Getting Ready for 30 Days of Lists

#30 Days of Lists #30lists #list journal #mini book #junk journal #mixed paper journal #listmaker #right now

It's the eve of the launch of the September edition of the 30 Days of Lists challenge and I'm super pumped to be participating in this, my 21st challenge. It was this challenge that turned me on to the whole "use a journal prompt to tell my story" community.

Should you be interested in journaling to share your story as well, you can search the blog for my own posts about:

30 Days of Lists
Lists | Journal Prompts + Junk Journals in General
Gratitude Journaling - list making in a looser form
Art Journaling - also includes lists

I simply adore the whole process of journaling, of taking just a few moments to share little snippets of what I am "currently" thinking and who I am in a handmade journal. I almost always use a journal from my shop that I've created from mixed papers, tags, envelopes and other ephemera.

PREPPING MY JOURNAL PAGES

I am a fan of texture and layers and techniques in my journals, as if you didn't already know that. Which means that sometimes I embellish my journal pages before the actual listing ever happens.

Here's the journal I'm using and this is how my cover looked before I embellished it, to personable it and to make it my own.

And this is how I embellished the cover, very simply, with some washi tape, my List Nerd tag, and I even pulled out my old school Crop-o-Dile, too.

DOCUMENTING WHO I AM RIGHT NOW

I like to include my "Right Now" status and I do that with a little card I tuck into pocket formed with the folded kraft paper bag. You can see how I've done that in some of my other #30lists journals here: