The Making of Scripture Journals (the Bonnie version)

This is a notebook/journal I got clearanced somewhere in Ohio.  I don't like the cover, but I like the magnetic closure, ribbon book mark, and the price!

I am not fond of clowns, therefore I have not used this journal & have been waiting for a day to recover it.  I was also waiting for some inspiration as to what I would use it for.  When I found the idea online for a scripture journal - "light bulb" to quote Dr. Grue.

 I'm not a huge butterfly person, but the red on the butterfly coordinated with the red of the book cover.  Plus, I'm on this quest to use up all of the craft stuff that I lugged 'cross country so that I could justify buying more.  I haven't quite figured out a title, label that I can make from the stuff that I have, but I'll get it eventually.

I used some composition books that I got at Staples' back to school sales in the fall.  I made one for each of the ladies I visit teach.  Together, I hope, we are going to take our daily scripture study up a notch.  It was fun making them.  I was happy to make use of some donated scrapbooking supplies before they yellowed with age.  And I'm one project closer to cleaning out my Harry Potter craft closet.  (My craft/sewing/office room from my Ohio house got reduced to a closet under the stairs - hence the "Harry Potter Closet" - when we came to Idaho.)

List of Journaling Ideas #2

My father's job...

My father worked for 39 1/2 years in factories.  He made refridgerators and after cars for GM.  He drove 45 minutes each way to be at work by 6 a.m. in Moraine (sp?), Ohio; suburb of Dayton.  He ate his lunch out of a metal lunch box (that was turned into a birdhouse after he retired).  He was a forman for a short while, but didn't like it, so he went back to being in charge of his production line.  Hours, months, and years of watching parts go by on a conveyor belt so that we could have cold foods and automobiles.  39  1/2 years!!!  I can't imagine.  Thanks Dad!

Just 5 Thoughts

Balogna and chip sandwich

Comfy sweatpants

Scripture Journal

Visiting Teaching

                             Kick Boxing

 

List of Journaling Ideas #1

For some of my work as a PSR (psycho-social rehabilitation specialist) I am to encourage my clients to use journaling to accomplish various treatment goals.  To help me encourage clients to do that I found a list of 100 starter ideas.  I decided to use them to help me with my blogging.

#1  IF I COULD BE INVISIBLE....

I'd love to go backstage to some concerts, but then I wouldn't have any photos to prove I'd been there.

I'd like to know what people say about me.  (Maybe not.)

I'd follow my kids through a day at school to see how they really behave when I'm not around.  (I'd have to pull a few pranks on them just to freak them out.)

I'd like to see how long it would take for people to realize I'm "not there!"

I hope I wouldn't have to approach invisibility the same way Andrew Clements' character did in the trilogy he wrote about a boy who woke up invisible.

Lastly, I'd really hope that it wasn't a permanant condidtion!!!

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’ve never done before? 

Be a single mother.  For two months Ivan was in Idaho while I wrapped things up in Ohio.  I was still working, serving at church, and packing.  (packing, selling, throwing, donating)

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions and will you make more for next year? 

I resolve every year to make a resolution next year.  So, I did achieve my goal.  As for this year, so far so good!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

A couple of friends.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

A fomer neighbor and her son.  She and her two children were abducted.  The daughter held prisoner.  The mother & son dismembered, stuffed in garbage bags, hidden in a tree.  This was so very shocking to me.  I used to baby sit those kids.  They went to school with my kids.  I had been in their home; they in mine.  It still gives me chills and breaks my heart.

5. What countries did you visit?

Yeah, dumb question.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?

A full savings account.

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched in your memory and why?

A cold day in March when we found out we would have to move or be unemployed.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Not falling apart.

9. What was your biggest failure?

I'm am pretty dang happy with how I handled all of last year's challenges.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? 

Had one of the nastiest cases of the flu since my BYU days.  Headaches became a daily reality.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Laptop!

12. Where did most of your money go?

Laptop!

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Laptop!

14. Happier or sadder?

Yes!

15. Thinner or fatter? 

Yes!

16. Richer or poorer?

Yes!

17. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Temple work.

18. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Where to start....

19. How did you spend Christmas?

Watching movies, playing games, eating, talking to family on the phone.

20. Did you fall in love in 2010?

No, I've always loved Johnny Depp.  I mean Ivan!!!  

21. What was your favorite TV show?

Sadly, there are too many to list.  (I guess I should go back to #18)

22. What was the best book you read?

Hunger Games Trilogy!

23. What was your greatest musical discovery of 2010? 

I got nothin'.

24. What did you want and get?

A laptop!!!

25. What did you want and not get?

iPad.

26. What was your favorite film this year?

Again with #18!

27. What did you do on your birthday?

Went to Church.

28. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? 

I wish we could've gone on a vacation.  (I wish that every year.)  And that we'd have movers to do all of the work.  

29. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? 

lol

30. What kept you sane?

Medicine.

31. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? 

Seriosly?!  Please refer to #20

32. What political issue stirred you the most? 

Not really in the mood for that question.

33. Who did you miss?

Family, friends, and familiar territory.

34. Who was the best new person you met?

Our Bishop & his wife & Kim & Daphne & Laura.

35. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.

I can do more than I thought I could.

Resolution

To make a resolution.