Travel and Journal

I've learned from some of my talented friends that making travel journals is the best way to save memories. Everyone has their own way of creating a journal; mine is a mish-mash of photos, decorative papers, brochures, business cards, and just about anything that will fit between two
pages. My favorite way of putting things together is to create individual pages and join them with binder rings. This is the journal of my recent trip to New Orleans. The covers were taken from a free guide book. I added some washi tape and book cloth on the

inside to reinforce the edges.

            Brochures make good material for collage, like this one featuring the Antieau Gallery.

                 I like to add postcard pages, which is easy to do when using the binder rings.

More brochures, photos, and postcards from Whitney Plantation, the only plantation tour that is focused on the experience of slavery.

My friend, Cynthia, helped me document my tattoo experience.

Having a travel journal to look back on is so much more meaningful than a pile of photos. It 

really doesn't take many pictures to tell a story.