I know there are lots of you out there that hate to journal because you hate your handwriting or you just don't think it's good enough or whatever the excuse may be, but it is very important to the people who look at your books! I know I have been a bad journaller for years, but I am trying really, really hard to write on all my layouts now. Even if it's a few sentences about the event, the date, whatever. Leave your legacy on your pages with the photos : )
I thought I'd share with you all how I like to journal. What I like to do is write everything out with a pencil to start. You can write on a seperate piece of paper or on your page. I like to write on my page so I know approximately how much room I have to write in and how much I should write. I also write lightly and slowly so my writing doesn't look like "chicken scratch" like you write on a shopping list and it will be able to be erased afterwards.
Next I will write over top with pen. Again writing slowly, I don't try to be precise with writing the letter on top of where I wrote them in pencil, but just writing comfortably. The lead size of a pencil may vary from your pen so being exact is very difficult.
And when you're all said and done just erase your pencil marks. I like to use those white erasers as they work best. I think the pink ones tend to smudge. Just remember to rub your eraser clean of your last project you may have erased so it doesn't get on this project.
~A
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