Moleskine Expanded Flip-Thru!

[@scribe_samples2309]

You might not see my comments as your video is two years old, but still want to say this is my fav video of yours I have seen. The quotes, practicing your art, your heart-felt writing about the loss of your friend. All is so beautiful and a gift for your children. Thanks for sharing.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you Kathy! I just now saw that you had commented here several months ago. I had a lot of fun with this style of journaling. I liked the non-structured aspect. .

[@lidypeters1813]

Hello Gail, I just wanted to say the same. This was my first video of you that I saw. I was so impressed, so beautiful. So the first and the most favourite.

[@withlove_nikki]

how absolutely lovely! i love that you have a space to commemorate your friend and also be creative and free. i’m very sorry for your loss, and also very glad to see how much love you have surrounding you. you can tell from your pages alone :) thank you for sharing your beautiful journal! 💗

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you, and thanks you for your sweet remarks. I really enjoyed filling this journal for the reasons you mentioned. 🧡😀

[@Minnie_Bear]

I love your journal. It makes me feel better about mine. Sometimes I'll write a normal journal entry, sometimes I'll doodle, practice my art or handwriting, write my grocery list, whatever! Anything I/we want to put in a journal is all good.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

I agree! I really like the random feel to it. I tend to categorize my thoughts in other journals, but this one was just fun.

[@InkySparks]

I love your journal! This is the goal for me, I want a little bit of everything!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@InkySparks Thank you! It was a fun time being in this journal. ☺️ I hope you enjoy your process too!

[@bettylongshore9594]

Great journal and WONDERFUL memories!!!! That's what it's all about, right!!!!!!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you. ☺️ Yes, I think so...preserving special memories.

[@XioWrites]

ugh i love this video I think it’s so cool that you can fill out a notebook like this

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thanks...It’s a really great size journal. I can see trying again someday.

[@sarahmartinezjournals]

This was fun to watch and to see all of the memories of the special people that have touched your life♥️♥️

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thanks, Sarah! ☺️

[@tammyhaynie-hill3046]

I love your journal Gail. I think it is very thoughtful and heartwarming what you did with the memories of your friend who passed away. I am sorry to hear about your loss, but it is so touching what you did with her memories. I love that!! I also love that you just put all sorts of goodies in your journal. It will be a keepsake forever.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you Tammy. ☺️ I appreciate your kind remarks. This was good for me to do and helped me capture lots of thoughts and memories that kept popping up, and this kind of random journaling was just a lot of fun, too. 😊

[@tammyhaynie-hill3046]

@@gailsbookishthings5191 I purchased one yesterday and will give this a try!! So, Thank you for the great idea!!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@tammyhaynie-hill3046 That’s great! I’d love to know how it goes! ☺️

[@calimoss]

Your memories section about your aunts was wonderful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

You’re welcome! I appreciate your commenting, too. ☺️

[@imaie3617]

I love this video. I keep coming back to watch

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Aw, that’s so sweet of you. 💛☺️That makes me happy to hear.

[@imaie3617]

@@gailsbookishthings5191 that friend of yours who passed away, caused a beautiful creation of a notebook. We’re you able to complete ‘ or go half way through another notebook? I would love to see. I am currently in a similar notebook. I started it a week ago but I am already 50 pages through. I am enjoying it.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@imaie3617 Yes, that’s true, she really did inspire a lot of reflection and gratitude for many things. ☺️💙 I haven’t really done a journal exactly like that again, but I keep thinking about it. I do mostly standard TN size notebooks. I am trying to get a “ memoirs” one going but with minimal success! I think I’m too divided in too many notebooks and actually preferred the all in one style in some ways. Keep up your good work with journaling! You’ll be very satisfied when it’s all done and have a great keepsake of memories! Thank you for your comments here. 🧡

[@Linteria]

I could listen to you talk all day, seriously. I’m very sorry about your friend, but i’m sure she looks down on you with a smile knowing how lovingly you remember her. Thanks for the video.

[@Linteria]

And i believe it’s just Moleskin(e) ignoring the e! :)

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you very much. That is very sweet of you to say...both the listening to me talk and the comment about my friend. ☺️ Glad you liked the video; thank you for watching and commenting, and clarifying about the moleskine pronunciation. 😉

[@kathyfannon7563]

Thank you for sharing your journal. So inspirational! And your feathers are beautiful! Not at all Christmas tree-ish. (OK, I could see a little bit of campfire once it was pointed out!) I'm so sorry to hear about your friend and know you still grieve her loss. My best friend in all of life died 10 years ago. I, too, had to shop for something to wear to the service. One salesgirl asked if I was shopping for a special occasion. I said, "Yes, my friend's funeral." Oh, that poor girl! She didn't know how to react. I wonder if she ever asked that question of a customer again. What a treasure your journal will be to your kids as they begin to care about family history. I've very much tried to do the same thing. And how I wish I could go back and talk to those "old" aunts and uncles. (Who were back then my age today!!) If only young people would take the time to listen to stories of their family. Anyway...Merry Christmas and may your new year be blessed beyond imagination!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you, Kathy. I really appreciate all your kind words. I can tell you understand the loss of a special friend. It’s funny how you said you could see a bit of campfire in my feathers! That makes me laugh, and thanks for being honest! lol 😆 Thank you for sharing your loss with me as well. How is it now after ten years? Hope your holiday is special, too.

[@Joy2Plan]

What a great journal! It will be truly treasured. Enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing. ❤️❤️❤️ Joy2plan

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you...I agree..since I wrote so much about my friend and family it will be treasured. ☺️

[@Galletta-Dean]

Love this video !! Inspired by this book!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@Galletta-Dean ☺️I’m glad and thank you!

[@khamsinbroodingaudiojourna8867]

I write for myself. You write for yourself and for the future and for your kids. I do love your philosophy. Really great video. :)

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you.☺️

[@planitpanda]

Hi from Sweden! I really enjoyed your flip-thru, you're so talented 🤩 Thank you for sharing.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you so much for your kind comments. ☺️

[@mgtogno]

Ur journal is lovely, I love the freedom and the idea about writing about someone u love. It is a great exercise and if it was ever found by someone who never met u before, this person would probably read and know a little about who u were. Which is great =)

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you! That’s a really neat thought. 🧡😊

[@josiiii444]

Thank you for this. I loved this video and it reminded me to take care of every moment of life.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

I’m so glad to hear that. Thank you. 😊

[@howtobejuly]

this is so good and it gives me a lot of inspiration ! i also have the habit of writing everything down and i think it will be fun to read it all when i’ll be old🥺✨

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

You’ll be very glad you did! 😀

[@RachelWatsonLifeAsALeo1234]

Your journal is lovely. I don't think the feathers look like Christmas trees at all, I think they look like a feather I could just pick up. :) They are beautiful. :)

[@RachelWatsonLifeAsALeo1234]

One of the things I took away from the video is to write about things about family so future generations will know about what their lives were like. Thank you for the inspiration.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you! I’m grateful for your remarks and will keep working at the feathers; but glad you could recognize them! ☺️😆 I like your take-away from this flip-thru: record memories for others. That’s definitely how I feel about writing these days. 💜

[@recoveringsoul755]

This was quite lovely..... I just last week heard about a grief journal. I thought it was a great idea. Thought about how many journals I would need to have one for each person/thing that I've lost and it's a lot of books. Some people are still alive, but for a series of unfortunate events I haven't been able to see them or hear them or know anything about their lives. Seems like if I put all the grief into one book I'd be jumping around from one thing to another, and not have like, one book just about memories of my dad, for example.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you. I think putting whatever you want in a journal, when it seems right , can really work. I have lost many people , too, and it’s healing and honoring to their lives to take back moment and write about them, Thanks for sharing your thoughts and commenting.🧡

[@catvishplans]

Love this flip. I hope to have something like this if i would just stick to a book lol 😂.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

You can do it! Just a little at a time...😀

[@desireen.7475]

Thanks for sharing this although it was something quite personal, it really inspired me. You really made me smile to see how good writing can be for someone that is passing through a loss like yours. I hope you're feeling better. You're really strong, I can't even mention my grandma without crying, and she passed away 20 years ago.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Desiree N. Thank you, Desiree, for the encouraging and kind words. I understand how you feel about your grandma. 🧡 Have you journaled about her? I feel like the journaling helps stir up even more memories and then we can record them and have more to remember. 🧡

[@desireen.7475]

Thanks for replying! I have an everyday journal, and I recently started writing a notebook where I write philosophy and history stuff (my journal sometimes got too intense 😂). But after I saw this video and then your kind comment, I think I'm going to do something like this. How do you call it? Memory keeping journal? It's true that with my everyday journal I keep cool things, but unfortunately when my grandma was alive, I didn't keep a journal or maybe I wrote about of this or that crush 😅 we learn to appreciate what are the important things when we get older.

[@gisellealston2410]

i can listen to her talk all day! 🤣 But I definitely wanna be like her who has kids and grand kids and still journaling, that is so cool to me. I definitely wanna have like 100 journals by the time i’m her age! ❤️

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thanks! One journal at a time and you’ll probably get there easily! I wish I had journaled more when my kids were all little, even when I first got married...but I did more with scrapbooking and photos then. 💜

[@margaretfoster5143]

i love this flip through, and i love your style! i hope you post more and i am very sorry about your friend

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you! ☺️

[@sgist7824]

Hi Gail i love this video, I'm trying to create a remembrance journal for my mum who passed away in april. I wonder do you have an updated flip through as I see this video was very popular? Love from the UK

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@sgist7824 I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed this video but I am sorry for your loss. I hope your remembrance journal will be a special thing for you as this was for me. I have not done an updated video. I began trying other journaling formats after this, but this was really was unique and very fun in its more free-style form. Maybe that is why it has resonated with so many viewers.I’m trying to incorporate more of that in my current everyday journal. Thank you for your comments. ☺️💚

[@sgist7824]

@@gailsbookishthings5191 thank you and please keep up the good work. I'm sorry for your loss also 💜

[@cyndimcerlane9339]

What a GORGEOUS journal. Thank you so much for sharing!! Just a tip: you aren't getting the watercolor effect you like because of the paper. I love, love, love Moleskine journals, too and I also watercolor in mine, but, nothing beats good watercolor paper for the "effects". Anyway...I love your work. 😍😍😍

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you for that advice. That makes total sense...lol....so obvious now that you mention it. ☺️🧡👍🏻 Thanks for watching and commenting. 😀

[@dawndavidson6062]

Thank you Gail - I really enjoyed this video…the quote from the Queen appears to be referenced ‘9-11 attacks speech’ - I’ve had a Moleskine Expanded in my stash for a while, you’ve given me some great ideas as to how to use it!

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you; Im glad you enjoyed the video and have gotten some ideas on using your moleskine expanded. I liked it a lot and may start another sometime. Hope you have fun with yours. Thanks for commenting and clarifying about the Queen Elizabeth quote, too. 💛

[@SylviaWithAPlan]

Thanks for sharing! I’m looking at an Expanded for 2021.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Don’t know how I missed your comment earlier but thanks for commenting! How have you liked the Moleskine Expanded? ☺️

[@unicornjasminesun]

When I get bored of my expanded and want to move into something else, I start writing bigger and I paint pages with one color just as filler or I put more ephemera

[@clarelowe3718]

Sorry about your best friend.this is a good idea what u have done in this book.x

[@stacisjournaljourney7]

Great flip thru 💙

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thanks for watching Staci! 😀

[@amethystte2749]

I'd love to know what pens and markers you used. I do not see ghosting or bleeding on most pages, a few at the end I saw some bleeding and ghosting though. thanks for sharing

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@amethystte2749 It had been so long ago now…but I think lots of colored pencils, sharpie pens, gel pens, glitter gel pens. Some water color paints too I think. 😄 I loved doing this journal and trying any kind of medium. This was before I was into fountain pens and I really don’t remember having trouble with much bleed through. Thank you for your comments. ☺️

[@kaberroneill94]

Hey Gail! Thanks for sharing your journal. I saw a video from Key Lime Ink (April 29, 2020) about the Moleskine Expanded and she pronounced it "Mola-skeena". She said that that is how the people from the company pronounce it.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

That’s very interesting...🤔 Makes sense....they probably laugh at all the ways it’s mispronounced! Lol!

[@MunezAFK]

as a multi-cultural brand, they actually don't care about how it is pronounced, they let the people say it however they want

[@kellyanthony2969]

I very much enjoyed your walk-thru. Thank you for sharing some great inspiration. I am also in Missouri! I do love my Moleskine. What are your favorite pens to use with your M-Expanded? Be healthy and be safe. ~Kelly

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Kelly...my reply is so late...I’m sorry! I missed a lot of remarks people made earlier. 😩 I liked using a lot of my different pens and markers in this book. I think my pilot G-2 10 was a favorite: big bold black line. 😃 That’s neat that you’re in Missouri! We could be neighbors and not even know it! Lol!

[@leslismith303]

great drawings

[@larryglatt2548]

The operative word is that you strayed from your intended use of the journal (not about the sad lost of your friend), but the pasting of memorabilia is the reason the journal bulked out. These journals were not intended for that, they were meant for writing, art, graphing etc, when items are pasted, tapped, or clipped in they, as I said, bulk it journal out & may even break the back binding; IMHO.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

This is very true, and yet I like the personality it developed. 😃 It would definitely be a good experience as well to just use it for writing. I really liked the overall writing experience of this journal, it’s simplicity and the size.

[@larryglatt2548]

@@gailsbookishthings5191 I am just designing how I want to set up my Commonplace Journal as I saw you lovely reply. I will order my Moleskine soon to start the new journey. I have been keeping separate TN journal books for each topic, too many to fit in the TN leather cover, this will hopefully be a much better solution, even for my Nature Journaling & sketches.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

@@larryglatt2548 I hope it goes well; I am still always contemplating how I want to organize my journals!

[@larryglatt2548]

@@gailsbookishthings5191 Yes, adjusting how to do things is a journey. Be well. It's a constant adjustment for instance I decided not to include art from my trips on the same page, but to a cross referenced section for art & quotes/written or spoken find to another cross referenced section; phew.

[@paperstoryjournals]

Your feathers look like feathers. Not at all like Christmas trees. If you have a shop you should list in the video description.

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Thank you! I’m glad they’re recognizable as feathers. 😀 I do not have a shop but thank you for the encouragement. (A few friends have suggested that and it sounds fun, though.)

[@cynt.hudson]

Nice ♥️‼️

[@wednesday567]

is this the plain or dotted pages?

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

This is the dot grid. 😀Just enough structure to keep my writing fairly straight. 😆

[@CodyDoll]

I say “ants” too. Do you say li-berry?

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

Cody Doll 😄 I actually include the “r” but I tend to leave out the “l” in almonds and psalm. 😁 Ny kids don’t let me forget that. Hahaha

[@SamanthaxPatone]

she has the same voice as Melissa McCarthy

[@gailsbookishthings5191]

😄