Lovely Journals

Happy Monday!

I hope you a had a thrilling weekend.

In my neck of the woods, the sun was out,

the temperatures higher and that's

a definitely a TADA!

Do you like journals?

I like them a lot.

I make sure to stop and say HELLO

to these beautiful blank books when

I'm at a bookshop or paper goods store.

I've picked some up over the years & I really

use them, even if sometimes I think they're

too pretty for scribbling random thoughts.

I'll show you all this week how I'm filling

them up, beginning with this one:

TADA! -- A Kitchen Journal.

{The cover had a lot to do with

the choice for use.}

I designed a mission statement for

the inside front cover.

It's full of recipes I want to try &

keep making over and over.

{Actual recipe cards, hand-written &

clipped from magazines}

It also has inspirations for entertaining

and presenting food with style.

It's now getting too fat, it needs its own shelf.

Or maybe I should start Volume II.

See you tomorrow for more ideas.

And by the way,

Happy Valentine's Day!