Everything AND The Kitchen Sink Journal

So I’m watching the swap and if I can get at least 1/3 done by sign up date I will sign up. I have a notebook all ready, the composition kind. I LOVE the requirements you chose!!! I’ll definitely have to scan the whole thing so I have a copy. Also I’m going to include some pockets. That would be a cool addition!!

Awesome! I do hope you'll join. I think this will be a super fun journal to create. I'm getting started now.

Any more suggestions that aren’t required? Or a link to a list?

Oh boy! Pinterest is all I needed!

So if anybody else is looking for additional ideas, here are a few I plan to do: - page of book reviews, maybe 2-3 pages (I have >100 pages) - a couple pages of doodles - one with borders, one with animals, one with funny faces - I'm going to use watercolor to paint abstract backgrounds for as many pages as I can and may do one page with a watercolor painting of a thing - might tape that in so it can be good, or might just do it on the page and you get what I can do! - An Un-Do list - things I want to stop doing - A "currently" page, possibly two next to each other - one from early on in the journal's creation, and one for a month later - listening, eating, drinking, wearing, feeling, weather, reading, watching, thinking, enjoying, seeing, wanting, needing, feeling... - Using word art to do a page like 100 things I love or words on some particular theme (I hope my partner likes Doctor Who!) - Adding a simple embroidered image to a page - might blue 2 pages together for this - One month of a mood tracker in a colorful fun way - In addition to the book reviews page(s), I may record all the books I read during the process of creating the journal - I'd have to do some guessing as to how many pages to set aside - I may write a short story or a flash fiction (I have a hard time with flash - mine tend to be at least 750 words, but for ME, that is flash!) - Zentangle a full page - color? maybe... - Write the same word using different lettering styles - Write a letter page(s) - to my barista, 4th grade teacher, someone who had an impact on me in the past, someone who doesn't like me, that nurse who f'd up so badly when I had my first baby, an author I love (obviously that's going to be Stephen King), a fictional character (Hermione? The Doctor? Rose?) - I took pix of all the ATCs I made, I could print them wee small, like 1" high, and put as many as will fit on a page, picking my favorites - Inside jokes - will I explain them or just let the recipient enjoy wondering? I think B. - random facts page - track a day in my life and write every little boring ass thing - A page of story prompts, either that I find or that I make up - A page of journaling prompts for my partner - A page with the icons of my fave apps, and maybe explain the apps and what I use them for

It's possible I'll need an even bigger journal!

OMG I'm so sorry I forgot how to make things on new lines and now I can't edit it! Can you tell I'm very excited about this journal idea?

Ummm those ideas are fabulous! lol. I am definitely borrowing a few or more of them. Thanks so much for the ideas! Also you could do a doodle a day challenge in like 30 small boxes or something, glue in your kid's artwork, do a fake interview with a celebrity, can't think of more now but if I think of any I'll add it here.

A. doodle-a-day! yes!!! B. haha no kids they all growed up yay! But they do still art...and there's grandkids... C. Fake interview with celebrity - cool idea - of course it ends with David Tennant falling madly in love with me and us running away in the TARDIS to live happily ever after...

I really hope my partner likes Doctor Who.

how about a couple of recipes

good idea!

I with this was international! Ah Well maybe some Day :) cause this swap Sounds Aweome!!

I can't afford the postage right now but maybe in the future we could do a private swap! or I could just host an international version when I have some extra $$.

I love the idea of this swap! It’s just not going to work in the cards for me this time around. I’m thinking that this could also be a fun idea to do in a loose leaf type of binder so a collective type of journal can be made a fewer pages at a time. 😁

That is a great idea. I may do that in the future. :)

I was asked if you could use a similar sized book to a composition book. Around 8 x 11 or so and 80 to 100 pages. This is fine to use.

This is such a cute idea for a swap. Unfortunately I won't be able to join but I'm going to use this as a journal set up for myself....

Mine went off in USPS land yesterday, after a lot of work!! I don't think I want to do another one that intensive for a while...whew...but it was fun to do.

So glad you had fun!!!