bits and bobbins

travel journal

in order to remember and celebrate my recent travels in europe, i decided i would keep a travel journal in a moleskine i’ve had for some time that was laying fallow.

it was a lot of fun! as you can see, it’s packed full of random tickets, maps, postcards, pamphlets and other pieces of ephemera i collected on the trip, along with my crappy, illegible handwriting detailing some of my thoughts and observations along the way, along with some half-assed doodles, embellished with colored pencil, markers, and gouache paint (the last of which i picked up at an art supply store i stumbled across on my travels).

so, it’s not exactly pretty, but a lot of fun and great for filling up bits of downtime (like, when riding on trains between cities, decompressing at the end of the day, and so forth).

i’m still working on it (time got away from me)…i want to add more drawings, color, and the like, and i want to add some photographs from the trip as well. fun fun!

May 12 2007 | Posted in creative dabblings.

1. May 13 2007 at 6:33 pm

   tokyomade

   This is so very delicious! You inspire us to dig out the sample bag of fab Euro trash that we collected and place it prettily just as you have done! So gorgeous, thanks for the inspiration.

   
   

2. May 13 2007 at 11:53 pm

   Brittany

   that is such a cool idea! I love the way you incorporated photos and paint as well as doodles and everything so its a cute little splash of thoughts.

   
   

3. May 14 2007 at 2:04 am

   Clara

   Your journal is certainly special and it’ll definitely bring you fond memories of your trip many years later!

   
   

4. May 14 2007 at 11:08 am

   Amber

   I take a moleskine with me everytime I travel with the intention of doing this, then I never do. I absolutely love what you did! I am doing it next time for sure now, you’ve inspired me!

   
   

5. May 14 2007 at 5:29 pm

   Giselle

   Hi Tricia

   I really really wanted to learn how to knit. But my mom doesn’t know, nor does my aunts, grandmothers or godmother. They only do crochet, and I think knit is much more beautiful. So I was wondering if you could help me. Do you know any website which explains along with pictures the proccess of knitting? Because I’m brazilian and here we only have publications for those who already know how to knit, and the websites I have seen don’t have pictures, so it’s hard for me to understand.

   That’s it! Im still reading all the posts about your trip. Everything is so inspiring!

   Thanks a lot!

   Giselle

   
   

6. May 14 2007 at 7:02 pm

   jen

   neat journal.

   i really enjoy journaling when i’m travelling because it helps me to make sense of everything i see, everything i experience, and everything i think regarding all of the above plus my general surroundings.

   i don’t, however, reread the journals unless i remember that i wrote something in there that i wanted to remember again. they’re sort of an as needed reference point.

   
   

7. May 14 2007 at 8:23 pm

   La Principessa

   Beautiful journal! I love the way you arranged your bits and pieces, but your handwriting is quite striking as well!

   
   

8. May 15 2007 at 11:36 pm

   lady coveted

   oh lovely! it’s very inspiring to see your journals… i remember finding so much peace in making my own… and for some reason i stopped doing it. thank you for posting this!

   
   

9. May 17 2007 at 3:51 pm

   Riley

   Looks like you had fun! I’m so jealous…

   
   

10. May 22 2007 at 8:19 pm

    candid cool

    I see this being published. I wish I was able to keep a journal/scrapbook like that