Journaling

Journaling almost always goes on the back of my layouts.  Most of the time, I write on regular lined paper in whatever ink is closest.

I do my journaling on the back for a number of reasons.  First, I am, generally, a reserved person that opens up completely only to my closest friends.  Keeping my journaling inside my page protectors leaves it an option to people viewing my albums to dig deeper about who I am by making a concerted effort to look inside.  It takes a more intimate intention on their part.

Secondly, it provides a lot more space to write.

Thirdly, I don't have to be concerned about the neatness of my writing.  I have discarded whole pages, (after I took the pictures off), when I sat back and determined that my poor penmanship made the whole layout look bad.

But, one of the biggest reasons is that I write on sheets that go inside the sleeves is that I can do all of my writing when I'm in the mood.  My thoughts and feelings become so much more purposeful when I can write at my leisure.  Otherwise, I would quickly jot the most pertinent facts, and hurry it all up to move onto my next page while I was in the papercrafting mood.

Most of the time, I try to let my page tell the story, (albeit on a very surface level).  However, I feel like this one leaves you hanging.  Dream?

I wanted to give an explanation because the page feels so unfinished without the story.  The story for this page is long.  It starts with my love of horses in childhood where I read every horse series that I could find, (Black Stallion, Misty, etc) and climbed onto the back of a horse from the side of a fence at a local farm that I walked to all by myself, (at a preschool age).  My grandmother arrived fearful for my life as she finally found where I had taken off to.

It will describe my brief jaunt working at at a stable until I realized that I had to muck a lot of stalls before given the privileged to ride for free. It will include multiple horseback riding stories and conclude with the story where my boys took horseback riding lessons to prepare for our mule ride down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

So there, I opened up to y'all and if your still reading, you cared to find out a little bit more.  I appreciate your interest. :)

I created this page with a sketch from Creative Scrappers:

All of the pages contents came from my January Counterfeit Kit.  

Want to see more? Here's another page with me and a horse.  Love my red knee socks with green and orange clothes, lol. 

Have an awesome day!!