One of my favorite daily rituals is to drink my morning tea from a china teacup and journal what I'm grateful for. I used to keep chickens, and accumulated a stack of brown paper chicken feed bags. The simplicity of these bags charms me, and makes them feel ideal for upcycling into journals.
I never face the "fear of the blank page," because I'm writing on something most folks would just throw away or compost. That gives it a magic that delights me.
I use the bag's original stitching as the binding, and then add grommets for fun. The bag is made of three layers of brown craft paper -- designed to hold 50 pounds of grain, the layering adds strength. That gives me six pages to write on -- enough for a month of entries.
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