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Great Giveaway – Gadanke Journals

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What a rough weekend. 

Like rougher than making out with a 20 grit sandpaper block.  Let me tell ya…that ain’t fun. 

First – moving is stressful.  Second – no running water and a very dirty house is a bad combo.  Third – a 10 month old with 103.5 degree temperature will land you in the ER at 2 in the morning to discover that bronchitis and double ear infections are no fun.  We were just glad to not hear that P word.  or the N word depending on how you look at it.  That is pnemonia for the folks out there that have no idea what I am talking about. 

Let’s just say that we have officially crossed the line into those crazy worried parents that literally would peel off their own skin if it would help their little ones feel better.  It was a first for us…but one that we are glad is over and done with. 

Speaking of firsts – today’s giveaway item is a great way to document the firsts in your life….and the lives of the little ones or loved ones around you.  That’s right….Gadanke is a handcrafted journal shop created by a sweet girl named Katie.       

Katie takes the journaling concept one step farther by creating prompts in some of her creations.  They can help you in spurring along your creative process – perfect for those afflicted by writers block!  Just check out the items that comes with the “SHE” personal journal (it’s a shmorgasboard of items perfect for those people that love scrapbooking and writing!):

Oh and those first ones – the vintage fabric covered ones?  Those are my favorites….so beautiful! 

They would be the best thing to add to a gift stash…for those just-in-case moments where you have a birthday but no gift…yeah…I have lots of those.  And these would be just darling stuffers for easter baskets for those grown-up girls in your life. 

Okay – so here is how you can win:

PRIZE : Gadanke Journal of your choice

NUMBER OF WINNERS : One (1)

DESCRIPTION:

TO ENTER : Leave a comment with the phrase “WRITE THAT DOWN” (name that movie!)  and just for licorice sticks, tell me which one you would choose from the Gadanke site or your favorite journaling memory.  I have one that I just vented about my mother for close to fifteen pages.  I believe several of those pages were just me repeating “I WILL NEVER YELL AT MY KIDS” over and over again.  Obviously I didn’t know what parenting was all about 🙂      

PRIZE SHIPS : Anywhere to ANYONE!  Wahoo!

NITTY GRITTY :  This giveaway ends on Friday, February 25th at 8am EDT.  Only one contest entry per email address.  The winners will be chosen using Random.org and announced on Monday, February 28th.

Good luck and happy writing down those ‘firsts’ ya’ll!   (check out the winner of last week’s giveaway at the bottom of this post!)

Congrats to Jamie at [email protected] – you are the winner of the Gadanke Journal!  Email me to claim your prize!

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  4. Write that down! I started a ‘quick journal’ this year. I just jot down a few things that happened that day. But, it’s just a plain ol blank book. I’d LOVE the pink & white striped book.

  5. Write That Down! I found a journal from when I was in fourth grade. One entry said “I have a boyfriend. I’m not sure if he likes me or not, but we’ll see.” If only it worked that way 😉

    I’m so glad Will is feeling better!!

  6. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I think this is such a good idea! While not a journal per se, my Dad’s Aunt wrote down her own memoir a few years ago, and her daughter printed it off and gave copies to members of the family. It was so special just to read what life was like for her growing up. Personally, I don’t have a favorite journal entry that I can think of–although I have to say, I thought that little sisters reading your diary was just a television myth…whoops, learned that lesson the hard way!

  7. I’m sorry–the pretty journals distracted me so much! Lots of love going Will’s way (and yours!). Poor thing, I hope he is feeling much better!

  8. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I found a journal from 3rd grade full of reasons why I hated my teacher because she gave us homework on fridays!

  9. Write that down! A favourite journal memory I have was saving up my money in grade four to buy a special journal with golden retrievers on the cover from the school book fair.

  10. First of all, I’m sorry to hear about the weeman! I don’t have any babies of my own, but when my niece and nephew are sicklings it’s heartbreaking – I can only imagine if they were my own. Hope he feels better soon!

    Second – Great find, those journals are adorable!
    Write that down!
    I honestly think that my best journaling memory is yet to come. This weekend, for my 24th birthday, four of my best girlfriends from college came to my hometown to help me celebrate. One of the many conversations we had this weekend ended with us deciding to start a sisterhood of the traveling journal. We even made rules: Everyone gets the journal for one month and has to write in it at least four times. We then mail it to the next, and the next, and the next (six times over – one friend was MIA because she lives in NYC and we’re in Missouri). There are no rules about what we can write, but we started imagining revealing a first pregnancy, or engagement, or first date! I imagine this journal spanning decades – until we’re like Dorothy, Blanch and Rose (and Sophia of course).
    I think that the SHE journal would be perfect because it’s expandable (and we’re talkers – or jotters rather)!
    Wooee, just based on this post I bet you could imagine how much we’ll all write! Thanks for the opportunity Katie!

  11. Write that down! I would love to have the love letter journal to fill in for my husband’s upcoming birthday. My favorite journaling memory was writing “MOM, DON’T READ THIS, I KNOW YOU DO!” In the front of my journal after I noticed that she had corrected the spelling of my middle name on the title page when I was 7. Nice one ma.

  12. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    My favorite journaling memory is the time I spent studying abroad and everything I wrote down while I was there. I wish I would have wrote more! I always think I’m going to remember things, but I don’t. I gotta write everything down!

  13. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I definitely love those “she” journals. Awesome!

    I’ve never been a consistent journal-er (or blogger!) but I too have teenage diaries filled with pages of the “awful/terrible” things my parents did and what I would NEVER do as a parent…

  14. Poor kiddo and poor mommy and daddy! We’re just getting through a cold that knocked us on our feet and into bed for a week. The idea of moving and not having running water on top of it? Forget about it! My son made it until he was two and we were out of town for Thanksgiving in the middle of nowhere to have his first illness ever. I know exactly how you feel — if I could suck the sick out of him to give it to myself I would. It makes me so thankful for the good health we and he normally has! Hope you all feel better real quick!

  15. WRITE THAT DOWN – I was cleaning out my old bedroom in my mom’s house with my husband when we stumbled upon my old (fluffy purple) journal. I read him some of it including the list of boys I had a crush on at the time, it would have been embarassing had he known any of them.

    Poor Will! Glad he’s better. 🙂

  16. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    The “She” journal looks amazing!

    While a writer at heart, journaling has always been tough for me. I get so critical of my own thoughts!

  17. I’d buy the set of travel journals for me and my father. We like to travel a lot and journal about it.

  19. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    My earliest journaling memory is when i was writing about a boy i like and i wrote ‘I really like him, he is so hot’ – a while later i found a note on the page from my MUM – saying ‘i think you need a paracetamol’

    I could have died with embarressment! hahaa

  20. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    My favourite journaling memory would have to be when I was backpacking through Europe. Whenever I was on a train to my next destination I wrote down everything that I had just done in the previous city. It was a great way to remember little details from my trip.

    I love the ‘Journey’ travel journals they have on the site!

  21. Write that down! The ‘She’ journal is adorable. I write everything down, most days I have 3 different notebooks on me. It seems to help with the OCD!

  22. write that down!! this journal is great – i’d use it to record all my everyday moments that i want to scrapbook! 🙂 thanks for this amazing opportunity!

  24. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the summer sun or blue lagoon travel journal. I think it’s a great idea to journal on trips to remember your favorite spots and memories to go with your photos.

    Thank goodness Will is feeling better! No fun to have a sick baby!

  25. 1> hope little man gets better soon, we would hate to find out that you guys are going skinless around the new house! I am also one of those parents, but am learning that if the doctor can “fix” my kids (ie know what they have and give medicine) not to worry, to take a deep breath and go home and snuggle.
    2>WRITE THAT DOWN!I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to try the SHE journal!
    Thanks for the giveaway and as always you guys are awesome!

  28. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    In about 4th grade a friend and I wrote back and forth to each other in my journal, while we were both sitting right there… why? I have no idea.

  29. Write that down!! Sorry, I don’t know what movie that is from though..haha.

    I lovelovelovelovelove the prayer journal, as well as the cream travel one.

    I was quite the writer when I was younger (think 4th-7th grade) and I recently came across one of my old “story journals” yeah..it was nice to look through it and then hide it once again!

  33. Write that down! I have had journals since I was a teenager, but I did the best at writing when I was serving a mission for my church. Now I mostly blog, but I have printed those pages out before to put with a scrapbook and when my son is one year old I will print out those pages to make a book for him!

  34. Write that down! I love Katie from Gadanke, and I love the vintage fabric-covered journal with pink stripes! I have been journaling every day since my senior year in high school, and sporadically before then. I have a whole bookshelf of my journals. It’s always nice to have more onhand!

  37. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    My brothers used to pick the lock on my journal, so I gave up at an early age. The day before he left for Afghanistan my husband gave me a beautiful leatherbound journal – he’s a very thoughtful guy and I’m blessed to be married to him.

    Thanks for hosting so many great giveaways!

  38. “Write that Down!” The “She” journal looks so great. I always want to start a journal so that I will have something to look back on later on but never know how to start- this would totally remedy that problem!

  39. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    when my 16-year old “true love” broke up with me, i made a dramatic list of qualities i wanted in the man i married. they included: likes to ride horses, doesn’t make fun of me and loves Jesus. not bad, eh?

  41. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I would definitely go with the “You Are Loved” baby book. My husband and I are expecting our first child later this year and I have been on the hunt for the perfect baby book. I think I may have found it!

  42. Write that down!! When I was in 6th grade my parents took me and my sisters to Africa and gave us each a journal to document it. It’s so fun to look at the way I described my experiences there, from the amazing safaris to the devastating poverty we sat.

  44. “Write that down”
    I journal about how I miss my family so much! They’re over 4,000 miles away!

  45. WRITE THAT DOWN!!!

    I love the “Love letter” mini books! I’d love to fill one up for my hubby!

    I’m sorry Will was so sick, but am SO glad he’s feeling better. One of the hardest things to handle is when the kids are down and out! Also, I feel your pain with the water being out- that seems to happen to us a lot here!

  46. WRITE THAT DOWN
    I absolutely love the “You Are Loved” baby book and even though I don’t have a baby (yet) I’ve started preparing and collecting for when the time comes so it’s not so shocking!

  48. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I’d pick the “You are Loved” journal for a friend who has a wee one on the way! What a unique shower gift this would make.

  49. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    Although I never really “journaled”, I have always used a journal to write lists of things that people like. I’m talking things like types of flowers, candy, cakes, colors, lotions, candles… basically all the “favorites” of the people that I care about. This way I always had a choice when it came time to buy presents and could surprise them. I would just listen anytime they mentioned they liked something and jot it down later. It was a life saver!

    My iphone has taken over for these lists, but I would love to have a nice fresh journal to start writing in! Plus my 6 year old daughter loves to write in her journal. She has already been through many. I have her very first one – it consist of scribbles throughout every single page… she was 2! She has always loved the idea of “writing”.

    PS… Hope Will is fully recovered. I HATE it when the babies are sick. There is not a more helpless feeling than watching them ache and be sad.

  50. “WRITE THAT DOWN” Grease! and i loved writing in my closet with a night light or in my tent in my journal when i was wayyy younger!!

  52. WRITE THAT DOWN – I’d probably pick the mini love journal – would go great with the new husband I got 4+ months ago 🙂

  56. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the pink and white vintage striped journal. It would have been oh so fun to use that when writing about how much I loved my high school boyfriend (and he’s now my husband!).

    I hope Will feels better!

  57. WRITE THAT DOWN, please

    I would LOVE the vintage journal! My 5th grade diary is full of ramblings about the boys I thought I liked.

  58. Write that DOWN!

    I love the “she” journals! So awesome!

    I used to write down everything in my journal as a little….but most had to do with cute boys in my class 🙂

  59. WRITE THAT DOWN! Great journals! I especially love the Something Serious with Something Silly journal as well as the Love Where we Live one!

  60. WRITE THAT DOWN
    My best journaling memory was from two years ago when I had just moved to ATL. I went with my (then) fiance to a photoshoot he was doing for a play and the So You Think You Can Dance auditions happened to be taking place at the same building.
    I was sitting out in the lobby watching all the dancers to interviews and specialty footage, journaling about the whole experience when I noticed a group of them were staring back at me. When I looked up at them they immediately started stretching and doing “technical” tricks. I then realized that because I was dressed in business attire (had an interview later that day) that the dancers thought I was actually taking notes on them.
    I played it up and would blatantly look at their numbers then nod and jot down a few things. It was too funny!

  62. Write that down!

    One of my dearest friends is having her first baby in just a few weeks, and I have had my eye on the You Are Loved baby book for a while. Of course, I would love the vintage fabric journals or the She journal for myself! 🙂

  66. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    i love the ‘she’ one. but all of them are so awesome & beautiful. i would love to win one.
    hope will is feeling better!

  68. Write that down! I need start journaling so I can remember all the little things about my kids! I’m THAT mom who doesn’t have a traditional baby book for any of my kids. No good.

  69. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I’ve always been sporadic with journaling…so my favorite are the journals that cover 5 – 10 years of my life in bits and pieces. I would write when I felt like it and/or uncovered the journal from whatever hiding place it was in and decided to try it again. 🙂

  71. WRITE THAT DOWN.
    “The Little Things:Listing Thankful Thoughts” journal is very cute. What a great idea!

  72. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    What an awesome giveaway! I love the ‘seeking grace’ journal on her website! And I’m pretty sure I had some crazy journal entries like your as well 😉

  74. WRITE THAT DOWN. In college i journaled all of my boy troubles in hopes that it would someday be something my own daughter would want to read. Now that I am a mom to a son instead of a daughter I am thinking maybe I should burn it.

  78. I hope Will is feeling better 🙁 Mine are older now and we haven’t had to spend the wee hours of the morning in the Emergency Room for a while (touch wood) but I remember holding a sick little one in my arms for hours on end in a waiting room all too well, its heartbreaking.

    Write That Down!

    I love the blue {She: Me, My Heart, My World} Journal, so simple but pretty!

  79. Write that down! I just started journaling and am almost ready to start my second journal. I love all of them!

  82. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I love the fabric covered journals. Would be perfect for my list of ‘One Thousand Gifts’

  83. Write that down!!!

    I was an exchange student to Australia, my favorite journals are the ones I wrote while I was there. I was really an emotional rollercoaster at the age of 16/17 (oh, and I still am haha).

  84. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    Love the vintage fabric ones, i would pick the pink and white striped one and put it in my guest room on the night stand. love it!

  88. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the “seeking grace” ones! My favorite jorunaling memory is sitting outside a Starbucks on a cool fall day drinking my peppermint mocha and writing my thoughts down about a book I was reading in my Bible. Love.

  89. WRITE THAT DOWN.
    I’d like to start( a little late) journaling aobut our daughter. I keep things here and there, but it would be great to consistently write about what she’s doing.

  90. Love Van Wilder!

    Write that down… I have a VERY detailed journal from college. It’s embarassing and hilarious to read now, but it covers in VERY LENGTHY DETAILS important things such as when I met my best friends and, a few years later, my husband!

  93. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the fabric vintage covered ones. I’m a list writer, I’m constantly writing new lists down, would be nice to have a little notebook to keep track of all my lists:-)

  94. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the pink/white vintage fabric journal- which would be perfect for all the letters I have written my baby girl!

  97. WRITE THAT DOWN!!! I love the fabric ones too. My favorite journaling memory was writing the story of our secret engagement and elopement!

  99. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I kept a journal for my hubby (fiance at the time) for about 6 months leading up to our wedding. It had scraps and memories from things we did together and my feelings about our upcoming nuptials and marriage. 🙂

  100. Oh my, Write that down!!! I am in love them all… I am working my way through 1000 gifts and I know I need to start a gratitude journal of my own. These are great inspiration!

  101. WRITE THAT DOWN! (Love, love, love Van Wilder!)

    I would get the “Love Where We Live” journal as my boyfriend (actual boyfriend, not husband-boyfriend) and I just bought our first house and I would love a nice place to document it all!

  103. WRITE THAT DOWN! My favorite journaling moment is yet to come…2011 is that year! I adore you, you sweet thing!

  104. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I think I’d choose the home journal. I’m about to get married and am excited to build a home with my guy!

  106. Write That Down! I have to say that writing about people that are special to me, listing their qualities, is my favorite. Nothing like a good list.

  108. WRITE THAT DOWN

    Love letter! I used to write in a journal every day. My thoughts, feeling, things going on in my life, good things, bad things. I really miss doing that. It’s nice to read something you wrote 15 yrs ago and remember extactly how you were feeling at that moment. It nice to sometimes be able to cry over it all again too. But I really like to look back and see how much I’ve grown as a person. The things in my life that have made me who I am, that changed me for the better. I really need to start writting again. I need that, for me.

  110. Write that down! I LOVE the “you are loved” journal, but I’m already doing something similar for my baby boy, so I’d choose the “love letter” journal for my “boyfriend.”

    Hope Will feels better soon!

  112. Write that down! I used to keep a travel journal pretty diligently, until my dad read it and I had complained about them! Ah, to be a preteen.

  114. Write that down! Hope the lil guy feels better soon! I love the vintage fabric journals, and my favorite journal entry is the 8-10 entries I put in my puffy ice cream themed diary as a child

  115. Write that down! (Van Wilder, right?)

    I used to put lots and lots of flowery language into my journals. “The sweet silver spun-sugar bells tinkled across the deep blue vast expanse of the unending sky.” Et cetera. Ah, adolescence.

    I love the vintage fabric journal with the big yellow flowers!

  116. write that down!

    I have never been one to journal, but I have a newborn grandboy and another on the way. this is the most fun I have ever had! I love the idea of a baby journal/book because I want to tuck in all the little momentos and emails etc

    Plus, I have become a shopping crazy person. so fun

    Heather
    [email protected]

  118. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the “you are loved” journal. I want that journal to be my favorite memory:)

  120. WRITE THAT DOWN! My favorite is the {The Little Things} ~ Listing Thankful Thoughts. Very cute! Thanks for a great giveaway!

  121. WRITE THAT DOWN – Van Wilder. I only know that because my husband recites stupid movie quotes whenever he gets the chance. Love the vintage floral journals!

  124. Hi Katie! I hope Will is feeling better! And with the move and everything I hope you guys are doing ok too!
    I love to journal! I’ve kept a journal since I was in 5th grade, my favorite one was after reading the book “Harriet the Spy” I would try and write down as much as I could while “spying” on my family. It’s fun to go back and read those things now that I am older. My favorite journal is the”love letter” for my hubby. I think it’s a good idea whenever I get in a fight with my hubby to think of something nice and loving that will make my anger subside. We get so caught up in the negative things that we tend to forget the good things, at least I do. Anyway, good luck with the house, the baby and the new adventure. Don’t worry about posting too much we know you’re busy. We’ll be here when you come back!

  125. WRITE THAT DOWN

    my fave journaling memories are the stories of the births of my kiddos. Two were induced and one almost didn’t give us time to get to the hospital. Lovely memories to write down and read over and over and over….

    thanks for the chance! And praying that Will is all better soon!

  127. WRITE THAT DOWN
    I wrote in severeal journals when I was younger, now I only blog or simple talk to my mom about EVERYTHING. If I’m pissed or grumpy at something, I let my hubby get an earful of whatever is on my mind. 🙂
    My favorite item on the page is the Love Letter. Someimes I just write those as I believe those feelings are most important to share, and it would be even more fun to write them down on beautiful paper.

  131. Write That Down! two years and 2 kids later i’ve just started journaling again and would LOVE to throw my thoughts onto the pages of one of these adorable journals!

  132. Write that down. I like all of them but might be drawn to the “she” journals. I’m a consummate list maker and would use it for that.

  137. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    Oh Van Wilder, I love it. 🙂
    I ADORE the She personal journal 1.1. Such a fantastic idea. I need to get more of my story down, but I always put it off. This would be a big help!

  138. WRITE THAT DOWN! The closest I come to journaling is the notebook I keep for the gym. I like the vintage fabric journals best because the pages are blank, giving you freedom to write, doodle, or whatever you want

  140. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    When my brother and Sister and I were younger, we were heading out for a family road trip for 3 weeks, my Mum bought us all journals to write our adventures down in.

    I loved the idea…and thought that is was SUCH a thoughtful idea.Journaling was a part of my life after that. Such a great way to jot down all your adventures and thoughts.

    I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the pink and white striped vintage fabric journal.

    My fingers are crossed that I win…a NEW journal : )

  141. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    Love the vintage journals. 🙂

    Glad the medicine is working. We had a bug over here too…it took us all out of commission for a week+ and took 3 visits to the Dr/Urgent care. No fun at all!

  142. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I love the Home Journal in her collection…I love my home, so this is a great little book to keep up with things about it. 🙂

    Lorie

    marcandlorie at embarqmail dot com

  143. WRITE THAT DOWN! I have never been a journal person until I got engaged. My future mother in law gave me a wedding journal and I have been diligent in writing down about all our appointments. I am excited to read it again on our future anniversaries!

  145. Write that down! Hope Will is all better!
    My first journaling memory is actually of my sister’s journal – I used to hunt for it all the time to read her thoughts 🙂 I’m more direct now and just ask her!

  146. WRITE THAT DOWN! I have some old diaries from my childhood that are pretty funny, but my favorite thing to re-read is my “mommy journal”. I love reading the entried from when my two boys were babies. I was so fascinated and enamored by them and still am!

  148. Write that down! – from my favorite movie. I would love the baby books because they are so much better than anything I have ever seen in the stores, but I would also really like the variety of the personal journal. Such a good idea.

  151. Write that Down! I am glad to hear that Will is doing better. That must have been very scary. And Congrats on the new house as well! My favorite journaling is looking back at all the “deep” thinking I used to write down all the time. Makes me laugh or flush with embarrassment.

  153. Write that down! LOVE the vintage fabric ones! 🙂

    Sounds like you had a rough weekend! 🙁 Hopefully it gets better this week and soon you will be able to relax in your new home!!!

  154. WRITE THAT DOWN! Sorry to hear about little W, I hope he’s feeling all better. I have never successfully kept a journal, can’t even keep up with my blog, BUT I for sure have a specific person in mind who will be graduating from seminary in a couple of years and would totally love a beautiful journal to write down stuff like sermon ideas! So I would go the future gift route, like you said. Because I might already have like 5 blank or barely-used journals in my home…might…

    Also, I might not go the “prayer journal” route, because we Lutherans emphasize that Grace is a free gift given to everyone, so we don’t have to seek it, because we already have it! I do like the Bluebird Trellis pattern in “the little things” giving thanks journal…might be my pick!

  157. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I’d definitely choose the travel journal. My husband and I love to travel, and we’ve been to so many cool places now, it’s getting hard to keep track of them all!

  159. WRITE THAT DOWN!!
    I love the prayer journal…and the baby one (for my niece/nephew on the way)…and the fabric ones…I just can’t decide.

    I have an entire journal full of top 10 lists of boys that I thought were cute at the time…

  161. Write that down! My favorite journal entry is when I mentioned that my boyfriend (at the time’s) brother had a new girlfriend and wondering what she was like… then when she moved to our town to get married, we became best friends (six years later, still are).

  162. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I’m a journaler through and through. I’ve always loved having a small collection of little notebooks to jot down thoughts in. I love the uniqueness available from fabric covers to recycled paper covers and everything in between. I’m smitten with those vintage fabric journals!

  163. Write that down!

    Love Van Wilder, anywho my favorite journal would be one of the vintage fabric ones.

  164. Write that down!
    I love “the little things” journal. I’ve been meaning to start a thankful journal, but just haven’t found one I like…but I would start if I had this one 🙂

  166. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I also love the vintage floral fabric-covered ones…so pretty!

    p.s: Feel better Will!

  169. Write that down! I always keep a journal, with the hopes that someday my kids will want to read how their mommy and daddy lived when they were young. The vintage looking ones are beautiful!

  171. WRITE THAT DOWN!!! My favorites are the love letter journal and the vintage fabric cover! They are beautiful!

  172. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I want the Love Where We Live journal. It would be perfect to document our homes/locales as we fall in love (fingers crossed) with all the places that the Marine Corps will be sending us to.

  174. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I have never been great at keeping a journal through the years, but I enjoyed writing stuff down about our son as he grows. I would love to get the baby book or prayer journal!

  175. Write that down! I would choose the You Are Loved journal. We just heard our baby’s heartbeat for the first time today, and I’d love to start keeping track of other firsts!

  177. WRITE THAT DOWN! I would use this journal to write a letter to each of my kids through out their lives and someday give it to them!

  178. WRITE THAT DOWN! I don’t have a favorite journal memory – as I’ve never been able to keep one for more than a few days! But I’d love to start and keep the habit 🙂

  179. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I would write down the answers that my family gives me to random questions I ask them all of the time.
    Such as the one just asked today-
    what is your favorite childhood book? Why was it your favorite? Thinking back about that book what feelings come to mind? I love to record stuff like this in my journal or blog. I find out some neat stuff about my hubby of 12 years and would love to compile a list of grandparents answers for my munckins.

  181. Write this down!

    What serendipitous timing! I was just going through my old journal with my sister in law, laughing about how silly we were as kids! My favorite line from when I was about 12 years old: “My favorite hobbies are reading, and playing pretend.”

  183. WRITE THAT DOWN! I would use this jounral to write a letter to each of my kids through out their lives and give it to them someday!

  184. Write That Down! Each of those journals is fantastic. What a perfect gift idea for my sisters, friends, etc. My personal pick: You Are Loved baby journal.

  185. WRITE THAT DOWN! I’ve tried to start journaling so0o many times, but somehow i can never make it more than a few days.

  187. WRITE THAT DOWN! I think the baby journal would be so sweet as part of a baby shower gift! I also like the fabric covered journals – I would love to start an “everyday journal” where I jot down what happened each day! My brother-in-law has done that for 10 years….its crazy that he can tell anyone what he did any day over the past 10 years! Good luck with the rest of your move Katie! Cant wait to watch you decorate the Dream House!

  188. write that down! i love all of the journals. it’s been a couple of years since i journaled. i should get back into it! 🙂

  191. WRITE THAT DOWN! I would love any of them…I hope I win one cuz I need a new journal stat! (all my toes and fingers crossed)

    ps. sorry bout lil Will being sick..no fun at all! glad to see he is on the mend though..

  192. WRITE THAT DOWN – I looked at the journals and I like the Mini Book for Someone You Love. It’s easier for me to express my feelings towards my husband in writing and I think this journal would be something neat to have.

  194. WRITE THAT DOWN!!! I am in love with the fabric covered journals!!! I don’t really write a lot in journals – but LOVE to use them to stick in my purse for quick notes or reminders!

  195. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I love keeping a travel journal since it transports you back. I also was revisiting a hilarious journal entry lamenting the lack of good men out there. I wrote something about how it is crazy my future husband is out in the world and we just haven’t met yet. We met the next day =)

  196. “WRITE THAT DOWN” My favourite journaling memory would have to be finding my mother’s stack of journals after she had died. It was so hard to read her thoughts & feelings and to see things from her point of view; especially now that she had gone and I couldn’t talk to her about them. I treasured those journals and I hope to start keeping regular journals so I can pass these onto my children one day [when I have them!]

    I would pick the {Something Serious with Something Silly} ~ Doodle List journal because I am a list ADDICT. I have thousands of post it notes on my desk at work- really! if it isn’t written down, it doesn’t get done!

  197. WRITE THAT DOWN 🙂 (VanWilder…. ?)
    My favourite journalling memory was during a 6 week trip as a student nurse in rural Cambodia. I still take that journal with me when ever I travel to provide nursing care in other countries!
    I would love a Gadanke travel journal! Especially since my husband and I are planning a European travelganza (good word eh? You can steal it.) this summer! Maybe in something unisex so we can write in it together….
    Love your blog, you are an inspiring woman, new mom and creative spirit!
    xo
    Erin V

  198. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I’ve got huge love for the “SHE” journal; I turn 25 on Monday & this would be such a fun kick-off to journal my entire year!

  199. Write that down!
    wow what wonderful journals! my favourite journalling moment has been re-reading all my journals from my teenage years that I found when I recently moved house. quite a time waster, and rather embarrassing but also sooooo good!
    thanks for opening this giveaway up to those of us who live so far away – what a treat it would be to win one of these lovelies!

  202. Write that down! I too really love the vintage fabric journals, but the travel journal would be really handy since we’re planning to do some traveling in the near future. Love them all really!

  203. WRITE THAT DOWN

    – I love rereading journals that I’ve kept. So many memories, embarrassing mostly. 🙂 Whenever we move my husband and I read them and laugh at me.

  204. WRITE THAT DOWN

    Quote is from Van Wilder…. favourite movie!

    I’d love the LoveLetter journal, for my gorgeous boyfriend who loves me without question xo

  205. WRITE THAT DOWN! I think it’s hilarious to read my old journals from elementary or middle school because they were mostly a list of my crush of the moment….”I like John.” “Now, I like Matt.” Ha!

  207. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I love the “Love Letter” journal. I would use this to write out my love for my husband and give it to him for either his birthday or our anniversary this year. With an 11 month old, we don’t have nearly the time to focus on our marriage that we did before (even though we still have a monthly date night) and I think this would be a wonderful way to show him that I love him more now than ever before!

  208. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    {haha, love the Van Wilder quote!}

    I definitely wrote “I do not need a boyfriend” over and over for 3 pages…only to be asked out and say yes less than a week later :/

  209. WRITE THIS DOWN.
    I have always kept a journal and now that I am married I kept a love journal. I copy down all the loves notes/texts he gives me and I give him so our kids will see one day how much love we shared for each other.
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  212. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love her You Are Loved book!! It would be perfect to document my son’s first year!

  214. WRITE THAT DOWN! I’m starting to plan my wedding and would love one of these to jot down my ideas and other thoughts about the wedding and marriage.
    I hope your week goes better than your weekend did!

  217. Write that down! 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity to win, my favorite would have to be the travel journal…I really need to start writing down all the memories of my travels…

    Shannon

  218. Shoot, I commented on the wrong thing. I was going for the kriss kross post. I don’t see a delete button so…Write that down! {As I was scrolling down to enter my comment I thought “wow, everyone sure is telling her to write that down.” I thought they were telling you to write down that, for memories sake –about your son crossing his legs so dainty!}

  222. WRITE THAT DOWN! I love the “seeking grace” journal! So pretty, and such a good sentiment to remember!

  226. Write that down! I love the “You are Loved” baby book. My little guy was really sick a couple of weeks ago, too, so I can sympathize! It’s the saddest thing in the world.

  227. WRITE THAT DOWN!! I like the something serious with something fun journal:) the pink and orange colors are fun and the white seems timeless…great for a journal!

  228. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    My favorite journaling moment is probably when I talk about how much I don’t like boys because I was in seventh grade and afraid my mom or God might find my journal and discover the truth. I eventually crack and every other entry is about how I have a crush on a new boy. “Today I like Nick the most because he has great eyes” or something like that. Haha.

    I’m 23 now and sometimes it still seems like I write a lot about boys. Oh my.

  230. “WRITE THAT DOWN”

    All the journals are cute, but I love the Seeking Grace one the best. Prayer journals are great!

  231. Write That Down!! I would choose the Love Where We Live Home Mini Book and I would give it to my sister for her new house!

  232. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    I haven’t kept journals very much….but I do have a very distinct memory of a very long journal entry written after being punished for something and not being able to attend a middle school dance on Valentine’s Day and being DEVASTATED that I couldn’t dance with my boyfriend!

  234. WRITE THAT DOWN! I’m loving those vintage fabric blank ones, too. Especially since the first page reminds me that “I find happiness when I quit trying to be perfect.” That there’s a radical thought, it is.

  235. write that down! i love the seeking grace family pack journals! what a fantastic idea all of her journals are! love them!
    prayers to will that he’s on the mend!

  236. WRITE THAT DOWN!

    Looooove those vintage ones! Especially the pink & white stripes 🙂 I’ve always loved journaling but could never keep it up for too long. Maybe one of these would help? When it comes to these I definitely judge a book by its cover!

  237. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I would pick one of the fabric colored ones because they’re so pretty! And I think I would use it to journal the vacations that my husband and I go on (we’re newlyweds so we’ve got some fun ones coming up in the next year or two!)

  239. WRITE THAT DOWN! Don’t know the movie, but love the idea of a journal. Good luck with the move and I hope that Will is feeling better.

  240. WRITE THAT DOWN! When we got married last year, I started keeping a journal of what I was thankful about my husband and how I was praying for him. It’s fun to look back and see how God has answered our prayers even just in the last year!

  242. WRITE THAT DOWN 😉

    I think I need one of all of those journals, minus the baby one (at least right now). As much as I love blogging, I think I really want to spend some time with the old fashioned writing.

  244. WRITE IT DOWN!!! I love love love the “She” journal. I don’t necessarily have a favorite entry but I love looking back at ‘where’ I was at different points of my life and what was on my mind.

  245. WRITE THAT DOWN!!

    I have a journal that I kept (rather randomly) all throughout college that is sometimes fun, sometimes heartbreaking to look back on.

  248. Write that down.

    My favorite journals to look back on are those when I used to journal my prayers in college. My roommate was often around, but I still wanted to pray, so I wrote my prayers. Those are precious to me. It’s so funny how big a deal things seemed that now wouldn’t phase me at all. Guess that’s called maturity.

    Love the SHE journal…

  249. WRITE THAT DOWN!
    I love the love letter journal, especially the red and orange flower style!

  251. WRITE THAT DOWN ! I have too many to list! I have about 25 journals that are completely full… i love rereading them!

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