The quarantine. Isn’t it just crazy? I am still having such a hard time wrapping my head around it and truthfully, I’m not sure I really ever will completely wrap my head around it. Since I am a teacher, I am now doing online school, or distance learning, so I decided to come back to Florida to my parents’ house. I thought it would be a good place to stay put for a while. While I am missing Birmingham and my room and my roommates, it is nice to be with my parents and to be comfortable where I am. I mean, my mom is cooking for me, doing my laundry, what could I complain about?!
For such a long time, I have really wanted to dive into a new hobby. If you know anything about me, it’s that I have a billion hobbies and I’m constantly finding new hobbies to pick up and put down: blogging, photography, writing, reading, doing nails, cleaning, working out, the list goes on and on and on. I am just someone who becomes almost obsessed with a hobby for a few weeks, moves onto another hobby, and then goes back and picks up the first hobby a few weeks later. It’s a cycle, but I really do love all of my hobbies equally, even if I don’t circle back to one for a year or more.
One hobby that I have really been wanting to try for over a year now is Bible journaling. I’ve seen pictures on pinterest and other social medias and I thought I would absolutely LOVE it. Bible journaling is basically where you pick a verse or a clump of verses in the Bible and you journal, paint, and get creative on the pages of the Bible to express the verses in a creative way. Some people see this as a method of worship, some as a creative outlet, and some have other reasonings. I do it as a form of worship, a way to focus on a specific verse, and a way to express the verse creatively.
Once all of this quarantine madness began, I knew that Bible journaling would be the perfect quarantine activity. I already had some art supplies just from past hobbies, so all I really needed was a journaling Bible.
From there, I found some instagram accounts that were into Bible journaling, and I got started! There are some main tools that I like to use when Bible Journaling. Here are my favorites that I’ve found so far:
- Acrylic paints
- Watercolors
- Ink pads and stamps
- Waterproof black thin tip markers
- Gold paint pen
- Washi Tape
Those are my most used items that I use for Bible journaling, but really, there are soooo many possibilities that you can use. I also use gelatos, embossing powder, ribbon, crayola markers, stencils, stickers, buttons, and other little scrapbooking tools.
I think one of my favorite parts about Bible journaling is A, it takes me a long time to do (AKA it takes a lot of time which is GREAT when you’re stuck inside and sometimes bored), and B, I can be really messy. As much as I would love to say that I am not a messy person, I really am. I like splattering paint, being messy, trying to not be perfect, and coloring outside of the lines. I really like this activity because I get to be creative and I don’t have to make it perfect. Also, because it’s all in one place, I like flipping back and looking through my past entries. I know that I just started a few weeks ago, but I am SO on board. Down below you can see some of my other entries! Let me know if you pick up this hobby, too!
Sally, I loved this. Picking a page in the Bible and decorating it whatever comes to your mind and heart. You are excellent at whatever you choose to do. That’s one thing Uncle Marshall liked about me, the fact that I could take nothing and make something beautiful. I love you Sweetheart and the passages you took from the Word to decorate YOUR world are beautiful!!!!