Sometimes journaling is hard. We may want to scrap a certain photo, or share a story, but the words might not come easily. Sometimes, you fall in love with a kit and don’t even have a photo that might work with it. Sometimes you want to make a page and not clutter it up with a bunch of words or a full story. And maybe, just maybe… you end up with a mental block and can’t even think of a direction to go with a page. Chances are, you have a ton of hidden material tucked inside just waiting to come out.
Lists are a great tool for those times when you just feel stuck or don’t know what to say. You don’t have to use a lot of words. You don’t have to tell a full story. You don’t even need a picture. And you can find the idea for lists just about anywhere and everywhere. You could even scrap your to-do lists or shopping lists.
Lists work if you are scrapping traditional pages, art journal pages or even Project Life pages. Total versatility.
I just purchased Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists by Lisa Nola.
It is a fun book that you can fill out, and it has a lot of great illustrations.
There is a whole series of these books: Music, Movies, Friends, Love, My Future, and Parenthood.
Moorea Seal generates a new list topic every Tuesday (in 2013). She includes a PDF that you can print, fill out and share by #52lists2013. These would be great to scrap/journal.
Here are a few other ideas:
What would you list?
Stay-at-home Gran, Poet, Teacher, Daydreamer, Idea-maker, Glitterizer, and Storyteller. I live in Washington State and love to spend my time doing anything creative.