Journaling for Creative Exploration | Types of Journaling Part 2

Thank you for sharing your ideas. I plan to start a nature journal. I love, love, love all your journaling books and styles

Hi KelseyLeigh, thank you for your always thoughtful content and sharing your creativity. I love this series you explain things so well. I am an avid reader also and would love any book recommendations that you want to pass along. Renee in Central PA.

Your videos are both soothing and inspiring, and so I appreciate you. When I see your filled journals, I feel a pull toward that large-scale Moleskine, but I'm also completely intimidated by that large size.

I keep several journals lately: one classic written journal in a huge ledger; a calendar-style journal, and a junk journal. My sketchbooks sometimes feel journal-ish, too. I love participating with my local Urban Sketching group. And oh! TRAVEL journals, which have writing, drawing/painting, and ephemera collages (which I think I remember you telling about in the Memory Keeping video).

Such wonderful ideas!

I loveeeddd this! Thank you for this fantastic video :)

Really enjoyed this series.well done thank your

I love your videos, Kelseyleigh! You have a beautiful way of talking about journaling and life. Thank you!!

I am stuck! I am absolutely overwhelmed by all the choices: smashbook, straight journaling, art journaling, TN journal, make your own journal, planner style, bound, spiral, ring bound,etc!
I. Am. Overwhelmed! I love writing!(I REALLY love writing!) I love planners. I love memory keeping/scrap journaling. Can ANYONE help me sort it out?🙁

I make junk journals the original ones you mentioned. Make all my own ephemera. I want to start a " Creative Art Journal". For me that would be creating art (all mediums), writing and pics, ephemera. Dated, documented. I am an avid reader also. Used to do creative writing. So happy I found your channel!😀😊 Thanks!

there are entire communities all about Nature Journaling. Channels like John Muir Laws and Marley Peifer. There is also Urban Sketching, seems to be when people go outside, even traveling, to sketch urban environments, like buildings, people, markets, architecture. Sometimes they'll throw in a landscape by the seaside. That Edwardian ladies book you mentioned is amazing though. Drawing on site seems to be a much better way of retaining that event than taking a photo and drawing it later. It captures the feel better, and you remember it better. It's educational.. There are even apps to help identify birds and insects, it can get rather involved.

I think your 'book creating' idea about jj's is interesting.

I would say it is scrapbooking before scrapbooking. So keeping a diary and then also glueing in pictures, and your actual life ephemera. Tickets from things you actually went to, flyers and postcards from actual places you visited etc. I think it takes a vintage aesthetic bc people did that during paper heavy time periods, ie early - mid 1900s. So we associate pictures of planes and luggage tags with that bc thats what people did in the 1960s when writing a "diary". Put their stuff in there.

I think the focus on making the book alone and not what you do after the book is made is a recent thing bc people mimic the vintage look without using their own real ephemera. If they did... they would be simply be scrapbook journaling. Understanding that scrapbooking here is not the super structured/ commercialized scrapbooking.

So my jj is a scrapbook journal, is a diary with pictures, is a memory keeping book whether I hand made the book itself or not. IMO. But it makes sense historically. I'm surprised people don't make this connection and also never use the word diary!😅

you have nice handwriting

Sometimes when we're trying to define something huge, like art, we can get wrapped up in the labels. Most folks that have ever been swept up in a story or inspired by a poem ( or a song) can agree writing is an art - the medium being words. Words seen on a page, heard through audio, or even made with raised bumps to be felt by our fingertips. As you're a writer, you fall well into the art spectrum (even before we add in your journaling, vloging, and whatever other artsy stuff you do). 🙂

I enjoy collage and creative journaling. But I am trying to do some exploring with artistic journaling in 2023.

I like the umbrella of creative journal as the writing part is really important to me, but I found a blank page overwhelming, so I found by adding to the page be that photos, stickers, ticket stubs, drawing or painting, craft paper, cut outs from magazines, the page was less daunting and I was more comfortable writing.

Hey, I tried joining your website but it would not let me, it kept giving me an error 😢

I love journaling in every form currently junk journaling is my passion and also scripture journaling finds it’s way in my journals a lot. Thanks for this series

Loved the creative writing ✍️ idea

Great video 😊

You go on and on and on about skill share. You are a clickbait. You said nothing. You should take down your boring video and get a job doing editing in a dark library corner on dead authors. You would even make the dead bored. Why are you on social media? Make room for someone else.

I'm doing a project that is a cross between a junk journal and a collage journal.

This gave me new ideas...thank you

Hi love your inspiration 🥰 how do you print your pictures ?

I truly love your spirit and your creativity💜🙏

Wow! So many possibilities!! Thank you for sharing. Journal memories and list journaling mix with a bit of creativity speaks to me to help me with my mental health and focus on me.

You are correct in your definition