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Welcome to Year Three!

1/1/2022

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A new year means a new one hundred days of notebooking! This challenge has been fun and filled with learning and connections. To those of you who are new to this challenge, WELCOME, we are so glad you're here. What is #100DaysofNotebooking? It's a challenge to show up to the pages of your notebook every day for one hundred days. Our community supports and encourages each other. We are here to grow as writers, as notebookers! Keep showing up...even after missed days or boring notebook entries. Keep showing up! That's the secret. Can't wait to see where this journey takes you! 
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What Happens in our Notebook Stays in Our Notebook

1/1/2021

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Welcome to day one of one hundred days of notebooking! I wanted to take a moment to share a few things. What we share in our Facebook group should stay in our group. Please do not copy or share pages beyond the group! Notebooks are sacred and we should respect the risk that notebookers are taking in sharing their stories. 

Sharing notebook pages can be tricky. I've been notebooking my whole life and rarely did I share pages with anyone else. I will share here because there's value in seeing the ideas and work of others. It's inspiring and it motivates me, but there are days when I don't want anyone to read my words. How do I share without sharing my words? 

There's an app for that! Here are some images of a notebook page that I wrote today. They are all created and edited with photo apps from iTunes. (I imagine most will be available for other phones too.) Honestly, I don't think I paid for any of them, but I may have. I've had them for over a year now, so I don't remember. 

Try these out! Have FUN with the process. Posting and sharing pages is about creating community and supporting each other. If you ever feel uncertain about sharing a page, don't worry about it, instead share your process. How was notebooking today? OR drop into the group and comment on the pages of other notebookers. 

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MegaPhoto
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Blur Photos
Blur Photos
Pixomatic
Deep Art Effects
KaleidCam
Hover over the photo to find the name of the app. If you have any more apps to suggest, please leave a comment and let us know what else we can use. Happy Notebooking!
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Ready... Set...

12/31/2020

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Tomorrow our one hundred days begins. I wanted to share some ideas to jump start your notebooking. Here are some ideas for your first entry of 2021: 

1. Write a letter to your notebook. Say hello. Share your thoughts, excitement, worries about all of this. 
2. Write a letter to 2021. Set goals. Make plans.
3. Pick a word of the year and write about that. What's your word. Why did you pick it? How do you hope your word will guide you during this new year? 
4. Write a poem to your notebook, to 2021, to your word...

The sky is the limit. My most important rule about notebooking is this: 
YOU are the boss of your own notebook. That means you decide what goes into the pages of your notebook. Be kind to yourself and show grace. This is NOT about being perfect! 

Here are a few more places to find inspiration for your notebooking:
Teach Write has a plethora of resources for writing available on their website. If you go to Twitter and follow the hashtags: #TeachWrite and #DWHabit you'll find a word of the day to ignite your writing.

Podcasts are a perfect way to inspire some notebooking! I highly recommend Design Lessons with Dr. Michele Schmidt-Moore. Here's a link to one of my favorite episodes that's about finding joy and gratitude: A Strategy to Find Joy in the New Year. Take a few minutes with your notebook and listen. Are there other podcasts you listen to already? Grab your notebook and jot down ideas, responses, thoughts. I find that the podcast content stays with me longer when I do that. 

One Little Word is something that always appears in the pages of my notebook! Dr. Stephanie Affinito wrote a wonderful blog post explaining one little word and her twist on it. You can check that out here: From 12 Big Words to 365 Little Things. What blogs do you read? Find those and use those as inspiration for a notebook page. 

As the days, weeks, and months continue I will add resources. Feel free to share your own. How do you start a notebook page? I'd love to hear more about your process. 

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Invite a Friend

12/31/2020

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It's fun to notebook WITH someone else. Sharing ideas for pages and sharing your progress can be a genuinely good motivator. I have notebooked with friends and we have fun. This photo is pre-covid. I met a friend for an early dinner. I was having a bad day. She told me to bring my notebook to the table. We wrote and shared and traded notebooks until our food came. It made me giggle and it's a memory I'll cherish forever. 
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Here's my other favorite notebooking buddy: my niece Jillian. She helped me hatch the idea of 100 days of notebooking last year. We love to share our pages and notebook together. She taught me how to draw and doodle things and I shared ideas for pages to write. So many of us read to the kids in our lives, why not notebook with them?!??! I highly recommend trying it. Make it precious time spent together. Make it fun! You can do it. Now, go and find a buddy and invite them to accompany you on this journey. Who will you ask? 
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Notebooking Class!

12/30/2020

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Interested in more support for #100daysofnotebooking? This year I am facilitating a class through TeachWrite about notebooking. I'd love to have you join me. Here's the link to sign up, if you are interested. Feel free to leave a comment or email me if you have any questions. 
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A Message to Returning Notebookers & New Notebookers

12/30/2020

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Welcome BACK! I am so happy that you've made the decision to return to our community. This morning, I read an important question in the Facebook group and I decided to take a few minutes and answer it here. The question was this, "I tried last year and was unsuccessful. Any tips on how to start?"

1. The first step to starting over is to forgive yourself if you feel like you failed last year. If you showed up at all, there's no failure in my mind! Give yourself grace and move forward. 

2. Set a specific goal for yourself. Why are you notebooking? What do you want to achieve? Jot it on an index card and post it somewhere you can see it. One hundred days is a long journey, but it's achieved with tiny steps. 

3. Participate in the Facebook group. Ask for support and help. That group is a JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE, I promise. We all have days when we don't want to write or we don't know what to write. Pop into the group and leave a post asking for help or inspiration. 

4. Revise the rules. You decide how much you want to notebook every day. It doesn't have to be pages and pages. Jotting a few lines is a good start. You can always do more. Give yourself a break and ease into this new journey.  

5. Create a notebooking ritual. Pick a time of day that will be sacred. Find a spot where you will feel inspired and the interruptions will be kept to a minimum. Invite family members to join you. Get a photo or a book that will inspire you and a cup of whatever will help your process. 

6. When you miss a day, FORGIVE yourself, and come back! It's not about doing this perfectly. It's about what happens when you miss a day and how you respond. Grace and forgiveness are important in this journey. 

7. Invite a friend to join you. Post something on social media or text a friend. Invite them to come along. You will be surprised who says yes. Maybe they are waiting for your invitation. 

8. DO NOT (this is my only "DO NOT"!!!) compare your notebook with that of someone else's notebook. This is about your notebook, your journey, your story. Other people may create artistic pages and that works for them. The notebook is a place to take risks and to fail. Most importantly, it's a place where you show up to be authentically YOU.

9. Share pages in the Facebook group- or don't. I struggle with sharing pages because I"m used to my notebook being only for me. On those days, I share my process in the group. Sometimes I'll share a page and blur out my words to keep them private. The sharing is for supporting your journey AND for inspiring others with new ideas.

10. The most important thing about #100daysofnotebooking is to show up.   

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