Patty, I love the new page. You are getting a lot of depth, but in spots the lines still show through - awesome. What are you using to lay on your paint? I did...
Dawn, thanks for that link to Dan Eldon's journals. Great site! And Hi Elinor, I too bought those tiny comp.books. We (kids) used them last year in our reg....
Hi, I am Ariel in Sacramento, California, USA. I am a writer and artist who starting keeping a journal at age fourteen. I started keeping art journals about...
Hi all! I'm so happy Laurie started this list! Ever since high school (1980-84), I've carried around one of these notebooks with my already HUGE pile of books...
Lynne: I have been journaling off and on since 7th grade. Heavy on the off and on! Sometimes I would write, write, write and then I would skip months or even...
Hi, I love the idea of this group! For so long, I've been starting journals, in beautiful books, and then *freezing*, thinking "I'm just going to ruin it"......
I have used composition notebooks since I was a kid in middle school. And I have several journals that are expensive and the paper is thick and creamy...but...
When Sally Fasano asked the question on the AB list that caused Laurie to motivate so many of us to get busy in our compo journals, I wrote her the following...
Hi All, Thanks for the invite. I teach art to kids and have recently begun to introduce them to journaling and altered books (to the older ones). With school...
Check out these compo books that I just found. http://www.business-supply.com/dept/2513415/mead-special-ruled-composition-books.html They have ruled paper on...
Hi all, welcome to all the new members. We are growing fast! I'm glad you like my journal pages Laurie. They have gotten so much more to my liking since I...
This sounds like another fun group. Thanks for starting it, Laurie. I delight in making altered books and handmade books, among other paper crafts. I was in a...
Hi everyone! Just joined this group and I'm excited about it....I'm Leanne from NW Iowa. I have an altered swap group on yahoo and I haven't looked yet if...
I am a quiltmaker who has discovered that art journaling is a great way to work out ideas, brainstorm, gather ideas, work thorough creative blocks and just get...
Hi, This sounds really interesting. I'm a journaler from way back. I get those spiral-bound blank books and use them for everything -- notes, essays,...
Thank you for inviting me to your group. Im looking forward to the journey forward from here. I have kept a journal since my early teens and now that i have...
I see what you mean about the black and white striped one -- it's kind of intimidating to me to have really dark painted pages, I tend to like very intense...
I've put several of my scans into the files. I didn't send notices of all of them. I decided I didn't want half the first digest to be notices of uploads from...
Hi, I just got the invite to this list. Thanks for setting it up Laurie. I had a big breakthrough in my compo journals with Laurie's post to the AB list about...
Maybe we could start a file where everyone could post to a list what they do to jump start a block. I like to go journal in differnt places, I like to sit...
I just joined, My name is Stephanie O. I don't use the black and white composition books but do use what ever notebook type thing that's cheap and calls to me....
Hi Laurie and all, So glad to be here. Lately my daughter and I have had so many health problems and I need to something fun to focus on. Laurie, you have...
I love that in journaling there are no rules. I started with the composition books because they are cheap and for me they have a nostalgia thing going on with...
I'm delighted to share the fun! Hee hee hee -- I feel like I should say, "Hi, I'm Laurie, and I'm addicted to composition book art journaling!" I've always...
This looks to be a fun group. I am totally addicted to these composition journals and am excited to find others like me. It will be fun swapping techniques,...
