#79 * TOY STORY *
What's your favorite toy? Visit a toy department and see which item chooses you. Bring it home with you and introduce it to your Journal and vice versa.
BONUS JOURNALING TIP
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." ~Hines Ward
Got this note after this weekly Journaling Tips posted: Hello Mari! Tip#79 is GREAT! I went into a toy store and saw this little pink bumble bee looking at me...calling my name...so I had to pick it up and squeeze it...it started singing "Be My Be My Baby...Be My Little Baby..." And she's been my little baby for a year now. Her name is Abby (smile).Mari you are the write one!!!!Always Lacanas
#80 * STARMAN *
When you need a journaling jumpstart, discuss and debate where the words come from. Is "Journal writing the channeling of universal energy?" WriteON!
BONUS JOURNALING TIP
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ~Life is Good.com
#81*ARTWORKS *
When I sit down to write I know it will not be seen by anyone. After I get out what is on my mind I decide what color to paint the page. I sometimes press some designs into the wet paint. Like bubble wrap or I take a toothbrush and spatter another color on top of the first.
Then I look for the picture that has something to do with my feelings underneath the paint. For instance I had found a picture in a magazine that showed a little girl really angry. I put that picture on with this quote: "Anger has a way of evaporating in the face of compassion".
I'm not always angry I have cheerful ones too. HA-HA. ~Annie Larsen
You can listen to our interview with Annie on the Personal Journal Stories page.
There are plenty more (101 and Counting) Journaling Ideas here. We'd love to publish your Journaling Tips. Please send them to Mari write away!