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Finally got around to scanning these 🍊
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march 2023 in my journal (part 2)
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march 2023 in journal
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fakelavender · 2 months
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march 2023 in my journal (part 1)
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february 2023 in my journal. hope u all had a happy month of luv.
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fakelavender · 2 months
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a brother.
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fakelavender · 3 months
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janaury 2023 in my journal
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fakelavender · 3 months
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hi! i just found your blog :) love your commonplace book scans! if you don’t mind me asking, could you give a more in-depth explanation of what commonplacing is exactly and what your process is? i’m intrigued and considering getting into it but i wouldn’t even know where to start! thanks a lot xx
Absolutely! So my commonplace is specifically all movies, qoutes, articles, tumblr/Instagram posts, book excerpts, etc. that either resonated with me or I think I'll want to reference later. That is the heart of what common placing is - saving things for later physically rather than digitally.
Some of these just pop up in my feed, and I'll hit the like or save button. If it's an article, it usually first pops up as a preview on my Instagram and I'll open the full article on my desktop than bookmark it in a specific folder for common placing.
Sometimes, when I want to actively find something out (say, about if perfume is really bad for the environment, or I want to look at author interviews because I just loved a book) I will go out and search for that information.
Then, usually once a week I compile everything I'd like to print - i print the sources bc my handwriting is messy - into a word document formatted for two columns. I try and hold off printing until i have a full page worth, or two full page worth.
For images, I have another word document (these are printed in color, and i usually have to jigsaw to fit as many images on the page as possible, so different word document). Same thing, I try and wait until I have a full page to print. Usually x2 a month. I sometimes will print with an HP sprocket but the quality is really bad and the pictures are thick so, it's for when I'm out of printer ink or I think a photo will look okay with a sorta...uneven look.
I use just a Staples brand journal, TruRed. Cheap and easy. I draw a line at the top so I can write the date, and in the future if I want to tag it with a colored sticker or something, I can. My layouts usually include divided space on either the left or right of a page. The article goes in the bigger open space, and then the source (always write your source!!) and any commentary goes in the smaller margins.
Commentary is usually why I wanted to print it, what it reminds me of or makes me think about, etc. What I think the argument was missing, etc. Can be as little or as much as you like. As emotional and deep or as plain-jane as you like. There are no rules!
I trim printed text and images with a 12 inch trimmer bc I've got wobbly hands, but some people just use a little (blanking on the name) exacto knife? Any 12 inch trimmer will do mine is expensive but I also scrapbook so I use it all the time.
I paste things in using a tape runner (again, because I scrapbook and found a tape runner and my mom sells scrapbook supplies they're very accessible to me). Some people use tape, washi tape, glue sticks (liquid glue I've never seen).
And yeah, then I just decorate and play around. It doesn't have to be pretty. It can be really pretty if you want - I'm motivated by aesthetics, so, I like mine to be a little pretty.
If you'd like to see how I actually put it together and why I print certain things, my YouTube channel is the place to go.
Some people tape in movie tickets, receipts from where they shopped or ate, pictures from daily life. Some people mix common-placing and journaling, so including diary entries about their day or about a topic they love, or their thoughts and feelings (I keep mine in a separate journal, explained in this video). Some people mix common-placing with bullet journal or planning. Some combine all three!
At the end I just use a printer scanner (HP Envy 5500, cheap) and post them online that way bc I love the look.
People who have other styles you might try and look at are @petite-gloom (an OG who inspired me and many others) @fakelavender , @teddybearsticker .
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fakelavender · 3 months
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fakelavender · 3 months
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the sun was pretty this evening
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fakelavender · 4 months
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hello, hello! your journaling posts are a true inspiration for me. i've trying to get into journaling for years, and i've tried different styles (from fixed weekly spreads in a bullet journal style to pages and pages of only diary entries), and i'm still on that journey. oftenly i find myself analysing your posts and asking myself "why do i like it so much" so to get that into my own journal, and a question came up: what's your journaling process like? do you usually print pictures before-hand or just take what you have lying around? i often find that i would like to include a picture *while* writing the spread, and so i either have to stop, measure the space and look for and print the pic(s) or just stick to simpler/less attractive spreads.
wow, sorry for the rambling. tldr: i find your journal posts truly spiring and i was wondering what's a journaling session like for you. <3
this is so nice to hear thank u so much !!!!!
often i collect stuff such as receipts/photos during the week and then at the end of the week i sit down and turn it all into a spread (leaning into the messiness of this really helps, i’m fully aware that i post most of my spreads online, but in the end journaling is not a performance, it’s a process)
or if i feel the creative urge i just go on pinterest print off as many photos as i want and turn them into a spread then and there (and then fill in with words thoughts and feelings at a later date)
also do not worry about the rambling !!!! i love to ramble and be rambled to
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fakelavender · 4 months
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may 2022 in my journal
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fakelavender · 4 months
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hrmm. well hold on now ive been filled with a sudden joy and whimsy for the world
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fakelavender · 4 months
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Knight - Leg Armor Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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fakelavender · 5 months
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god made adam from dust and maybe i dreamt you and dust colored hair and if i take something out i have to really want it and there are two gods in this church. do you hear me do you get it
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