I belong to a group of wonderful women who PIF (Pay It Forward) and Snag items related to scrapbooking, rubberstamping and altered arts. There are three levels of trading,Low Level value $0-$4.99, mid level value $5.00-14.99, and High Level value, $15 to $25.
First you decide the value of the item you want to trade off and place it with a good description on the right level database. If someone "snags" it, they pay 1 creditfrom their account and you earn 1 credit for your account on that board. Then you can use your credit to snag something of interest to you perhaps pif'd by a completely different person.
Ok, that's not too hard to understand. Well, one week we were having a game called Hand Made Hoopla sponsored by one of our members, Kay. She's a real live wire! Everything she does is done with excellence, and she urges us to do things like PIF with generosity, and do Random Acts of Kindness. Well she Piff'd a 26 day journal of what she called her ordinary life. Well, I snagged it before anyone else could! What a great way to learn more about a new friend.
Well, what I quickly learned about her is that she is really sneaky. Right after I snagged her journal she writes back and says, "well, you know, now you have to keep a journal for 26 days too." It didn't sound so hard. I've kept spiritual journals before so I thought this would be pretty easy, but I was wrong. I don't do anything easy.
The book had to be at least 3x5 inches. I'd been wanting to make a book using tabbed index dividers so that's what I settled on. I also found a tablet of paper by K&Company called Classic K Margo, and used these papers to give the book a little continuity.
Above are a few pictures of the journal. The first is the cover and an idea of how thick it is. The next is an entry about procrastinating on my Crow pages for a Fat Book project, and the third one is a fun quote I found after seeing some beautiful rainbows this summer.
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