My new idea for travel is to sew a few pages together to make a signature that will eventually be bound into a journal. I’ve always kept a collage type travel journal. And this way takes up less space.
Right now I’m on deck on a cruise ship as we wind our way around the Mediterranean, it’s been a really really tough summer and I’m pretty weary, so I’m content to just sit and drink cocktails, do a bit of art and journalling. While my husband has set off to climb the leaning tower of Pisa. I’ve three more days of this and then it’s back to the real world and to work!
Here are some pages.
My planets @skrutt asked to see them properly and they are of course inspired by @jemimah happy birds
This is my entire journalling kit, it allows me travel light . Watercolor paper stitched into a signature, glue stick, travel box of watercolours, pen,pencil, glue stick and tiny bottle for water.
I feel like Nanny Ogg on holidays “Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for”
This is a GORGEOUS way to travel journal! Your paintings and “scraps” are capturing wonderful vignettes of your trip and it’s so cool that you’re making each holiday it’s own signature in a larger book.
What a wonderful idea! Your pages are beautiful. Great way to commemorate your vacation. Love your traveling-light art kit, too.
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I wish I had the foresight to do a travel journal when I went on a cruise! I went with my sister so it was hardly relaxing…more like “do all the things”…I was exhausted when I got home!
I love how you have embraced what YOU need from your trip.
Although, I have to say, climbing the stairs on the Leaning Tower is one of my strongest memories as a child. Good on your husband for doing it!
This is such a cool way to remember your trip and get to relax during it. I like the slide being inked in. The little bolts holding the slide together add a nice industrial touch to such a fluid project.
Nothing like a cruise! The Mediterranean is on my bucket list and I love how you are taking advantage of the opportunity to relax!! Your travel kit is perfect and I love your idea of adding to a journal as you go.
She was the original inspiration for my travel journals, I met her many many years ago in London and she showed me the one she was working on. I learned all about putting borders on my pages from her.
Wow! This awesome project is featured this week! 