a peek into my journal.

Journaling is my first love. Harley and I became obsessed with it during our Vienna study abroad, and we've been hopeless journalers ever since. I wanted to offer some ideas to you to improve your own journaling experience, because we both believe it's so important -- and awfully fun. So here are a few pictures of mine from the last week or two.

I write quotes everywhere in my journal. It gives a good slice-of-life feel, and reading back over my entries, I can remember the way I felt and what inspired me that day because of the lyrics or quotes.
I got this idea from something on Pinterest. My doodling skills aren't the sharpest, so I'm always looking for new ideas of what to draw on the edge of my pages.
This is a goals page. For that particular day, I decided to split it into these categories and then wrote exactly what I wanted to change.
I've been drawing in calendars for years. I like to carry around my journal in my purse or backpack {an obsession, like I said}, and this is the most effective and efficient way to keep track of my month. These are easy pages to make more colorful than others.
This is the opening page. I like to make the first and last page especially pretty. This is a simple collage I created by writing a quote on a page from an Anthropologie catalog. It's a good daily reminder of what I want to work on -- being bold and brave.

I write to-do lists everywhere as well. Again, it gives the pages a lived-in, comfortable feel. I like that someday I can look back and remember everything I was thinking about at that particular time. It's a great way to paint a real picture of your life.