Papernation

Do you have the urge to keep a diary, but don’t like the thought of that slightly-teenage nightly routine of  simply recounting your day from start to finish?  Want to do something a little more creative and freeform? You need to start a doodle diary!

No special materials are needed, just a pen (or several if you get carried away and start to like your doodle diary a lot) and a notebook.  There’s no obligation to write every single day if you don’t want to – just date each page when you do write, so that when you look back, there’s some context for what you’ve doodled.  If you’re super-talented with a coloured pen, that’s great, but if not,  don’t worry about the artistic quality of your doodles – your doodle diary is for you and no-one else…and you’ll get more comfortable with it once you’re past the first page! And you don’t have to stick to just doodling – stick things in, use rubber stamps…whatever comes your way and fits with what you saw or felt that day is fair game…

To help inspire you to start your own doodle diary, here are some fabulous examples of gorgeous doodle diaries that I admire:

@DIYSara’s Doodle Diary

@loulouloves’ Doodle Diary

With thanks to both DIYSara and Loulouloves – you can see more of their diaries and other artwork on their blogs:

DIYSara

loulouloves

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