Personal diary how to make: how to design for girls, how to start, keep, what and how to fill in, how to decorate the inside of the LD

Almost every person has a period when they start keeping a personal diary. How to do it, everyone decides for themselves. But there are several general recommendations that will be useful for a beginner.

What is a personal diary for?

The genre of the "secret notebook" has remained in demand since the 10th century (in the form of travel and autobiographical notes) to the present day. Of course, today a personal diary looks completely different, right down to the electronic version.

But the reasons for the diary's appearance remain the same:

• desire to speak out;
• share something very personal;
• understand your inner world;
• to save on paper some particularly important and memorable moments.

It is no coincidence that people most often start keeping a diary in adolescence, during the period of formation of character and worldview.

From a psychological point of view, keeping a personal diary is an excellent way to maintain and strengthen mental balance, reduce stress levels, and relieve the tension accumulated during the day.

This is a recognized method of psychotherapy, the effectiveness of which has been proven by practice. The variety of diaries is beyond description.

It can be a thin notebook, a drawing album, a set of sheets, an online blog – everything depends on the author’s wishes. The same applies to the design style. It can be a teenager’s diary written in youth slang, decorated in all the colors of the rainbow, filled with stickers and other trinkets.

Or it could be a neat, numbered-page, calendar-filled diary of a pedantic adult. There is only one requirement: the owner of the diary should be comfortable.

What they write in LD

A diary is a portrait of its owner. And the contents of the diary reflect the inner world of the one who keeps it.

What can diary pages contain:

1. Chronology:

• description of the past day;
• significant events;
• meeting interesting people;
• memorable little things and details.

2. Analysis of the day:

• analysis of the events that occurred;
• thinking about what happened, its assessment, personal emotions;
• interesting thoughts that came to mind during the day;
• personal achievements;
• dreams and plans for the future.

3. Self-education and self-improvement:

• interesting quotes;
• favorite poems and songs;
• notes about books and films you liked;
• impressions from visiting performances, exhibitions, excursions.

4. Interests, hobbies:

• culinary recipes;
• outfit sketches;
• knitting patterns;
• tips on housekeeping, gardening, vegetable growing;

5. Creation:

• my poems;
• your drawings, sketches;
• magazine cuttings, stickers, postcards, etc.

6. Reminders:

• especially memorable photographs;
• brochures about exhibitions, excursions;
• interesting letters, romantic notes.

For younger students who are just planning to keep a diary, it will be interesting and useful to start it with a description of family members, friends, hobbies, favorite games, books and films, etc.

Diary from a notebook

There are many options for making a personal diary. Everyone chooses the format of the diary for themselves. A thin notebook is suitable for rare episodic entries. For constant diary keeping, it is better to immediately buy a thick notebook, which will be enough for entries for a long period. To make the diary last a long time, it is better to buy a high-quality notebook with thick paper.

It can be improved:

• The cover is additionally strengthened by gluing it with fabric or cardboard. Stickers, drawings, embroidery, etc. can be added for decoration;
• To make the notebook stronger, stitch it together;
• for convenience, you can make bookmarks;
• The records can be additionally protected by punching a hole through the pages with a hole punch and inserting a lock into it.

Diary from a notebook

A practical option is a diary made from a notebook. It is better to buy a notebook with a large number of sheets, bound with a spiral.

To add originality to a standard notebook, you can:

• An unusual way to decorate a cover is to cover it with fabric or paper. A beautiful, neat covering will not only decorate the cover, but will also give it strength. You can additionally decorate the cover with decorative elements;
• For additional protection, you can make a hole through all the pages of the notebook and insert a lock into it;
• The spiral can be replaced with a beautiful cord, ribbon, or tape. But you should remove the spiral and thread the cord replacing it very carefully.

Diary from the album

For those who will fill their personal diary with their sketches, it is best to use a drawing album. This option is more suitable for lovers of appliques, scrapbooking and other creative techniques. Thick large-format paper is great for drawing (paints or markers will soak through thin notebook paper) and working with glue.

When creating a diary from a sketchbook, you can:

• strengthen and decorate the cover by carefully gluing a layer of fabric or thick paper on top;
• protect the notes with a lock threaded through the album sheets;
• You can additionally sew the album sheets together so that they do not fall apart when there are a large number of voluminous appliqués.

Diary folder

You don’t have to buy a ready-made notebook or notepad, but you can make an original diary-folder using separate sheets:

1. Making the cover:
   • a thick sheet of A4 paper (or a little larger) is cut into two parts. It can be additionally reinforced and decorated with fabric;
   • four ties are cut from ribbon, tape, or decorative cord - two on each side - the length of the tie is about 30 cm (depending on the expected thickness of the diary, the length can be adjusted);
   • the ties are attached (with glue or thread) to the top and bottom covers - two ties per cover;
   • the places where the ties are attached are decorated with buttons, pieces of leather, etc.;
   • The upper ties are tied in pairs with the lower ones.
2. Making pages:
   • individual thin sheets of A4 paper are folded in half (you can use different colored paper);
   • the sheets are placed in a folder, aligned along the fold line with the edge of the cover and attached to it with a stapler;
   • Sheets are added as the diary is filled.
3. To preserve the sheets, you can put the folder in a removable cover.

Diary from office paper

Another way to create a journal from individual sheets is to bind a stack of office paper with rings:

• The top and bottom covers are made of thick paper;
• Place the pages of the future diary in a neat stack between the covers. They can be multi-colored, have a beautiful shape (for example, with patterned edges or rounded corners), and be of different thicknesses for different sections;
• on the left side, use a hole punch to make two through holes at the top and bottom, passing through the entire stack;
• thread the connecting rings through the holes.

Old book - original basis for LD

A creative person will want to have a special personal diary. An old, no longer needed book will tell you how to make a diary creative. Creating a personal diary on its basis gives unlimited scope for imagination and creativity. The cover is decorated according to the taste of the hostess. Some pages can be removed, glued together, pictures can be pasted in, etc.

And in order to keep records, the typographic font will have to be painted over, or covered with proofreader, or pasted over with thin paper. In short, such a diary will require additional efforts to solve the problems that arise. The process of filling it out will become even more interesting - just right for extraordinary natures.

Leather bound diary

For large diaries that will be used for a long time, you will need to make a durable cover. One of the best options is leather.

To make it:

• The thick cardboard base is pasted over with a leather blank. The leather flap should be larger than the base so that the allowances can be folded and glued to the inside of the cover. A durable glue such as "Moment" is used;
• When gluing, the leather must be smoothed well and pressed very tightly to the base;
• Then the allowances are also tightly glued on the back side;
• For best results, place the cover under a press.

Diary on the Internet

The most modern version of a personal diary is the electronic version.

There are two possible options:

1. Diary saved on personal computer. There are special diary programs equipped with services for keeping diary entries (DiaryOne 6, Diary, etc.). Computer technologies make it easier to keep a diary - automatic dating of entries, beautiful design using computer graphics, closing access with a password, ease of copying. You can add daily accounting, calculation of calorie intake, reminder notes and much more;
2. Blog. It is possible to share part of your diary (or its full version) with the whole world, exchange thoughts and comments with other people. This format of diary is called a blog. To create a blog, you need to register on a special site. The Internet offers resources (tyca.ru/dnevnik, diary.anek.ws, inmybook.ru) with many services created for keeping diaries online. Posting a blog on the Internet gives you the opportunity to access your entries at any time.

Making the cover

The diary starts with a cover, which should be attractive and set you up for a positive mood.

What can you advise on the design:

1. The cover must be durable., to ensure the safety of the diary. It can be strengthened by wrapping or pasting it with fabric or thick paper. You can even make an additional removable cover;
2. When designing the cover of your personal diary, you can use all your handicraft skills and creative fantasies. How to do it:
   • photo collage: favorite photos associated with pleasant memories will immediately lift your spirits;
   • a positive picture or a collage of several illustrations;
   • favorite sayings, quotes, an excerpt from a favorite poem (printed in clear font, decorated with a beautiful frame, they will create an atmosphere of creative inspiration);
   • bright stickers, which are convenient because they have a smooth cover and can be easily replaced with new ones;
   • decoration using handicrafts: skillfully knitted lace, scrapbooking or quilling, funny paper or fabric applique, embroidery, beading (such a cover will be a pleasant reminder of your existing talents);
   • The design of the cover with dried flowers and leaves looks unusual and elegant: dried plants are laid out in a composition and secured by varnishing, lamination, etc.;
   • Even if you don't have any handicraft skills, you can create an elegant exclusive cover from scrap materials: buttons, rhinestones, wrapping paper, ribbons, braid, artificial flowers, etc.

Origami for the cover

Origami technique is irreplaceable when decorating a diary – both the cover and the inside pages. Intricately folded figures will become a real “highlight” of the diary, you just need to choose the right options. Large volumetric figures will not work, but origami offers many different “flat” crafts of minimal height: frames, silhouettes, bows, intricate envelopes.

It is not difficult to learn how to fold origami figures, especially since the diary does not require super-complex compositions - a simple fan inserted between two pages looks very impressive.

Design of the first page

The first page deserves special attention. For its aesthetic design, you can use the same techniques and rules as for the cover. But its information content should be thought out.

On the first page you can place:

• Information about the author of the diary. The page can be made like a questionnaire on the question-answer principle, placing standard information: age, hobbies, etc.;
• You can post unusual information. For example, list your character traits - those you like and those you would like to change. And after some time, evaluate the changes;
• You can list the top 10 autobiographical events that are most important for the diary owner. And then add to this list;
• The idea of ​​a mood page is interesting. In an improvised calendar, each day lived is rated. You can draw a corresponding smiley, or think of a color scheme for good and bad days. It will be very interesting to analyze the month or year lived;
• The first page can be occupied by a successful or funny photo of the owner, which will lift the mood every time the diary is opened;
• The diary can be opened with an original work – a drawing, applique, scrapbooking, etc.

Calendar in the diary

A diary implies specifying calendar data for each entry. You can simply indicate the date at the beginning of the entry, or you can highlight the date using colored ink, a special font, etc.

If the diary has the functions of a daily planner (a daily to-do list, reminder notes, daily analysis, etc.), then it is convenient to immediately allocate a certain number of pages for the daily planner, creating a "nested calendar". For example, allocate a separate page for each day.

Then you can indicate the date, month, and day of the week on each page in advance.

For convenience, the pages can be decorated with stickers-bookmarks protruding beyond the sheet, on which the date is indicated. Another option: cut the pages into "steps" and indicate the date on them.

Interior design of pages

How to design the internal pages to make them interesting is up to the author of the personal diary. It is important that they evoke positive emotions and a desire to fill them.

A few tips:

• Thematic design. When describing a significant event, you can decorate the page accordingly. For example, when describing a seaside vacation, a blue background, a beach photo, a frame of painted shells, a sticker with fish would be appropriate. You can even attach a small shell brought from a trip. One look at such a page, even without reading the contents, will bring back memories;
• To highlight particularly important thoughts, quotes, notes, you can use frames. They can be drawn, made using origami technique, cut out of decorative tape. You can write down important things on a colored background, for example, on a specially glued piece of colored paper. You can even develop a whole system of color designations - blue for serious thoughts, red for happy events, etc.;
• It is convenient to use bookmarks to find important things in your diary.. They can be the most unusual - knitted, woven, made of colored paper clips, etc. They can also be thematic - a description of a seaside vacation can easily be found using a dolphin bookmark;
• Magazine clippings will decorate your diary, which attracted attention with their content or the beauty of the picture;
• The ornaments will please the eye, patterns, beautifully cut edges of pages;
• You can create special pages. For example, a bad mood sheet: stick bright funny pictures on it and even make tear-off coupons with encouraging inscriptions. Such a page will definitely lift your spirits.

Envelopes, secret pockets, tricks in LD

Often, diaries are used to store memorabilia: event tickets, booklets, notes, small souvenirs, letters. For this purpose, it is convenient to use special pockets and envelopes. Pockets for storing memorabilia or secret information can be made from diary pages folded or glued together in a special way. Scotch tape can also be used for this purpose.

Pockets can be made separately and then pasted into the diary. They are made from paper, fabric, foil, plastic, and then decorated with pictures, stickers, patterns, rhinestones, etc. Even a simple pocket made from a sheet of beautiful paper folded in half and secured at the edges with decorative tape will look beautiful.

You can buy ready-made envelopes, or you can make them yourself – for example, using the origami technique.

If the envelope will contain relatively large items (for example, several photographs), it is better to attach it to a thick cover. But a pocket for one special note or a memorable dried flower can be glued to the page. It is very convenient and aesthetically pleasing to use decorative tape to attach small pockets.

Text decoration, patterns, borders on cells

To decorate the text, use multi-colored pens and markers. An unusual arrangement of notes is also suitable for this purpose - for example, in several columns, or in blocks in different places on the page. You can diversify the pages with a beautiful ornament along the edges of the sheet, various frames, both drawn and glued. To create such edging, it is very convenient to use templates.

With their help, even those who cannot draw can very beautifully design a diary page. Another great opportunity for those who do not draw very well is drawing by cells. It is enough to find a drawing you like and transfer it to your diary by cells. It is easy to find entire collections of such drawings on the Internet.

Pictures for LD

You can decorate your diary with ready-made drawings. These can be pictures from magazines – for example, photos of your favorite singer or artist. Whole sets of themed stickers are on sale (cats, princesses, etc.) that look beautiful in the text.

You can find a picture you like on the Internet and print it on a color printer. Beautiful candy wrappers, greeting cards, stamps, etc. will also do.

Inscriptions and cuttings from magazines in the diary

Glossy magazines contain not only pictures, but also interesting quotes, sayings, and beautiful headlines. They can also be used to decorate a diary. If you frame such clippings or highlight them in another way, they will immediately attract attention.

Last page

The page that ends the personal diary, like the first one, can also be made special. Perhaps it will contain thoughts that particularly struck the owner of the diary. Or plans for the future. Or you can simply draw a door leading to the “wonderful faraway place.”

Envelope for LD

You can additionally protect your diary – both from wear and tear and from unnecessary attention. To do this, make an additional envelope-cover for storing your personal diary. To create a simple envelope, take a sheet of paper and fold it in three so that the larger part fits the diary, and the smaller remaining part will be the flap for the envelope. The side folds are fastened with glue or tape.

Beautiful paper and decorative tape will make such an envelope elegant even without additional decorations.

You can make a fabric cover using the same principle. The flap can easily be made to fasten with a button or Velcro.

Tips on how to start and run a LD

A diary is a very personal matter. And everyone decides for themselves how to keep it.

But there are some general recommendations:

• It's appropriate on the first page place information about the author of the diary or his photo. You can also start the diary with a quote that is especially important to the owner;
• Can create special thematic pages. For example, dedicated to hobbies. Or to describe books read, write out poems, plans for the future;
• Can set aside a few pages for friends, one page per friend, which they will fill in with stories about themselves and wishes for the owner of the diary;
• Don't abandon your diary for too long. It is interesting and useful when it records, if not every day, then at least significant events;
• Entries must be dated.. Then it will be easier to restore the picture when rereading;
• You have to be honest with your diary. You shouldn't embellish your thoughts and actions when describing them, otherwise the diary loses its meaning;
• It is useful to reread the entries periodically.This will give you the opportunity not only to remember, but also to rethink the past.

  

A personal diary can become a true friend, helping to understand how to build your life, how to make it harmonious and fulfilling. This is a unique opportunity to remember your past and appreciate it, having already matured.

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