Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts

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Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts

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Book Description
Is your journal collecting dust instead of keeping your thoughts? Have you gotten out of the habit of writing on a daily basis?

Making Journals By Hand will get you excited about keeping a journal again, with fresh ideas on how to make and keep your own daily journal, travel journal, garden journal, art journal, recipe journal, and more. Use art studio techniques such as rubber stamping, wax resist, leaf transfer, paper cutting, and plaster paper, to enhance and really personalize the pages of your journal.

--Know How: More than 20 journal projects, with lots of variations.

--Writing Tips to keep you writing every day.

--Creative Sparks: Practical advice on changing points of view, with prompts to get the creative juices flowing.

--Inspiration and Ideas: Ideas for themed journals to record travel adventures, gardens, dreams, baby events, weddings, and family events.

About the Author
Jason Thompson is the founder and president of Rag & Bone Bindery in Providence, Rhode Island, the largest, private hand bookbinding studio in America solely creating hand-bound blank books, albums and journals for the gift and stationery industries. He began journal writing in 1986 while spending a year walking across the country from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC on the Great Peace March and has been keeping visual journals ever since. He currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island.

Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts,Jason Thompson,Quarry Books,1564966763,Bookbinding,Crafts / Hobbies,Diaries (Blank-books),Hobbies/Crafts,Papercrafts,Handicrafts

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