Hemp Journal from Barnes and Noble
A few months ago I bought a great leather journal from Barnes and Noble in Irvine Spectrum Mall. I spent a good deal of time in their nice journal section, browsing around. There were two journals that really caught my eye. The leather one that I ended up buying, and the Nepal Handcrafted Hemp Journal pictured to the left. The Hemp journal looked so cool and felt great too. It had a little less than 50 pages and was very soft. The journal was handmade and every page looked different. They each had strings of material inside them that had thin pieces of color. You can buy this journal from Barnes and Noble’s website, here’s a link – as of today it is about $11 plus tax. I really liked the journal but the only reason why I didn’t get it was because I was looking for a journal with a few more pages and hopefully with lined pages. So I looked at the leather journal and was impressed by the heavy weight of it. It had about 200 pages or more and was made of handcrafted leather from Italy. The cover was very thick and it was obvious that the journal was sturdy and could protect the pages inside it. On the front cover was a heavy metal symbol of an owl that was embedded into the cover. It was glued in place and was circular. I like owls and I thought that the owl was very fitting for me. Another cool thing about the journal that I bought was that it had lined paper. I really like lined paper on a journal that I am going to use for consistent entries because it is great for keeping the journal clean and organized. The Hemp journal above wasn’t lined but I liked that one too because journals that don’t have lines are great for expressing creativity and no holding back.
There were a lot of other journals there at the Irvine Spectrum Barnes and Noble. There was a whole wall section on the right hand of the store to be exact. The journal I ended up buying was $40.00 plus tax. Now you may be thinking that’s a lot of money for a journal. But I use it all the time and I really love it. Investing $40 in a journal that you want to last forever isn’t really that much money. When I saw the price I wasn’t really surprised because the journal is very heavy and sturdy and has a metal owl. I use the journal to write ideas for stories, I think and plan about how to make overidon.com a better website, I also use to to branstorm on invention ideas. Looking back, I am really glad I bought the journal.
Having a journal can be very spiritual and intimate. You can write down your innermost thoughts and remember things that you were thinking and feeling years later when you open up the journal. It is like going into a time capsule and seeing part of yourself. Sometimes you will read your journal and feel like a different person. And other times reading the journal will make you realize that there are parts of you that are totally unique, and are worthy of remembering and possibly incorporating into your current personality. Maybe there was a piece of confidence that you had in the past that you’d like to bring back to the foreground.
Here’s a link to Barnes and Noble.com’s journals.
-Tyler