so much for sharing your cool experience with me. How amazing!
How I admire you, so much documentation in so many different ways! Absolutely beautiful
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it!
I so wish there was a way to get all the thoughts and memories from the noggin onto the paper. Other than writing. Mine is so bad. While watching your video, and seeing all of the writing you do in yours, I thought maybe I’ll try speech-to-text, like some of my students use, then I can print it and use it in my journals. That way I could really get all the thoughts and memories in there. I don’t know…the “smashy-trash-junk journal planners” I started making myself January of this year, are similar to your collage calendar spreads. Visual on a larger scale. I’ve enjoyed so much making them and recording my memories using things from the day and photos. They’re chunky and squishy with bits and bobs and texture all over. They make me happy.
Your journals sound delightful! You can TOTALLY use speech to text. I've done that before when I was struggling with a hand injury and couldn't write. Definitely an option!
Thanks lovely!
Your style is so inspiring to me. I switched to the methods you’re starting in 2025 to allow my memory keeping dictate the dates and not feel like I have to be restricted to a pre-dated page. When I first started memory keeping, this was my methods. Then I moved to pre-dated junk journals and haven’t been as successful in keeping up. I’m also playing around with tab binding and binding along the way. As time goes along, it feels limiting to use anything restrictive like pre-dated pages and even pre-bound books. Evidently I have become rebellious! 🤣
I love that! Journaling is a wonderful rebellious act! I love that you make it work for you. Thanks Jennifer ❤️
💯YES!! Such beautiful, handmade books filled with memories 😊
Thank you Elizabeth! They really are special.
Hi! New subscriber here. I really appreciate your point about journaling helping you experience life more richly. Thank you for the wonderfully motivating video!
Thanks so much! I'm so glad it resonated with you! ❤️
WOW beautiful journal books👍👍👍👍🌼💐🌹🌺🌻🌷🌸🦋 love it 💜💗💛💚thank you for sharing🤗🤗🤗🤗 have a Blessed day💜💜💜💜
Thanks so much! ❤️
Your creative process blows me away!
Aw thanks! That means a lot! ❤️
It was just so wonderful coming across your channel. I really enjoyed your journals and how you make yours 😊❤
In His Grace Lorisa
Thank you so much Lorisa! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
your explanation in spot on!! I just rewind when I sit down to reflect on my day! It is wonderful to be able to look back on memories because I would NOT remember hardly any of the "small" stuff! Would you do a flip thru of your Christmas book?
Oh me too! I absolutely would forget so much!
Yes! I will sometime in January when it's all filled in. Can't wait to share it!
Thanks to your influence im really changing up my memory keeping this year. My december daily looks really different this year with so much more ephemera included and i love it but boy is she bulky!! 😂 So i think i need more space than a standard TN. Really looking forward to see where this new approach takes me and continuing to follow your journey too.
I'm so glad it's resonating with you! And I totally hear you on the bulky bit! 😂 The ephemera CHUNKS things up big time! Thanks Lisa.
I simply adore your passion and enthusiasm, sweet friend. You are a total legend and superstar. 🥰
Thank you so much my love!
What an awesome, inspirational video. Thank you so much for this!!! I enjoyed your flip thru of your past journals.
I love making them but always give to others and can’t keep going in one for me. This is my new ‘25 goal💕
Yay! Go you! I hope you love creating in your own journal as much as i do!
New to your channel. Just subscribe! Loving what I've seen so far.
Thank you so much!
I absolutely LOVE your creative journals! I want to do all the things; the monthly calendar, the daily journaling and the planner-type. I have tried but feel like I can't keep up. Thank you for the reminder to get off our phones! And thank you for the encouragement to start this in 2025!!
It's hard to keep up of you jump in with all the things. Maybe just start small and work your way up as you go. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Enjoy it! Thanks so much 💕
My inspiration! ❤❤
Aw thanks Jes 😊 ❤️
New friend here❤😊👍
Welcome, friend! I'm so happy to have you here!
@februaryandjune I'm glad to be here
I just subscribed... I like this idea ... So I will give it a try in 2025 ... Thankyou.
Thank you so much. Glad it resonated with you.
Thank you so much Lydia for sharing your journalling hobby with us. You have inspired me in so many ways that I can’t even being to list everything. I have been struggling in starting my own journey, and know that 2025 it the year. Thank you so much. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and all the best to you and James in 2025
Yes! 2025 is your year! I can't wait to hear all about your journaling my friend. Thanks so much!
Love your style , just subscribed
Aw thank you so much!
Beautiful 😮
Thanks so much!
I do not know why I have a hard time getting started but looking at your books and the way you've done your journaling makes me happy. They make me want to go create, but I still have a hard time getting started. Any suggestions let me know, please!
I'd just say, start! Don't worry if it's good or bad. Just start. That is definitely the hardest part. So once it's done, it's done! Then you're in! Thanks for being here lovely!
@februaryandjune I appreciate what you've said. I'll do it! Thank you!😃
Love your monthly collage journal!
Thank you! It really is such a fun, visual way of representing my life!
I really like your style.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
your journals are so col looking!! i want to do something like this for 2025. ive kind of fallen off the crafting bandwagon and really want to get back on. just documenting everyday life would be a good way to start. although i dont like writing in my journals, i can still use things from my days like food packaging/receipts, tags and whatnot. ive created some mini journals a few months ago that i might use for each month or possibly just take a composition notebook for the whole year. not sure which route i will take but thanks for the inspiration to start! im not good at daily anything so i think i will take a box and put things in it and maybe every week, take whats in the box and create pages. looking forward to starting. thank you!
I love that! I doesn't have to be daily. Just however it suits you. Any bit of journaling and documenting is better than none right!? Thanks so much.
I've recently started drawing doodles and sketches in my journal. I did make a junk journal but I find I don't use it. Because I just don't know what to put in it. But I came across something interesting recently soul collage. It's making cards with collage on usually magazine images. But you can use your own art. I think if I make some it may help me with my journalling.
Oh I love that! How fun! Thanks for sharing!
Journals are so beautiful ❤❤
Thank you so much ❤️
Wow, one of the best journals! Where do you get all the paper ephemera from? Magazines? I want to make journals like yours!
Some magazines. Some old books, stickers etc. I love searching through thrift store and junk shops. There's so much stuff floating around out there in the world. It's such a fun treasure hunt to find it. Thanks so much!
I love the 5 yr journal, never seen that before! Where did you get it? 🇨🇦
I got it from a shop called Typo a few years ago. Not sure if they still have it.
Love this video - so glad you popped up on my feed this morning! I am ready to dive back into creative journaling this year. I love how you called it daily mindfulness. That really resonates with me. I have ADHD and my memory is pretty unreliable, I’ve journaled on and off and now I not only want to document 2025 but figure out how to capture random memories and fill in the gaps between my unfinished journals. I’m subscribed and excited for more inspiration!
I sometimes spend too much time on my phone. I’m actually making a plan to reduce my usage way down
Me too friend! Me too!