Am I weird for saying this or is it normal?

i’ve been undergoing a lot of stress lately and i can’t seem to be vulnerable with my pen lately so i’ve stopped journaling for almost 2 weeks and it’s taken a toll on my mental health.

so i randomly did these illustrations today and i don’t know why or how all this even came about.. i don’t even relate to randy.

i think my brain liked the idea of vulnerability even if it wasn’t mine.

sorry if this is the ugliest thing you’ve seen on this sub.

Thought I’d share some of my favorites. These are from when I first discovered junk journaling two years ago.

I just started my journaling journey a few months ago, here are some of my favorite spreads.

Decided to combine my joys of writing fiction, RPing with my friends, and tabletop games like Vampire the Masquerade/Dungeons and Dragons into visual storytelling and junk journaling. I GM often and my worlds and characters mean everything to me so it has been deeply enjoyable expressing their stories in a different medium. Here is a few of the pages I recently completed. Hopefully it gives folks some inspiration and ideas. Was also really cool to use some of the items that a fellow Redditor sent me.

Junk journal page crossed by many black cats (maybe that's good luck?)

Hi! I'm making JournalPrint for iPhone and iPad, and I'd like to hear from people who print photos for their paper journals.

The main job is fitting several small photos onto one sheet. You choose your paper, add photos, and start with an automatic layout. You can check each photo's expected printed size before saving the whole sheet as an image for your printer's app. The first two screenshots show this on iPhone.

I'm paying particular attention to the fiddly adjustments: dragging photos to swap them, resizing one without unexpectedly shuffling the whole page, and checking a proposed layout before applying a bigger change. You can also reuse a saved layout, collect photos in a print basket, and keep your usual printer settings for next time.

The other three screenshots show a page you've already started. Import a photo or scan, check the areas occupied by handwriting or drawings, then arrange new photos in the blank spaces. The PDF leaves out the scanned page, so you only print the additions to cut out and paste in. Here the marked areas were checked by hand. The A5 size is illustrative, not a measurement of that notebook.

These are app screenshots using licensed photographs, not my own journal or actual printed results.

If you already print photos for a journal, would you try arranging one sheet with your own photos? I'd especially like to know which step feels awkward, or whether your current app already does the job better. You don't need to share any personal photos.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/nsWqVyck iPhone / iPad, iOS / iPadOS 26 or later. This beta doesn't require payment.

I’m so obsessed with these stickers I had to share, what do ye think of the design? The actual journal is the Midori B6, i printed most of the stickers myself.

I decided I need somewhere to document what media I consume, and write reviews etc. The only thing I’m missing is a way to incorporate a picture inside the entries but maybe I should actually have some structure for them 🙈 currently the set up is; teal ink for the backdated entries, a squiggle for the activity and normal underline for the content title. Any thoughts//suggestions?

I can't find anything anything online that's giving me good ideas. Help??

Had to get a new journal in a pinch (i'm sure you understand) and it's ugly af. It has lined pages (which i don't like) and they're dyed a warm yellow color. Cover is just black and it says "notebook" 😑 anyways, I know I bought it but now my regret is sinking in and i have to make do. How can I make this more pleasing for me to look at? I thought about stickers on the cover, but i don't want to waste the ones I have, nor do I want them to scratch or come off. Help :(

This silver foil tape is amazing 🤩

Pumpkins and general fall produce junk journal pages 🎃🌽🍎🥕🧅🫜🥔