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
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
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
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.
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| The Cover |
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| Advent Words 2021 |
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| Week 1 words and candle wreath |
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| Days 1 & 2 |
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| Days 3 & 4 |
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| Days 5 & 6 |
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| Day 7 and image from Visual Faith |
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| 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
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
For 2021 I have chosen to follow along with Valerie Sjodin's Plan with me in 2021. There are free tutorials on Valerie's blog, but I have signed up for the Premium version.
I am taking inspiration from Valerie's tutorials and as far as possible making her ideas my own. If you are a regular reader you might remember that I said in this post that I wanted this year's journal to be less rigid. That's all well and good but when I really thought about it, I really like working in squares. Lots of my textiles are squares. My last two sketchbooks are squares. So guess what! Instead of circles that Valerie is using, I'm using squares. And as much as I love the new layout Mary Brack has been trying out, I decided to stick with the squares and the rigid.
I am using squares as a symbol throughout my journal.
One of the things I want to learn this year is how to take decent pictures of my journal and sketchbooks!
My Word of the Year is Intentional. On this definition page I also included synonyms, antonyms and a quote.
I have no idea why I included a future log. More in hope than anticipation I think!
I've written the workshops in pencil because there's still the likelihood they may be cancelled. Especially the January ones as we recently went into tier 4 lockdown.
Intentional isn't a word that you see in the Bible but fortunately I found a list online of suitable verses.
Quotes were easier to find, although not many of them actually include the word Intentional.
One of Valerie's design ideas is to use the Dutch door as a divider. I am using the winter symbols of raindrops and snowflakes. Valerie suggested doing doodles, but I don't doodle, so I used a stamp that has this lovely garland of snowflakes.
This page is reserved for a private thoughts based on a three day study on Lectio365 - a daily devotional app. Valerie provides a montly devotional in the premium version of Plan With Me.
For most of 2020 I wrote what I actually did in the month at the end of a month rather than use it as a guide to what I was going to do. Who knows how this will get used!
I wrote the areas I want to intentionally focus on this year. I wrote them inside squares of course! And finally the start of the journal for recording to do lists, gratitude lists and what I did each day.
Valerie, Mary & I have archived the Living Your Word of the Year group on Facebook as we feel led to doing other things. However you can still follow along with us as we continue in our own ways to live out our word of the year.
Valerie: https://www.valeriesjodin.com/
Mary: https://www.foundonbrighton.com/
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
PS: While you are here check out Simply Create
Advent finished on Christmas Eve. I am really pleased to say that I finished my Advent words pages on time. I had shared as far as Day 14 with you before. Here are the remaing twelve days.
Day 15 & 16
Day 17 & 18
Day 19 & 20
Day 21 & 22
Day 23 & 24
Day 25 & 26
Today in the UK and some other parts of the world it is Boxing Day. When I was a child we had another Christmas Day dinner and presents off the Christmas tree.
Thanks for joining me today and throughout 2020.
Bernice
