In my December 9th post I mentioned One Book December and how it has inspired me to start a Christmas Journal. I’ve been working on it and I wanted to share my progress so far.
I did end up using my Celtic Colours journal. I decided to fill up the TWSBI with Waterman Absolute Brown to use as my primary pen for this journal.
Here’s the first page. The paper seems super absorbent because the TWSBI usually puts down a thicker line. But the brown ink looks amazing on the tan paper.
Here’s the contents page and I left an extra blank page for all of the entries. So far I have written about making our traditional tourtiere with my father, exchanging gifts with friends, my family’s Christmas celebration this year, some samples of wrapping paper from the gifts this year, and some Christmas journaling prompts.
I really like this page. I love wrapping paper and in the past I have put pieces in my everyday journals over the Christmas season. So I definitely wanted to capture that in this dedicated Christmas journal. I think it adds some much needed colour to otherwise boring brown pages of writing.
On this page, for the journaling prompts, I decided to change up the ink a little bit, incorporating some red and green.
I’m only up to page 14 and have lots of ideas for this journal. I want to talk about family traditions and treasured memories of past Christmases. I thought I might take photos of my favorite ornaments and paste them in. Even though it would make the journal bulky I might include some favorite Christmas cards too.
I’ve been conscious of having an audience for this journal some day, so there are recipes and observations and facts, details of family celebrations and gifts exchanged. Not a lot of emotion in these pages but that’s ok, I have my every day journal for that. I wanted this book to be a positive memory keeper for myself and for others who might read it down the road. We have so much to be grateful for and I hope my writing reflects that sentiment. Merry Christmas everyone.
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A Christmas journal -what a neat idea. I just might draft one from my stash do that in December 2016.
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I thought it would be nice to have one journal where I record what we do each Christmas. Because from year to year we are continually asking ourselves – did we do that last year, or the year before? How long has it been since we followed that tradition as opposed to this one? Maybe I’m getting older and more forgetful but I think it will be useful to have it all written down in one place, instead of in multiple everyday journals. If you do this please share!
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It is a rich history/legacy of Christmas. Yes I will share my experience with my 2016 Christmas Journal. Wishing you a wonderful and memorable New Year.
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