What Drives Your Creativity?

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Harvey Mackay says we mustn’t sit around waiting for our muse to drop by. We are born sans creativity so we need to cultivate it on a regular basis.
Imagine if you could turn on creativity like starting a car, rev the engine to get up to speed, cruise along in the fast lane, [...]

Live Healthier, Keep a Gratitude Journal

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Take time out to count your blessings and write them down on a gratitude notebook. Whether you record it on a moleskin notebook or an ordinary pad, it can help improve your health and your overall being. Roisin Ingle shares the benefits of being grateful and writes about [...]

Lara D’Arconte: Just Ink on Paper?

Lara D’Arconte scans old, dusty journals and gets lost in them.

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I pulled my old journals down from my shelf today. Blew the dust off them. Some are old, ratty, just notebooks. Others are fancy with ribbons and pictures on the covers.
The earliest, from 1986 when I was a college freshman, [...]

Dear Diary: An Endangered Species in the Age of Twitter

Ordinary lives turn extraordinary as an exhibition puts them on center stage.

Image by Alexa Chung
A 16-year-old girl in wartime London sits down to write about her terribly fragmented life in her diary: Everything is well at school, but awful at home. Sometimes, during the day, she hears her mother going upstairs with [...]

How to Build a Home Planning Notebook

Lindsay of Passionate Homemaking knows that maintaining a home is a full time job and suggests that in order to preserve peace and harmony in the house, homemakers have to be as organized as possible. She shares a tutorial that helps to achieve just this.

Maintaining a home is a full time job. There is no [...]

Writing the Story of Your Life Pays Off

Ogden High School’s Alexandra Burton, who wrote her first book when she was only 6, shares her thoughts on keeping a journal and how it helps her see the simple wonders of life and survive episodes of pain and misery.

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Art Journaling with Megan

Moleskine Art Journal with Megan of My Creative Bliss

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Affirmation Journal: Color Laser Transfer in an Ecosystem Sketchbook

Cynthia Niklas of Journaling Arts shares her affirmation journal created with a laser printer transfer, marker and watercolor.

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The first page in my affirmation journal created with a laser printer transfer, marker and watercolor.
I have been wanting to experiment with transferring a laser printer image into a journal using solvents for [...]

Healing Through Therapeutic Journaling

Pictures from the front line: A US soldier in a bunker (© Tim Hetherington for Vanity Fair)
Freelance writer Michael J. Cain emphasizes the importance of journaling as a way to deal with stressful issues.
People who keep journals develop an enhanced ability to deal with difficult issues. Journaling reduces stress, which helps to improve sleep and [...]

Want to Lose Weight? Start Writing.

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Losing weight is like climbing a steep, rugged mountain: You begin the ascent with your head full of images of a sexier you. Unfortunately, as you keep on, exhaustion, hunger, and that nagging feeling that you can’t finish what you started (among a bunch of other things) begins setting in.
The wonderful images [...]

KMSA: How Many Words Are in Your Journal?

The Knights of Moleskine, Spirit & Ale (KMSA), an esteemed group of men and women who Think, Drink, and are Merry, celebrate the “birthday of sorts for journal writers.”
On this day in 1884, the first portion, or fascicle, of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of the English language, [...]

A Moleskine Goes to ‘Twilight’

Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. (Photograph: Kimberley French)
Varsity’s Charlotte Runcie takes her moleskine to see Twilight: New Moon, and ends up paraphrasing as she “couldn’t take detailed notes in the screening, as a Moleskine at a festival of fantasy lust is terribly gauche.”
I confess: I went [...]

Notizbuchblog Interviews Cynthia Niklas of JournalingArts.com

JournalingArts.com’s Cynthia Niklas (also a Moleskiner) is interviewed by Christian Mähler of Notizbuchblog.de on the subject of notebooks, for which she is known for in the notebooking and journaling community.
Cynthia blogs on Journaling Arts:
I was honored when Christian Mähler from Notizbuchblog requested and interview with me on the topics of notebooks, art journaling, and the [...]