PART 1
Make sure to read Part 1 before you read this blog post. you can find Part 1 at: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-journaling-or-birthday.html
IT GOES BY DIFFERENT NAMES
Please note that this journaling type goes by several different names: Special Person Journaling, Gift Journaling, Holiday Journaling, etc. They are actually all the same type of journaling.However, I will refer to it as Gift Journaling in this blog post.
THE COST OF A GIFT JOURNAL
It's making a journal about another person and giving it to them as a gift.
Gift Journaling is free to make, but is absolutely priceless. (Note: It's free to make if you give the journal as a digital file over the internet--like in an attachment in an email or something like it. However, even if you give them a paper version of this journal, it is as expensive as you choose to make it, but is still priceless.)
FUTURE JOURNALING IDEAS
The beauty about Gift Journaling is that as you journal about that Special Person, you will most likely come up with more ideas you want to journal about in the future. (Hence, make sure to make note of Future Journaling--and even add it to your Future Journaling List.)
BETTERMENT AND LEGACY
As you do the journaling for the special person in your life, you are digging more into yourself, your life, and your life story. In doing so, it's actually a bit for yourself as well. After all, the journaling you do is for your betterment and pleasure, but it also helps you too add to the legacy you leave behind. Also, in doing so, you create a legacy for them to leave behind. (Therefore, make sure to keep a copy of this Gift Journal) for yourself as well.)
KEEPING A JOURNAL FOR SOMEONE ELSE
After all, how many people of the special people in your life actually journal? I guarantee, if not none do. Hence, how special it will be for you to give to them. And, if they do journal, again, what a special gift because it is from your eyes, your your point of-view, your heart, your emotions, your thoughts, your spirit. There is nothing more of a treasure, more cherishable, more of a present than that.
There's nothing more valuable than Gift Journaling.
IT'S ONE-OF-A-KIND
It's also one of a kind. It will be a very unique, heartwarming gift. The Gift Journal is highly personalized and is made just for them.
FRONT PAGE MATERIAL FOR THE GIFT JOURNAL
Write a letter to the special person the journal is for. Let them know why you made it in the first place and are giving it to them.
Also, say something to the effect of, "Use me as a pick-me-up for those days when you need one. Or encouragement. Or just to remember."
SO, HOW SHOULD YOU GIVE IT TO THEM:
HOW TO PACKAGE AND PRESENT THE GIFT JOURNAL
First of all, and most importantly, give it to them in both a paper and in a digital/electronic file.
One, they can look at it and touch with their hands. The other is a present they can never lose, is a permanent form of journal, and is easy to pass on as a legacy.
Consequently, there are two forms to give it to them:
~ Digital/Electronically
~ Paper
Digital Gift Journals
~ Do a word processing document.
Do several different fonts, ink colors, etc. Have fun with it.
~ Do a digital scrapbook.
Check out this website: http://www.mymemories.com/ and their digital scrapbooking software at: http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software. Send them the pdf file.
Then, send either one via email.
Paper Gift Journals
~ 3-Ring Binder
Decorate the binder with material or scrapbook paper. Maybe with some stickers. Print the guts of the binder with colored ink and maybe special paper (colored or other stationary or specially printed paper).
~ Digital Scrapbook and Print It Out (paper and digital... both.)
Check out this website: http://www.mymemories.com/ and their digital scrapbooking software at: http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software
~ Scrapbook
WHERE TO PRINT DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK OUTSIDE OF HOME
~ Local Printer
Look up in your local phone book and call around. You will then need to figure out how to bind it. I recommend doing a plastic binding. Your printer can do that for you as well.
~Shutterfly:
Look up in your local phone book and call around. You will then need to figure out how to bind it. I recommend doing a plastic binding. Your printer can do that for you as well.
~Shutterfly:
~ Scrapping Simply
~ Top 10 Review Site
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
The Remembering Your Present Journal Keeping Series
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
(Image Credit: Microsoft Images Online.)
(Image Credit: Microsoft Images Online.)
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