This is one of the layouts I created for Ella's latest eBook, Journaling That Matters: Simple strategies for finding the right words.
I completed the layout before I knew we'd been selected to be adoptive parents, and that makes it all the more meaningful to me. If I'd created it after Keira Jane came home, it would be a very different layout, if it ever got created at all. I LOVE that I have this perspective recorded. I'd tell you the whole story behind the layout, but I think I'd rather make you buy the eBook! :)
I teamed up with my old college pal, Kelly Jeppson, to write this eBook. (Not that either of us are old, mind you.) Kelly teaches writing at the local community college. I've been a professional writer and editor for the past 12 years. We also worked together at Simple Scrapbooks magazine (me as an editor, she as a contributing writer). We're both crafting fiends (although she's much better with a sewing machine than I am). In a nutshell, we could barely contain our glee when we had the idea to team up on an scrapbooking eBook. We haven't worked this closely together since our tutoring days in the Writing Center at Utah State University. Here we are impersonating faculty at a nerd banquet, er, Top Prof Event in 1998:
Anyway, back to the eBook. In this, our masterpiece, we offer simple starters to help you journal with confidence. We help you dig deeper and find stories that you can't believe you haven't recorded yet. We help you play with format, so you can take truly creative angles with your writing (a love note to your GPS? narrating the thoughts of your precious pooch?). And we help you unlock the magic of journaling in lists.
Here's a layout the lovely Barb Wong created, inspired by two of the prompts in Journaling that Matters:
The prompts were: "Say it in a single sentence (or two)", and "Write a thank you note to an inanimate object." And of course, the point is to direct the note to an object that reveals something about yourself or your life right now.
I didn't even have to beg Barb to make a layout inspired by this eBook, she was inspired all on her own to make this page and send it to me.
Don't you want to be inspired, too?
