Hello, fellow journalers! How is this Tuesday treating you? Is it snowing where you are?

It was crazy raining all morning, and it will be snowing until 2am of the next morning, let’s see how it goes!

I wanted to talk about passport traveler’s notebooks! This is a size I have been using since I started journaling, actually, I don’t know if I already talked about this but my first notebook for journaling was a Moleskin cashier that I used to buy in T.J. Max back in PR. It was a journal and a place to keep track of my students and their progress. Later I learned more about journaling, stickers, and washi tape and so I went into a rabbit hole haha

After using an A5 as my journal for a few months I got my first passport on AliExpress and it has been the size that I fall back on all the time. Is also the size I use when traveling, is so convenient.

Since I started journaling in a passport traveler’s notebook I haven’t loved any size like I do for the passport. One of my other most used sizes/notebooks is a Hobonichi Weeks size and I love this notebook the reason why I keep using it is because I like the Hobonichi Weeks and I love the different covers they come out with every year, I just wish I could buy a Hobonichi Weeks without the planner part because this size is perfect for me, and like I said, I love the covers but either way, I got a little side track.

Another thing I love about Passport TN’s is that I can fill out one entire insert on a trip. I love having different inserts for each trip, it brings me joy when I take them out, is like every insert is a little memory and there are many memories I would like to keep.

This here are all my passport I have finished since 2019, around 6 inserts. I currently am in the process of finishing one and I am about 6 pages away. It’s funny because I could definitely see myself finishing 2 to 3 inserts a year but I have around 3 to 4 different journals every year, so some years I can finish 2 inserts, and if I am lucky 3 but most time at least 1 a year.

Look how chunky this is!!

This is a Chic Sparrow Passport Plus, a discontinued leather. Is a TN with 6 elastic, 1.5″ inches wider than the original passport that’s why they called it a “Plus”. I don’t really use this size, I used to when I had a passport planner but now it houses my finished Passport Inserts!

And this is also a Passport Plus, where I house my recent TNs from last year. The cover is Chic Sparrow from the Austen collection, color Emma which is available in their website! I have a link here for 10% off, I get 25 points if you use my link (you don’t have to but it would also help me.) The Austen collection is very much loved by almost every Chic Sparrow lover, is a pretty leather.

A passport is a pretty small size, sometimes you have to be a bit creative to get the most out of your pages. I like to use two pages or more for journaling but never just one. I journal in even numbers, for example, If I want to journal more after my 2 pages I would do 2 more, so 4 pages but I wouldn’t do 3. Is that weird? I don’t know…
I like when both pages are related, okay, I don’t know what I am saying at this point or if I am making any sense, sorry.

But because I do one spread, I have a larger canvas to work with and have more space to glue ephemera and add writing as well. There is so much you can do if you get creative.

For example, you can also add another page to your spread, you can either glue it in the middle of the two pages or use a washi tape or a stapler. A paper clip is removable and I like its aesthetic of it.

If you look at this slideshow, I used two pages, one for writing a quick entry and the second one I glued in a menu, I had to cut down the menu, and I didn’t like how it looked folded. I added some Distress Ink to my menu, I like the look it gives, and is buildable. It is a great mixed media and I love using it in my journals.

You can also just glue in one big ephemera, I do this all the time. Sometimes I really like saving packaging, I like the nostalgic feel of it.

I remember where I got this because it was at Downtown Disney, 2022. My boyfriend and I went to Downtown Disney with my family and we bought some drinks and Pretzels from the cart in front of the Disney store. They might not look that much but for me, there is a story of that day and the place.

The good thing about having a journal is that it is yours and you can add and do whatever you want if you want a simple journal just for writing then perfect. You journal however you feel like it, these are a few of the many ways I like to journal and for me, the passport is such a great size, I feel like I can do so much in this small size.

Well guys I think this has been a great little post, showing you guys a few of my journaling spreads and the way I enjoy journaling. It’s fun and it helps, it definitely has helped me during the years, creatively and mentally.

So start journaling, you don’t need a “fancy” notebook to start. I had many notebooks from Walmart and T.J. Maxx before I found out about Traveler’s Notebook.

I will try to make a video this week about my passport and more tips on ways to journal. I will also include flip-throughs of past passports from trips. So go ahead and SUBSCRIBE to the channel to know when I upload a new video.

Thank you so much for being here and I hope this post was useful and fun.

Have a wonderful day and God bless you all!