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The Family Journal

03 Feb 2016 Comments Off on The Family Journal

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Family Journal Tags: family, happy

Dear Fellow Journalers,

The posts in January were so widely read and successful – Thanks so much for your comments! February continues our series with Family Journals. When I first broached the idea of content journaling to my team, MaryBeth jumped at the idea of a Family Journal. “We started one,” she wrote me, “when the kids gave us the “The Perfect Gift.” So, being a gracious blog writer, I have left February’s posts on Family Journaling to her.

Enjoy,

Sallie

The kids had such a great time designing and assembling the family scrapbook, that when I brought up the idea of a family journal, they embraced it wholeheartedly. We gave a lot of thought as to what type of journal to write.

The first type that came to mind was the history of our family – “boring!” was T.J.’s response. My husband explained that our family history journal (if we decided to start one), would be personal. We could write it with the intention of using the contents to further the Maroney history writing or as a legacy for our descendants to have a better understanding of our attitudes and actions. The kids wrinkled their noses! The second type of journal, I actually thought of, was a souvenir family journal – almost like a travel journal but filled with trinkets of all the trips we go on. No one liked that idea either, so we sent the kids to the play room to come up with more ideas. The following are some of them:

inspirations from books
school events
what makes us happy

story-pass-along (Each family member contributes to a story. Each writes one sentence in turn then passes it on)

favorite family movies
favorite books

After a family discussion, we decided on a Happiness Journal. Each of us would take a section, date and sign it, then write a page on what made us happy, what we were doing (attending school, working) and about ourselves.

Our family journal may not have been conventional, but for a first attempt it was pretty awesome and became a family treasure.

‘Til next time,

MaryBeth

Reading Prompts

20 Jan 2016 Comments Off on Reading Prompts

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Prompts Tags: Journal prompts

Dear Fellow Journalers,

The following are some prompts that you can use in your Reading Journal to make the entries more informative:

What is your favorite (or a few of your favorite) books and why? How many times have you read it and how does it make you feel when you flip through the pages? What would you tell someone when you’re recommending this book to them?
What is your least favorite book? Why are you so turned off by it? Now imagine that you are forced to watch a movie version of the book. Describe your experience.
A friend has recommended that you read a book that he says is “completely amazing!” The book is anything but. What do you tell your friend and does this experience change your opinion about his tastes?
You have been transported into one of your favorite books as a character of your choosing. Who are you and what happens to you during your adventures? Describe in extreme detail.
What is your favorite place to read? Why is it the perfect spot?
You are walking down the road and you come across a group of kids that are burning books. What do you do next?

‘Til next time,

~Sallie

Quotes for book lovers

15 Jan 2016 Comments Off on Quotes for book lovers

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Seeds of thought Tags: books, change, Library, magic

Dear Fellow Journalers,

The following quotes are for YOU!

Enjoy.

~Sallie

“You never have to change anything. You get up in the middle of the night to write.” Saul Bellow

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

E.E. Cummings

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Plato

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.” Henry Ward Beecher

“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

J.K. Rowling

“We read five words on the first page of a really good book and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” John Gardner

Random Thoughts about books

08 Jan 2016 Comments Off on Random Thoughts about books

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Paper Daydreams Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Library

Dear Fellow Journalers,

Today’s Random Thoughts are about books. Enjoy!

Sallie

“It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

Jo Walton

(Welsh-Canadian author who penned a Hugo award-winning book “Among others” in 2011)

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, and absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”

Jeanette Winterson

(English writer who started writing at age 6. She is famous for her work “Oranges are not the only fruit.”)

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

Isabel Allende

(Chilean-American author who has been called “the world’s most widely read Spanish author.”)

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

Benjamin Franklin