Crafty Muslimahs: Zainab's Handmade Journal Collection

Assalamu Alaikum!

It's Zainab here. Today I'll be showing you my handmade journal collection. Some of them are ones I made myself and others are Eid gifts I received. Sumayyah also shared her journal collection and you can click here to see them.

This is the first journal that I made. I made it about two years ago and have filled it up completely. In it I wrote about anything interesting that happened that I wanted to record.

Here is the cover.

On the inside I stuck a little paper bag to use as a pocket to store things in.

Since I've written personal things in here I can't really show you many of the pages, but here are a few.

Here are some close ups.

You can click here to see my Coraline-inspired journal.

On the last page there are a couple of pockets...

...and here is the back.

The next journal is the second one that I made.

It is a holiday journal and I still have plenty of pages left to write in.

The cover is very plain but I like it that way. It is covered in crinkly wrapping paper and decorated with lace and a charm.

Here is the first page. I printed the image onto canvas paper. The drawing was a gift from Sumayyah.

Here are a few pages. Most are just blank coffee-dyed pages. I flicked brown paint onto a lot of them using a paintbrush.

Last page and the cork bookmark.

Here's the back.

You may have already seen my dua'a journal from a previous post.

My sister Hanifah made it for me during Ramadan, masha'Allah. You can click here to see how to make one yourself.

Here are a few of the pages.

And here is the last page with a tuck spot on the right.

Moving on to the next journal which was a gift from my mother a couple of Eids ago, masha'Allah. Here is the cover.

It is a How-To-Train-Your-Dragon-themed journal. I just record random things in it. Here are some of the pages.

This is a fold-out image.

I've stuck some of the dragon collector cards in the journal. If you don't know, How To Train Your Dragon is a book series that I've read. It's about a boy who lives in a world with dragons.

Here is the back...

...and the front again.

Masha'Allah, my mother made me another journal this year for Eid-ul-Fitr. I did show it in a previous post.

Here is the cover with lovely hand-drawn flowers.

During our summer holiday we stayed in a cottage in the countryside. I used this journal to write about the cottage and its surroundings. It is quite small and therefore it makes a good travel-sized journal.

Here are a few pages.

Can you tell we're using the pinecone as a paperweight? ;)

Here is the back.

And last but not least is this journal that Maryam made me for Eid. Again, I did show photos of it in a previous post and you can click here to see them.