Comment from Bev
Time: August 17, 2008, 9:56 pm

Hey, this new podcast looks great; I can’t wait to listen… I’m not art journaling yet, but I think it’s a cert. I mean, it’s just going to happen, right? I’m a compulsive doodler and I recently made a commitment to draw something – anything – every single day. So art journaling is something I’ve got to try. Thanks for the inspiration! – Bev

Comment from kerryanne
Time: August 18, 2008, 2:29 am

Love this!
I have had an art journal since I was about 9 years old. If I don’t draw everyday- even a doodle- I feel less grounded.
:)

Comment from Bekka
Time: August 18, 2008, 2:58 am

I love the look of art journals and am looking to take some of my daily journalling in that direction.

This is a very inspiring podcast. Thank you

Comment from michele
Time: August 18, 2008, 5:10 am

Can’t wait to listen to the new podcast. Keep checking your site for an update. All the beautiful artists’ pages make me wish I could draw a lot better.

Comment from Heather
Time: August 18, 2008, 12:42 pm

Well I never knew that what I do has a name WOW!I love your podcast! Thank for keeping me inspired everyday ;)

Comment from Sarah
Time: August 18, 2008, 1:06 pm

I had been an avid journaler up until a couple years ago. Now I just find it hard to fit it in (blogging might have something to do with that). These are journals seem like a natural extension of what I used to do, and the interview really got me thinking about jumping into this more creative way to remember.

Comment from Janelle
Time: August 18, 2008, 1:25 pm

Oh, this reminds me of the book “How to Make a Journal of Your Life,” which I love. I will pick up the markers again today – thanks for the prompt!

Comment from Amy Jane
Time: August 18, 2008, 2:40 pm

Loved the latest episode!!! Keep up the awesome work – I love listening!

I don’t think I can Draw…but I have fun trying: http://flickr.com/photos/amy_jane/2761298865/

Comment from Cassie
Time: August 18, 2008, 4:27 pm

This is so inspiring! I haven’t art journaled in years, but this makes me want to get started again. I would love to do this with my students.

Comment from Laure
Time: August 18, 2008, 4:36 pm

This podcast was terrific! It was inspiring enough for me to get out my journal that had been sitting and waiting for me for a long time! Thanks again for the podcast….and the prodding.

Comment from Charleen
Time: August 18, 2008, 6:21 pm

Thanks so much for this interview with Dawn. I have to admit that when I heard the subject I was not overly excited. After ten minutes I was hooked! Now I’m ready to journal.

Comment from Sonja
Time: August 18, 2008, 10:36 pm

Wonderful podcast! I really would like to do some Art journaling and I treid it more than once. But I don’t feel very comfortable putting my feelings, thoughts and emotions on a piece of paper. Maybe I will give it another try now.

Comment from Julie
Time: August 19, 2008, 2:59 am

Great podcast as usual! Actually my head is spinning with all the cool possibilities that this brings to mind. I bought a plain composition book recently as my regular spiral notebook is almost full. I can now see a very decorative future for that book.

Thank you for all that you do, you add a little to my life each day.

Comment from Liz
Time: August 19, 2008, 7:36 am

I haven’t journaled in about a year (last year of college, moving across the country, getting married, and going to france for two weeks- all in the last 10 months) but I am so inspired to get started again! I bet it will be just what I needed to find more balance in my life!

Comment from Tara
Time: August 19, 2008, 10:03 am

I knew almost nothing about art journaling before this podcast, and I am absolutely amazed by it now! I’m not a scrapbooker (one of the very few crafts I don’t do!), and I’d always linked art journaling with scrapbooking in my mind. This wonderful interview has made me realize that I’ve been walking on the cusp of art journaling for some time now. I keep what I call my “design notebook” in which I sketch, make lists, attach color samples, etc. for my knitting, quilting, sewing, etc. I also save clippings from fashion magazines, sales ads and home decor catalogues that inspire me. In addition to my design journal, I’ve also started keeping a “prayer journal” ever since I got a copy of “Bead One, Pray too” by Kimberly Winston (another fantastic interview of yours!), and I’ve been pasting in prayers that speak to me along with special scriptures and images that inspire me. Who knew I was already (almost) art journaling? I’d love to see Dawn’s book in person to see what others are doing in this medium I knew so little about before your interview!

Thanks for another spectacular episode!

Comment from sheila
Time: August 19, 2008, 2:51 pm

How timely! I have an art journal all ready to pack with me to go on holiday to France. I have been dabbling with arty things all this year and made an altered book for my daughter as a special something for her getting into the uni of her choice. I scrapbooked as a child and am now returning to many of the crafts I loved. I have seen so many wonderful art journals which have been so inspiring. I look forward to listening to this podcast (I will have my ipod witih me on holiday!) and have just linked craftsanity in my blog. I have been travelling all over the UK of late and have downloaded all the archives and have been relishing my journeys home when I treat myself to a ‘listen’. Thank you for all you do for the crafting world!

Comment from Alison
Time: August 19, 2008, 3:39 pm

Wow! I got to get this book. I have tried to journal before, but never quite got the hang of it. I can’t wait listen to this podcast! Thanks for the opportunity to win this book!

Comment from Mandi
Time: August 19, 2008, 6:20 pm

Though I think this with each new episode, I think this is the best one yet! I LOVE art journaling, but I would like to make it more of a daily practice. Here is the link to the blog post I wrote after doing my first 2 journal pages last year: http://beadcircleblog.com/?p=116 I love that you talked about art journaling and scrapbooking in the same show. The lines between the 2 are starting to blur for me. Thanks so much for the podcast!

Comment from Thien-Kim
Time: August 19, 2008, 9:28 pm

Thanks for another great podcast! I just recently started art journalling and I know that i get stuck because I think too much. I really like Dawn’s suggestion about letting the emotional flow. Here’s a page I recently did: http://passionandart.blogspot.com/2008/07/ill-take-iced-mocha-injection-please.html

Comment from Libby
Time: August 19, 2008, 9:32 pm

Love the podcast. I’ve thought of keeping a nature journal, but wanted to try my hand at bookbinding and making my own journal. Now I see I should just buy a notebook and go with it and hope the bookbinding will follow. (When I have loads of spare time.) And instead of just a nature journal, have a life journal that includes nature. After listening to the podcast I visited your guest’s website and added it to my list of blogs to visit that inspire me. Thank you for all your hard work in introducing us to a variety of inspiration.

Comment from Serenknitity
Time: August 20, 2008, 3:20 am

I loved this ‘cast – it was so inspirational. The last thing I need is another hobby – but this sounds like a blast, and fits my loves; photography, blogging and getting the kids involved. The book sounds wonderful – I hope it makes it the the UK!

Comment from ellen
Time: August 20, 2008, 10:29 am

I do a little tiny bit of art journaling – off and on, when I think of it. It’s hard for me to keep up with all othe the things I like to do. Too bad I have to work!

Comment from Jennifer
Time: August 20, 2008, 12:07 pm

I’ve been art journaling for over 2 years now and I love it! My only problem is being critical of my own pages … I’m still working on giving my Censor the boot LOL! The podcast with Dawn was great … love hearing her story. Thanks!

Comment from Kathy
Time: August 20, 2008, 2:02 pm

Wonderful podcast! Thank you! I art journal most days and focus on nature and what is going on around me. It’s become a real passion. It’s a refuge and way to relax and get grounded for me.

Comment from Kari
Time: August 20, 2008, 2:49 pm

I have dabbled in art journaling-I probably have 5-10 partially completed journals around the house. I find art journaling so much more fun than just written words that just ramble on and on. Looks like a super inspiring book! Thanks for another fab podcast.

Comment from Rachel
Time: August 20, 2008, 7:36 pm

Great episode, very inspiring!

Comment from KNitDesigns
Time: August 21, 2008, 5:11 am

It’s interesting that this is actually an artform. I guess you could call my work note pad an art journal. We all do, right? Sitting in a corporate meeting, doodling and daydreaming of other things we’d rather be doing, pretending to be taking notes on the company’s financial growth of the last quarter compared to the previous, blah blah blah.
Every meeting I flip to the last meeting’s notes and see my doodles and smile because it brings me back to that fun place I found during a rather dull time. I am now inspired to save them as a way to remember to daydream!
Another great episode. Thank you.

Comment from Ron
Time: August 22, 2008, 7:16 pm

I try to keep an art journal, but I’m not very good at doing it regularly! this podcast is inspiring me to try harder! Really need this book, I think – perhaps I’ll win it!!!!!

Comment from mj
Time: August 23, 2008, 6:49 am

I have many journals with just one page filled out, but I clip things from magazines all the time and a journal probably be a good way to keep track of those.

Comment from Kristin Doyle
Time: August 23, 2008, 3:22 pm

Art Journaling is such a great way to express yourself, there are so many things words can’t say, especially in the realm of emotions. I would love to win this book.

Comment from Sarah B.
Time: August 23, 2008, 6:26 pm

I, too, loved Shimelle Laine’s Christmas art journal class – it’s definitely creeping into a lot of different things that I do, notably my scrapbooking, which now looks a lot “artier” than it used to. Thanks for such a great podcast! :)

Comment from Aileen
Time: August 24, 2008, 12:41 pm

What great inspiration! Thanks for the interview.

Comment from Red
Time: August 24, 2008, 1:22 pm

Journaling is great for so many things. Even if a whole, articulate thought doesn’t materialize, it helps to have a place to put the pieces together and it’s a tool to help you get to where you want to be, or to make.

Comment from elizabeth
Time: August 25, 2008, 11:47 am

I have been wanting to get my kids into journaling for a few years now – this book would be an awesome way to start. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. Great show Jennifer as always. I really appreciate you taking the time to follow your passion and put the podcasts together.

Comment from Becky
Time: August 25, 2008, 9:19 pm

This is just the inspiration I need to get back into journaling. I want, NEED, this book!

Comment from Maureen
Time: August 29, 2008, 4:58 am

I’ve never art journaled, tho I’ve word journaled for about 10 years, finally breaking into colored pens and unlined paper! I listened to the podcast the other day and it certainly was inspiring to hear. I’ve almost NEVER doodled but I know there’s still time!

yes, yes, yes, I would like this book!

Comment from Wendy
Time: August 29, 2008, 9:37 am

Both Dawn and YOU so inspiring. All my fears of rules, drawing well, what others may think are melting away after listening to this podcast.

I have never done a formal journal. I think back to all my high school and college notebooks and now in my planner at work, that I’ve doodled in the margins. I realize I have been creating a journal all along. Hmmm, I wish I still had those old notebooks to see what I was up to then.

Dawn said so many things that struck a cord with me that I think I will start journaling. One in thing in particular was about her brother that goes into his studio but doesn’t know what to work on. I have been there so many times. A journal may be an answer to that.

Thank you. Thank you. Keep up the great podcasts.

Comment from Jonee
Time: August 29, 2008, 5:20 pm

Enjoyed hearing about art journaling, especially how the book came together and ideas for journaling. I am re-energized to get back to my journal and add more to the visual aspect, thanks for the podcast.

Comment from ~kristina~
Time: August 30, 2008, 7:21 am

This book looks awesome! Right now I only keep an art journal when I travel, because I like to capture the memories. I’m hoping to incorporate more of it into my daily life.

Comment from Jane
Time: August 30, 2008, 2:13 pm

Thanks so much for interviewing Dawn. This has really inspired to get me back into it. It’s something I like to do (although have been a bit slack lately) to ‘pick up the gold dust’ in every day. ie, it helps me to record all of the great small stuff, and creative things and tiny ideas that happen every day, and helps me to remember that little tiny things can be incredibly satisfying. Also, it’s great to look back and remember all of those little things that made me so happy at the time. I’m pregnant right now, and it’s interesting how my journal has changed. The first few months my writing changed, and became very small and tight and crammed together (I think in reaction to fear and nervousness that it wouldn’t work out). Now that I’m further along in my pregnancy it has become more fluid and open again. It’s a very interesting tool in self discovery and awareness.

Thanks very much. Really enjoyed listening to this podcast.

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Comment from Tracy
Time: September 11, 2008, 3:44 pm

Wow! I think I found my next obsession. I never thought that I could do art journaling – I thought I had to be more of an “artist”. Now I have another book to buy!