15/07/2010

Reflective Journal

It recently hit that time of the season where I buy a Moleskine and decide to fill it with sketches and genius musings and poetry.


(I found yet another one after I took this photo)

This usually results in me filling out about 2 pages, deciding I've ruined it, and using it to make shopping lists instead. Which I never use because I am invariably broke. Yesterday was no exception, and as I sauntered into Chelsea College art shop (I had decided to go ahead with the notebook purchase, despite previous failures) it dawned on me that I would not be able to afford the Moleskine, in all its leather-bound glory... However, I was resolute in my decision to buy a new notebook:


(and a gold pen)

Anyway, I have started to fill it, which I suppose is something.


(Fire-like wording achieved by applying bleach onto photo using paintbrush. Paintbrush consequently dead.)

Some of last year's journal:


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12 comments:

  1. Wowww, your last journal was beautiful, i love looking at sketch books :)
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  2. your last journal looks pretty amazing! makes me wanna buy a new sketch book but you know i know that i would just end up in the back of my closet :D

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  3. i do the same thing!!!! haha i have a stack of notebooks that always start with such high hopes and good intentions. but i think you need to take closeups of some of your journal entries and make them big and then post them because these are AMAZINGGGG. looking at someones journal is like looking in their room- its a slight invasion of privacy but you just cant help it , its so damn interesting! ah the inner workings of the mind... anyway- please post more pictures of old journals!!! i love love love them.
    xx. alyssa

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  4. Indeed moleskine is overrated!
    Lovely post!
    That shop is actually beyond retro in stockholm.


    Sofia

    xo

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  5. Wow! I feel inspired! I'm always meaning to do things like that!

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  6. Wow, those sketchbooks are amazing.

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  7. you should have tried David Cameron's wife's stationary company. it makes moleskine look like it's designed for starving orphans. You can even get a diary which includes a vintage wine chart and lists of royal family members' birthdays. eww. it's horrific.

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  8. wowwww! and i thought i was the only one who does these stuff to journals ^^ lovely blog you have here ^^

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  9. That looks awesome! Moleskines look lovely but I don't understand why everyone adores them ... probably because I haven't used one myself I guess! I'll have to try it out next year or something. :)
    lovely blog xo

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  10. actual inspiration to start a similar journal. why do mine always end up unfinished!

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  11. You give good scrapbook and I have envy!

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