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Italy Travel Journal – After

I have finally gotten time to post my Italy travel journal! I took it with me on the trip and wrote every few days, putting in postcards and anything else I collected that could possibly be put in a journal. I have waited so long to post this because I was thinking that I would “finish” it, i.e. put in some pictures, do a bit more journaling in the end etc. But I don’t know when I am ever going to do that, so I thought I should go ahead and post the current version.

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Italy Travel Journal – Before

8 Aug

I’ve finally got my travel journal ready to take to Italy with me. And here is the post, as promised.

I’ve used random patterned papers in sort of an Italy-ish color scheme, with some envelopes, pockets, and ephemera printouts. I’ve used tons of distress ink and water on pretty much all the pages, and my sister told me it looked like the whole book had been in a flood. But that feel seemed like Italy to me so I am happy with it, and can’t wait to start filling it up.

Here are some details, and a video at the end.

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Make ahead travel journal

16 Jul

This is a travel journal that I made for my sister, who has come to visit for 6 weeks and see a bit of europe.

Front cover:

The title and front cover image (along with several inside) are from a book about a girl who travels through europe, and it’s sort of an inside joke. I chose to use a homemade map of western europe as the backdrop and it is in no way a realistic representation (some countries were too small to include), but it was fun and I think it works.

Here you can see the pages:

They are all different sizes and included are several envelopes as well. It was meant as a place to keep all the memoribilia etc that she will collect throughout her trip, as well as any journaling, pictures, notes from friends, etc. I got the idea from this video of a make ahead travel journal, which I thought was a really great idea. The finished journal flip is also worth a watch.

I wasn’t sure how to make the binding at first because I don’t have a bind it all, but then I found this tutorial which is basically the idea I used for the binding but I just added more wire for extra security. We don’t have Zutter products in my area so the wire is from a dollar store notebook. It was a little more work than using a bind it all (a lot maybe) but it looks about the same and cost almost nothing.

Here is the inside of the back cover:

I used decoupage medium and varnish on all the covers.

I like how it turned out and I will also make my Italy journal in this format.

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Butterfly book and challenge #7

10 Jun

This was a bit of challenge for me! But it was fun and very rewarding to see that I could cope without my pretty papers! I didn’t have a whole lot of time to spend on this so It was a bit of a mad dash and I make no apologies for not having it completed with Pics in. I began early and then held off a few days as it was making me a little bitty emotional.

I picked up this butterfly book a while ago with my mother in mind to make her a little keepsake in memory of a little friend of hers whom she cared for daily at the school she works, a girl who touched so many lives as she suffered pain daily with the worst form of EB, read more about that here. Adana passed away at a tender 10 years old. My mother would bring Adana for visits to my work (Woolies store) where I could always be sure of a healthy dose of cheeky banter and wicked wit for a soon to be ten year old wrapped from toe to neck in bandages to stop her skin from being damaged further and prevent infections as the slightest touch hurt this little lady and made her blister.

My mum would tell us stories daily of Adana, I know funny little things like after mum had eaten a pack of cheese and onion crisps for break Adana would ask mum to breath on her because that was her favorite flavor of crisps that Adana could rarely have the chance to eat as due to her condition she had was fed through a tube in her navel. I know that for Christmas dinner her request was to have macaroni cheese, that her favorite color is pink and that at Halloween I caught a glimpse of a pink furry little creature being pushed in her wheel chair. I could go on but these things I have to work on a way to add into this book.

I wanted to keep the book bright and lovely like Adana herself, also I believe that she is soaring in the most beautiful heaven happy and pain free.