private: Summer mini journal (attempt 2!!)

This swap should be tiny in price, but big in heart.

For this swap purchase some type of inexpensive small notebook, between 3inches x4in (7.5 cm x 10 cm) and 5 inx 7in (13 x 18 cm), although these are estimates. Please do not rate down based on size unless the size is just way off. Keeping this small for manageable postage.

A minimum of twenty pages of this journal must be filled in. I am putting prompts below. Use as many as you can. You do not have to limit yourself to one page for each idea. You do not have to use all prompts, and you are also free to add your own creative ideas instead. (feel free to come up with your own prompts if you have different things you'd like to share!)

At LEAST 4 pages must be decorated some way other than just your writing. Anything goes...photos, collage, word art, drawing, painting, thumbprint animals, markers, crayons, colored pens, stamps you have carved (or just really love), even stickers IF you are doing something creative and artistic with them. Whatever. You are the boss.

As long as twenty pages are nicely filled, that is all that is required.

It might be wise to include your name and address inside the front cover, and the name and address of your partner, in case something happens to the mail... (I have seen strong packages that had been ripped open!). (Also, who knows... your partner might be inspired to write back!)

prompts

•Write one page as if it were a ransom note... not necessarily ransoming something, but using media letters and words for your writing... from magazines, etc.
•Create one page using junk mail.
•Create one page using all (or mostly) one color
•Cut out magazine pictures of things you would love to have or do if you won a large cash prize...a million dollars (or whatever your dreams require) (the preceeding ideas could also count as your decorated pages if you want them to)
•Write an introductory letter
•Fill one page with jokes
•Write one page using mirror writing
•Fill one page with favorite quotes
•Fill one page with things you love
•Fill one page with secrets (be careful!!)
•Write about your favorite day or favorite childhood memory
•Write about your family
•Write about something you can see from your window
•Write about your best or closest friend
•Create a perfect day for yourself... describe it
•Make a list of "either/ors" and circle the one that's you... for example, "tea or coffee", and I would circle tea. And black out coffee with a Sharpie marker!!! (jk) Coke or Pepsi, beer or wine, dogs ot cats, etc
•Include one or more poems. These can be written by you, or by someone else
•Fill one page with things for which you are thankful
•Fill one page with books your partner must read, or movies she must see, or music she must listen to, etc
•Tell about where you live, your immediate home, and your city, state, county, country, etc. You can cut and paste for this one if you need to. :)
•Tell about some of your favorite family traditions.
•What do you love about fall?

Get journalling! :) (we can extend the date if we need to, or send early!)