Journaling for Creative Exploration | Types of Journaling Part 2

[@MyAbidingJournal]

Thanks for watching abiding fam! I'd love to hear all about how you like to journal for creative exploration. Be sure to checkout Skillshare to explore your creativity even more! skl.sh/abidingkelseyleigh03221

[@adonaigutierrez1920]

Thank you for sharing your ideas. I plan to start a nature journal. I love, love, love all your journaling books and styles

[@MyAbidingJournal]

Thank you Adonai! ☺️

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

A great resource for free instruction on nature journaling (which can be intimidating!) is the naturalist Jack Laws (formal name John Muir Laws, grandson of the naturalist John Muir). He's a terrific teacher.

[@MyAbidingJournal]

@@LaLa_ArtGal great to know Lori-Louise! Thanks so much for sharing ☺️

[@Manifesting_Secret_Sketchbook]

R u journalling?

[@wandalorenz7688]

I love journaling in every form currently junk journaling is my passion and also scripture journaling finds it’s way in my journals a lot. Thanks for this series

[@sabinemichel3479]

Wow! So many possibilities!! Thank you for sharing. Journal memories and list journaling mix with a bit of creativity speaks to me to help me with my mental health and focus on me.

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

Your videos are both soothing and inspiring, and so I appreciate you. When I see your filled journals, I feel a pull toward that large-scale Moleskine, but I'm also completely intimidated by that large size. I keep several journals lately: one classic written journal in a huge ledger; a calendar-style journal, and a junk journal. My sketchbooks sometimes feel journal-ish, too. I love participating with my local Urban Sketching group. And oh! TRAVEL journals, which have writing, drawing/painting, and ephemera collages (which I think I remember you telling about in the Memory Keeping video).

[@MyAbidingJournal]

That’s amazing! Yes the big size can be intimidating and isn’t right for everyone or for every season! Next year I’m thinking of using an A5 again or maybe even a B6 ☺️ good to switch things up and experiment!

[@killhannaah]

I love your videos, Kelseyleigh! You have a beautiful way of talking about journaling and life. Thank you!!

[@sheilalee5377]

Sometimes when we're trying to define something huge, like art, we can get wrapped up in the labels. Most folks that have ever been swept up in a story or inspired by a poem ( or a song) can agree writing is an art - the medium being words. Words seen on a page, heard through audio, or even made with raised bumps to be felt by our fingertips. As you're a writer, you fall well into the art spectrum (even before we add in your journaling, vloging, and whatever other artsy stuff you do). 🙂

[@seekingcelestialgrace]

I loveeeddd this! Thank you for this fantastic video :)

[@MyAbidingJournal]

Thank YOU Claudia 🥰

[@kasia1795]

I like the umbrella of creative journal as the writing part is really important to me, but I found a blank page overwhelming, so I found by adding to the page be that photos, stickers, ticket stubs, drawing or painting, craft paper, cut outs from magazines, the page was less daunting and I was more comfortable writing.

[@VictoriaTaylor-jl1mp]

This gave me new ideas...thank you

[@casandramclin3748]

I truly love your spirit and your creativity💜🙏

[@recoveringsoul755]

there are entire communities all about Nature Journaling. Channels like John Muir Laws and Marley Peifer. There is also Urban Sketching, seems to be when people go outside, even traveling, to sketch urban environments, like buildings, people, markets, architecture. Sometimes they'll throw in a landscape by the seaside. That Edwardian ladies book you mentioned is amazing though. Drawing on site seems to be a much better way of retaining that event than taking a photo and drawing it later. It captures the feel better, and you remember it better. It's educational.. There are even apps to help identify birds and insects, it can get rather involved.

[@MyAbidingJournal]

It can definitely get involved, but is a really cool experience!

[@WillowSage3]

I'm doing a project that is a cross between a junk journal and a collage journal.

[@eileennielsen3607]

I make junk journals the original ones you mentioned. Make all my own ephemera. I want to start a " Creative Art Journal". For me that would be creating art (all mediums), writing and pics, ephemera. Dated, documented. I am an avid reader also. Used to do creative writing. So happy I found your channel!😀😊 Thanks!

[@MyAbidingJournal]

Thanks Eileen and welcome the abiding fam!

[@Manifesting_Secret_Sketchbook]

O hi there have you read about CERN and what experiments they have done in Geneva Switzerland?. They have a gigantic machine called The Collider

[@ashleyprater3640]

I enjoy collage and creative journaling. But I am trying to do some exploring with artistic journaling in 2023.

[@hazelgalbraith2400]

Really enjoyed this series.well done thank your

[@wandalorenz7688]

Loved the creative writing ✍️ idea

[@loveforpaper6203]

Great video 😊

[@tribalstyle138]

I think your 'book creating' idea about jj's is interesting. I would say it is scrapbooking before scrapbooking. So keeping a diary and then also glueing in pictures, and your actual life ephemera. Tickets from things you actually went to, flyers and postcards from actual places you visited etc. I think it takes a vintage aesthetic bc people did that during paper heavy time periods, ie early - mid 1900s. So we associate pictures of planes and luggage tags with that bc thats what people did in the 1960s when writing a "diary". Put their stuff in there. I think the focus on making the book alone and not what you do after the book is made is a recent thing bc people mimic the vintage look without using their own real ephemera. If they did... they would be simply be scrapbook journaling. Understanding that scrapbooking here is not the super structured/ commercialized scrapbooking. So my jj is a scrapbook journal, is a diary with pictures, is a memory keeping book whether I hand made the book itself or not. IMO. But it makes sense historically. I'm surprised people don't make this connection and also never use the word diary!😅

[@MyAbidingJournal]

It is really interesting how we have all moved away from calling our journals diaries! Thanks for watching 💛

[@rfoley402]

Hi KelseyLeigh, thank you for your always thoughtful content and sharing your creativity. I love this series you explain things so well. I am an avid reader also and would love any book recommendations that you want to pass along. Renee in Central PA.

[@MyAbidingJournal]

So glad you’re enjoying it! I will have to make some book related videos in the future, but some of my favorites are Rules for a Knight, The Book Thief, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Nightingale, Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess…to name a few off the top of my head. I use the STORYGRAPH app for reading if you want to be friends on there too. And I’m also from Central PA ☺️

[@rfoley402]

@@MyAbidingJournal Wow, great! Some of these I have read and some I haven't. I do read a lot of non-fiction, though. Thank you, love your channel. God bless.

[@DocumentedJourney]

Such wonderful ideas!

[@betinabjerre5428]

Hi love your inspiration 🥰 how do you print your pictures ?

[@sandracapps5543]

I am stuck! I am absolutely overwhelmed by all the choices: smashbook, straight journaling, art journaling, TN journal, make your own journal, planner style, bound, spiral, ring bound,etc! I. Am. Overwhelmed! I love writing!(I REALLY love writing!) I love planners. I love memory keeping/scrap journaling. Can ANYONE help me sort it out?🙁

[@MyAbidingJournal]

I personally find it easiest to just pick a notebook or TN that can accommodate multiple mediums and then make it more about what you want to do that day rather than feeling like you need 10 journals for 10 different things. Almost all of the example pages I share within this series are just entries in my TN, but I do all different types of journaling within that one journal depending on my mood that day

[@sandracapps5543]

@@MyAbidingJournal Thank you.

[@tribalstyle138]

you have nice handwriting

[@ThreeGsHomeschool]

Hey, I tried joining your website but it would not let me, it kept giving me an error 😢

[@MyAbidingJournal]

Hi! So sorry for the confusion. I’m actually taking a break this month from creating new content so I’m not accepting new patrons, but I’ll be back in June! Thanks for your interest and I hope to see you on Patreon then! ☺️💛

[@ThreeGsHomeschool]

@@MyAbidingJournal is it possible to pay and have access to content you have already created?

[@MyAbidingJournal]

@@ThreeGsHomeschool i appreciate your interest in doing so, but unfortunately Patreon doesn’t allow new patrons to join when I have billing paused. It’ll be open again on June 1!

[@ThreeGsHomeschool]

@@MyAbidingJournal well darn LOL 😆 thank you