Each month I select a *highlight*, which I enter on a Map Journal, so at year’s end I can view (simply summarized on a single sheet) ~ *My 2011 Year at a Glance* I’m the worst when it comes to acknowledging my achievements – I’m a hit and run girl, get back to base and […]
Blog, Blog, Blogging Away
Journey Jottings travel blog celebrates 2 years An opportunity to take a walk down memory lane and revisit some of the travel blogging topics we’ve talked about. We’ve covered fun travelling tales, including yours via the monthly themed Facebook Travelling Tales, as well as sharing some of mine in Tales of a Traveller. I’ve also […]
Year at a Glance – March 2011
We’re doing something we’ve never done before! I can’t say it’s something I’m happy about, but in response to the market… We’ve discontinued a line. Our Australia Scrapbook Pack is now, no longer 🙁 Having introduced the Scrapbook Pack in 2006 (by public demand), we’ve had 5 happy years of supplying those with a bent for cutting, […]
Year at a Glance – February 2011
Each month, I grab one of our Map Journals and enter a *highlight* in one of the eleven boxes that surround the central pictorial map of Australia. When 2011 comes to a close, I can then re-view the year neatly summarized on a single sheet ~ My advancements, my successes, things I’ve achieved or done but […]
Year at a Glance – January 2011
Last year, I initiated a monthly post where I looked back at the preceding 4 weeks and using one of the 11 boxes surrounding our hand drawn Australia Map Journal, recorded a *highlight*. Over the course of the year I created a sheet simply summarizing ‘2010 ~ Year at a Glance’ It was such fun looking back and […]
NEW Year & NEW 5th edition Mail-It Map about to be published
Today I signed off the proofs for our new 5th edition Australia Mail-It Map. Its a point of no return when you’ve made what feels like a million decisions, and there’s no turning back as the printing plates are produced and the press starts to roll 😉 Each edition develops a character of its own as […]
Simply Summarizing your Year on a Single Sheet
At the end of each month during 2010 I looked back and notated the highlight of the preceeding 4 weeks in one of the boxes on an Australia Map Journal ~ The idea, quite simply, was to simply summarize the year on a single sheet ~ So at year’s end I’d have my 2010 year at […]
Year at a glance – December 2010
At the end of each month throughout 2010 I’ve been using a Map Journal to notate a Journey Jottings *highlight*… So, at year’s end I’d have the year simply summarized on a single sheet! My December 2010 highlight… We produced our first retailers newsletter 🙂 I wanted to keep it simple ~ No fluff, just […]
How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 2
As part of our CSR we operate a schools programme as we believe learning should be fun! We supply bundles of our pictorial maps in classroom lots to offer Australia school resources that will make learning and class projects more fun. We supplied a primary school in Western Australia with a classroom bundle of our pictorial Australia […]
How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 1
We believe learning should be fun 😉 So we operate a schools programme as part of our CSR ~ We supply bundles of our Australia maps in classroom lots as a school resource for children to enjoy using in class projects. As we come to the end of another school year its great looking back to […]