New Blog!

As I begin my exploration into my third year of paper journaling, I have found myself being inspired by Lilly Ashton (her blog, + tumblr) and her beautiful online footprint, to begin a digital journal. I hope to keep updates inconsistent and sporadic, as it was intended. 

my paper journals from 2024, 2025, and 2026 (current)
Since I started consistently journaling in 2024, I have found immense joy in creating a personal archive of my life on paper. It has helped me see my progress, improve my understanding of self, and helped me slow down in my day to day life. Previous to starting my first paper journal in January of 2024, I kept a digital journal hosted on Notion for about a year and a half, but eventually lost momentum as it gave me no meaningful, visual, or material indication of the time passing or how much effort I was putting into it. I also felt majorly disconnected to it in general, I centre my life around art and creating, and this bland digital log gave me no space to express my day to day in that way.

When I began my paper journal, which is a mix of a commonplace book, a diary, and a sketchbook, I was worried it would be too slow of a process for me to latch onto it long term. Instant gratification is the new normal and I won't pretend I haven't been influenced by it. But the process of slowly filling a journal cannot be replaced by anything else. It has shifted in utilisation in the 716 days since I started, but has fundamentally stayed consistent. 

"So all this and you're going digital again?" Well... yes and no. I'm still writing in my journals, having started my new one only yesterday. I love my paper journals, but paper has it's bounds. I hope to use this blog as an extension of my paper journal, expanding on things I write about in there on here. Of course my paper journal is more personal, private, but I do hope to connect though this blog, and push myself to be more open. I also want to include things that I never would write about in my journal. I love analogue, but I don't have endless time to hand write everything!

my baby boy Clive
ok bye bye, see you soon! ♡
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7 comments:

  1. LillyJanuary 4, 2026 at 1:05 AM

    Wahoooo! Happy blogging! I love your journals all together, very cute very good <3

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    1. narnaJanuary 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM

      Thank you so much! They are my prize possession >⁠.⁠<

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  2. isaJanuary 4, 2026 at 5:31 AM

    i just made a similar post about loving analog journaling but still wanting to talk about stuff on the digital blog-world.

    for me, i´ll try to post about fun stuff i see or collect and media stuff. i used to love book and fashion blogs back in the peak of blogspot, so now i´m doing it as a silly archive for myself, i think it sounds very fun to log in once or twice a week to update ☆

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    1. narnaJanuary 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM

      YES YES! The main issue I found with my previous escapade with digital journaling is I only posted about my day to day, and that started feeling like a chore. So I'm instituting a fun only policy on this blog!
      I write media reviews in my analogue journal but I hope to create an archive of longer form writing, especially for TV shows. With the resurgence of weekly releases, I hope to do episode to episode posts about my fave shows.

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  3. ZaphJanuary 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM

    ahhhh!! hello!! fellow analog journaller! i've also been journalling for a while (mainly junk journalling) but have always loved the idea of digital journalling too :) your theme is so cute btw

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  4. vvjrnlJanuary 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM

    I have to work in my analog journal. While I did have one last year it was mostly, kind of like a bullet journal, while not bad I would like more expression. I see yours with stickers and media reviews and ideas and would like that. Definitely will try the to share small stuff on digital and fun only here.

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