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I wanted to do something to make my personal journaling more interesting this past summer.

For several years, I have been making up my own writing prompts to make my journals less about external activities (what I did… what was for dinner… what the weather was like… you know – all those things that never really define who we are or what we stand for at all). I wanted some prompts that could define *me*. What made me feel alive? What were my passions? What were my favorite memories or foods?

I don’t know about you, but I’d devoted way too many journal pages trying to figure out which boy to go to the dance with years ago. They’re so disappointing to read now.

So as I was writing more prompts for myself this summer so that I’d do a better job defining my internal self as a person, it hit me. Maybe there are other people with the exact same journaling problem. So I have to confess. Learning to fly wasn’t my only big project this summer.

That’s why I’m so excited (and so crazy nervous!) to introduce you to a little product:

she collage

little books of writing prompts, papers, and pockets to inspire your creative self

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Yes! I’ve taken a leap and opened my very own shop.  You can visit it right here.

These journaling books come in several styles and colors with different writing prompts and paper collections. They help create the story of you – your likes, your loves, your lists, and the things you secretly crave. The unique writing prompts and fill-in pages help you explore your inner world – who you are and how you define yourself, not just how your day-to-day has gone.

It’s the kind of book you can pull out years later and say, “This was who I was.” I think we all need that. And I wish I had something like this from the women who came before me.

  • You can add photos and postcards, insert pages, and organize it to suit you. So remember those postcard wars my family and I were having over the summer? My favorites landed right in my journal to capture a part of my year.
  • Journals ship from the United States to keep postage nice and cheap for those of you in the US and for everyone around the world (US dollars, not euros, baby!).
  • I am currently using this journal here in Germany.
  • One woman bought two from me at the airport.  I didn’t even know her, but she hugged me and said, “They’re just such inspiring quote books, Katie, I’m not even going to write in them.  Just read your quotes.”

    • All quotes and poems are my own. I follow a theme of “she” instead of “me” and “I” because it’s so much easier to begin writing about ourselves and thinking about ourselves when the attention isn’t actually on us. Imagine standing on a stage in front of a huge crowd. Doesn’t it sound far more comfortable to describe someone other than “me” and “I”?

    Sometimes I just like to turn to this page with a picture of Prague and start daydreaming:

    passport page

    “Just one more stamp in my passport? she thought and began dreaming of where she most wanted to be.

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    Journals are in limited supply, so when they’re gone, I’m afraid I can’t make more.  Please swing by the new shop, let me know what you think, and you know… pick something up for yourself or a budding writer you love.

    And thank you for your continued support of Making This Home. Happy writing!