Monday, April 27, 2009

gratitude journal











on Saturday, my stake had a Women's Conference. It was on "the power to create". It was all about creativity....in all kinds of ways. not just craftiness and artistry, but creating ourselves. We are daughters of the Almighty creator, so we have creativeness in us as well. It was more in depth, but that was the basic idea. I learnt a lot, and came home uplifted. My favourite class was Healthy Mental Attitude. It was about how to create happiness. We talked about gratitude, creativity, faith, and mental attitudes and how we can create those things. We can create more faith which will enhance our happiness. Make sense?? Well, I decided that I need to be more grateful for the things I have. I sometimes struggle with this and instead want whatever the Jones family has.  So, being a visual person, I decided to create a reminder. This is my gratitude journal. It has a few things that I am grateful for and should always be grateful. I am going to add one more once I get a photo, that will be of my siblings.

The book is Jenni Bowlin and I simply covered it with patterned paper and added a few embellishments.  THe photos are all black and white and printed off my computer at home. The pictures are on the front with journalling on the back. Brian thought it was weird that the picture on the right and the journalling on the left didn't match. But I wanted them on the same page- front and back. not side by side. 
Simple. Easy Peasy.
It makes me happy.......its already working!

4 comments:

Dick Family said...

Awesome Album! Very good idea!

Lynn said...

Ditto to what the Dick Family said!

Anonymous said...

Looks good Jessica!
Shari

Kayli said...

That's SOOO cute!! Great job on how cute it turned out, and also for doing it! It's the kind of thing that I would think was a great idea, and then.... wouldn't quite get around to it.
Great job!