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How Writers and Artists can use Journals to Develop Creativity- Top rated article at Helium.com covers how a journal can spark other projects and more

Renew This Book! -A video tutorial series

Part 1--Selecting Your Canvas

Part 2--Cut, Color, & Paste Jump Start Plan

Part 3--More Cutting Coloring and pasting

Part 4-Techniques for Art Journals

Part 5-Continuing Maintenance or honoring space or covers or as my heart leads me...

What's in My Journal? An ongoing Video update of how my journal is progressing as part of the Art Journal Every Day challenge with Julie Balazar. (links go to You Tube--please join my channel)

Part 1 January 2011 update

Part 2 Short version 4.7.11

Part 3 Long version 4.7.11

Part 4 Journal II of 2011 (Aug 2011)

Corner Marks the Journal--A simple tutorial to create markers for your most inspirational journal pages.

Journals- All the write stuff--Make them, keep them, give them away

Start a Journal NOW- tips to get yourself to the page right away

Journaling Writing Prompts--Article on Helium.com

Gentlefolk, Start Your Journals--Post on Artful Tourist Blog

For Keeps--Your Very Own Journal--Published at AuthSpot.com

49 "look back" Questions to prompt your journal entries--review where you've been in your journal

I've been keeping a journal since 1974. Ms Dill at Lancaster County Middle School assigned journal keeping as a class project and I will always be grateful to her for starting me on this path. In 1998 I took a course based on the book "The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and my journaling sprang to life with a renewed sense of purpose and creativity.

I am in a constant state of healing and renewal that would never be possible without my journal. I "go to the pages" every day for at least 30 minutes. The formats may change from notebook paper to legal pads to pretty bound books to large sketch books to small notepads to altered books--but the process remains. I am therefore I journal.