We've seen pens, pen cases, etc. Can I see journals?

[TMLee]

A picture of my journals back in 2007 ...

 

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[tatts]

Thank you everyone for your contributions. You all have some beautiful looking journals. This just inspires me to write more and fill my pages with garbage, just so I can buy more nice looking journals. Now whenever I take notes in class, it goes straight into my journal instead of a seperate sheet of loose leaf paper. It might be a cool idea, when I go back to read them years from now, I'll know when I learned what instead of throwing away my notes at the end of the term.

[maryannemoll]

Here's mine. I like using just one kind of notebook, though.

 

I've been journaling since I was fifteen. Volumes 1-10 were composed loose-leaf on 8.5 x 11 paper, some lined some blank, some onion skin, sometimes by hand, sometimes on a typewriter, sometimes as a computer printout from a word processing software. When they get to be about two inches thick, I bind them with post screws and affix hard covers with pretty-wrapping. As you can see, some of the volumes remain unbound. I have got to get around to actually binding them.

 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/maryannemoll/525074_10151297828439291_482269621_n.jpg

 

Then I began making my own spring-bound notebooks, also 8.5 x 11, and those became volumes 11-18. After that, it was the Moleskine through and through, beginning late 2007.

 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/maryannemoll/563680_10151297828599291_748135632_n.jpg

 

I now have 45 volumes in all. These are the journals I have as of December 2013. Some day, I will affix proper labels on them and store them properly.

 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/maryannemoll/385741_10151297828769291_1618764423_n.jpg

 

I also used to paste ephemera in my journals, but I started to collect so much and write less, at some point in my life, that my journals ended up looking like this:

 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/maryannemoll/599789_10151305077889291_592490432_n.jpg

 

Now I separate the ephemera from the actual writing. For the ephemera, I have this.

 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/maryannemoll/480101_10151348495034291_626970747_n.jpg

 

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They all go in a box:

 

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And the boxes are also numbered as part of the one continuous series. When I have more space in my home I plan to put them in shelves. The super-thick Moleskines could be a problem, though.

 

Volume 45 is the first one on the Quo Vadis Habana, and I am just finishing this up. (I have left the Moleskine behind because of the poor paper quality). Volume 42 is a box of ephemera slides.

Edited February 12, 2013 by maryannemoll

[Snowstormer]

@maryannemoll: Oh. My. Goodness. That is amazing!! You must have every important memory in your life documented in there! Very inspirational.

[geruvah]

I posted this in another thread, but an Hermes Ulysee MM. There are pages in here that have literally started million dollar projects.

 

http://i.imgur.com/4ypvFD4.jpg

Edited March 16, 2013 by geruvah

[kuroba]

This was my notebook drawer a couple years ago... I need an updated pic

 

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[SFCharlie]

I have been writing in my journal since my youth (around eight, I think). In the very beginning I started out like many of you do right now; in notebooks. My journal eventually transformed into green ring binders (size: A5), usually three binders a year. In those binders you will find my daily writings, as well as pictures, articles and letters. It truly is: my life.

 

http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy318/SFCharlie/dagboeken_zpsbe0a0f7a.jpg

 

When I hit eighty, I will have amassed around 200+ ring binders.

Edited March 18, 2013 by SFCharlie

[maryannemoll]

I have been writing in my journal since my youth (around eight, I think). In the very beginning I started out like many of you do right now; in notebooks. My journal eventually transformed into green ring binders (size: A5), usually three binders a year. In those binders you will find my daily writings, as well as pictures, articles and letters. It truly is: my life.

 

http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy318/SFCharlie/dagboeken_zpsbe0a0f7a.jpg

 

When I hit eighty, I will have amassed around 200+ ring binders.

 

OMG! That is just wonderful! What a great legacy to leave behind to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

[SFCharlie]

OMG! That is just wonderful! What a great legacy to leave behind to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

 

Why thank you. I started writing in my journal due to a lack of contact with my parents. This eventually developed into understanding myself later in life, but also to convey my view on life. Perhaps leaving something behind for future generations crossed my mind as well. A vision on life, in my opinion, is only possible through the meticulous selection that the journalwriter makes. The underlying question should always be: what is important and what is not? I deliberately select that which I write down. I could have, like an idiot, written down every single minute of my life. That's, however, pretty pointless, as there would be no vision at all. Some find that keeping a journal is pathological-narcissistic, for this fellow, it rather became a necessity.

Edited March 19, 2013 by SFCharlie

[zuerincolour]

Both are Paperblanks notebooks which I love. First one is a Charles Darwin embellished notebook and the second is silver filigree embossed.

 

 

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[maryannemoll]

OMG! That is just wonderful! What a great legacy to leave behind to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

 

Why thank you. I started writing in my journal due to a lack of contact with my parents. This eventually developed into understanding myself later in life, but also to convey my view on life. Perhaps leaving something behind for future generations crossed my mind as well. A vision on life, in my opinion, is only possible through the meticulous selection that the journalwriter makes. The underlying question should always be: what is important and what is not? I deliberately select that which I write down. I could have, like an idiot, written down every single minute of my life. That's, however, pretty pointless, as there would be no vision at all. Some find that keeping a journal is pathological-narcissistic, for this fellow, it rather became a necessity.

 

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I myself journal particularly to make sense of things, largely to figure out some knots in certain stories that I am writing, but along the way, I discover really significant things about myself and the world around me, and it comes out -- sometimes subliminally, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally -- in the stories that I write. In turn, my stories are a bit more polished.

 

I have grown to have the habit of writing down things I am serious about, things I believe in, things that I plan to do, and the process of deciding on these matters, and I find that I am more committed to them when I have written them down and have explained to myself in my journal why they are significant. This technique has worked wonderfully when I am in the depressive mode. (I'm bipolar.) I needed to learn how to control my dark thoughts, and journaling has helped in managing such thoughts. My journals are tools for introspection.

 

Keeping a journal is a necessity for me, too. I find nothing narcissistic about it.

Edited March 21, 2013 by maryannemoll

[blackcat99]

Both are Paperblanks notebooks which I love. First one is a Charles Darwin embellished notebook and the second is silver filigree embossed.

 

 

http://i49.tinypic.com/2qlhlzk.jpg

 

http://i48.tinypic.com/n50hgm.jpg

They are stunning!! Xxxxx

[rabiosocorazon]

These are mine. Most of them made by my girlfriend.

 

 

Edited June 2, 2013 by rabiosocorazon

[slippery when wet]

Midori

[elderberry]

Thanks for showing some of your filled journals! That's been great and very inspiring to look at. Maybe I'll take a picture of mine later as well, since I started keeping a journal at age twelve there's also some horse covers around. :-D

 

I've never really strayed from using a notebook. When I was a child and could barely write my father gave me some leftover A5 diaries which I used for writing and illustrating stories - I don't have them with me but they are still at my parent's house. Later on I decided that notebooks were too expensive to use them for everything and anything - which was definitely wise since I bought them with my own pocket money and I did like beautiful books even then -, so I used loose leaves for stories and poems. Now I have a cardboard box filled with loose sheets in my cellar and am thinking I'd rather used a notebook - but well...

These days I've got some more pocket money and rather more notebooks than I could fill within any reasonable amount of time with just journaling so I also use them for stories, ideas and poems as well, no matter how rough or even bad they might be.

 

These are probably my most used journals since my boyfriend made them for me last year:

 

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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4YS8lp47CYs/UH11NXqjYGI/AAAAAAAAAKY/-qk6EtjE4lg/s1600/JLbraunblog3.jpg

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X4M8yxH6WCg/UHsL4KwJo5I/AAAAAAAAAJo/Hr4M-Zp68j0/s1600/JLschwarzblog2.jpg

 

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They are made of sturdy leather, A5 sized and can hold any softcover notebook of that size, ready made or hand made of my favourite papers (On the second picture you can see a hand made insert of Amalfi paper). It also makes for a nice middle ground for me when I'm having second thoughts about putting my crude thoughts and ideas into a "nice" journal since the inserts can be replaced at any time.

 

[lockesly]

My journals are scattered everywhere. There are 4or 5 hardcovers green notebooks lying around. Some journals given to me by friends with either a Star Trek or Star Wars motif (I know, I know). There is one hard-covered journal with a Celtic design on the cover in my desk at school and another there with a plain hardcover.

 

The one I am currently using at home sits on my desk, and is getting close to being replaced.