Weekly Tag Journal

At the beginning of this year I launched my "Weekly Tag Journal".  I'm not motivated to jot down my thoughts daily, nor have I been moved to get serious about art journaling, though I've taken a couple of online workshops on the subject.  Just a long winded way of explaining that I felt I COULD keep up with a brief weekly observation, tag sized.  I'm using a Composition Notebook.  Front cover...

 Back Cover...

 This shows how the book can get a bit bulky.  Adding in the odd button or heavy paper rosette makes an impact. 

Mostly I don't get too crafty with the tags.  It's a bit of fun to put a tag together, but the purpose is to jot down a couple lines about happenings during the week, on the backside of the pretty paper.  Here is an example from June.  I use bits of magazine clippings and such to decorate the notebook pages.  I also write down the books I've read that week.  I read a couple hours everyday so there are many books to keep track of. 

 Yet, I lapsed and didn't make any entries in my tag journal during the month of Sept. and into mid-Oct.  Just lost interest.  Well, today I played catch-up.  I decided to have a 2 page layout for all of Sept., using a wonderful magazine picture from my friend Josef as background.  For the tag papers I went with Graphic 45's Communique; papers that WERE GIVEN to me by an eBay seller as a RAK.  The seller is scrapjack1950.   

Inspired by Clare Charvill (a superb paper artist who is on the Graphic 45 Design Team), I made a little booklet that slides into a small pocket on the tag.  Now, I just need to take pencil to paper and recollect what did happen in September?