Memory Journal

I made this for a friend's Birthday. It's an amalgamation of a few things I have seen and filed away either on my laptop or in my head!
The idea is that you have a journal and when you have a few spare minutes to write you pull a memory reminder out of the jar and write down your memories or thoughts.

I have used an ordinary spiral bound writing book from Asda for, I think, 28p. Cut a piece of brown card to fit the front cover and glue together.Choose about six co-ordinating papers and cut them into oblongs of different sizes to fit the front of the journal. Glue down leaving a small gap between each paper.

 I then downloaded various questions from the internet and cherry-picked what was relevant to my friends life. I grouped them into sixes with a different font for each group and double spacing between each question then printed them out onto matching scrapbook paper.

Cut the papers into strips and fold or curl in a few different ways then put into the kilner/mason jar. I added a tag decorated in the same way to match the journal and finally tied three pieces of matching raffia around the top of the jar. I also covered a pen in matching scrapbook paper to go with it. Again it was a cheap pen from Asda, a pack of 10 for 90. Simply cover with an oblong of paper and stick a flat bottomed jewel on the top.