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Journal Peek: Hundertwasser in my Green MBA Journal
In this week’s Visual Journal Peek Show, I’ll show you some pages of the visual journal I made during business school with some ideas on how to work with an altered book as a visual journal.
These pages document the a-ha moment I had when I re-read some of [...]
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This week’s Peek Show: Between the Covers of My Visual Journals, takes us to one of my favorite cities: Barcelona.
Writing in cafes offers an antidote to the isolation of the writer’s life. So I recommend doing this, even in your home town. Bring your camera and take some snaps of your table. I have a [...]
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Peek Show: Between the Covers of My Visual Journals
Note: This post has sort of a long, introductory preamble. I didn’t plan it that way, but I wanted to give a proper sort of entree into this new series. So if you’re in a hurry, you can skip down to the “Peek” and just come back [...]
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Friends, you are looking at the cover of one of the many visual journals I made on retreat in Mexico a few years ago.
This is just a taste of what’s to come on my next Mexico retreat, which is open to a small group of kindred spirits.
Write. Paint. Passion. Purpose. That’s the theme. It’s all [...]
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Europe countdown: 14 days
Carry on luggage weight: 9.2 lbs. (not including journals and potential art supplies. Or guide books. Or camera.)
Art supplies making the cut:
My favorite black pen
A glue stick
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OMG. I leave for my six week trip to Europe in two weeks.
I’m freaking out a little. OK. A lot. This afternoon burst into tears at [...]
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In just a couple of weeks I take off for a long retreat in France, Spain, Morocco, (and New York – for a bite of the big apple on the way to and from Europe and also to visit my Grandma upstate).
Why is it that when you are leaving for trip, the to-do list gets [...]
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A quick and easy way to add a visual element to your journal
Whether you have always wanted to try your hand at visual journaling, or you have lots of visual journaling experience, we all need some quick and easy ways to approach our journal: when we’re stuck, bored, procrastinating, tired, and uninspired are good times [...]
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What stops you from your regular creative practice? Journal Exercise: Embrace Stuckness
This post goes out to everyone who knows the value of regular creative practice. You’ve experienced what it is like to be working at your craft regularly and happily. You also know what it’s like when, for some reason or another, you let your [...]
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Pages 115-117 of The Creative Entrepreneur shows my process for creating mini journals. Here’s what one reader was inspired to do!
This post is from Lia Kent’s wonderFULL blog, Artjunk:
She writes, “I finally got a chance to work in my mini-book last night. Today I want to share some of the pages with you, as well [...]
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What is your favorite way to incorporate text in your journals? Share your best techniques and supplies by posting a comment (and photo, if you wish).
In the above example, I see I really am a Word Happy kind of journaler.
PEN: On the left, I’m journaling with the same black ink pen I’ve used for over [...]
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Howdy! I’m Lisa Sonora Beam, author of The Creative Entrepreneur. I teach people how to get unstuck and use their creativity to make a living doing what they love. 
