Remember that map we did on Day 6? Maybe you lived in more than one neighborhood growing up, try drawing those today…..if there are too many just list them out and write what you remember from each of them. You could even sketch out a place where you spent a lot of time when you were a child. I drew a map of the farm where I used to board my horses:
When you are done sketching and writing, see if you can find your old neighborhood on Google Maps. Is it the way you remembered it? My old neighborhoods are so much bigger than I remember. The barn I sketched above now looks like this:
After Mr. and Mrs. Rea passed away, their farm was sold and developed. It had so much history. I found a photo of the old house on the property…it was built in the 1800’s.
Once….Mr. Rea let my friends and I spent the night in it. It was definitely haunted. So many stories from that place…..enough to probably fill 100 journals….
Update: If you don’t mind, could you leave me a comments and let me know if you are participating in The Lil Journal Project? Then I’ll know whether to keep up the daily prompts or move to weekly! Thank you!
I’m journaling! I don’t get to it everyday but I’m doing my best!
I love participating in this and have been having so much fun reliving my past. Please keep the prompts coming!
I am journaling for the FIRST time! Daily prompts please.
I am still journaling! And love it. I will be really sad if the daily prompts stop 🙁 lol I look forward to every morning just to see what I will journal about each day. Thanks!
I FINALLY got my sketch book this past weekend and I am now starting!! I can not wait! My husband asked me what I was going to “get out of this”?!? I told him I don’t know “soemthing, nothing…anything”. I have never been any good at keeping up with a journal, so to have inspiration and prompts is going to work so great for me. Thanks Ashley!!!
I just got a journal this past weekend and started. I love the daily prompts!
I too am journaling for the first time…always have wanted to, but have never taken the plunge..this project just appealed to me from the very start! I am LOVING it. I keep it in my car, and pull it out during those hour long soccer practices I have to sit through 🙂 You are so creative and I love that you are sharing that with us and prodding us along!! Keep them coming!
I love the daily prompts, please keep them coming. I too, look forward to our daily ‘assignments’ and would really miss them.
I am participating, not having much luck remembering alot, but you are right, the more I write, the more I remember. Thank you for your DAILY journaling prompts, I hope they continue! 🙂 You’re the best!
Yep!! Please continue!
I am a bit behind but am loving but have loved every prompt! They’re making me shake out the cobwebs & reminisce…thank u!!
I love the prompts too! 🙂
I’m enjoying the daily prompts… 🙂
I love the daily prompts. I only have time usually to journal a couple times a week, but I go back and try to do all the daily prompts. They are really helping me to get out of a creative rut. If its not too much trouble, I would love to keep getting daily prompts!
I’m journaling! Bit scary at the start now I can’t wait to see your prompts everyday. Thanks for this Ashley.
I love the daily prompts and the whole project! My mother in law and 2 sister in laws have joined me too 🙂
I am! Loving it. It’s creative therapy!
I am participating but am behind – this is our busiest time of year at work so I only get time about once a week or so. And the memories are making me spend longer on some of the prompts. I catch myself writing more… My dad and I laughed so hard about the cars – he will be 76 in November and thought I was nuts for thinking he would remember the years of the cars I had! Weekly prompts are better for me but it doesn’t matter because I just go back in your blog to the last day I did to find the next prompt. Thank you for this Ashley – I am really enjoying remembering!
I’ve been participating since day 1. I find myself looking forward to the prompts and then once I’ve finished the prompt I continue with my regular journal entries. I’ve even begun taking my journal with me whenever I leave the house! My daughters have started too. We’ve tweaked a few prompts to fit them or they decide on their own.
The daily little prompts are a great wind-down to the day, for me, and a good ‘something to do’ with my girls when they get home from school. If they’re too busy one day, they just skip & move on. I’m doing most very day, though.
Please don’t stop. This is helping me so much. I love the prompts!!
Cindy
I am participating Ashley!
I haven’t been good about doing it everyday, but I do read the posts everyday and I love them and get so much inspiration from them, so please keep doing them!
I need a little “push” to keep me going!
Thanks so much for doing this!
Lisa
I’m behind on the prompts, but I can’t wait to catch up and get into the habit of journaling daily. I forget how much I love writing and being creative, so this is a great outlet. And you come up with prompts that I wouldn’t have thought of! Keep them coming, please!
Thanks for your time on this project!
I am trying to keep up; don’t do it every day but plan to catch up on the weekends. Love it, don’t stop!
Can’t keep up with daily but weekly doesn’t sound like enough. How about M W Th? 😉
I am having so much fun that I have done extra pages of similar entries—drawing out the campus where we just enrolled our only child for college, drawing a floorplan of my grandmother’s house before my sister gutted it and made it her own, etc. Please keep the prompts coming.
I homeschool my highschooler, using your journal prompts for his writing assignements, shhh don’t tell him I not cool enough to come up with such fun interesting prompts on my own. Thank you for posting these, HS was a last minute thing so I have been unprepared but your helping me look so put together! Ashley Awesomeness 😉
We meaning my family just got our journals, and have been having real family fun filling them. So glad we decided to do this, please keep them coming if you can.
Hi Ashley–Thank you for this wonderful project. I have to admit that I’m not keeping up with the daily prompts BUT I am writing each of them down so I can complete each of them as I have time. I don’t know how you come up with so many great ideas, and can completely understand if you want to move to weekly prompts. To take the pressure off you, how about you provide a weekly prompt, and those of us who are participating can offer random prompt ideas that we come up with? That way, if someone needs extra prompts, there will be several to choose from each week. P.S. Your blog is the first website I check every day–thank you for sharing your creativity and thoughts on a joyful life!
I try and do these every day! Sometimes I don’t do it (we just moved into a house!) or the prompt isn’t really something that I can write a lot about- or I can write too much!
But I was thinking that if posting the prompts every day were too much work or not enough people were doing it, each Monday (or Tuesday or whatever) you could post 5 prompts! Just an idea 🙂
-Madi
I’m following! I think it’s fun!! 🙂 You have thought up a ton of great prompts to get the creative juices flowing. Awesome job!
I’m addicted! I do my journal entries every morning at work. I come in early and I break out all my “journal tools” that i carry in my ole’ ziplock bag. I forgot how much fun it is to play!!! It sets my day off right!!! By 8am, I’m ready to take on the day.
I love the daily prompts. I hope you continue to do them as you are. I look forward to this every morning. I’m starting my daughter on the journal project as well. We purchased all her stuff this weekend. I’m printing out all the prompts to take home to her. The ones that may not apply, she can get creative and do what she feels 🙂
-Vickie-
I was shocked to see the aerial view of the Rea Barn next to your drawing! I loved seeing all the places of the other horses and where Brandon got the concussion!! I cry as I reminisce about these wonderful years, but life passes for sure!! You had a great life at the Rea Barn 4-H Horse club…all the horse shows, yard sales in front of the old white house, getting snacks from elderly Mrs. Rea, a lazy summer day in the hammock or straw in the barn, catching wild cats to take to the vet…I love you eternally, mom
I am journaling and I am only doing t because of the prompts!
I love the ideas, I would have never thought of.
Loving this! Just started a not long ago, but am working to catch up! Very neat ideas!
I’m totally doing this along with you (now) haha. Joined the party on day 17. Spending the day writing prompts into my journal to go back to when I have more time/headspace (at work now). 😀 Thanks for this. I sent a link to a friend who is living in China for a year and in the home stretch. She’s used up all her ideas of things to do, so she was casting around looking for something. TA -DA! 😀
I just discovered your journal project. I am with Lacey – I am currently at work copying down the entries and will be catching up!
Don’t stop! I have so many thoughts about the prompts that you have and I cant wait to respond.
I just started last weekend after reading about your project on the U-create blog. I love it – am trying to catch up a bit. Thanks so much!
Please keep the daily prompts going! I always wanted to have a journal like this, and you are helping me do it! Thanks!