Journal with Me in My Daybook of Dreams

Hello lovelies!

I used this month’s beautiful spring printable to create this spread in my Daybook of Dreams.

I recently repurposed this old altered book art journal I made a few years ago and turned it into a junk journal that I’ve decided to use as my Daybook of Dreams. I’ve kept a Daybook of Dreams before in conjunction with my Unraveling Journal, but once I got into the little A6 journals I keep, I sort of merged them together. But this year, since I’m keeping more of a One Little Word/Unraveling Journal, I decided to separate them again and I’ve been having so much fun manifesting my dreams in this book.

A Daybook of Dreams—for me— is essentially a commonplace book. It’s a place where I collected words and images that inspire me to live the life of my dreams. It’s a place where I create vision boards and literally manifest all the good things that I want in my life in words. I have pages I create that are compilations of quotes about a specific topic—like my “Field Notes on Happiness” page—and other pages that are dedicated to a poem or passage from a book that resonated with me. Everything I put into this book, the words, the images, my own hopes, dreams, and prayers, all serve the purpose to inspire me to live my best life—the life of my dreams. It’s kind of a weird creative take on manifestation.

I’ve been going through a lot emotionally lately. I’m at a place where I have to start all over creating the life I want to live because I’ve lost two out of the three things I attained to achieve that. It’s just been incredibly hard to grieve those losses at a time when everything else in my life seems to be at a standstill. It’s almost like I had to take two steps backward with no way forward.

So I’ve been loving working in this journal to cultivate a sense of new purpose for my life. Journaling has always been incredibly beneficial to my mental health. It just helps me process things better. That’s one of the reasons I love journaling my intentions and really fleshing them out. This journal acts as a more of a creative and visual extension of those intentions I wrote in my Unraveling Journal. And often when I journal in here about things that I want in my life—for example, my garden that I’ll have when I find my forever home—I tend to journal about it in the present tense as if I already have it. I suppose that’s where the manifestation bit comes into play.

For this process, I’m going to share with you how I put together my spread for visualizing and manifesting my garden. I really hope this inspires you. Enjoy.

Here’s the link to that Being Well Podcast episode on Joy: Finding Joy In Difficult Times

xx Tiffany