currently, it’s 83 degrees in my condo because my AC is out. yayyyyyyy, the joys of being a homeowner. but i’m getting a new unit tomorrow and i’m just thankful that it’s not august… or july… or even june. i have the door open that goes from my bedroom to the balcony and it’s letting in a nice cool breeze, so i can’t complain much.
overall, it’s been a productive and fun weekend [minus the AC issue of course], so i’m feeling pretty good. and today for sunday goodness, i want to talk about my “lovely things” journals, as i call them. i was always that kid who had a million spiral notebooks and journals in her closet, the pages filled with doodles and half-written stories and lists and happy things and dreams and memories, you name it. i’m sure those of you who know me and know this blog are all verrrrrrrrrry surprised… ;)
anyway, i still tend to do that, and i had this set of three small beautiful notebooks with lined pages that i was just waiting to fill with something lovely [something with a sort of theme rather than a bunch of miscellaneous scribbles like most of my journals are], but i couldn’t decide what. and at some point, it occurred to me that i could do just that: fill the pages with lovely things, the very loveliest of lovely things. i didn’t know exactly what that would look like when i started, but when i would find quotes or bible verses or lyrics or excerpts from books or blog posts or pins on pinterest that i really loved or that really spoke to me, i would write them down in the book… and this is where the lovely things books began.
{i just started the second book.}
it took two years to fill up the first one, because i’m very particular about what i put in them – i don’t want it to be a bunch of clutter that means nothing to me later. i want to be able to read through them and feel that everything in them is beautiful. i also write dreams and lists in them and things i think about and sometimes even draw/doodle, and so they’re like a snapshot in time of who i am now and my daydreams. i cherish them so much. and any time i’m feeling down, i literally can just open one up and i feel like i’m looking straight into my own soul, and it makes me so happy and hopeful for the future and thankful for a beautiful life. i know it sounds silly, but it really does work like magic.
so some of the stuff that i’ll end up posting on sunday goodness are straight from one of these books of lovely things. like this:
i can’t take credit for the design – i saw this on pinterest from here and did my best rendition of it freehand into the book [and it sure looks a little shaky up close like that!]. but i love this quote and the typography so much [and the real one is so much better than mine].
oh and this one:
{totally speaks for itself.}
so that, my friends, is a little look into the world of jessica and allllllllll my quirks. i know i’m a weirdo. :) but it does make me happy happy. that’s all for today, and i hope you all had a blessed sunday and have a great week. xoxo