Saturday, 18 January 2025

Commonplacing

I first learned about Commonplace books from Mary Brack in 2013.  It came to my attention again when reading Valerie Sjodin's blog post.  Keep scrolling through Valerie's post until you get to it!

I've long wanted to have a commonplace book but I always seem to manage to put it off.  There's always something else to do.  Plus the biggest stumbling block for me is starting - making the first mark on the page.  And I know I don't have to start on the first page.

Of course, the book is for me and not for anyone else but I still don't get going.  But 12 years on from first hearing about it, I've decided 2025 is the year to focus on one.  (See what I did there - focus!)

 I chose a Yop & Tom A5 dotted notebook.

As I've already said, I struggle with new notebooks - the white page that dares you to make a perfect mark - when you know that there will always be imperfection.  So I got some stickers and put them on random pages.


On this page I added Washi tape.

While I was tidying up I found a couple of things that I'd found a long time ago and had put in a pile wondering what to do with them!  They're now in the book.


I wrote out the chorus of a song I particularly like and decorated the page with two types of Washi tape.

Hopefully now that I've started, I can keep it going.

Thanks for being here today
Bernice

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