Each project in this wonderful book is simple, yet will help you create a meaningful and personal place to keep your thoughts, write down your memories, or contemplate your future. Making Journals by Hand offers illustrated step-by-step instructions for hand-crafting the journal that creatively meets your personal journaling needs. Learn how to make a journal which matches your mood, personal style, or specific purpose, including specialty journals for travel, weddings, motherhood, and many other personal places to track your thoughts, ideas, and feelings.

On cover: 20 creative projects for keeping your thoughts.

Introduction -- Materials -- Choosing your paper -- Blank books -- Historical journals -- Journal projects: Making your own journal -- Daily journals -- Travel journals -- Recipe journals -- Garden journals -- Artists' Sketchbook -- Triptychs and books with non-linear pages -- Journal techniques: Wax resist -- Blender pen -- Image transfers -- Sewing and non-adhesive inclusions -- Paper cutting -- More than handwriting -- Plaster paper -- Emulsion lifts -- Carved stamps -- Journals as art -- Thinking outside the book -- Gallery -- Resources -- Contributors -- Index -- About the author.