Catherine here with a simple way to include more journaling in a pocket page layout.

I’ve been on a major minimalist-documenting kick lately, which means when we take a trip, I print just a few photos alongside some journaling about our itinerary or specific memories from that trip.

At the end of the summer we took a road trip from our home in Germany to France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I easily could have printed 100 photos from the trip, but I wanted to keep the trip contained to just one layout.

However, there were lots of memories to include.

For each stop on the trip, I printed just a couple of photos using templates to include more than one in a pocket, and some journaling to describe what we did in each place. The journaling is really the star of the show in this layout.

Here’s the full layout:

On the left side, I documented our two stops in France.

For our trip to Disney, I used one of the pockets to add the dates and a digital stamp as kind of a “title” for the layout.

For each stop on the trip, I included the name of the place in my handwriting and a 3×4 plain white card with journaling. I used a couple of go-to fonts: Aleo and Futura for the journaling.

On the right side I documented the rest of the trip to Belgium and the Netherlands.

Again, I included a few photos, a handwritten card with the location, and a 3×4 with details about our time.

The 3×4 cards add some white space mixed with the colorful photos, and they also give me room to include details about those memories.

Photos are so critical to my memory-keeping process, but including some of those details in writing really helps us remember what mattered to us in those moments.

Do you include journaling in your memory-keeping projects? I’d love to hear what memories you like to include in writing.

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xo, Catherine

Products used: 4×6 photo templates vol. 1, 4×6 photo templates vol. 3, scenic route elements, bloom papers, Project Life Everyday Edition.