My Sister's Journal - Delivered

Her birthday journal was delivered Tuesday and she is over the moon happy with it.

She was delighted with the number of "intriguing" things - like this page with a stamp from Rwanda featuring a Norman Rockwell Santa Claus and a quality control slip from an at-home COVID test.

I found all of my Queen Elizabeth stamps and added them to this page from an old stamp catalog.

Everyone in her family is a huge fan of Charlie Brown . . . and the snaps came from the stash of our mom.

I even managed to tuck in a few bits of fabric (right page) - something I want to do much more of going forward.

She said she loved all the empowering words . . .

Didn't we all grow up eating Animal Crackers?

Another quote she especially liked.

The paper towel was used to soak up excess water in the pans after Little Man and I painted with water colors one day.

Turns out paper towel works well in journals!

I used this random water color note from who knows where and added a quote inside - Don't make things more complicated than they need to be (she and I are famous for doing that).

And here's a top view of the finished journal.

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I was so worried about gifting one of my randomly eclectic journals,  but after her reactions, I feel much better about gifting another one someday in the future.

Quiltdivajulie

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"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."

George Sand