Tracy's Illustrated Calendar Journals

For those bored with the garden variety, all-text diary consider Tracy's calendar journal pages.

A typical entry:

"June is one of our least busy months, but this calendar looks a lot more busy because I have time to work on it. I carved a baseball stamp to record when my son's baseball games are. .."

Every month for the past few years, I make a calendar in my journal. I add photos, rubber stamped images, price tags, ticket stubs, fortune cookie fortunes, stickers, and whatever ephemera that comes along. I write a line or 2 about what happened that day.  There isn't room for much more than that.   I never know what they will end up looking like when I start.

The calendar pages give context to the rest of my journal. Between the calendars are drawings, paintings, writings, book reviews, thoughts, recipes, photos, to-do lists, phone numbers, goals, memories...anything goes. I date all of my journal entries, so I can look at the calendar and see what else was going on that day.

This is the only calendar I use.  I lightly write upcoming commitments in pencil and then erase them before I record
what happened on that day.  I use Pilot G-2 pens and Canson 7" X 10" Field Drawing books with 90 lb. cream drawing paper.

Tracy

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