Hi!! I really, really think that journal is beautiful. It's ok to let go, and I'm sure who ever buys your journal will love it as much as you do. Sharing your journals will give others many moments of happiness, and that is a gift far greater than keeping them on a shelf. 🤗🤗
Barbara, your 'bead-strand' closure is perfect!...and beautiful.💗 It gives this understated journal the perfect "low-key"/chillin' out, boho vibe. "Boho" doesn't always have to be "over-the-top". Relaxed and breezy is stunning, imo.😉 Tyfs.💙💙💙
Lots of great advice! Lol yes, I cook (and other stuff) by feel, like Grandma showed me. I always prefer construction to using but you inspired me. She is gorgeous 😍her new owner will love her! I definitely prefer the new closure! It's pricing I'm going to have problems with. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖
I love this journal and love watching you make them. It's fun to see what different kinds of pages you use in yours. I agree sometimes I get my journals out and look through them for some ideas when my creative juices just aren't flowing. I really enjoy these questions and answers!!
Oh my! My heart skipped a beat when I heard “my name”. Thanks for answering my question. I felt like I won the lottery to have my questions being picked among so many other great ones. You are absolutely right, I do LOVE making journals, even if it is just to sit on a shelf or to be given as special gifts. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Thanks Barbara! You also inspired me to try a journal with different themes, such as your planner. It will give me the excuse to make another journal 😂😂😂 and I will keep making them until I find the sweet spot ❤ Thanks again. Love your channel and truly enjoy the work you do and your artistic aesthetics.
This is such a wonderful journal! The pages are so inspirational and interesting. The perfect finish is the junk journal jewelry, which is really special. Thanks for sharing.
Your answer to Sabrina’s question is so true. Ive also found just jumping in and playing or even organizing is key. It never fails, when I go in to tediously clear and put away things on my desk, I’m going to come across something that I just can NOT put away and have to play with right then. That leads to me sitting down with a journal or a blank page and placing the found item, which leads to a next step and a next until I’m finished or have to get to responsibilities. As adults, it can be so easy to not let ourselves play. But it’s just as important for us to play as it was when we were children, and though we don’t need to afford ourselves as much time to play as when we were children, we do need to afford ourselves at least a little bit of time each day.
What a wonderful JJ, BArbara!!!! I do feel the same about my "babies" flying away. They take a piece of us, but at the same time, they are spreading our love into the world!!!!! I'm addicted to your style!!!! 💚💛 from🐝
What a beautiful journal! Thank you for being random with the time you put it up. At least it will give me a chance, even if it’s small! Internationally is difficult sure. I love your journals so much and do hope one day I will be able to hold and cherish one of your special treasures! Hugs 🤗❤️
I have to agree with the other responses! I haven’t made a book in over a year and I began feeling frustrated and guilty. Your advice is dead on accurate!! A few weeks ago, I looked at my old books and it helped me picked up the book I abandoned after putting together signatures. I ditched all my previous ideas and restarted without any second guesses. I’m happily moving forward! ❤️
Wow! This journal is really beautiful! 🤩 I mean, all your work is, but this one! Who ever buys it will have a treasure. RE creative funk... when I participated in Junk Journal January and din't know what to create for a certain prompt, I usually watched Megs video just to spark my creativity. I didn't create what she did, but it got my 'wheels turning'. So, I do find watching your, Luise and the other creators I watch, helpful. 😊 But, never to copy, just to be inspired and create something that is me.
It’s very enjoyable to watch an artist work. Beautiful colors in your journal and a really cool book binding technique with the book binding glue. Thank you for sharing!
Barbara, I love your style and this book is cool and beautiful at the same time. Absolutely love the cover. I hope one day to own one of you creations❤ that journal closure is amazing. I love that. I have to try that. Love it 🥰
RE not wanting to work in the journal. I made myself a rather large journal with a fabric cover. I made it specifically to add new ideas as I went along. So I put it down to go on to new projects. Its whole purpose is to add more over time. I recently worked on a collaboration in that book. Still plenty of room to add more whenever. It doesn't even have a topper yet. Lovely journal, Barbara!!
Thanks for always being inspirational, Barbara! Your feelings toward your completed journals (being "done" with them, even if you have not worked it them)...reminds me of my feeling about eating my own cooking! I enjoy food cooked by others, which is often not really as much to my own taste, but I enjoy eating it because I'm not "tired of looking at it"!
When I've been stuck in "No-Idea-Land", I browse magazines and cut out sections of design or color that appeals to me-----a bedspread, a full skirt, a flower garden or a bowl of exotic fruit. I might spend an hour doing this but it's not wasted energy. Then I glue them onto used sheets of copy paper & when it's dry I put them all in a manilla folder to use for punching. This gives me endless designs for punching out butterflies, circles and tags. and it's a low- key method of prompting creativity.
I love to make my journals and just enjoy going back and looking at them. I rarely write in them. So love watching you and hearing your answers to questions. I am always inspired.thanks❤
Bob the Beetle!! hehehe That will be a lovely journal for whoever gets the chance to buy it when you post it to your shop! 💜 Also, in regards to the losing your mojo - I also find just moving my hands and doing something helps. Even if it's something as simple and boring as prepping background pages, or fussy cutting images like you said. Just moving my hands helps, and not having a particular goal or end thing in mind - no added pressure!
Great journal and Q&A. I appreciate hearing other people's questions? I usually have the same issues but always feel like I'm new and the only one that thinks like that! It's nice to know that some people make journals to make journals and others make ephemera to make ephemera! And now that I've heard the Q&A session, I have a question: do you have a video on how you made the string tie for the denim journal? I have beads, charms, buttons and a "boatload" of crochet thread if that works but I love the look of yours. 😍😍😍
Thanks! I do not have a video on that particular closure, however I show a braided version in this video around min 28: ua-cam.com/video/Umck7IvXNxw/v-deo.htmlsi=TvBeTbJHpx8jvBH9
Oh my gosh, the conversation about not working in your journals that you make was so helpful! I have not been making many because of that and feeling guilty that I have some but not doing anything with them. It’s so fun making them, lol. Why do we feel we need permission to just create them? Thanks for your Q and A session.
❤I justify making more journals by telling myself it may be a good gift for someone someday!😂 Just have to be able to part with my work, that’s the hard part for me. They’re like my little art babies. 😂
There are no absolutes in junk journalling. (Elastic breaks, just buy a new one.) Im on my 9th journal. This is for 5 signatures, but now not. Too bulky. The finished signatures dictate the cover. That's how I do. I appreciate your attempts at answering questions, Barbara that you really couldn't..😅. There is only our experience, there are no right or wrong attempts at junk journalling. We learn as we play, immerse into the moment, experiment, just escape to our craft rooms!! Tutorials are suggestions, I deviate if I want to. No junk journal police here!!!!😅 ( I made an accordion journal after watching you. Is it great? No, it's super grungy and ITS junk!! But I love it and did it my way!😂❤)
I am returning to the topic of ways of convenient keeping masks and stencils. i really like today's Treasure Books channel's episode (13 Things to Make with Flat Plastic Packaging). Easy-to-open-and-close DIY transparent pouches with velcro closures might be fun to make, to use and to show us. No? Several fragments of clear plastic packaging could be sewn together to make whatever small/large size is needed. Adding tabs with labels to these pooches and keeping them upright (with dividers) will help ease of retrieving or depositing back.
Interesting questions. Re the block regarding working in some journals issue, I think part of it may be that when you create a journal in a specific theme you then feel pressured to create within that theme & keep creating bigger & better ideas within that theme. But since you prefer to create when & what you feel like on the day, that makes it feel like a bit of a school or work assignment that has limits set on it. As soon as you set limits or expectations, particularly when you’re a perfectionist, it creates stress, so you naturally avoid that stress by not wanting to work in it. Also, some people find their happy place by learning to do something well & recreating that or building on that theme. Which is why some people have an unmistakable style. Others like myself, Barbara & Luise, like the challenge of variety & new techniques/mediums etc. So when we create something, we don’t want to be stuck doing the same thing, but like to move on to the next challenge or project. Then it’s hard to come back to a project with a specific style or theme, because you still want to fit the new stuff within that old style or theme which takes more conscious effort. As to enjoying buying & working in something someone else made - you’re making it your own. And different people enjoy different aspects of junk journalling. Tbh I just love making pages with different techniques. It’s like Gelli printing. I love it but actually using the pieces is a whole different matter lol. I really am thinking about creating packs of collage fodder, with Gelli printed, water coloured, painted, textured, stencilled etc pages & scraps to see if anyone is interested in buying them. I love the idea of junk journals. Love the look of many of them, but I just keep creating stuff to go in them 🤷♀️
This video came at the perfect time! I’m gathering papers for my new Journal. I’m using Tea for the first time. I always coffee dyed things in the past. But watching this video (gorgeous Journal) has reminded me, USE SOME DIGITALS!! I have no idea why I forgot this easy basic thing. I didn’t want a themed Journal. But your beautiful digital set is just stunning. I need to go look. I either downloaded the freebie or I have the whole thing. Either way, it’s the perfect time to do it. Oh, and thank you for answering my questions! That was fun!♥️♥️♥️ Edit: I looked at my Digitals and the kit I bought is “Whispers of Wings”. That one is just beautiful also! So I’ll be using that kit! I’m so excited. Thank you
@@49dragonflies I printed it on Photo Paper. The colors are so bright. I printed one on regular paper to see which I liked better. It might be over kill. But I had the photo paper. I didn’t have to go buy it. And this kit is just gorgeous!
Hi there. What videos show the work on this journal? I love it! But I love all your journals! Your Q&As are fun to listen to - always learn something! Thanks.
I love the journal. Just everything about it! Is it easier to sell a journal you've made if you decide at the beginning that it won't be yours? I think I'm quite possessive, and would have difficulty giving away my crafted item! Thanks for all the sharing on your channel. Hugs! Peggy
Love your journals! Does your little iron have heat or are you using it like a bone folder? I never thought of heating my pages! I have a pair of jeans ready to get cut up, love your denim journal!
Awe its a wee cracker just like you hen your soo cute oi love your stencils n that wee denim i love when u do denim to see whast you come up with which is always brilliant i never heard an ohno this time thats good but u are soo cute wen you say this r u and louise going to do a wee collab b4 xmas i would love that your a cool wee lassie yer wee granny from Scotland luv yie girl 🖐️🤗💜💜🏴🏴
Thanks! I bought my brush at my local art store. They are called fan brushes like this one: www.amazon.com/Vinci-Varnish-Priming-Multi-Fiber-Bordeaux/dp/B00409L8QC/ref=mp_s_a_1_16_sspa?crid=3TG0LVO8HYMB7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6epAq8ymcAjvhBH4oGGrw.c0GhB7Hj2xs96piq-mMaBoeWTX22DJfSU9Hkw4LUqpU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Fan+brush+da+vinci&qid=1710136966&sprefix=fan+brush+da+vinci%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-16-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRmX25leHQ&psc=1
Hi!! I really, really think that journal is beautiful. It's ok to let go, and I'm sure who ever buys your journal will love it as much as you do. Sharing your journals will give others many moments of happiness, and that is a gift far greater than keeping them on a shelf. 🤗🤗
Thank you so much! ❤️
Barbara, your 'bead-strand' closure is perfect!...and beautiful.💗 It gives this understated journal the perfect "low-key"/chillin' out, boho vibe. "Boho" doesn't always have to be "over-the-top". Relaxed and breezy is stunning, imo.😉 Tyfs.💙💙💙
Thanks so much! ❤️
Love the colours in this journal. Gorgeous.
Lots of great advice! Lol yes, I cook (and other stuff) by feel, like Grandma showed me. I always prefer construction to using but you inspired me. She is gorgeous 😍her new owner will love her! I definitely prefer the new closure! It's pricing I'm going to have problems with. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖
I love this journal and love watching you make them. It's fun to see what different kinds of pages you use in yours. I agree sometimes I get my journals out and look through them for some ideas when my creative juices just aren't flowing. I really enjoy these questions and answers!!
Oh my! My heart skipped a beat when I heard “my name”. Thanks for answering my question. I felt like I won the lottery to have my questions being picked among so many other great ones. You are absolutely right, I do LOVE making journals, even if it is just to sit on a shelf or to be given as special gifts. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Thanks Barbara! You also inspired me to try a journal with different themes, such as your planner. It will give me the excuse to make another journal 😂😂😂 and I will keep making them until I find the sweet spot ❤ Thanks again. Love your channel and truly enjoy the work you do and your artistic aesthetics.
Thanks so much! I’m happy my answer was helpful! Have fun making lots of journals! 😊❤️
This is such a wonderful journal! The pages are so inspirational and interesting. The perfect finish is the junk journal jewelry, which is really special. Thanks for sharing.
Your answer to Sabrina’s question is so true. Ive also found just jumping in and playing or even organizing is key. It never fails, when I go in to tediously clear and put away things on my desk, I’m going to come across something that I just can NOT put away and have to play with right then. That leads to me sitting down with a journal or a blank page and placing the found item, which leads to a next step and a next until I’m finished or have to get to responsibilities. As adults, it can be so easy to not let ourselves play. But it’s just as important for us to play as it was when we were children, and though we don’t need to afford ourselves as much time to play as when we were children, we do need to afford ourselves at least a little bit of time each day.
So ein schönes Journal, ich mag auch sehr, dass man die Papiertüte sieht. ❤
What a wonderful JJ, BArbara!!!! I do feel the same about my "babies" flying away. They take a piece of us, but at the same time, they are spreading our love into the world!!!!! I'm addicted to your style!!!! 💚💛 from🐝
Thanks so much! That’s a good way to see it! ❤️
Another beautiful, inspiring video. Thank you Barbara.
Yep, organizing my craft room often kick starts a spark of creativity
What a beautiful journal! Thank you for being random with the time you put it up. At least it will give me a chance, even if it’s small! Internationally is difficult sure. I love your journals so much and do hope one day I will be able to hold and cherish one of your special treasures! Hugs 🤗❤️
Thank you so much! ❤️
I’m catching up on older videos… I love this journal, so beautiful! 💙
I have to agree with the other responses! I haven’t made a book in over a year and I began feeling frustrated and guilty. Your advice is dead on accurate!! A few weeks ago, I looked at my old books and it helped me picked up the book I abandoned after putting together signatures. I ditched all my previous ideas and restarted without any second guesses. I’m happily moving forward! ❤️
Wow! This journal is really beautiful! 🤩 I mean, all your work is, but this one! Who ever buys it will have a treasure.
RE creative funk... when I participated in Junk Journal January and din't know what to create for a certain prompt, I usually watched Megs video just to spark my creativity. I didn't create what she did, but it got my 'wheels turning'. So, I do find watching your, Luise and the other creators I watch, helpful. 😊 But, never to copy, just to be inspired and create something that is me.
It’s very enjoyable to watch an artist work. Beautiful colors in your journal and a really cool book binding technique with the book binding glue. Thank you for sharing!
Barbara, I love your style and this book is cool and beautiful at the same time. Absolutely love the cover. I hope one day to own one of you creations❤ that journal closure is amazing. I love that. I have to try that. Love it 🥰
Thanks so much! ❤️
I adore your jeans journal! Your work is delightful!
Another beautiful journal! Your demonstration is easy and creative and fun! I can’t wait to try out some of these techniques!😊
RE not wanting to work in the journal. I made myself a rather large journal with a fabric cover. I made it specifically to add new ideas as I went along. So I put it down to go on to new projects. Its whole purpose is to add more over time. I recently worked on a collaboration in that book. Still plenty of room to add more whenever. It doesn't even have a topper yet. Lovely journal, Barbara!!
What a beautiful journal. The beaded wrap was the perfect finishing touch.
Hello Barbara, thank you for the videos and all your inspiring ideas. Whomever gets your journal will be very lucky!
Thanks for always being inspirational, Barbara! Your feelings toward your completed journals (being "done" with them, even if you have not worked it them)...reminds me of my feeling about eating my own cooking! I enjoy food cooked by others, which is often not really as much to my own taste, but I enjoy eating it because I'm not "tired of looking at it"!
Such an interesting comparison…
When I've been stuck in "No-Idea-Land", I browse magazines and cut out sections of design or color that appeals to me-----a bedspread, a full skirt, a flower garden or a bowl of exotic fruit. I might spend an hour doing this but it's not wasted energy. Then I glue them onto used sheets of copy paper & when it's dry I put them all in a manilla folder to use for punching. This gives me endless designs for punching out butterflies, circles and tags. and it's a low- key method of prompting creativity.
I love to make my journals and just enjoy going back and looking at them. I rarely write in them.
So love watching you and hearing your answers to questions.
I am always inspired.thanks❤
Excellent video! I think we all stick together to the end of your videos!
Aaaaaw ❤️
Barbara, what a beautiful journal and love the closure. This was a fun video! TFS! ❤
Bob the Beetle!! hehehe That will be a lovely journal for whoever gets the chance to buy it when you post it to your shop! 💜
Also, in regards to the losing your mojo - I also find just moving my hands and doing something helps. Even if it's something as simple and boring as prepping background pages, or fussy cutting images like you said. Just moving my hands helps, and not having a particular goal or end thing in mind - no added pressure!
Great journal and Q&A. I appreciate hearing other people's questions? I usually have the same issues but always feel like I'm new and the only one that thinks like that! It's nice to know that some people make journals to make journals and others make ephemera to make ephemera!
And now that I've heard the Q&A session, I have a question: do you have a video on how you made the string tie for the denim journal? I have beads, charms, buttons and a "boatload" of crochet thread if that works but I love the look of yours. 😍😍😍
Thanks! I do not have a video on that particular closure, however I show a braided version in this video around min 28: ua-cam.com/video/Umck7IvXNxw/v-deo.htmlsi=TvBeTbJHpx8jvBH9
A great Q&A segment! Thank you.
The journal is lovely Barbara. I hope I’m lucky enough to find it available. Thank you for sharing. ❤😊
A beautiful journal, i love everything in it! And very interesting to listen, so thank you!
This was fun and informative ❤
Oh my gosh, the conversation about not working in your journals that you make was so helpful! I have not been making many because of that and feeling guilty that I have some but not doing anything with them. It’s so fun making them, lol. Why do we feel we need permission to just create them? Thanks for your Q and A session.
❤I justify making more journals by telling myself it may be a good gift for someone someday!😂 Just have to be able to part with my work, that’s the hard part for me. They’re like my little art babies. 😂
Very beautiful!!!
Loving this journal ❤
❤ I'm somsure the person who buys this journal will be so happy with it because it is so gorgeous sweetie ❤
Thank you sweetie! ❤️
There are no absolutes in junk journalling. (Elastic breaks, just buy a new one.) Im on my 9th journal. This is for 5 signatures, but now not. Too bulky. The finished signatures dictate the cover. That's how I do. I appreciate your attempts at answering questions, Barbara that you really couldn't..😅. There is only our experience, there are no right or wrong attempts at junk journalling. We learn as we play, immerse into the moment, experiment, just escape to our craft rooms!! Tutorials are suggestions, I deviate if I want to. No junk journal police here!!!!😅 ( I made an accordion journal after watching you. Is it great? No, it's super grungy and ITS junk!! But I love it and did it my way!😂❤)
I love your creativity 📘✂️
I am returning to the topic of ways of convenient keeping masks and stencils. i really like today's Treasure Books channel's episode (13 Things to Make with Flat Plastic Packaging). Easy-to-open-and-close DIY transparent pouches with velcro closures might be fun to make, to use and to show us. No? Several fragments of clear plastic packaging could be sewn together to make whatever small/large size is needed. Adding tabs with labels to these pooches and keeping them upright (with dividers) will help ease of retrieving or depositing back.
Very helpful and it's beautiful!!!
Interesting questions. Re the block regarding working in some journals issue, I think part of it may be that when you create a journal in a specific theme you then feel pressured to create within that theme & keep creating bigger & better ideas within that theme. But since you prefer to create when & what you feel like on the day, that makes it feel like a bit of a school or work assignment that has limits set on it. As soon as you set limits or expectations, particularly when you’re a perfectionist, it creates stress, so you naturally avoid that stress by not wanting to work in it. Also, some people find their happy place by learning to do something well & recreating that or building on that theme. Which is why some people have an unmistakable style. Others like myself, Barbara & Luise, like the challenge of variety & new techniques/mediums etc. So when we create something, we don’t want to be stuck doing the same thing, but like to move on to the next challenge or project. Then it’s hard to come back to a project with a specific style or theme, because you still want to fit the new stuff within that old style or theme which takes more conscious effort.
As to enjoying buying & working in something someone else made - you’re making it your own. And different people enjoy different aspects of junk journalling. Tbh I just love making pages with different techniques. It’s like Gelli printing. I love it but actually using the pieces is a whole different matter lol. I really am thinking about creating packs of collage fodder, with Gelli printed, water coloured, painted, textured, stencilled etc pages & scraps to see if anyone is interested in buying them. I love the idea of junk journals. Love the look of many of them, but I just keep creating stuff to go in them 🤷♀️
I agree with your view on the journals, Carrie. And yes, if you enjoy decorating papers the. Do that! 😊❤️
This video came at the perfect time! I’m gathering papers for my new Journal. I’m using Tea for the first time. I always coffee dyed things in the past. But watching this video (gorgeous Journal) has reminded me, USE SOME DIGITALS!! I have no idea why I forgot this easy basic thing. I didn’t want a themed Journal. But your beautiful digital set is just stunning. I need to go look. I either downloaded the freebie or I have the whole thing. Either way, it’s the perfect time to do it. Oh, and thank you for answering my questions! That was fun!♥️♥️♥️
Edit: I looked at my Digitals and the kit I bought is “Whispers of Wings”. That one is just beautiful also! So I’ll be using that kit! I’m so excited. Thank you
Thank you sweetie and have fun making your journal! ❤️
@@49dragonflies I printed it on Photo Paper. The colors are so bright. I printed one on regular paper to see which I liked better. It might be over kill. But I had the photo paper. I didn’t have to go buy it. And this kit is just gorgeous!
Beautiful journal!
I also love to make and decorate journals but seldom write in them. I put them all on my shelf just to look good 😂
Lovely absolutely beautiful 😊
Has the journal sold yet? Been keeping an eye out each day.
It has, so sorry…
Love it
Hi there. What videos show the work on this journal? I love it! But I love all your journals! Your Q&As are fun to listen to - always learn something! Thanks.
Thanks! I don’t have a video on this one as I made it in The Netherlands.
Thank you.
I love the journal. Just everything about it! Is it easier to sell a journal you've made if you decide at the beginning
that it won't be yours? I think I'm quite possessive, and would have difficulty giving away my crafted item! Thanks
for all the sharing on your channel. Hugs! Peggy
Thank you Peggy! Yes, I think it helps to make that decision at the beginning.
Love your journals! Does your little iron have heat or are you using it like a bone folder? I never thought of heating my pages! I have a pair of jeans ready to get cut up, love your denim journal!
Thanks! My iron is not heated 😊
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SOLD!
Awe its a wee cracker just like you hen your soo cute oi love your stencils n that wee denim i love when u do denim to see whast you come up with which is always brilliant i never heard an ohno this time thats good but u are soo cute wen you say this r u and louise going to do a wee collab b4 xmas i would love that your a cool wee lassie yer wee granny from Scotland luv yie girl 🖐️🤗💜💜🏴🏴
Aaaaw you are so cute, thank you so much! Not sure about a collab with Luise before December, but you never know….😊❤️
Hello I e,enjoyed the video as usual. Can you please tell me what kind of splatter brush you used in this video or where to find it thank you.
Thanks! I bought my brush at my local art store. They are called fan brushes like this one: www.amazon.com/Vinci-Varnish-Priming-Multi-Fiber-Bordeaux/dp/B00409L8QC/ref=mp_s_a_1_16_sspa?crid=3TG0LVO8HYMB7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6epAq8ymcAjvhBH4oGGrw.c0GhB7Hj2xs96piq-mMaBoeWTX22DJfSU9Hkw4LUqpU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Fan+brush+da+vinci&qid=1710136966&sprefix=fan+brush+da+vinci%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-16-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRmX25leHQ&psc=1
@@49dragonflies thank you. 😊
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Your videos would not be complete without at least one “oh no”. 😀
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Beautiful journal!