I had so much fun with last week’s quest — Turn Your Journaling Into a Practice of Joy — that I decided to try something new. 😊 I hope you come along! 💛
🌿 Weekly journaling prompts, centered on joy and making it a joyful practice. ✏️
🌱 Joy For Everyone
You don’t have to be a journal keeper to enjoy this!
My intention isn’t to get you writing about your day or your life. 1
The goal here is to create a space in your week to mess about with joy, color, permission, sparkles of creativity, images, words, emotions, things that speak to you.
It doesn’t have to take a lot of time either, if you’re busy; even half an hour will be enough to connect with yourself and make something purely for the joy and fun of it. Even 15 minutes will do.
🪴 How This Works
It’s very simple!
- You get the prompts on Fridays
- I will send you 3 variations of the same theme, so you can choose the one that resonates the most with you. Or do two, or all three!
- There’s no shoulds here. Ever. Do what makes your heart happy.
- You interpret them however you wish. They’re not assignments – they’re inspiration 🌿
- You make something based on that.
- You share it on Bluesky if you’d like, and tag me! I’d love to see what you come up with. 😁✨
🌵 What Do You Need
1 – A notebook
You can do it in a journal you already have, of course. I am going to start a new one just for this. Any excuse to get a new notebook! 😂 2
You could also use one of the pretty notebooks you have stashed (cough like I do cough), or an old notebook you have laying around. A sketchbook would be great, too; or even a binder and some sheets of paper. Anything that feels good to you will be perfect.
2 – Stuff to write, draw or paint
Depending on what type of thing you like to do. Ideally, gather your materials in a box, case or bag so they’re easily accesible when you’re ready to have fun with your journal. Some ideas:
- Pens and pencils (I’m partial to erasable pens. They give me a lot of freedom to make mistakes and not worry about it.)
- Colored pencils or crayons
- Paints and brushes
3 – Stuff to decorate, if you’re into that
You don’t have to be! But if you like to mess around with artsy things, get whatever materials strike your fancy. Like:
- Stickers
- Printed materials – you can print things and use glue to add them to your journal!
- Cut out materials – clippings from magazines, coloring books, newspapers…
- Scraps of pretty papers, tags, cards – anything that you like and get your hands on.
- Scissors
- Glue stick or sticky tape
- Washi tape
- Stamps
Let your creativity run wild. I’ve been know to cut pasta boxes and bread wrappers to make stickers for my journals. 😂
🌳 This Week’s Theme – Color Swatch
Ideas & inspiration for journaling joy.
We are starting with color, because it’s a big source of joy for me at this moment.
Prompts
- Favorite colors.
- The colors that are speaking to you this month.
- Colors for joy
Ideas
- Make a color swatch – like I did the one pictured above. 😀
- Draw & paint a pattern with your chosen colors
- Grab a printable Pantone-inspired Swatch page (and some inspiration) from here: 10 Creative Ways To Swatch Pens In Your Bullet Journal. Have fun coloring it and then stick it to your journal. 😁 Just remember to print it in a size that will fit your journal, or make plans to fold the page before you add it. 😊
🌿 That’s It For Today!
I hope you have fun with this. If you’d like, share your creation with me, on Bluesky! I’d love to see what you make. 💚
➡️ Next up: on Monday we’re deep diving into the why and how of planning a Slow Day of Softness and Gentleness, and why you need a day like that. Don’t miss it! 😊
Until next time. 💚 —Nospheratt
- Though of course you can absolutely do that if you want! ↩︎
- If you have a notebook you love, that has a flexible cover and white dotted grid pages, please drop me a recommendation on the comments? I adore the ones I get from Ale-Hop, but I’d like to try white pages. ↩︎
