I’m finding I have to be VERY thoughtful about ephemera and decoration placement to still have enough room to write about things! I’m almost alternating a tickets-and-pamphlets spread with a written recount spread in order to fit all the things in 🤣
Going to Egypt for Christmas with my mom and I've been travel journaling for a while now, my last journal actually doubled in size from all the ephemera. My newest one I feel hit the perfect combo of paper, pen and ink with my journal from Peter Pauper Press, TWSBI Vac mini in Fine nib and De Artramentis Archive Ink (I'm picky with my stationary with a preference to archival quality). Anyway, normally when we travel, we don't have a set plan other than what city we're in. I do like the idea of having a must see list before going somewhere, I'll have to implement that for next trip.
Oooh, would love a flip-through of the finished journal! I really need to start travel journaling cause I document my travels by taking loads of pictures, and I also love saving loads of ephemera from trips! So i need inspiration and/or suggestions haha 💕✨️ also absolutely adore London, I've been there soooo many times haha, and there's still so much to experience!
I've used my everyday BuJo for travel journaling. I love the idea of a separate small journal for that purpose. Please do share the finished journal when you get back!
I love your travel journal essential spreads! I would love to see a full flip through when you’re back! That would be wonderful! I really wish I had brought a travel journal with me on my honeymoon! I will just have to bring one on our 5 year anniversary trip! Maybe we’ll actually leave the US on that trip! We shall see!!
I love this journal spread! I am planning on going to Japan next year. So excited for all the stationery over there and will def be taking a travel journal!
That's so great ! I have a trip planned at the end of november early december to see christmas markets and decoration and I definitely want to do a travel journal, just need to find a small one by then. I would love to see the completed journal flip through too !
Obviously want to see the finished version! Im am going to my first ever travel on new year, and am planning on a kind of travel journal. I dont have your beautiful handwriting though, nor any stickers and washi tapes and whatever.. Also Im going to use a black paged photo album as a base, add polaroid pictures, and write the texts with sticky notes or something.
Safe travels Erin! Can't wait to see your finished journal. I use one but it's a more traditional diary. I write down experiences while we're traveling. No decorations, just hand writing.
I have never travel journaled and I'm very excited to do so when I go to Japan! I'll be doing this pre set up drawing ideas for pre planned spreads from you and some others ♡ thank you Erin!!
Mine is definitely not so pretty but it will at least be functional! Ill get better over time at this haha :) thank you! Im glad you seem to have enjoyed your own trip! @ErinSmith
Lovely travel journal! I just got back from London and Paris but I usually wait to document it until I’m back. I keep notes on my phone calendar. Hope you had a great trip!
My boyfriend and I go on a lot of travel adventures not far from home in Washington state, US. This weekend we're at a Bulgarian village, zip lining and alpine coaster.
Hi! I am loving your videos. I am making my very first journals for holiday gifts for my coworkers traveling to Egypt. I bought cardboard covered 60 pg (30 sheets) A5 for easy packing, and not too many pages for me to decorate. Thanks to you, I've done paper mock ups of pages, and I'll be trying dutch doors (sadly, paper is 80 GSM so I'll stick mostly to waterfalls and a few very small horizontal cuts I'll plan bottom tab pieces so I won't cut into binding. I hope the paper can handle it) Your videos are so informative and thorough, and I kinda fear I'm a bit too confident, but I think I've got this. Meanwhile I kept watching and learning from you. Oh any suggestions on decorating the covers? I thought of large full cover size images on 28 paper and inner pockets? Plain cardboard isn't so pretty. Thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Now I'm looking at A6 notebooks, ha. I have a dedicated journal for going to Renaissance Faire and another book with everything else. I load the book with stickers and pictures and ephemera with plenty of space for writing. Been looking at notebooks for next year because my current journals are full.
I hope you have a wonderful trip!! My upcoming travel plans are Walt Disney World in March of 2025. My son is a senior and he wanted to go to Disney World for his senior trip. The family is going as well as Grandma and aunts! Should be lots of fun!!! In the summer of 2025 we are planning to go to Mackinac Island. It is a small island in Northern Michigan that does not allow cars on the island. It is so dreamy! I LOVE going there!!! ❤❤❤
I used to live in York and I can't reccomend the beautiful city enough. If you have time to sit down for a custom hot chocolate, there's an amazing place opposite the Museum Gardens called Cocoa Joe's!
Theadora says she absolutely wants to see a flip through (so do I). She is very excited that you're in the UK as that is where we live and we have family in Glasgow & Edinburgh! Plus York is sooo close to us! 😍
I don't travel much but I do have a great Christmas journal. I have pages for events around the area (Santa, Christmas lights) wish lists for the kids in my life and some special adults spending tracker, a Santa letter from my grandaughter and nieces, cookie baking recipes. pictures of cookie, We always have a huge dinner out on Christmas Eve, so the people that will attend., are a list Family holiday picture with theme, tree decorating which we do on US Thanksgiving night I also make a list of people who have passed in our family (a lot this year) and have poinsiettas delivered to their graves. When I am done I have a great Christmas memory journal for each year! I hope you are having a wonderful time!
Yes please I would love to see a flip through of your travel journal when you get home. I am adoring all of your journals especially your reading ones although I have to say that I am amazed with all your journals. You make it look so easy but I just can’t seem to make mine even begin to look even remotely astonishing as yours. I live in Canada and wish that you taught classes although I suspect that you have a special talent for making such awesome journals. Jacqui
I did my first ‘proper’ travel journal earlier this year on a second trip to Edinburgh and I’ve already flicked back through it numerous times. I loved gathering ephemera and adding lots in. It’s more accessible for me than the purely freeflowing narrative travel journals I’ve done in the past. My journal for a short trip to Porto is already prepped and ready to go!
Welcome to Glasgow! I live in a wee village a few miles outside of Glw. The architecture is beautiful and you must visit Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Or even Charles Rennie MacIntosh House. Enjoy! xx
I’m going to Japan in less than two weeks for the first time. Absolutely I journal while travelling. I use a Traveller’s Notebook with three booklets to fill. I can always get more in Japan 😂. I’ve tried to be very minimal with my supplies because we are going stationary shopping while there. So excited!
I'm actually traveling to Bangladesh over the holiday season - My husband is Bengali (born and raised) and I'll be meeting his family in person for the first time! I"d love to do a travel journal - it would probably give me something fun to do during our layovers in Dubai!
The small size is a perfect idea for a travel journal! I usually don't travel (because the planning is already exhausting for me...), but my husband, his sister, her husband and I want to go to japan in 2025 or 2026. And here I am, already researching travel journaling 😅
Beautiful as always. I was using something similar for the itinerary set up but was not really liking it (flights in boxes on the side) and was not liking it. I will try your set up next time. But what I will remember the most is how you stuck the bottom part of the washi tape on a page while you were splitting it in two…. So simple a trick!😅
Ah can’t believe you are headed to York, shame you won’t be there for the Christmas markets! As a proud Yorkshire woman, it’s nice to see some representation when someone says they are heading to the uk! Hope you enjoy ❤
I would LOVE to see the Christmas markets one day 😍 I tend to be an off-peak traveller though haha! I’m actually headed to York today, I’m very excited!
My family falls under the Stewart tartan and while its kind cool to have one of the more famous tartans, its def the more stereotypical one. At least its easy to find!
Ooh is that the royal one? A DNA test has told me I have 22% Scottish ancestry but being a Smith, it’s so hard to trace family history so I have no idea which clan I might be partly descended from 😅
Do you even need to ask if we need a flip through of the filled in journal? I'm so excited that you got to get to York, it's a truly beautiful historical city (I admit I'm biased as it's about 30 minutes from where I live) Great video as always :)
There are several options for jumping into journaling. First, it helps me to remember that Erin uses a very specific, learned and practiced style that's written more slowly than is shown in the edited, polished videos. One option is to start with a less-expensive notebook that you feel comfortable scribbling, sketching, or taking notes in. Or go ahead and get the notebook that inspired you to use it, whatever your handwriting looks like. A multi-step process: journaling on sticky notes or loose leaf to tuck into a notebook to type up later to paste in. And lots of stationery stores have (sometimes free) templates for practicing handwriting, which you can either download to print yourself, or purchase on nice paper. The dollar store by my house has some in the kids and education section, but I just practice with lines in a college-ruled notebook I already have. My handwriting varies based on mood and stress level, so I usually don't focus on it; then I see when reading back what mood I was in and send love to the old me. If I need to be clear on something, I usually write in a form of capital letters I learned in an intro to drafting class. That's the big thing: handwriting styles are like type styles, and can be mimicked and learned with practice. IF you want to put the time and effort in, you could learn the caligraphy that Erin uses, but the most important thing isn't polish. It's to jump right in and enjoy it. Wishing you much fun on your journaling journey!
@@gamewrit0058 thank you so much for taking the time to write such a long and detailed reply. I was thinking it would involve learning calligraphy but like the idea of jumping in and just doing it. Maybe I could learn alongside or possibly I may get better the more I do. I am 58 and in the UK so don’t have the dollar stores but will look for similar. I have bought some cute notebooks etc and I just don’t want to ruin them. I need to just jump thank you xx
Yes, of course we need a flip through of the final travel journal
The more I see these smaller journals used, the more I really want some! For what? Who knows! I just want them!
I’m finding this one trickier in practice than I’d expected but loving the challenge!
@@ErinSmith Oh no! How so?
😂 You are not alone on that ... they are cute
I’m finding I have to be VERY thoughtful about ephemera and decoration placement to still have enough room to write about things! I’m almost alternating a tickets-and-pamphlets spread with a written recount spread in order to fit all the things in 🤣
@@ErinSmith makes sense. I don’t write a lot so it might work out just fine for me!
I do my travel journaling as memory keeping spreads in my bujo!
Always a flip through of the final journal!
This so good, what stunning spreads ☺☺
Going to Egypt for Christmas with my mom and I've been travel journaling for a while now, my last journal actually doubled in size from all the ephemera. My newest one I feel hit the perfect combo of paper, pen and ink with my journal from Peter Pauper Press, TWSBI Vac mini in Fine nib and De Artramentis Archive Ink (I'm picky with my stationary with a preference to archival quality).
Anyway, normally when we travel, we don't have a set plan other than what city we're in. I do like the idea of having a must see list before going somewhere, I'll have to implement that for next trip.
Oooh, would love a flip-through of the finished journal! I really need to start travel journaling cause I document my travels by taking loads of pictures, and I also love saving loads of ephemera from trips! So i need inspiration and/or suggestions haha 💕✨️ also absolutely adore London, I've been there soooo many times haha, and there's still so much to experience!
What a beautiful set up!! Can't wait till you return safely and share the journal with us! ✈💙
I can't wait to see this journal flip through when you return. Hope your trip is fabulous!
Yes I would love to see your full travel journal and this starting is wonderful😊❤
this was so cute! I love your travel spreads. definitely want to see a flip through of the final journal!
Um... YES we want a flip through after your holiday! I hope you have the best time!! xo
Thanks Bek 🥹
I've used my everyday BuJo for travel journaling. I love the idea of a separate small journal for that purpose. Please do share the finished journal when you get back!
I love your travel journal essential spreads! I would love to see a full flip through when you’re back! That would be wonderful! I really wish I had brought a travel journal with me on my honeymoon! I will just have to bring one on our 5 year anniversary trip! Maybe we’ll actually leave the US on that trip! We shall see!!
I love this journal spread! I am planning on going to Japan next year. So excited for all the stationery over there and will def be taking a travel journal!
So pretty! I'd definitely love to see a flip through when you're back.
That's so great ! I have a trip planned at the end of november early december to see christmas markets and decoration and I definitely want to do a travel journal, just need to find a small one by then.
I would love to see the completed journal flip through too !
the gold gilded wing stickers are so magical! I think i need to get myself a pack!!😍
This journal setup is beautiful. I like the color palette and stickers.
Obviously want to see the finished version! Im am going to my first ever travel on new year, and am planning on a kind of travel journal. I dont have your beautiful handwriting though, nor any stickers and washi tapes and whatever.. Also Im going to use a black paged photo album as a base, add polaroid pictures, and write the texts with sticky notes or something.
That sounds like a beautiful, brilliant format! 📷 Have fun!
Safe travels Erin! Can't wait to see your finished journal. I use one but it's a more traditional diary. I write down experiences while we're traveling. No decorations, just hand writing.
Love this so much! I definitely want a flip through after it's all filled in. 😊❤
this turned out gorgeous! we definitely need a flip through when it's done :)
I have never travel journaled and I'm very excited to do so when I go to Japan! I'll be doing this pre set up drawing ideas for pre planned spreads from you and some others ♡ thank you Erin!!
I’m so excited for you Alyx! I hope you have a wonderful trip 😍
Mine is definitely not so pretty but it will at least be functional! Ill get better over time at this haha :) thank you! Im glad you seem to have enjoyed your own trip! @ErinSmith
So good, Erin! Can't wait to see it filled with your travel mems!
I was looking forward to this video since you asked about which journal to take with you on your trip. I hope you’re having a marvellous time! 🏰 🇬🇧
Definitely would love to see the completed journal
That journal is so adorable. I hope you are having a wonderful time 🥰
Lovely travel journal! I just got back from London and Paris but I usually wait to document it until I’m back. I keep notes on my phone calendar. Hope you had a great trip!
My boyfriend and I go on a lot of travel adventures not far from home in Washington state, US. This weekend we're at a Bulgarian village, zip lining and alpine coaster.
Hi! I am loving your videos. I am making my very first journals for holiday gifts for my coworkers traveling to Egypt. I bought cardboard covered 60 pg (30 sheets) A5 for easy packing, and not too many pages for me to decorate.
Thanks to you, I've done paper mock ups of pages, and I'll be trying dutch doors (sadly, paper is 80 GSM so I'll stick mostly to waterfalls and a few very small horizontal cuts I'll plan bottom tab pieces so I won't cut into binding. I hope the paper can handle it)
Your videos are so informative and thorough, and I kinda fear I'm a bit too confident, but I think I've got this. Meanwhile I kept watching and learning from you.
Oh any suggestions on decorating the covers? I thought of large full cover size images on 28 paper and inner pockets? Plain cardboard isn't so pretty.
Thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Now I'm looking at A6 notebooks, ha. I have a dedicated journal for going to Renaissance Faire and another book with everything else. I load the book with stickers and pictures and ephemera with plenty of space for writing. Been looking at notebooks for next year because my current journals are full.
No plans for a travel journal specifically but I am planning to start a dedicated journal for memory keeping in the next year. Safe travels!
Loved it! I’ll be going to Italy with my sister in a few years. So I’m looking for a journal for each of us!
I hope you have a wonderful trip!! My upcoming travel plans are Walt Disney World in March of 2025. My son is a senior and he wanted to go to Disney World for his senior trip. The family is going as well as Grandma and aunts! Should be lots of fun!!! In the summer of 2025 we are planning to go to Mackinac Island. It is a small island in Northern Michigan that does not allow cars on the island. It is so dreamy! I LOVE going there!!! ❤❤❤
I used to live in York and I can't reccomend the beautiful city enough. If you have time to sit down for a custom hot chocolate, there's an amazing place opposite the Museum Gardens called Cocoa Joe's!
Perfect timing. I am leaving for Hong Kong in 1 week and wanted something like this.
This is actually perfect inspiration because I'm planning a trip to the UK this spring.
Oh fantastic! I hope you get to see some wisteria 😍
Theadora says she absolutely wants to see a flip through (so do I). She is very excited that you're in the UK as that is where we live and we have family in Glasgow & Edinburgh! Plus York is sooo close to us! 😍
I just left York today and I miss it already! What a beautiful city 😍
I don't travel much but I do have a great Christmas journal. I have pages for events around the area (Santa, Christmas lights) wish lists for the kids in my life and some special adults spending tracker, a Santa letter from my grandaughter and nieces, cookie baking recipes. pictures of cookie, We always have a huge dinner out on Christmas Eve, so the people that will attend., are a list Family holiday picture with theme, tree decorating which we do on US Thanksgiving night I also make a list of people who have passed in our family (a lot this year) and have poinsiettas delivered to their graves. When I am done I have a great Christmas memory journal for each year! I hope you are having a wonderful time!
Yes flip through
Yes please I would love to see a flip through of your travel journal when you get home. I am adoring all of your journals especially your reading ones although I have to say that I am amazed with all your journals. You make it look so easy but I just can’t seem to make mine even begin to look even remotely astonishing as yours. I live in Canada and wish that you taught classes although I suspect that you have a special talent for making such awesome journals. Jacqui
I did my first ‘proper’ travel journal earlier this year on a second trip to Edinburgh and I’ve already flicked back through it numerous times. I loved gathering ephemera and adding lots in. It’s more accessible for me than the purely freeflowing narrative travel journals I’ve done in the past. My journal for a short trip to Porto is already prepped and ready to go!
Welcome to Glasgow! I live in a wee village a few miles outside of Glw. The architecture is beautiful and you must visit Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Or even Charles Rennie MacIntosh House. Enjoy! xx
I’m going to Japan in less than two weeks for the first time. Absolutely I journal while travelling. I use a Traveller’s Notebook with three booklets to fill. I can always get more in Japan 😂. I’ve tried to be very minimal with my supplies because we are going stationary shopping while there. So excited!
Would love to see a flip through because I am trying to figure out what my travel journal is going to look like when I go o/s next year
when u laid it on top of the everyday A6 journal i said out loud "its just a baby" oh the internet has ruined my brain lol
I'm actually traveling to Bangladesh over the holiday season - My husband is Bengali (born and raised) and I'll be meeting his family in person for the first time! I"d love to do a travel journal - it would probably give me something fun to do during our layovers in Dubai!
Gorgeous
Gonna go to paris in Febuary next year for a week! I might do a journal or just do it in my normal journal
love it
The small size is a perfect idea for a travel journal! I usually don't travel (because the planning is already exhausting for me...), but my husband, his sister, her husband and I want to go to japan in 2025 or 2026. And here I am, already researching travel journaling 😅
I would love to see a video of the completed journal.
I went to Edinburgh once and was there for 3 days… that was enough time for me to fall in love with the city and never want to leave
I so agree 😍 this was my second time in Edinburgh and the love is just as strong!
@ErinSmith I absolutely need to make my way back there soon
Beautiful as always. I was using something similar for the itinerary set up but was not really liking it (flights in boxes on the side) and was not liking it. I will try your set up next time. But what I will remember the most is how you stuck the bottom part of the washi tape on a page while you were splitting it in two…. So simple a trick!😅
Would love to see a flip thru
Ah can’t believe you are headed to York, shame you won’t be there for the Christmas markets! As a proud Yorkshire woman, it’s nice to see some representation when someone says they are heading to the uk! Hope you enjoy ❤
I would LOVE to see the Christmas markets one day 😍 I tend to be an off-peak traveller though haha! I’m actually headed to York today, I’m very excited!
@@ErinSmith that makes sense, I love the markets but definitely an overwhelmingly busy place! Hope you enjoy, make sure to visit the shambles!
My family falls under the Stewart tartan and while its kind cool to have one of the more famous tartans, its def the more stereotypical one. At least its easy to find!
Ooh is that the royal one? A DNA test has told me I have 22% Scottish ancestry but being a Smith, it’s so hard to trace family history so I have no idea which clan I might be partly descended from 😅
@ Oh I’ll bet! But yes it’s the royal one. It’s very cool!
Do you even need to ask if we need a flip through of the filled in journal? I'm so excited that you got to get to York, it's a truly beautiful historical city (I admit I'm biased as it's about 30 minutes from where I live) Great video as always :)
Oh my goodness - YORK. How magical! I would love to spend more time there! Also I’m 100% on the Yorkshire tea bandwagon now, it’s superior 😍
@@ErinSmithyes, Yorkshire tea is awesome. If you ever need any sending shout lol
I’m watching this as you’re in Glasgow from the Gold Coast…closer to your home….but not you….
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Any tips for anyone who hates their handwriting, but wants to journal?
There are several options for jumping into journaling. First, it helps me to remember that Erin uses a very specific, learned and practiced style that's written more slowly than is shown in the edited, polished videos.
One option is to start with a less-expensive notebook that you feel comfortable scribbling, sketching, or taking notes in. Or go ahead and get the notebook that inspired you to use it, whatever your handwriting looks like.
A multi-step process: journaling on sticky notes or loose leaf to tuck into a notebook to type up later to paste in.
And lots of stationery stores have (sometimes free) templates for practicing handwriting, which you can either download to print yourself, or purchase on nice paper. The dollar store by my house has some in the kids and education section, but I just practice with lines in a college-ruled notebook I already have.
My handwriting varies based on mood and stress level, so I usually don't focus on it; then I see when reading back what mood I was in and send love to the old me. If I need to be clear on something, I usually write in a form of capital letters I learned in an intro to drafting class. That's the big thing: handwriting styles are like type styles, and can be mimicked and learned with practice. IF you want to put the time and effort in, you could learn the caligraphy that Erin uses, but the most important thing isn't polish. It's to jump right in and enjoy it. Wishing you much fun on your journaling journey!
@@gamewrit0058 thank you so much for taking the time to write such a long and detailed reply. I was thinking it would involve learning calligraphy but like the idea of jumping in and just doing it. Maybe I could learn alongside or possibly I may get better the more I do. I am 58 and in the UK so don’t have the dollar stores but will look for similar. I have bought some cute notebooks etc and I just don’t want to ruin them. I need to just jump thank you xx