Bridgette Guerzon Mills from Contemplating the Moon showcases her beautiful handmade journals and more on another site, amanobooks. In addition, every week she includes a post detailing some aspect of journaling. Past topics have included using transparencies, finding the words, and dream journaling. She is currently highlighting travel journals and I am happy to say that several of my journals and travel journaling techniques are showcased here. Please stop by and look through her beautiful, inspiring, and informative site.
Below you will find some images of and additional links to two of my travel journals that Bridgette highlighted.
Greece 2008 - click all pics to enlarge and click here and here to see all the journal pages on my original posts.
New Mexico 2008 - click all pics to enlarge and click here to see all the journal pages on my original post.
50 comments:
Seth,
Such beautiful travel journals that are each stunning works of art in their own right! The colors are so reflective of Greece and New Mexico, each with their own personalities - with the textures, layers, activities and feel of your journeys. Such wonderful interpretations of your trip, it's the ultimate self made souvenir to hold forever. Just love the idea of having other people's input in your journals. Super post for super travel journals- so captivating!
Went and took a look at this Seth. Very inspiring work. I now have a kit list for my next holiday. thanks for sharing your process x
Ohhhhhh, these are gorgeous.
Oh, my pulse quickens! Your pages are just thrillingly beautiful; I want to touch each page and study your wonderful compositions; texture, colors. These are some of the most wonderful journals I've ever seen. Well done!!
like the new mexico one.. this is great art!
These are unbelievably gorgeous...
Awesome post Seth, superb photos of your journals, amazingly rich in colour and texture. Total inspiration,thank you! M
Seth these travel journals are fabulous. The covers draw one in to find beautifully crafted pages of remembrance.
Gotta say that i love these!!!
the frail little rust in the corner of the Greece and then well, that New Mexico made me really smile when i clicked larger--got a sense of an old typewriter!
great love and energy in these, Seth.
Seth these are fabulous (DUH of course they are) thanks for sharing them, and adding to my pool of inspiration for today!
Saw your interview yesterday, Seth- well done. I had no idea you kept such amazing travel journals.. I mean I have seen them before, but I guess I forgot about them. What a great collection you have going!
My goodness, those are amazing pages, every single one. You do such great detail and layers, with such wonderful color.
Stunning journals! Don said you paste in journals what I lug around in the bottom of my purse on a trip. And then finally throw away. Oops...
I roundly applaud your ability to produce these beautiful Travel Journals. I never seem to muster the post-adventure energy, so the only thing that I get done is the occasional sketch and lots of photos. I'll continue to swoon over the Travel Journalers in my life.
those covers are something else seth! thanks again for sharing your work with me for the blog.
Wow Seth - they are works of art page by page. What treasures you've created.
I wish I could touch these journals. They are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing them.
Seth,
These are amazing journals. I've just gone through your blog. Now I'm going back for more on the other sites.
You amaze me.
Hi Seth, these books are great, I will have to check out all the links too!
Please drop by my blog, I have a Dis-Co update I would like you to see:)
Seth! These are amazingly beautiful! I LOVE them!!! So much color, wonderful texture and amazing grunginess! I think you could do an online class on bookmaking(sort of like Mary Ann Moss's) you'd be do well! I would sign up in a minute!!!
It reminds me on my last two European trips I collected tons of stuff to do the very same sort of journal... I still have it, our intineraries, etc it was never completed! I need to make time for this! You inspire me soo! I never thought to make a journal in advance to do this! Your brilliant!
Gorgeous - there is no other word for them!!
Renate
I absolutely love travel journals and these are zee best!
After looking at these journals again, I'm determined to give journaling more priority in my life. In less than a week I'm having a surgery that'll keep me home & laid up for awhile-perfect time to start, so thanks for the journaling reminder!
It's only right that your journals should be showcased. They are always a joy to see. They out do many of the journals I have seen in publications too.
Wonderful work, Seth. Aren't travel journals the best. I'm never as inspired as I am when I'm in a new foreign land. These two are so evocative of both places they represent. A joy to look through.
Erin in Morro Bay
Just full of soulful eye treats.
They so reflect the colors and feelings of your travels..
Beautiful as always.
Katelen
it was this greece journal that caused me to hit "add to favorites" when i first stumbled upon the altered page.
Wow, what an amazing array of artwork and journals... you have truly inspired me to create today... I just want to make a ton of background pages and experiment as I go! I also love Bridgette's piece on you and your travel journals... Thank you, Seth...
Roxanne
I'm fighting re-entry from 7 days in Italy; your journals are exciting and inspiring and have given me direction. I didn't want the journaling to overpower the photos and ephemera so now I'll work on creating pockets etc. Thanks! Loved the interviews about you.
Truly inspiring. I need to try something like this to chronicle our next trip...
Seth, You have really captured the essence of your journey. Absolutely beautiful!
so refreshing to see your style. . .rough edges, rivets, string, HERE AND NOWNESS, there-ness..., dates stamped, pieces of your experience:::, FRESH ESSENCE, lack of PRETENSE...,
details unfrilly ....appeals to me!!
oh wow. your journals are so gorgeous! I especially love the greece book. The shape of the 'mini-book' (?) on top is fantastic, and i love the way it is bound. I have no experience with journals, as i'm more of a jewelry artist, but your fabulous work makes me want to try.
oh-my-word ... such a FEAST!! thank you.
Very beautiful!
Love these journals - my favorite is Greece!!! They look ancient and modern at the same time.
I really like the aged look of your journals and that you actually create them while you are on your journey.
Your journals just beg to be held and studied and the Greece journal in particular is speaking to me!
Seth, I loved your travel journals so much. I but a little info on my blog about them and a link to your blog.. I do hope you do not mind.
Thanks,
Katelen
I went to Greece after I had had a small stroke and before we discovered my brain anneuryms... brain bubbles...I have difficulty spelling these days; I was in search of sacred white light in a sacred space. I explored plein aire painting but kept a journal that I am eager to return to later this summer. Your images are so inviting...I have a need to touch them and hold them close to my heart. I am so amazed at your full moon climb of Mount Olympus. Imagine and Live in Peace, Mary Helen
these are gorgeous! such beautifully inspiring journals -- makes me want to travel to both greece and new mexico straight away.
thank you for sharing those links too -- beautiful!!
Thanks for the peek inside your journals Seth, aren't those weathered doorways wonderful. Great site too, loved wandering through browsing and picking up ideas. Of course I loved your journals too, but it did make me want to turn the pages to keep on looking!
These journals are beautiful, Seth. Thanks for sharing them. Makes me want to travel to both New Mexico and especially Greece.
wow, so inspiring! have so wanted to start of journal of my own but found it so boring, you have truly got my mind racing! thanks!
Your journals are incredible Seth.
YOU ROCK.
Plain and Simple.
These journals are simply amazing and as always, you've outdone yourself! Fabulous pages, every single one.
Gaby xo
What a wonderful way to record a trip and such an artful keepsake. Lucious.
The Greece 2008 journal reminds me of Dorothy Simpson Krause's travel journals. You have a similar approach. You both make such beautiful travel journals.
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