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bloom: my one little word | journal with me ✩ 15

January 4, 2019
bloom my one little word

I’m beginning my unraveling journal with documenting the word BLOOM, my one little word for the year.  I really wanted my word to be front and center, so that I’m reminded of it every time I open up this journal. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I want BLOOM to be my guide this year. I also wanted to get down a few things I wrote in my copy of the Unravel Your Year workbook because I summed up my word and supporting words so nicely. They literally outline my intentions for the year.

So I wanted it all documented in my unraveling journal. I feel like these pages are a great start to this journal project. When creating these pages, I loosely followed along with the Day 1 prompt from #junkjournaljanuary challenge hosted by miavibes and megjournals on Instagram, which was to use a quote.

bloom my one little word

For my very first page, I created a very small collage to showcase my word BLOOM. The pattern paper already had this busy floral print on it, so I glued down the doily and layered a few scalloped circles I punched out of some paper scraps to create a flower of sorts. I then layered a quote I wrote and cut out of some grid paper. I used this bloom sticker from Cocoa Vanilla Studio–how perfect that their latest Midnight collection had a bloom sticker!–on top. This title page is very simple. But I love that anytime I open up this journal that is the first thing I see.

For this first two-page spread I wanted to do two thing. For the left page, I wanted to decorate my book’s library card with my name, the name of my journal, and the date I began this journal–kind of like an actual library book. I haven’t quite decided yet if I want to call this journal “unraveling journal” or maybe even “bloom journal.” I’m still toying with the latter, but I may as well just call it my unraveling journal, since I’m calling it that here anyway.

It’s quite fitting that that page is from an old copy of The Secret Garden, because my word is bloom and all. It’s like my journal is a this garden where I can explore myself and grow. I absolutely love the meaning this page conveys in that respect. I used a pocket from The Planner Society and printed one of my library cards out on some cream paper. I decorated the bottom of the card with a little paper + fabric collage cluster too.

For the opposite page, I wanted to document my word with the supporting words I chose and what they mean in terms of my intentions for the year. Again, I just really wanted all of this to be front and center in this journal so that I’m always aware of it whenever I go to unravel myself in this book.

Definitely check out the journal with me video below to see how these pages came together!

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I shared the quick process of creating this spread in my @daphnes.diary scrapbook on my Youtube channel the other day. I'm quite behind in sharing all of these pages (and to be honest quite behind in actually documenting my last few weeks) but it is what it is. I'm not stressing it...just like how I'm not stressing that I'm MONTHS behind in my 5-year journal lol. Glad I've been daily journaling in my planner! xx
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Driftwood—documenting the signs and synchronicities I see in my life. I'm paying attention to these little coincidences of life. At the beginning of the year, I took @gabbybernstein's manifestation challenge and she had us choose something to be our sign so that whenever we see it, it's a sign from the Universe that what we want is actually on the way. I chose "seeing hearts" because it felt right and aligned with my guiding word for the year, Heart. Gabby asked us to keep a list of all the driftwood we collect, and my god have I been seeing hearts. And while what I desire might not happen right away, I feel like this is the Universe’s way of telling me to trust—to let go and trust.

Into the unraveling journal it all goes. Happy Friday loves. xx
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Oh hey, shamelessly sharing this for #thursday3 because tbh I need a different type of photo to break up the feed...

✩ I've been feeling really lost and stagnant in life lately—actually for the last couple of months. Just going through the motions and the sheer monotony of life. I'm not used to doing the same sorts of things day in and day out (probably why I never had a 9 to 5 before). It's kind of boring and that makes me sad. To be fair, I am really blessed and I love my job, but it's a job and not my life, and while I thought getting my ideal job would make me happy, it hasn't. So I've been trying to figure out why that is and what's missing. (Also still going through old shit, but we won't talk about that again.)

✩ I've been playing around with a test WordPress installation on my server and building a little social network-like community on there. It looks super neat, but I honestly don't know if I'll do anything with it. I'm not very good at community building lol. The number of times I've tried, it just never builds as I hope. But like, I'm just really not very good at it! I'm more of a participant than a host. But this site is looking super cool!! It's basically Facebook but not. It's better and I haven't a clue if I should open it up to people to join. Would you actively participate in it?

✩ While I hate the motion of changing the clocks backward and forward, I'm loving the extra daylight! It's making me really happy to finish work around 6 pm and it still being light out. I can't wait for spring!

How are you loves? I hope everyone is well. Happy Thursday! xx
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