This year I asked my friends on Facebook to gift me with a word for 2018 that started with the same letter as their first name.

I was given this wonderful and inspiring selection of words that I combined to make my 2018 journal cover.

I use my journal to plan, muse, ask myself questions, work out my feels and any other thing that I’ve got going on. I use it to record my Harvest for the previous year and decide where I’m going next year.
 
 

 
 

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