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What do you write in your diary?

7/10/2010

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I used to be very intimidated by blank pages, especially if the diary was a beautiful book.  When I was little, I tried so hard to have the neatest printing.  Those diaries are hilarious now, mostly because my spelling was so terrible.  Never mind, the printing was quite passable.  When I got a little older, I filled pages and pages with lists of everything I did and everywhere I went.  Those diaries are incredibly boring!  As a teen, I thought I'd better spice up my diaries with more emotional content.  My diaries became seething raging journals of teen angst.  EEK!  I threw them out!  Now I just keep doodle journals; little 4 by 6 inch books that I doodle away in.  Sometimes I write down strange or funny things that I hear.  I actually enjoy looking back at my doodle journals without embarrassment.  They are fun and relaxing and they give me great art ideas.

The picture above is a watercolor which has been "cartoonified" with GIMP.  I do love GIMP!  Below are some random pages from my doodle diary.  They'll enlarge if you click them.
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valerie lorimer link
7/10/2010 10:07:44 am

Lovely watercolor!

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Amba link
7/10/2010 01:35:36 pm

ahahah, I have a funny story about diaries... when I was 9, my best friend game a diary, and I ask her "what is it?" and she answer "is a book where you can write your stories". Well, and i start writing stories... but not about my life! (beautiful watercolor, Laurel!)

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Amba link
7/10/2010 01:36:43 pm

game ... upppsss... it must be: gave me ... sorry! terrible mistake

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JNESS link
7/10/2010 04:30:34 pm

Beautiful, great execution, I love the attention to detail!

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milli-jane link
7/11/2010 12:36:13 am

great colours! Blank pages are beauiful.. I get always scared of ruining them!
haha.. I love the 'bad sock' piece!

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studiomiguel link
7/11/2010 03:00:27 am

Lovely piece. Something about the perspective here gives it a sense of dreaminess which works well with the story. I totally know what you mean about those teen-angst filled pages. I still have mine and while I cringe less while reading them as I get older, cringe I do.

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R. M. Smith link
7/12/2010 01:50:32 am

Really cool texture and composition!

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seham link
3/2/2013 08:03:36 am

what is the cool texture

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bjorgnin link
7/12/2010 10:28:01 am

Heisann!

I am new on IF, and will visit some selected blogs to get to know some of you.
Nice to know you and to enjoy your work!
;:OD)

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kaslkaos link
7/13/2010 08:02:09 am

Love the gimpified watercolour (and probably the original). Evocative, that blank page.
I just restarted 'diary' writing--and the book has tear-off pages. Just perfect. And what I write? Anything goes, it's more a thing for jogging ideas, so I scribble whatever comes to mind. I don't want to recall my teenage diary, although, methinks a collection of such teenaged writings from a whole bunch of folks might be interesting. Do they all sound the same? And we thought we oh so special in our angst, didn't we?
I'm using gimp too, versatile once figured out (I'm still in the figuring stages). I use atc cards the way you use the 4x6's.
Anyhow, 'nuff said. Love doodles too.

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Nikkie
7/15/2010 01:52:13 am

I'm glad I'm not the only one who got rid of my old journals! But white pages can scare me too! I have never heard of GIMP. I just did a quick google search...is it basically an easier version of Photoshop? Great doodles!

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Bonnie jean link
7/15/2010 03:00:05 am

I love the doodle pages, and yes the "go to work" is in red because work is not much fun right now.

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ella link
7/26/2010 04:40:08 pm

this is SUPER lovely!!

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Local SEM link
10/3/2012 04:33:43 am

Great site, did I read this right that its free from Weebly?

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