Margarete, I just found your channel! Been a mixed-media artist all my life, soon to be 75 yrs. old. Beginning to journal now for myself for the first time. I just love your calming voice and wonderful instructions, so professional. Thank you for sharing your gifts❤❤❤been collecting things for many, many years….lol. Now the fun begins❤

@MargareteMiller

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind comments. 💙 I love your enthusiasm and your creative spirit. I’m so glad you will be using some of your saved materials you’ve been collecting 👏🏼

Margarete: this is a good video for many people. There are so many obvious themes out there that I’m sure crafters have thought of. However, reminding your viewers just to have some quiet time and think what gives them pleasure is an important way to tap into their creative being. And having a decorative box to put bits of paper in is always a handy thing to have. Carol from California

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, Carol, for your supportive comments. Yes, it's knowledge that most of us have, but it's good to be reminded 😉💙👍🏻

@irynaborisova2604

7 ай бұрын

I agree.

Thank you for suggestions and ideas. I hope you are well. Nice day. Regards

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, Sylvie! 😘

Fun! Another gluebook type worth mentioning is a napkin gluebook, where you start by gluing a layer of napkin in the background. I had so much fun with one!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Great idea 💜. Thanks for sharing!

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I love all the theme suggestions, perhaps an animal or nature theme or based on a particular environment would be good

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Good ideas!! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻💜

I appreciated your comment about ‘how’ to store your curated pieces until it’s time to work on them. I use both of your methods and I also use page protectors so I can visually see what’s inside each one. I make a removable label and attach with a paper clip or bulb pin to be used later. I keep coming across paper items, stitched pieces, etc etc from ‘past passions’ that will one day make their way into a glue book.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

A page protector is a GREAT idea. As a matter of fact. I've got a binder floating around somewhere that I can use for that, too. Thanks for the suggestion! 💜

Wonderful video. I love your aesthetic.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 💜

Great ideas Margarete, I love your talents, thanks for the inspiration!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

I love these ideas! Thanks for sharing. Steampunk and/or modes of transport may be another idea

@MargareteMiller

3 ай бұрын

Great ideas!! Thanks for sharing those 💜

I bought one of your collage weekly planner and used it as a to do planner, but this year I’ve been under so much stress that I couldn’t really do anything in it so now that the year is almost done I’m going back through it and glueing things in it I’m not under any stress and I’m having a wonderful time! Thank you for sharing with all of us❤

@MargareteMiller

5 ай бұрын

Great idea!! I'm so glad you though of that. The pressure is off. 😉💜👍🏻

I found so many wonderful tips and inspiration in this video, Margarete. A themed journal is a great idea for those of us who need a focus, but not too structured. And that Christmas envelope....yum!!!! One of my favourite themes, for sure! Thank you so much for sharing this, Margarete. P.S. Love your display on the shelves at the beginning of the video.😍❤

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind comments, Shelly❣️ I'm thrilled that you got a lot of ideas to play with because that means I get to continue to see what you are working on and creating! ❤️👍🏻😘

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Margarete, what a great video. So many super ideas! I would love to see how you create one of these. I am especially interested in your Women book and the Sewing book. Please let me know if you already have videos of these I missed or if you plan to make one. Also, looking forward to your Christmas book! Will you be sharing some of your journey with this? Thanks so much for sharing your ideas, inspiration and time! xx Jackie

I am really getting a lot of inspiration and thoughts from your videos. One of my “issues” is actually creating something just for the fun/joy of it and it doesn’t have to be a useful item.

@MargareteMiller

5 ай бұрын

Good! I'm glad you are thinking things through and experimenting. Keep it up! 👍🏻

Thank you, I needed this. I have so many ideas that I can never get started. I've started. Orange.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I’m so glad to hear it 💜👍🏼❣️

This is a very informative video. I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I sure enjoy every video and all of your ideas.....thank you.....

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them, Mary❣️ Thanks for watching. 💙

I am just discovering you, but you have some great ideas in here. I’m going to go through some more of your videos. Thank you.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, Colleen. I'm glad you found the material useful 👍🏻💜😉

Colour!!! Yesterday I got an idea to have journals by colour and…. Here is your video.. I am starting with white… thank you🙏🙏

@MargareteMiller

5 ай бұрын

Great!! You are off to a good start 👍🏼💙🌟

This was very inspiring!❤

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it ❣️👍🏼😉

Hi Margarete, thanks for doing this quick show & tell of some of your projects & for so neatly categorizing possible themes. Well done! Hazel

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome, Hazel! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 💙

Thanks so much for these great ideas. So helpful.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

So glad! 👍🏻

Thank you for your help and information it's going to be very helpful 😂❤

EXCELLENT VIDEO….❤ thank you!

@MargareteMiller

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 💜

I wrote story for my granddaughter and " illustrated" it with a journal. It was a lot of fun. I pulled images from magazines, postcards, books, stamps and stencils, etc so it was a collage of images.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

What a cool project! I can imagine it was fun to work in. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼💙

I love working with themes. Thanks for sharing, Margarite. Your books are beautiful. ❤

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching. 💙

I loved these flip-throughs! At first I had so few ideas, now I have more ideas than I have time for. :) I always enjoy seeing what you're working on.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Yay!! That's so awesome! I'm so glad you've got lots of ideas to play with 😉💜👍🏻

I think I also need to do a giant journal/ gluebook with the theme of schematics. I am drawn to things like maps, architectural drawings, floor plans, mechanical drawings, botanical drawings, flow charts, etc. I knew I liked these things, but it never occurred to me they were all kind of connected

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

YES! I'm right there with you, Sharon. I love those kinds of illustrations. Great idea❣️

Such great ideas …thanks

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Noreen❣️

This is the video I have been looking for! Thank you for sharing. This inspired me to do my first glue book!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I'm so glad you'll be making one❣️

I plan to make, someday, a journal/gluebook with song lyrics, and then somehow create a collage or background to show my interpretation of those song lyrics. I already have dozens in mind, lol!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Another awesome idea. And it's a pretty straightforward idea. I love it💙

I mostly don’t really do themes. I prefer more eclectic styles. But this is encouraging to me to create one. I have pictures from my sister, niece, and my trip to Norway. My intention is to create a digital using our pictures and then create 3 journals, one for each of us using some of the other things i picked up in Norway to decorate them. Haven’t gotten it done though. Maybe I’ll get on that soon

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

That sounds so nice, Dorothy. If you are capable of devoting the time for it, then I know it would be something they'd treasure. 💙

Lovely ideas and beautiful glue books. I so enjoy seeing your gorgeous collages...even multiple times! I'm intrigued by your concept of not finishing books, and being OK with that. I have a bunch of unfinished projects and it does bother me a bit. Can you explain more your thinking about this? Do you see things in daily life and say to yourself, this would look good in my space glue book? Or do you search for things for a particular glue book? Or do you think, I haven't played in the space glue book for a while, let me get that one out? Or do you see some paper or item and think, hey, this would make a good glue book theme? I'm wondering how that works for you.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Yes, to all of your questions 😁. First I do gather some things with the intention of starting or making a good dent into a project. Then, once I've already begun, if I see things in daily life I'll collect it and set it aside. And if a long time goes by, I do say to myself, "I haven't worked in that gluebook for a while...". 💙

16:54 Christmas theme.

Forgot to say I have started a Christmas Journal 🎄

Themes are fun !! Thank you for the ideas . I did pull out a Christmas themed journal I had started last year . I have so many lovely bits to add 💕

So much inspiration. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE this tutorial. Thank you so much Margaret’s. 💖💖💖

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it❣️ 🙂

How convenient! Just today I was wondering, what kind of themes I might choose when starting new collage projects. And then I noticed this new video of yours :) Thank you Margarete!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Perfect! So glad You've got some ideas to play with 😉👍🏻💜

Margarete! Thanks so much for this great video. I have been feeling overwhelmed by my stash and lately at odds at what to do with journals I've created. I'm not a 'diary' type journal keeper. I love the idea of themed journals. In fact, when I think of it the most favorite journals I've created are travel junk journals filled with photos and ephemera I've picked up along the way. The possibilities are endless. Thanks again.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Exactly! There you go... . So many options and opportunities to play with 😉💙👍🏻

Not an idea for a theme, but I'd love to see you make a page or two from those Etsy print-outs that already look like book pages; how would you add to them/embellish them to make them yours? I never use them because I can't think of what to add to them - they already look finished, albeit very flat :)

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

They are really beautiful and there isn't much you need to add to them, though you certainly can. I have some videos of me using a few of these printouts. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYKq1rKcd7S_YpM.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y316yNCng7CoiLg.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHegrdCYqq6WgM4.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zn-Dm6hqYt3Fkag.html

You have such nice inspiring ideas for us all. Yes looking forward to the Christmas collecting! ✂️📙

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much 😊 and thanks for stopping by 💙

Great video. I love themed journals/gluebooks. I have several on the go at the moment. I have Christmas, Halloween, colours, dogs, en masse and Christianity ones started. And ive got ideas for lots more, including: favourite movies, gardening, birds, sharks, teddy bears and now because of you mentioning places i want to make one of my all time favourite place Scotland 😀

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

What a great list! I want to do a gardening gluebook. That's next on my to-do. 😉

Thank you Margaret this helps so much!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🎉

This session was so inspirational. I have been thinking of doing a hopes & dreams journal - Bucket list theme. Collecting ideas for the next house I build, decorating my Airstream/Studio. Garden planning journal for next Spring, Snowmen, Sea Life, etc

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

I LOVE that idea! I can imagine that you’ve saved all kinds of things for that. 👍🏼💙

Very informative video. I think the only theme you left out might be eclectic, but maybe that's too broad of a description to actually be a theme. I usually start out with a theme or idea but somewhere along the line it just kind of expands to include other ideas.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking about eclectic, but as you said, it's kind of broad. Though I've got 3 eclectic gluebooks I've already completed, so it's something I work in all the time. 👍🏻

Love this informational video!! Perfume & Perfume bottles is a journal I am going to make!!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

GREAT idea! Love it ❣️

You read my mind❤

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Great minds think alike. 😉

I only have one gluebook but I do two-page spreads on different themes in it. One spread is France, one Britain, one is Victorian, one Civil War, one Abe Lincoln, one 1700s, one religious, and so on. I always have enough ephemera for a two-page spread, and sometimes I will repeat the theme on another two-page spread if I have lots of ephemera for that theme.

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Neat!! I like this method. It must be a great book to flip through. 👍🏻💜🙂

@DonnaVintageSnippets

7 ай бұрын

@@MargareteMiller 💗

This is so inspiring! Do you start by collecting or by making the journal? Your pages in the journals are fun and unique. I’d also love a theme for Christmas photo cards I receive. I never want to throw them away but don’t have a good way to save them over the years. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Most of the time I have something in mind before I start creating the journal. But there have also been lots of times when I create a journal and then think, "Now what should I use this for?" 😉💜👍🏻

This is a good idea, I have bits of paper from so many travels, I may just call the glue book "Some of the Places I've Been". Are you creating a base journal for each one? How do you prevent that from being too busy?

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

Travel gluebooks are great. I guess it depends on how much material you have. If you've got a lot a particular place, then you can devote the entire gluebook to that place. 👍🏻

I have an ongoing blue book that is about people smiling and laughing and things that make me laugh I have a silly banana in there and pets and whatever makes me feel happy. I got the idea from Janet Nash

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

I love that uplifting idea, Janet! 💜

Great video! If I’m making a journal for someone in particular I obviously make it according to their preferences. Most often when I start a random journal I seem to fall into the color trap. I would love to be more eclectic but I’m not!

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

I know what you mean by "color trap" but it's also nice to sometimes be able to fall back on that 😉

Thank you for the inspiration! Did you make your journal books or purchase them? The bindings caught my eye! I would love the source if they are purchased❤

@MargareteMiller

7 ай бұрын

I made them all. I used a cross stitch binding. I made a video about how to do it, a long time ago. It was one of my early ones! 😉

@Not2late2create

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Is the video still on you tube? Is there a title or link to find it?😊