“As much as I love to converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of birds and the prattle of my children.” -John Adams- journal entry: This is my second family group made from …
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” -Mary Engelbreit- journal entry: When I first spread out everything I had to put into scrapbooks it was as if the universe had crashed on my table. I had five piles …
“Time in minutes slips away. First the hour and then the day. Small the daily loss appears, ’till it soon amounts to years.” -Inscription Indianapolis Public Library- journal entry: A 12×12 calendar format is a VERY easy way to keep a journal without a lot of fuss. This is what …
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Goethe- journal entry: I am a failed journal keeper. I love other people’s journals. Perhaps other people would like my journal . . . if I had one. I love to buy journals. I love to make journals. I love to …
“It was the best of times . . . it was the worst of times.” -Charles Dickens- journal entry: It’s true. Things can be wonderful and awful at the same time. I love this photograph and wanted to try it as a cover for a journal. I think it is …
“It’s more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “what about lunch?” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: A person doesn’t have to look very far to find “happy things”. When I spotted this scrapbook paper, I knew instantly what it was meant …
” People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” – Edmund Burke- journal entry: Today I made a simple family tree. The pretty paper caught my eye. I said to myself “there is a family tree in there”. I cut apart a jeweled swirl …
” Tomorrow, tomorrow, there’s always tomorrow It’s only a day away. -Annie- journal entry: I can only imagine a time when people didn’t worry about a calendar. Farmers planted and harvested according to an almanac and often wrote down a thing or two that they needed to remember. They didn’t …
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” -Alice in Wonderland- journal entry: Most family portraits today are the same. Fifty people with the same shirts, arranged by the photographer so that they look like a choir. Not this portrait. I thought it would be fun to make …
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere!” -Dr. Suess- journal entry: I was tired of chicken, duck, horse, cow and dog. I thought that if I was tired of them . . . little people must really be longing for something goofy and strange. So, …
