The BookMooch Journals

I recently found a children’s dictionary book that is the inspiration for this journal. This is for your OWN definitions!! For example, my definition of ‘dictionary’ is “a good booster seat”. A ‘hole’ might be a “way for a child to reach China”. Use your imagination to create your own – we all actually use our own creations every day without thinking about it! Use one page only, but feel free to use any medium you’d like. Please don’t alter the creations of others and don’t worry about any kind of alphabetical order or anything. When full, please return to Jenny Stafford, jfit.

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This journal is to celebrate hills and all things connected with hills. My adopted country, Wales is particularly rich in its words to describe hills. Forget the idea of there being 9 words to describe snow in Inuit. languages – Welsh has seventeen words that I know of for different types of hill, and has probably far more! Well it is predominantly a land of hills, although there are some mountains in the north.

Write about your local hills, hills of your childhood, things you like to do in the hills, what a particular hill means to you. Draw, add photos, wherever you like, but please do not alter anyone else’s entry.

If the journal is sent promptly wherever requested there should be no problem with completing an entry and re-listing within two weeks.

If you find you can not do so please re-list, email me and I will arrange to return it to you point-free at a later date.

If it needs repair or extra pages added, contact me and send it back to me. I can rebind and add or repair as necessary. When it returns to me I will scan and upload images to the journal site, for all to see.

Please ask for the same conditions to be met, as are listed in my bio. If you want a copy of these to add to your bio, mail me and I will send them as text. Happy journaling!

Gill Tennant Cymru / Wales. (tennantfamily)

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Emily Dickinson is such an interesting poet. This book is full of poems that I’d like to have illustrated. Pick a poem and illustrate it as you’d like, using any medium – just don’t alter the work of others. When full, please return to Jenny Stafford, jfit.

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This journal was inspired by an episode of “Doctor Quinn” I saw recently. The children wrote essays about “What is love?” and it was clear that it means many different things. Please take a page and tell me what “Love” means to you. You can use your own words, quotes, song lyrics, pictures, etc. It can be as sensible or as quirky as you like.

sassenach

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What does ‘One Spirit’ mean? I saw this journal and immediately thought of everyone being as one in harmony, but then thought it could also be bringing the different aspects of one’s self onto one path. ‘One Spirit’ can mean different things to different people, so I’d like to hear what you think. You can use words or pictures to share your thoughts, just don’t alter the work of others. When full, please return to Jenny, jfit.

Click on the blue underlined link in the journal description to see the slideshow. 

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I have loved the thought of Middle Earth for a long time. I first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ many years ago and have read everything else Tolkien since then. While this is a Hobbit’s Journal, feel free to include anything from Tolkien’s Middle Earth. I’d prefer to keep this mostly pencils and crayons or paint – in keeping with the look and feel of the journal. I love the pictures already present and would prefer those not be altered.
When journal is full, please return to Jenny, jfit.

Click on the blue underlined link in the journal description to see the slideshow. 

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I wanted to create two very special journals in record time! These journals originally had entries made by invitation only, but now the second copy is available for all journallers to participate.
I made the journals for a Bookmooch journalling friend who suddenly and unexpectedly found herself caring for three grandchildren, domestic upheaval and no computer.
I wanted to think of some way of helping her if I could. I don’t know the ages of the children or whether they are f or m. Please assume they are in an environment that is very rural, without easy access to facilities and shops, and without cash resources. The journal ideas should be to use imagination and things found around one commonly.
So, instead of adding a new journal and sending it on its merry way to arrive in a few year’s time, I invited a small group of BM friends and BMJournalling friends to post or email ideas for the journal directly to me.

Journal 1: XXX (unknown number) things to do (cost-free or extremely cheaply) with children on a wet, windy day.

Journal 2: XXX (unknown number) things to do (cost-free or extremely cheaply) with children on a dry, sunny day.

As usual I created Journal 2 first, and now issuing Journal 1!
Contributions had to reach in a week from my request.
Lucky journallers who are not ‘virtually’ making entries, get two weeks to make entries!

So 72 (and counting) things to do (cost-free / extremely cheaply), with children, on a wet, windy day is born…

Pages can be added as needed, and I will issue it as Volume 1, 2 and 3 as appropriate. Please keep it circulating!

-Gill (tennantfamily)

To see the slideshow click the blue underlined link in the journal description.

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