This gal took her travel journal with her on her Spring break adventures. Looks nice and relaxing!
Pilgrims are poets who create by taking a journey. -Richard Niebuhr
This extra thick book was created for a couple who wanted a journal/scrapbook to record all their adventures in. They stopped in Lexington on their way back home to Illinois from Gattlinburg, TN, where they had hiked and found some great wood pieces. The husband is a woodworker so he made the wood piece that is part of the closure. This is something that they want to be an heirloom and are excited to add to each year. Their initials are hand-stitched on the side.
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." -Jeremiah 6:15
This handmade, leather journal has a compass stitched to the cover. The cover is from scrap leather and the inside pages are 100% recycled, archival, and blank. This was commissioned as a thank you gift. It is intended to be used as a travel journal and as a haven for the recipient's thoughts and reflections.
"Pilgrims are poets who create by taking a journey."
–Richard Niebuhr
I find that when I travel, I tend to take a new journal specifically for reflections and sketches pertinent to that adventure. Journeys are such a change of pace that they can reveal parts of us to ourselves that we are too busy to pay attention to when we are in our regular routine. It's nice to have something to captures these moments. Also, because I use archival paper, you can add photos or mementos that you may collect along the way. I recently had a customer tell me about a “smash book”. It’s similar in concept to a scrapbook. The difference is rather than waiting until you get back home to neatly organize and layout your ticket stubs, maps, photos, etc., you put things in your book as you collect them. Her idea makes so much sense for those of us who have the best of intentions to scrapbook, but really just need to do things in the moment. It is sometimes all too easy for all the memorabilia to end up in a shoe box that is lucky to even have a label with the date on it.
My travel journals are now available in small, medium, and large. They have 192 archival pages (includes both sides) and come with a pen and pen holder closure. You can decide which size is best for you, depending on what size bag you tend to carry, whether you need more room for sketches or not, etc.
Happy travels to all of you on journeys of all kinds this year!
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Perfect Traveling Companion. Small, but thick with a nifty pen holder closure. Ready to come along on all your summer adventures.
