Welcome back to my channel it's Kia here
from the Kia Makes Etsy shop,
from @kia.creates and @inspiringjournals
on Instagram
and from the Journal Club Podcast.
Today's video is an extra special one
because i have just finished the journal
that i've been creating
over the past few months for the
Sketchbook Project i'll leave a link
with more information below if you don't
know what that is
but basically it's a huge museum or
library in brooklyn
that houses sketchbooks from artists all
around the world
and i think that's such a cool project
as soon as i heard about it i just knew
that i had to be involved
so i've been working on my journal for
the past couple of months
and as well as being a really fun
project for me it's also turned into
something much wider within the
community
because i based the prompts for the
#JournalingThroughTheAges challenge
on the pages that i'd already made so
other people could interpret them
and kind of take this trip through
journaling history with me in their own
way
so i'm going to give you a special flip
through today that's kind of a story
time flip through
where i read to you what's written on
the pages as well as giving you a bit
more information about them
so here it is journaling through the
ages
a time traveling journal project by Kia
Marie Hunt
here's the cover that i made covered in
sticky back plastic to
hopefully protect it for a long time
when it goes to the library
there's a title page journaling through
the ages
with some pictures of my stacks of
journals
more often than not i refer to my
sketchbooks as journals
this is because to me a journal can be
anything
a diary a sketchbook a scrapbook and
many more outlets for creative
expression
all combined into one little place
an introduction to this journal i'm
planning to dedicate this little book to
my love of journaling
and of history this will be a time
travelling adventure
through a brief history of journaling
and diary writing
and sketchbooking and collage too some
journal spreads will be informative
a delve into facts that i find
fascinating but other spreads will
simply be aesthetic indulging my
inspiration to create art based on
my limited impression of what various
areas of history look like
i've got some more of my journals there
and then we start with the first spread
which is
ancient rome so the prompt in the
journal challenge that i
made based off of this was ancient rome
egypt or greece because i thought it'd
be nice i did rome but i could
open it up to other ancient cultures
first up ancient rome
roman emperor marcus aurelius is a
well-known example because his personal
writings and private notes
survived and were translated into the
book meditations
which is here he's often quoted but who
knows how many of the quotes
are true to what he wrote in his diaries
and how many
got lost to time and translation from
what i can gather his writing survived
because he was a wealthy and powerful
man
oh how i wish to see how many other
diaries were written
sketchbooks were made and artworks were
created
that depicted life in ancient rome but
have been lost to time
wouldn't it be amazing if others were
discovered
and then i have a little quote here from
marcus aurelius that says
the universe is change our life is what
our thoughts make it
and then i've also got a picture here
depicted in ancient rome and it says
i would love to see what ancient rome
really looked like
and a picture of some ancient roman
writing tools like a wax tablet and a
stylus
i really enjoyed making the pages aged
for this spread so i used
coffee and tea and burnt the edges as
well to kind of give it the ancient
look then we have ancient
china or japan that's what i gave the
prompt as
mine is about the mayfly diaries or the
kagero nikki
sorry if i pronounced that wrong so
let's start from here
mitchisuna no haha (again sorry about
my pronunciation)
was a japanese noblewoman who lived from
around
935 to 995 a.d mitchisuna no haha
literally
means mitchisuna's mother her name
is unknown to history
she is the author of the kagero nikki a
classic
of japanese literature during the heian
period
prominent families often collected
and compiled poems in a family
collection also known as a kashu
but mitchisuna no haha had decided to
also include poems and prose about her
own personal experiences
like concerns about her troubled
marriage her pilgrimages to
temples and holy mountains and her
desire to be a nun
and feelings of great loss when grieving
her mother
i find the story of the mayfly diary so
fascinating
and i wish i could read it apparently
she uses a mixture of styles
like memoirs day-to-day entries poetry
and writings that are sometimes weeks or
even months apart
a lot like my own journals i think
it is so important to include a woman's
view in this brief history of journals
because so often the voices of women are
written out of history
mitchell suna no haha is said to have
created a new form of self-expression
psychological exploration that expanded
the potential of prose writing
and influenced subsequent women's
history which is something that i
definitely respect and admire
and here we have a depiction of her with
her diary
i really like this page and i like using
some of the japanese washi tapes that i
had as well to decorate it
then we have the medieval spread so my
prompt for this spread was simply
medieval and mystical so i have in the
medieval era
diaries were used by mystics to record
spiritual interpretations of daily
events
that's by colleen welsh in a blog that i
found called the history of the diary
and i used that blog a lot to make this
journal when i was starting off with my
research
and i also made this spread on another
youtube video so if you like it you can
watch me make it in real time
so i really liked the fact that i'd got
a medieval mystical spread to make
because it meant i could use all of my
stickers moon stickers holographic
stickers
all the medieval kind of magical things
that i really like to use
then we have the 1600s london page
i made that prompt simply because i
really wanted to do
a whole spread about samuel pepys but i
thought that was kind of
specific to give as a prompt so i gave
1600s london so people could choose
other things around that time
samuel pepys is one of the most
well-known diarists whose diaries are
still published and read
today over 400 years later
but he also has a personal significance
to me thanks to my lovely nanny
she was always reading books about
samuel pepys she must have been
absolutely fascinated by him
but back then of course i didn't even
know who he was or why he was famous
i used to see his face on the covers and
think that he looked pompous and boring
there he is i never even asked her about
him
but now i really wish i had years later
when my mum was moving some of my nan's
books
she said that she was really surprised
that i wasn't more interested in samuel
peeps
you know given that i love journaling
and pepys is a really famous diary
keeper
"is he!?" i asked her, i didn't even know
that that's what he was known for
duh! now i'm reading his biography and
it's so
interesting to be immersed in 1600s
london
also the post-it notes with extra
information added in by my lovely nanny
help a lot
there they are look this one says a
post-it note with currency conversions
from 1600s to modern day
thanks nan
(i'm lost a bit here because i just write
in a stream of conscious and sometimes
it's difficult to read back)
um.. they help me a lot and they make me
feel a bit closer to her
as well i only wish that we talked about
this mutual interest back when she was
alive
so that's a bit of a personal spread
it's samuel pepys but it's also
a kind of an emotional one about my nan
then we have another page then we have
victorian scrap booking
i really like the style of victorian
scrapbooking and it looks like a lot of
you did too because
there were some really nice spreads for
this prompt
scrapbooking became a popular pastime
for ladies of the victorian era
seen as a more involved way to preserve
experiences
rather than just journaling or diary
writing
when i went to the national gallery of
scotland's exhibition on the history of
collage
i loved seeing album amicorums from
women in the 1800s
these were like scrapbooks yearbooks and
autograph albums all rolled into one
and i love how they looked i also
learned how paper scraps came to be sold
and were popular for collaging
i bought some victorian style scraps to
use in my own journal which i've added
to this page
so they're here some of the victorian
style scraps that i got
from the gift shop at the national
gallery of scotland
when i went to visit that exhibition on
the history of collage
it's a very busy page again but that was
kind of the style
you can see that i've stuck in some old
victorian style scrapbook pages
this one especially is really full so i
kind of like how my page matches that
one
then we have an extra page that i did
about the victorian prompt
just because i really liked this
sketchbook that i found so i'll read you
this one now
sometimes i like to look at victorian
collections online
that's a normal thing to do right
recently i came across this wonderful
sketchbook album from around 1862
by a victorian woman named louisa
goldbern thomas
the interesting collection of sketches
artworks and postcards give a glimpse
into her life traveling with her husband
a colonel
to various postings in the mediterranean
and west asia
i love how eclectic it is and i made a
little
mini sketchbook within a sketchbook to
show you some of the things that are in
here so there's more writing here it
says
i love this sketch of a baby because i
know what it's like to look at something
or someone who's so precious in that
moment
that you try to capture them in a sketch
but usually you give up part way through
because it just doesn't do it justice
it's funny to think that this baby was a
person so long ago
i'll give you a close-up baby sketch
and then this is a little postcard that
she'd stuck in that just says nest of
the ketzel
or maybe it's a painting and i've put
we tried to see a quetzal when we went
to costa rica to no avail
even now they seem so exotic so i wonder
just how fascinating it was to see one
back then
in victorian times
then there's some more photographs and
sketches of a house
another sketch of someone embroidering
and another
build in there i just thought it was a
nice little glimpse into someone's life
way back in the victorian times
now we have the twenties page this could
be read really wrong
but if you read it this way it makes
sense it was in the 1920s when nobody
had time to reflect
so that's a quote by um georgia o'keeffe
is actually part of a longer sentence
but i just like the idea that
nobody had time to reflect then
especially given that
this whole journal is about journaling
which is a form of
reflection so kind of strikes me as this
really
busy time you know they're not roaring
20s and
maybe people just didn't have time to
reflect
so there's the front of the journal
there's the back of the journal it's got
a handmade felt cover
and that was in 2006 and then i found
from 2007 a memory book that i'd made
from a holiday to hungary with my family
this
part of my family is from hungary and it
says memory book here
it is so interesting to look through
because i've collected loads of scraps
and
napkins from restaurants and all kinds
of things things that i still do now so
i actually didn't realize i was doing it
even back then
this kind of style of travel journaling
and i really love this bit i wanted to
show you this because i just thought it
was so funny
let's see if it will focus on it it says
on wednesday 7th of february we went to
a nice restaurant
and had lovely call on blur yum
this might have been a bit naughty dot
dot dot
i couldn't find any souvenirs
so i picked a leaf of the fake plant
behind us
the leaves i've put my obsession with
collecting
for a journal was strong even then it
was so funny that i needed to collect
something from my memory books i just
took a leaf
a fake leaf and then here for like
2009 to the late 2000s i've got
msn i loved amazon and i've got some of
my earliest facebook statuses from 2009
which are quite embarrassing but i
thought they were
a piece of history and you know like
journaling kind of went digital with
blogs and stuff like
facebook is people use it like a journal
right they just talk about anything
so i'd put i'm bored no one's on msn
talk a question mark meet meep
and i thought why did we all talk like
this like we all talked really weird
i feel like that was normal back then to
just end with meep meep
i've put oh my god who invented webcam i
love them lol
i have no recollection of saying this
but apparently i was
really surprised by the invention of the
webcam so i'm sharing my age
and then oh i just kept this because it
was nice this is boxing day 2009 and i
said
with sadie and lois and holly and uncles
and mom and dad and nan and granddad
so that was i was obviously having some
nice time with my family which
some of them aren't here anymore so i
thought it was nice to add that into
this spread
this one was quite emotional and i
actually listened to
now 44 which was from 2000
and now 58 which was from 2004 i
listened to them while i made it
so like channeling my inner child for
this one
then we change up the pace a bit so this
is 2010 to 2019
and this is a bullet journal themed page
that i'll read
though it was apparently invented in the
90s to me at least it was the 2010s
onwards that felt like the rise of
bullet journaling
it was such a cute and interesting way
to stay organized so i could see the
appeal
but it was far too neat and minimalistic
for me
even now i'm struggling to make a page
that looks like a bujo thanks to my
tendency to go overboard
so you can see that here in 2015 i
started journaling to record my
experiences studying abroad in uruguay
and brazil but with my own free messy
and creative style of journaling
and the rest was history i made an
instagram account
called aspire to amble at the time but
now known and loved hopefully
as kia.create i enjoy connecting with
the journaling community
they're such lovely people so much that
i started the journal sharing instagram
community
inspiring journals in 2017
since then journaling has consumed my
life opening so many doors and
opportunities for me
i'm so grateful and there's a little
bullet journal sketch
of this which has another one of that
on there mise and a bean
and now we have 20 20. and i realized
that so much has happened in 2020 that
this spread is like
made up of multiple booklets so i hope
you're ready for this one
it's a big reflective kind of spread
2020 has been quite the year so far
lots of bad things have definitely
happened a global pandemic being only
one of them
but plenty of good things have happened
too and i always prefer to look on the
bright side
for example plenty of people use
quarantine to begin journaling
and i think it's nice that a disaster
may have led to someone discovering a
new passion
and i've got my quarantine film journal
on there so like in the heart of
quarantine we decided to
watch one film a night and record our
little reviews of them
so it's on there so more about what
happened in
2020 i turned 25 this year
honestly in general i think the age is
meaningless
and keeping track of it is a completely
unnecessary social construct
but that being said i suppose it's okay
to acknowledge
oops about acknowledge wrong that being
alive for a quarter century
is significant i'm grateful for every
wonderful day
and i've loved spending my birthday in
the melvin hills with my love
there we are from the travel journal
from the melvin hills
together on top of the world
and then surrounded by my family eating
pizza and opening presents
new art supplies all of my presents this
year were art themed it was great
then something else that happened my
little etsy shop has really taken off
this year
well kind of it's all relative isn't it
i'm so proud to think that people all
around the world are enjoying my sticker
designs
so i are enjoying the sticker designs
that i've been creating
and there's some of my stickers and the
little banner for my etsy shop
i thought it was cool to put on there
that it had a 402 sales at the time
maybe one day i'll look at this and
think that that seems really small but
right now it feels big and i feel
grateful
but my proudest achievement of the year
is definitely writing and illustrating
my first five books
it's so weird and amazing i actually
officially am allowed to call myself an
author an illustrator
yay so my awesome year being 6
7 8 9 10. they're the books i wrote
and i've put on honestly my awesome year
being 25
this year is awesome too for me then we
have another booklet
i started a journal club it's been a
dream of mine for quite a while
i love the idea of creating and curating
a collection of journaling goodies like
stickers
prompts colouring pages and papers all
based around a particular vibe that i'm
feeling or inspired by in that month
that's why i'm so happy that the journal
club is happening
and then we have the past journal clubs
of this year
this was the first one that i made april
2020 an inspired spring
this was spring flowers art supplies
nature and inspiration in bloom
the marbled magic of may marbling
potions
liquid gold honey june and july was the
jewels of june
this had crystals treasure chests
magical insects and jewels
and last month august well this month
just gone was august washi tape box
that had washi rolls washi stickers
washi swatches and zines
and then this is the spooky sticker
special pack i'm working on for
september and i'm so so excited about it
then i have the journal club is also the
name i gave to the journaling podcast i
started this year
it's starting very slowly but i'm loving
it as a way to connect with other
journal addicts like me
there's the journal club on spotify
and while i'm taking a moment to reflect
on cool things that have happened this
year
i collaborated on a special journal
spread giveaway and custom sticker sheet
with a brand that i love
apothecary at home which was super
excited and i'm
super exciting and i'm thrilled with the
stickers
i love how they turned out so i'm not
trying to brag or flex
i'm just trying to reflect on all of the
good things that have happened this year
because i've definitely been busy on
multiple projects so here they all are
in one little condensed page
and then we have this which is very
relevant to this video the journaling
through the ages challenge
was born so there is the journaling
through the ages prompt
spread that i posted back in june
no july getting people ready for this
challenge
so i've put when i tried to decide what
i would create in my sketchbook for this
project
i decided on time travel and the history
of journaling
and when i ended up having so much fun i
used the pages that i've made as prompts
to turn this into a journal challenge
for my followers on
kia.creates and inspiringjournals that's
on Instagram
the premise was that for every two days
in august there would be a new
era based prompt to create a journal
spread about
participants in the challenge can
interpret these prompts however they
like so
here they are we've just been through
them ancient greece egypt or rome
ancient china or japan
medieval and mystical 1600s london
victorian scrapbooking the roaring 20s
pick an artist from the 30s 40s or 50s
swinging 60s and 70s 80s retro
90s kids welcome to the third millennium
or 2000s
teen years 2010 to 2019
and then 2020 and beyond which is this
one
and meet the artist which is the one
you'll see in a moment
as of now there are around 249 posts on
the
journaling through the ages hashtag and
i love all of them
it's been so exciting and inspiring to
see how all of these creative people
have joined in
it really really has i honestly can't
stress enough how exciting it's been
that so many people have joined in and
it's just so interesting to see
how something turned out in your head
and then how it prompted
something completely different in
someone else's journal i love it
and then i have some examples of some
posts that people made as part of the
challenge
but it was just supposed to be an august
challenge
oh yeah this bit's important i hope
you're listening it was just supposed to
be an august challenge
but it's so fun that i think i'd love to
make it an ongoing and open to all
so if you've read this far or in
youtube's case if you've watched this
far
why not make your own journal spread
based on one or more of the journaling
through the ages prompts
give it a go i look forward to seeing
what you share happy journaling
so i mean that please let's carry on the
journaling through the ages challenge if
you've enjoyed
all of this and you feel inspired to
make your own
whether it's just a couple of pages for
times that you like maybe you just
really want to do an 80s spread or
something like that
please do by all means make your own and
tag me
and then if you want to do the whole
thing just go for it it doesn't matter
that august is over
i think this will carry on regardless of
time if you'll
pardon the punt and then the last page
is the meet the artist
spread this is all about me and it says
hi
i'm Kia Marie, author illustrator and
journal addict
usually you'll find me in the studio at
my house in hermit mode
working on way too many projects at once
like kids books
new etsy designs or other creative ideas
otherwise you'll find me spending time
with my loved ones or on my roller
skates and there i am
whizzing along i'm really not that good
yet but i'm getting there
i post journaling videos on youtube
which you'll know if you're watching
this
and i put on there i made a video about
this journal
so hopefully some of you are watching
this because
you found this sketchbook in the
brooklyn art
museum and you wanted to know more about
it so if that is you then welcome thank
you so much that's so exciting
i make journals look at journals take
photos of journals and share photos of
mine and other people's journals
on instagram there's a reason why i've
put a journal's journals journal sticker
and called myself a journal addict
is journal even a word i've said it so
much
on a more serious note making this
journal was an emotional journey
and i can't thank you enough for taking
it with me
there's my credentials
and then on the back i've just got a
little advert for this video basically
i've got...
can't read my writing? journal lover? nosy?
want the backstory? you should watch the
flip through video
i made of this journal! search kia
creates on youtube or journaling through
the ages
which maybe you've done so hello and
thank you
and then just here thank you for time
traveling with me this far
it was so fun the rest is still
unwritten
that song was actually on while i was
making this last spread and it felt
significant that *sings badly* "the rest is still
unwritten"
there we have it sorry for singing
so there we go that is a flip through
and a read through of the
entire journal i know this is a really
long video so thank you so much if
you've watched all the way through
i don't usually make videos this long
but i've never ever
made an entire journal and then had to
send it away it feels so
sort of scary and sad but also so
exciting to know that this is going to
be
in a museum possibly in the traveling
library as well and that other people
are going to see it
and yeah i just wanted to kind of
memorialize it
this is for you but it's also for me
like i like looking back through my
old journal so i will probably sit and
watch this all the way through just to
remember what i made in here
so that is the journaling through the
ages journal
the OG, where the journaling through the
ages challenge
started hopefully you've found out a bit
more about that
and maybe you're inspired to join or if
you've already joined and you like
looking through my journal thank you so
much for being part of it
your journal spreads really inspired me
so i really
enjoy the sense of community that's come
from this already and hopefully
it'll build further if ended up in the
brooklyn art museum
so i guess the only thing to do is to
put this in the packet and send
it off... i'll probably put a little artsy
shot in now
of me putting it in the envelope and
tying it up but in the interest of
transparency
i am definitely gonna take it back out
and take probably like a million more
pictures before i send it off
because like i said i've never sent a
journal away from me before and it feels
like my baby so
i want to take loads of photos first and
you'll probably see me posting
throwbacks every time i get the chance
so thank you again for watching and i
will see you next week with
a shorter video me and this little
journal say bye
bye
one last thing i'm definitely gonna wear
this badge
i have officially earned my status as
an official artist of the sketchbook
project
check it out hi i'm kia and i'm an official
artist of the sketchbook project nice to
meet you
i'm embarrassing myself i'm gonna go now
bye!
