🌿 Easy, Joyful Journaling for Busy People

Even if you’ve never had a journal before.

Hello, lovely! I’m Nospheratt and this is Joy Every Week - a weekly quest to find joy in everyday things. You’re receiving this either because you subscribed or someone forwarded it to you. Enjoy! :)

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 in a note if you’d like, and tag me! I’d love to see what you come up with. 😁✨

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🌵 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 is your jam. Ideally, gather your materials in a box, case or bag so they’re easily accessible 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. 😂

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🌳 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) 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. 😊

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🌿 That’s It For Today!

I hope you have fun with this. If you’d like, share your creation in Notes and tag me! 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

1. Though of course you can absolutely do that if you want!

2. If you have a notebook you love, that has a flexible cover and white dotted grid pages, please drop me a recommendation in the comments? I adore the ones I get from Ale-Hop, but I’d like to try white pages.