The Early Years : December 28, 1989 - October 22, 1994 : this is the first 'diary' I'd ever written in. It was the stereotypical pink-covered adolescent girl diary, blatant gender roles exploited to the maximum.
Diary #2 : October 22, 1994 - November 14, 1994 : An unrealistically tiny book in which I spent more time complaining about the small pages than writing about anything useful.
Journal #3 : November 16, 1994 - December 11, 1994 and
Journal #4 : December 11, 1994 - December 24, 1994 : I was in between official journals at this time and was forced to use common notebooks to record my life's events.
Nostalgic 1920s Journal : December 25, 1994 - August 25, 1995 : This journal was covered with antique-like pictures on a pale pink background.
Limited Jeans Journal : August 26, 1995 - October 25, 1996 : This was a journal I bought at the Limited Too, the place where my mom took me shopping every year for new school clothes. It's a notebook covered in denim, filled with bizarre drawings pulled from the mind of an adolescent girl.
English Journal : November 13, 1996 - March 12, 1997 : This is the journal we were required to keep during eighth grade for English class. I filled an entire 120 page notebook with cramped writing while most kids struggled to even think of what to write about.
Sophisticated Tulip Journal : October 26, 1996 - February 26, 1997 : It was hard to write in this journal since the cover had a cut out square, but it was so pretty that being practical was out of the question.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal : February 27, 1997 - April 22, 1997 : The cover of this is part of a leaded-glass window called Magnolias and Irises from Tiffany Studios in New York. It's quite breathtaking if you ever care to see it.
The Scream Journal : April 23, 1997 - July 17, 1997 :One of my favorite pieces of art, The Scream by Edvard Munch, made this journal irresistible.
Vintage French Wine Journal : July 18, 1997 - October 28, 1997 : This one is covered with old wine bottle labels from France. I was interested in the language and the French culture at this time, and the journal was aesthetically pleasing with a nice color scheme.
Egyptian Art Journal : October 29, 1997 - January 20, 1998 : The cover of this journal has graphic design-like patterns and shapes in the Egyptian style , with a large black cat centered on the front.
Good Days/Bad Days Journal : January 21, 1998 - March 5, 1998 : I received this journal as a gift, and found the smiling baby on one side and the same one frowning on the other to be adorable. I didn't write in it as recommended, however. I just treated it as any journal and wrote cover to cover.
Blank Book Journal : March 6, 1998 - April 29, 1998 : This journal contains no inspirational pictures, but it allowed for maximum writing and I used every inch of space provided.
Cheesy Ying-Yang Journal : April 29, 1998 - July 9, 1998 : I was not able to make it to a store to purchase a journal to suit my own style at this point, so I had to rely on my mother to pick one out and send it to me in the mail. I was disappointed with the results, but in the end, a journal is a journal.
Warren Kimble Art Journal : July 10, 1998 - October 22, 1998 : My grandma sent this to me from Vermont. It has a large picture of a somewhat abstract cow on the cover, which appealed to my affection for cattle.
Lily Journal : October 26, 1998 - present: I now have the largest collection of back stocked journals ever seen. I recently began typing my daily, weekly, sometimes monthly entries and saving them on the computer as opposed to writing everything by hand.
