i just wrote and posted copy. copy. copy. tote. i think i’m happy with it. i like how it’s dark, but then you wonder why it’s so dark. maybe i’m full of crap.

it took me two years, almost to the day (about a week and a half from being to the day), to finish filling up my black journal. i wrote my last entry last night. it’s held together very well, i’m very happy with it. so i got another one just like it from BookPeople Bookstore. there were about seven on the shelf in the size that i wanted (8.5 x 11). i looked over them and ran my fingers over them, then picked the second one from the left. it felt good. and it smelled right. so i bought it.

as for my old journal, i’ve learned a lot from it. don’t put two pictures face to face on opposite pages so that they touch–it makes them scratchy. it gets much heavier as you pour ink and tape pages and pictures into it. it holds up really, really well. it is not good for watercolor, and i am not good with watercolor. drawings plus writings is much more interesting than just writings. i’ll thumb through it a lot, so it may start getting old to me–expecially the first few pages. it now has an interesting smell.

both journals are made by Cachet (i would have put a link but i can’t find their official site. oh well.) and are hardback, sewn binding, unlined journals. i highly recommend them.

i also bought the book published by Found Magazine. i’ve been a fan of theirs for a while and i was very happy to find that they’ve published a best of Found. they collect notes and photos and things found by people all over and then publish them. i wish i had thought of it first.