Happy Monday!
I hope your weekend was a nice one. My youngest had a horse show and it was such gorgeous weather and we had a really nice time. I am gearing up for the holidays as I am sure many of you are and I am planning on sharing the handmade gifts I will be making for everyone this year. I spent this week figuring out what I was going to make for everyone and I think I am even being some what realistic. I am still hopeful to finish the Coraline dolls for the kids and that is my plan for the coming week. In fact I couldn’t sleep last night and as I was lying in bed I came up with a really cool idea for a box for the dolls. I will be sure to share the results with you all and how I make out.
I was going to film a video on my setting up my Christmas planner in my bullet journal but the weekend got away from me so I decided to share this video I recorded maybe two weeks ago instead. I was hesitant to share it as I can’t seem to find this journal anymore! I know it’s around and most likely right in front of my face but either way it’s a really fun project and if need be I just may have to make a second one. I also have my fall journal to fill up and then I am hoping to get my Christmas memory journal caught up.
Perhaps I am not being so realistic with my holiday plans after all.
Regardless it’s fun to have to ideas and projects on the go and at the end of the day I am determined to just enjoy the making and I get done what I get done.
Today however I am sharing my little mushroom journal with you.
I made it out of a mini composition notebook that I believe I bought in a big pack off of Amazon but I know you can get these at the Dollar Tree too. I was prepping the pages to make art in them but never really got beyond that. I saw Janet Nash’s mushroom journal and I really loved the idea so I decided to turn this notebook into my own version of a mushroom journal.
I gut out of very simple template leaving a hinge of sorts to keep the journal together. I traced it on the notebook and then cut out the pages a few at a time. I found my scissors worked perfectly for this. I love the idea of maybe adding fabric collage to the cover and then maybe even a combination of hand stitching and paper collage to the inside pages.
I hope you will make one too and maybe we can work in our mushroom journals together.
Until next time…
-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante
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