A finished project

I spent the weekend at my friend Lisa's house for a couple days of quality crafting time. We had a lot of fun, and I even finished a project: my Summer 2013 This and That journal. I'm a little late getting it done, since I had wanted to add mementos and write about events as they happened during the summer. I had all of the pictures and info together and ready to go, but as usual, there was never enough time. The craft weekend, though, was the perfect opportunity to focus on finishing my journal. Here are a few of the completed pages:

There's nothing like the satisfaction of completing a project. And it was fun to create a journal that was casual and imperfect, unlike my "regular" scrapbooks. For instance, I included a lot of receipts that I know will fade and become illegible, but that's OK. I'm not worried about my journal lasting for generations to come or becoming some sort of historical document. It will just be fun to look back at it in the coming years and remember a little about my life in 2013.

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