A completed Journal

As you read this, the season of Advent and of Christmas is over, but I would like to share the 4th week of my Advent Journal with you.

I had two pages left in my journal so I used more printouts from Visual Faith Ministry to fill the pages.

Thank you very much to Mary for working so hard on this Advent study.  It has been most enjoyable.

In addition, I'm pleased with myself that I completed the whole study and the journal.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Advent Journal part 3

You can catch up with my Advent Journal, if you want to, by looking at my previous posts.

Here are my pages for the third week of Advent.

Pages ready to start week4.  The fourth candle is 'lit'.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

 

Advent Journal part 2

In this post Advent Journal part 1 I showed you my pages for week 1. Here is week 2.

Starting with the candle wreath with two candles lit

As before printouts from Visual Faith Ministry.

Ready for week 3.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Advent Journal part 1

In my post Starting Tomorrow, I showed you how I had set up my Advent Journal.  I am doing very simple pages. I've tried a different way of photographing my pages for this post.  Let me know what you think in the comments.

The Cover

Advent Words 2021

Week 1 words and candle wreath

Days 1 & 2

Days 3 & 4

Days 5 & 6

Day 7 and image from Visual Faith

Ready for week 2

It has been great to use the free images from Visual Faith.  They have lots of other resources.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Starting tomorrow

My friend Mary produces amazing Bible studies and in particular I love the one she does for Advent.

Advent Words is a Bible Study combined with a creative response.  Mary posts the study every day through Advent which starts tomorrow.  You can follow along with Advent Words without the creative journaling if you wish.

Last year I put my Advent Words in my Living Your Word of the Year Journal.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do this year and then I happened upon this concertina sketchbook in Hobbycraft for just £2.   I bought 3.  They come with the concertina part fixed to the covers. (top left).  With one I cut the end fold so that I can use the back of the pages (right) and with the other I removed the spine from the cover (bottom).  I will probably remove the ribbon tie from the this last one.

I downloaded some free images from Visual Faith Ministry.

I found some scrapbooking papers I had stashed away.  Not at all Christmassy, but all my Christmas stash is packed away in storage with all the Church Studio resources whilst we have no building.

I printed out the words in a font called FilledABC.  I don't usually like words to be in capitals but I thought I would go with these.

I've set up the journal ready for tomorrow.  It's mostly still black and white.  I will colour in the images from Visual Faith.

Each week will have a layout like this - with the candle wreath and the words for the coming week.  I will colour each candle flame on the appropriate weeks.

And here are my pages prepped ready to begin.

I still haven't found a way to take decent photos of concertina journals.  I think I will make that my mission for the next 4 weeks - to master taking photos of my journals.

Will you be celebrating Advent or recording December in some way?  December Daily and Journal Your Christmas are popular ways.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice