Best of
Journaling

2007

Your Birthday Book: A Keepsake Journal


Amy Krouse Rosenthal - 2007
    It’s a birthday book! It was born from the simple idea that birthdays provide the perfect annual opportunity to preserve a sweet moment in time as your child changes from year to year. So it’s a multi-layered confection: annual touchstone, cherished ritual, and eternal keepsake. This journal provides fun, fast, and casual birthday activities for ages 1-18 as well as space to stick birthday photos and a random picture from each year, amusing and thought-provoking questions to ask your kid, and a time-capsule envelope for stashing away odds and ends (artwork, school papers, hand tracings, birthday cards, invitations, and other memorabilia).From toddler hood to young adulthood to every hood in between, you’ll return to the same four activities for each birthday. The questions prompts, and tone may shift each year, but the essence intentionally remains intact.

Wreck This Journal


Keri Smith - 2007
    Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. Readers discover a new way of art and journal making-and new ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.

1000 Journals Project


Someguy - 2007
    Inspirational. Entertaining. One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world, beckoning contributors who find the journals by chance on trains, in cafés, and anonymously left on doorsteps. Artist Someguy shares more than 250 of the best entries: a collage of African countries repositioned into a new continent; the musings of a teen trapped in a drug- ravaged community; a student's humorous personal ad for his ideal girlfriend ("C-cup required!"). A faux leather cover and two beautifully embroidered pages bring the look and feel of the original journals to life. The perfect gift for journalists, aspiring artists, designers, and anyone who can't wait for one of the journals to magically appear in their lives.

Things to Make and Do Journal


Nikki McClure - 2007
    Based loosely on her Things to Make and Do 2008 Calendar, the journal seeks to inspire its owner to write down aspirations and dream projects, and the steps necessary to achieve them. Things to Make and Do is divided into 10 sections: things to make (Plans, Wishes, and Dreams) and things to do (Build, Explore, Learn, Make, Grow, Give, and Find). Is there a new recipe you want to try out? Or are you preparing a gift list for the holidays? Putting together a new mix CD and want to figure out what songs to put on it? Creating a list of DVDs to rent or books to read? Or maybe you're looking for a place to write down new job aspirations or places you dream of traveling to? With its open and simple structure, the possibilities of what to record are endless.

Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice


Laraine Herring - 2007
    With warmth and wisdom, Herring offers a path to discovering "deep writing"—prose that is unique, expressive, and profoundly authentic. Lessons and imaginative exercises show you how to: stay with your writing when your mind or body starts to pull you away; explore the five senses in your writing; and approach your writing without judgment. Writing Begins with the Breath will open up a whole world of creativity for people who may not have considered themselves writers before, while also providing keen insights into the craft for seasoned writers.

Write for Life: Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Journal Writing


Sheppard B. Kominars - 2007
    Bringing the facts discovered by research on the healing benefits of writing into the daily perspective of self-discovery, this self-paced book offers a life-long adventure into living healthier and having more fun doing it.

Field Guide to Happiness: Finding Happiness in its Natural Habitat


Barbara Ann Kipfer - 2007
    'The Field Guide to Happiness' is about self-understanding, transforming personal problems, redoing the plot of your life, expanding creativity, and discovering joy.