SYW338 – Junk Journal Memory Keeping with Molove Lee

Molove Lee: [00:00:00] I will always say that my first love is scrapbooking and memory keeping, and part of that is adding a photo. Like - we say in my family, "It didn't happen if there's no photo. You didn't share a photo in the text, so did it really happen?" So I have some of that in my memory keeping junk journaling to also add a picture to just about everything.

Jennifer Wilson: Welcome to Scrapbook Your Way, the show that explores the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. I'm your host, Jennifer Wilson, owner of Simple Scrapper, and author of The New Rules of Scrapbooking. This is episode 338. In this episode, I'm chatting with Mo Lovely about her journey from traditional scrapbooking to junk journaling, and how she's building a creative community through in-person events and online meetups

Hey Mo, welcome to Scrapbook Your Way.

Molove Lee: Ah, thank you for having me.

Jennifer Wilson: Can you start by sharing a little bit about [00:01:00] yourself?

Molove Lee: Sure. My name is Mo Lovely. A lot of people call me Mo. I'm married with two bonus daughters, living in Brooklyn. I am a teacher by trade. I taught for about 11 years, and now I'm the school counselor for about 11 years now.

Jennifer Wilson: How has that transition been in terms of like, which do you like better, uh, being a counselor or being an in-classroom teacher?

Molove Lee: They both have benefits and their kind of flaws. I did enjoy being in a classroom, but, um, I wanted to come out of the classroom with some of the evaluations they were, putting on teachers. So.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: I was like you know what, maybe I'll put school counselor in my back pocket for when I'm ready to come out of the classroom. And when I finished with my second master's, I was ready to come out of the classroom. I do love small groups, one on one. So I still have the connection with the students. But it's on the other side, not academics, [00:02:00] but more the social-emotional part, which I enjoy because this way I get to play with them and use some of my other talents in my office.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, for sure. And then you also have the really important context of having been in the classroom and knowing what they're experiencing in there, so I love that.

Molove Lee: So sometimes they can't even learn because of all of the other things.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: That's going on in their life. So, um, I have that. You know, I'm able to speak to the teachers about some of those things like, you know, "Be a little easy because..." You know, and I didn't have that when I was a teacher. So yeah, I have, uh, the pleasure of having both worlds, um, in the education system.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, that's one of the things. My child is now 14, gonna be a sophomore in high school, and it's been so interesting to see how, like, their education, it was so different from mine in terms of all the support they've had since, since day one in kindergarten for making them [00:03:00] well-adjusted people as best as they can.

Molove Lee: Oh yeah, so different. I don't, I, I shouldn't, uh, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I don't even remember sc- uh, elementary or middle school school counselors in the building. I knew they existed, but I don't remember them. But definitely in high school. But, um, it's mandated that all schools, I'm in New York City, all schools.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: Have at least a school counselor and/or social worker to meet the needs, especially after COVID. To meet.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, yeah.

Molove Lee: Those needs of the students in the classroom.

Jennifer Wilson: That's wonderful.

Molove Lee: And the support parents a lot, also.

Jennifer Wilson: So getting into the crafty conversation here, do you have a favorite recent layout project thing you've made?

Molove Lee: So I've been into junk journaling here recently. I would say the last two years maybe. I fell in love with attending events, and I wanna capture everything for the events. Like these, uh, conferences for planners and journals. [00:04:00] I'm, like, at the events and taking pictures and having people sign my journal and collecting all of the ephemera, the tickets. I recently attended DC Planner Journal Con in DC. I believe the organizer is Michelle. I loved the event. I had an awesome time. I met so many people. Not too long ago, maybe two weeks ago, I attended, uh, New York City Planner Addicts, um, in Maspeth, Queens. They had their 10-year anniversary, and I met so many people, and I learned so many things. So I wanna get it all into a journal. I don't know. I'm, like, obsessed with I gotta take notes from the speakers, and I wanna put the speaker's picture in my journal. So it's been, like, this whole crafty event of the crafting event. And I've been enjoying that recently. Definitely junk journaling is top on my list right now.

Jennifer Wilson: I love how, you know, with this particular [00:05:00] format you can get people to, to sign it. You can do things maybe that you wouldn't think of in more traditional scrapbooking or even more traditional journaling projects. Um, I love the, the combination of things and the freedom.

Molove Lee: There's definitely a freedom. Um, do come from traditional scrapbooking, if- I'm doing air quotation marks, right? Traditional scrapbooking and even Project Life, but junk journaling you can just glue the things down.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: And it looks cute. If, if it doesn't look cute, so what? I wanna keep this ticket here. I wanna keep this bracelet here, and it's just a place for everything here without any rules.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes. Yes. So is there something new that you're excited to do, use, or try either in your crafty life or in your everyday life?

Molove Lee: Um, surprisingly, um, I was inspired by, um, Ali Edwards. I call her, uh, the godmother of scrapbook. One of the godmothers.

Jennifer Wilson: Uh-huh.[00:06:00]

Molove Lee: One of scrapbooking, along with, uh, Becky Higgins. But definitely Ali Edwards I call the god- godmother of scrapbooking. She sews, like, pockets and does- she does some stitching on her pages.

And I asked Santa husband, for a sewing machine last year, and my birthday's also in December, and I got one. So I did sign up for.

Jennifer Wilson: Ooh, fun

Molove Lee: A class, and I made my first, um, denim tote bag. So cute. Um, and I've taken a series of classes. So I think it's evolving into something else. I haven't stitched one thing in my scrapbook, but I'm all about I wanna make a pillow.

Um, I want to make, um, another makeup bag. I want... So I don't know what it's evolving into. My mom definitely sews. She's made, um, clothes for my dolls growing up. She's stitched things for us growing up. So I definitely would like to one day make a quilt. So I don't [00:07:00] know. I'm excited and a little nervous.

The, the objective was to sew in my scrapbook, but I think it's growing into a little more than that. we'll, we'll see what's next.

Jennifer Wilson: Well and I think that it's actually, there, there is a degree of helpfulness to learn some of the basics of sewing on fabric before you try to sew on paper. Because I feel like it's a little, it's a little trickier than, than sewing on fabric. Um-

Molove Lee: True. But funny, funny enough, the first class that I took, they had us sewing on paper.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, really?

Molove Lee: How to do straight lines.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, nice. Okay.

Molove Lee: Mechanism of sewing. And I was.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: This is it. This is what I want to do.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes.

Molove Lee: But of course we moved to fabric, but you know, they, I just learned some stitching on paper first.

Jennifer Wilson: Maybe your first, like, quilt could be like a quilted cover for your junk journal.

Molove Lee: You never know. You know what? But I do have a scrapbook from my aunt in, from Savannah. My first year of teaching, she made me a [00:08:00] scrapbook. Um, she covered it with, like, this plaid material, put some batting, I believe that's what you call it, inside.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: And she had, like, a little schoolhouse and some little kids stitched on the front cover. So, um, I'm, we not reinventing the wheel. My aunt's been this.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes.

Molove Lee: For a little while now.

Jennifer Wilson: That's awesome. I love that you have that.

Molove Lee: Yeah.

Jennifer Wilson: So tell us more about your evolution as a memory keeper. When did you get started, and how did that change over time?

Molove Lee: Well, speaking of my aunts in Savannah, um, growing up, uh, as a little girl, I remember s- going to visit... My mom's from Savannah, and her two sisters are down there. And she had all these pictures, and she used to have us cut people out to make, like, silhouettes, and they would pop dot them and put them into scrapbooks. So I felt like I was jumped into scrapbooking through them. So, um, I did start off with some traditional scrapbooking, you know, with the photo mats, one or two pictures.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.[00:09:00]

Molove Lee: On a layout, a single-page layout. I quickly realized y- years later that I take way too many pictures, um, for that type of scrapbooking, that format. Um, I did transition into project... Well, let's say pocket page scrapbooking. Because I can house more than one or two pictures in, like, a two-page layout with the pockets. And, um, then I realized that there is something to be said about the daily, everyday, um, moments that can be captured by weekly Project Life. So the last three years I did do weekly Project Life. Along with, you know, special events. I may do a few extra pages on special events. But right now I'm behind in Project Life, let's- I'ma be honest. Because I'm all into junk journaling.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, do you find that the junk journaling is satisfying some of [00:10:00] what you are getting out of Project Life? Or are they very different for you?

Molove Lee: Okay, so I don't wanna get into the debate on what's junk journaling, but junk journaling for me includes a picture. There's rarely anything that I create that does not have a picture on it.

Jennifer Wilson: Okay.

Molove Lee: Um, because I am a scrapbooker, and if you ask, I can go to all the planner and journal events I want to, but I will always say that my first love is scrapbooking and memory keeping, and part of that is adding a photo. Like - we say in my family, "It didn't happen if there's no photo. You didn't share a photo in the text, so did it really happen?" So I have some of that in my memory keeping junk journaling to also add a picture to just about everything.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah

Molove Lee: So that's... I get that from the scrapbooking and the junk and the ephemera and the ticket stubs.

I feel like I have a nice... [00:11:00] I like the balance that I have with adding the picture, the memory keeping, and then the parts of the memory added is what I'm calling junk journal memory keeping.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, I l- no, I love it. I think you have to make it your own, and particularly since there are so many different creative projects that we could and want to do. And now with sewing, maybe you have other ideas as well. We can't do everything, so maybe we have to combine some of our interests into specific projects so that we're satisfying all those needs.

Molove Lee: Yes.

Jennifer Wilson: So, so what other approaches or formats to memory keeping, journaling, planning, scrapbooking are you doing today?

Molove Lee: Well I, I do enjoy, like I said, uh, Ali Edwards is the mother of scrapbooking in my world. So I do, um, every year, um, December-- Okay, so December's my birthday month, my anniversary month, and I love Christmas. So.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh gosh, perfect. Yeah.

Molove Lee: Yeah, so the last maybe six years I've [00:12:00] done December Daily, um, with, you know, Ali Edwards and, you know, some of her products. I do indulge in Week in the Life. Um, I do some faith journaling with scripture writing. Um, I also make ATCs, you know, artist trading cards. I just like.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm

Molove Lee: Those are smaller canvases for dolls or stickers or little phrases of encouragement. And I love a tag book. So, uh, these four by six tags that I create, um, and I bind them with a ring binder and put a bow on it.

It's like a mini scrapbook for me, a smaller canvas, a little bit bigger than a ATC. And I, I love adding pictures and ephemera to that. So it's like a mini scrapbook, and I like to use that as like gifts, um, to my girlfriends and family members, and like little memory keepsakes. So those are some of the projects that I- are ongoing with me.

Jennifer Wilson: Do you have any things that you're [00:13:00] specifically working on right now that you think of as a project? And, and I, I guess part of this question is, are you doing your junk journaling in terms of I fill a book and then when I'm done I start a new book, or do you have multiple books that you're filling?

Molove Lee: Multiple books only because there are multiple projects, like you're calling them.

Jennifer Wilson: Okay.

Molove Lee: I do have a junk journal that's... I don't have a title for it, but it is from A to Z.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, fun. Yeah

Molove Lee: Say if I'm working on a project, I have some stickers and/or even junk, and I have this, uh, cookie wrapper, and I have no place to put it, I put it in the C section of my junk journal for cookies. Um, if I have a sticker that's left over from something I'm working on in my junk journal, and it's green, I have a green page also in this junk journal, and I put it on a green page. So I do have a place to kind of put [00:14:00] everything, um, which is ongoing. When that book is finished, I'll close it and I'll, you know, share it with others when I go out to different events.

But it is shelved, and I'll start a new book. I do have some, um, running projects like that, like the junk journals. Once I finish, like, one junk journal, it's about a nine by 12. Um, it was a planner of some sort that I knew I wasn't going to use the way it was, so I just put scrapbook paper on each page and just junk journaled on top of it. And, um, here it is June. I'm about finished with that book. I'll finish it off and then it, and I already have a new nine by 12 album that I would like to start, for I guess June to the end of the... Until it's full. Then I'll start a new, quote unquote, "project."

Jennifer Wilson: I think that tip for reusing planners that didn't fully get, uh, get enjoyed, actually even planners [00:15:00] that did and maybe you don't need those pages anymore, that is still an awesome foundation for a new project.

Molove Lee: I actually won this, uh, planner at a, at an event, like a raffle. And I won it and I was like, "Oh, this is so good." And I'm like, "Oh my God." When I got home, I was like, "What am I gonna use this for?" And it was on my bookshelf for about six months, and then I was like, you know.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: What? I'm gonna junk it up." And everybody loves it when you, when they see it, you know? 'Cause I have junk, I have memories in there. I have all of the things in there. So but yeah, there's something to be said to repurpose. I repurpose old planners. I just cover the dates and keep it moving. Nothing wasted.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, I love that and I love the, your, your A to Z and your color book for kind of all the extra bits that maybe don't fit somewhere else, but you've saved it, so now we have to put it somewhere, right?

Molove Lee: We do.

Jennifer Wilson: So what kind of supplies do you enjoy using beyond the things that you collect from everyday life?

Molove Lee: I mean, scrapbook So I do [00:16:00] have, still have a s- I do have a stash, right.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: Scrapbook paper. Um, I'm sorry, but I love Dollar Tree and Five Below right now. Um, you know, they do have some scrap paper. They do have stickers there. Cheap, um, know, that I can find a place for anything. I do like the brand, um, Simple Stories for their scrapbook paper, their ephemera.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: Bits, their frame, like little photo frames. Of course, I, like I mentioned Ali Edwards for her project-based, um, supplies that, you know, she puts out. And like I said before, the packaging, the wrappers, you know, along with everything else. Those are the main supplies that I use. My paper cutter, scissors. I do love a tape those are my basic supplies.

Jennifer Wilson: Now you've been on some like sticker creative teams or ambassador t- type teams before?

Molove Lee: Yes. I've been on a few, um, printables. So printables are really big right now. [00:17:00] Um, I've been on a design team for Chela Creates. Um, but currently I'm on a design team for, her name is Crafty Planner Queen is the shop. And her name is Robin. Um, she does like junk journal kits that you can print or you can purchase also, um, you know, pre-printed. She does, um, also what you call printables. You purchase a printable and you can print them on regular paper, sticker paper, clear sticker paper. And I'm also on a design team for Plum Soul Studios. Her name is Bernadette and she's a sh- straight stickers sticker club. Um, not sticker club, sticker shop. Um, she does sell like some T-shirts and some magnets, but her main, the main thing that I do with her are stickers.

Jennifer Wilson: Um, there was a conversation I had recently, I don't know if it was on the last episode, it might have been. At this point I ha- I've, I've been doing a lot of interviews in a row. Um, but we were talking about how [00:18:00] hybrid is becoming and will become kind of so important because shipping is so expensive, even within a country, let alone to other countries.

Molove Lee: Wow.

Jennifer Wilson: And so I love how that kind of bridges the gap to get folks access to, to fun ind- especially independent creative suppri- supplies that they wanna use in their projects.

Molove Lee: And I love that the printables, I, you can resize them, make them smaller, bigger based on the project.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: That you're working on. I love um, that you know, you have that ability to do that on a computer with printables.

Jennifer Wilson: So you mentioned you do still have, you know, scrapbook stash as, as I would expect. How are you storing the ephemera and junk that you're gathering? Is that next to your supplies? And h- and how does, how does kind of organizing all that differ from organizing, you know, pattern paper and embellishments and things like that?

Molove Lee: So my pattern, pattern paper I do keep by color, um, [00:19:00] or by kit. Like, you know, I have the school, school-based supplies together. I have the baby, you know, children papers together. But my junk I do organize by color also, strangely. Um, I do have, like, this binder with, uh, folder, folder pockets.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: Once I get some junk, you know, I may, depending on what it is, I may have to clean it up a little bit, like crumbs. Clean it a little bit and I do slip it in the color section, of this particular binder. Um, I do have several drawers with, um, ephemera, um, stickers, chipboard by season. I do organize by season. I do keep all my letter stickers together. But the junk definitely is by color. My paper is definitely by color. Scraps, uh, yes, I do keep a lot of scraps by color. So whenever I do need a [00:20:00] three, five, four piece I don't have to cut into a new sheet of scrapbook paper. I can just reach into my red scraps to grab that piece that I need. So I would say a lot of things are still by color, um, organized in binders. And I am a Ziploc girl, you know.

Um, I love a Ziploc, and I will put things in a Ziploc until I'm ready for them.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes, yes. Now I'm curious if, um, you are finding yourself using more scraps now that you're doing junk journaling than you did in your scrapbooking.

Molove Lee: Um, I always use a lot of my scraps.

Jennifer Wilson: Okay.

Molove Lee: Um, I wouldn't say that, you know, I'm into junk journaling or more, that I'm using it the more. I would say still the, the sa- at the same pace.

Jennifer Wilson: Okay. Yeah

Molove Lee: Then remember I do AC- ATCs and I do tag books.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes.

Molove Lee: So those are also good places for me to use those smaller bits also too.

So I'm always in the scraps.

Jennifer Wilson: For sure.

Molove Lee: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer Wilson: So let's [00:21:00] talk about some of these events that you mentioned. In particular, you just hosted an in-person junk journaling event this past weekend. Tell us about it, and, you know, were you, were you teaching? Was it like a crop? What was the, what was the situation?

Molove Lee: So it was more like a... It was so awesome. It was more like a crop, if you will. We had about 20 people at a local restaurant, um, Therapy Wine Bar in Brooklyn. I did tell everyone this is, this will be a working event, so bring your journals, bring your pictures, anything you would wanna create, um, use to create pages in your journal. I did give out goodie bags, being that the venue was named Therapy Wine Bar, I said, "Let me, you know, springboard a theme from there." So they did receive a goodie bag, wine-themed goodie bag with junk and ephemera and papers of wine and corks and, you know, wine quotes. But additional were available for them to forage.

I had [00:22:00] magazine clippings, I had, um, pa- other papers and other ephemera that they can use, um, if they wanted to for the event. Um, so what I would say it was more like a crop. But did give some guided prompts. Wine theme, of course. Um, some things like design your dream wine label. Create a page using wine colors like burgundy, blush, p- plum. Um, make a wine and dine bucket list. So I did, you know, give a few prompts. Some people did use the prompts and the ephemera and the little goodies that were given. Um, so it was, it was an awesome... The vibe in that place was so good. Even the owner was like, "Everyone's engaged." Um, she didn't even... She was like, "What is junk journaling?

Like, is, is it like vision boarding?" So, you know, I had to... Mind you, I had two conversations regarding junk journaling, I felt like she still needed to see it for herself to get, like, what we [00:23:00] were doing.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, yeah.

Molove Lee: And, um, she was like, "Wow." She was like, "Feel free to have another event here." Everyone engaged.

Everybody seemed to have a good time. Even some of the guests were asking other guests who were there, you know, in the restaurant asked about the event. um, I was very happy. Everybody left happy. They had their pages made. They were sharing and trading and looking at each other junk journals. Um, I was happy.

I love getting people together. I love sharing ideas. I love seeing other people, how they create, how they think and come up with their ideas. Um, I w- I'm really happy with the event and I, I look to have more. Um, especially in the part of Brooklyn where I live. I'm in Bed-Stuy, and I, I do travel to go to, you know, day crops or day events.

I do like meeting new people, but I was like, you know what, maybe there are more locals that are interested in junk journaling, so I'm glad that [00:24:00] I, I had it here.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, wonderful. I'm, I'm curious, like what was the range of experience level of the people that attended? Was there anybody like brand new to it?

Molove Lee: Brand new? No. I'm gonna be honest. So my guests were mostly, um, people who I've met, in the community, um, at other planner events that I've, I went to. Um, had one guy, his name is David. Um, he just launched his own label or brand, if you will, called Pinkiverse. He came to hang out. He brought some stickers with him. So I would say everyone had some experience in anything paper crafting. And you know, one young lady, she was like, "Well, what's it, what should, what can I do with this? Let me see one of your, one of your albums or one of your junk journals to get some inspo." um, I think that was the basis of the [00:25:00] event.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: No matter the level, your expertise level, you can still learn from anyone else that was at the event.

Jennifer Wilson: Well and everyone has, whether we're talking about junk journaling or scrapbooking or any form of crafting like this, that everyone has their own approach. To h- take these supplies and do something with them, and you can always learn something new that maybe you wouldn't have thought of from, from actually touching and, and viewing somebody else's project.

Molove Lee: Exactly.

Jennifer Wilson: So you mentioned that you've attended o- other in-person events as a participant. Um, have you done things in past years or is this a relatively new thing?

Molove Lee: Um, with junk journaling?

Jennifer Wilson: Or going to like planner events

Molove Lee: Um, I have. So I've been venturing out. I've been to a few, uh, like evening crops. Uh, it's this one young lady, I can't remember the area. But she has, uh, an event, bring your journal, bring your planner. This is a working event, with your ticket you get a happy [00:26:00] hour drink, you know. So a lot of people are, you know, come in, come hang out, bring your journals.

So I've been to quite a few of those events just to meet other people, hang out, learn from other people. So it's, it's popping up. Um, I went to even a free event, um, where all you had to do was make sure you, um, patronize the coffee shop and.

Jennifer Wilson: Mm-hmm.

Molove Lee: Just come out. She had supplies out, and we just hung out and chit-chat and crafted for hours. So I think that's a thing, you know, it's this thing about, uh, analog and, you know, touching the things. And, um, n- lessen, um, decreasing your screen time and I think people are, quote, unquote, "buying into it" and like, "You know what? Maybe it is a good thing for me to get out and create something."

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, I love this idea that, that our hobbies are at the center of what people are craving right now. And I, and I hope that it kind of, it helps to [00:27:00] reconnect folks with their, their creative side, you know, regardless of what format they choose.

Molove Lee: Exactly.

Jennifer Wilson: You've also done some online teaching and have a Facebook group. You know, can you tell us a little bit about that and anything you might have coming up?

Molove Lee: Sure. I do have a Facebook group. It's called Remember The Dayz, with ends with a Z. Um, where I post, we post ideas. I'm like, "Y'all wanna meet up, um, on this date? Let's work on a tag book. Um, purchase this printable at least so we all have, like, a starting point. Purchase this printable. Um, if you like, pull out some papers and things that you think will go with it, and let's create a, a page."

So we meet monthly. Um, our next meetup, uh, does not have a date yet, but we do meet monthly. The last time we met up, we made a tag book together. um, the month before that, we, um, created, um, what they call it, a Dutch door situation.

Jennifer Wilson: [00:28:00] Yeah

Molove Lee: Um, so, you know, we're here, like, creating together, figuring it out together. So they are classes where, you know, free classes, they're free, where we come together. Just let me know that you purchased the printable, you know, so you know at least the base of what we're using. Um, and then we create something in our journals or some paper craft together, and you have a finished product when we log off after two or three hours. So that page is on Facebook.

Jennifer Wilson: I love that. Sounds totally fun.

Molove Lee: And I do, um, host other classes. Um, I d- I've done, like, Thankful 30. That's in the month of November, where we prep a journal in O- in the October, and we, um, prep for 30 days to be thankful. I do give out prompts, um, I do give out, um, like, a little kit to start you off, and we do create a journal of 30 things that we're thankful for, um, in the month [00:29:00] of November. That's one project that we, we do as a class, a paid class where you get a kit, and then you take the class online.

Jennifer Wilson: Oh, cool.

Molove Lee: Yeah.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah, yeah. Those projects are always so, um, gratifying. I mean, just, just to elaborate on the word. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, definitely very satisfying.

Molove Lee: Yeah, I have a lot of people when I post things, it's like, "Oh my God, this is so cute. How did you do that?" Or, "I would like to learn how to do that." So you know, I take some of, some of the ideas from the, you know, people. When they show an interest in, you know, something that I've created. And I say, "You know what, let me offer this," or, "Let me see if there's an interest for this." You know, and I think I'm more, I do not wanna sell things.

Jennifer Wilson: Yeah.

Molove Lee: A thing, you know, where you can make money, but I think I'm more on the education side where I wanna teach and share how I, create and make things in, you know, in my journals or planners. So [00:30:00] I'm more on the education side and I wanna share how to, rather than what to use.

Jennifer Wilson: Well and it's kinda ends up being best of both worlds. You can lean on what you know and do best, and then also support the shops that you love.

Molove Lee: Oh, definitely.

Jennifer Wilson: Keeps our industry thriving

Molove Lee: Definitely. I do have some, the favorite brands that I mentioned earlier that, you know, I do support and I do push. You know, when creating 'cause, you know, qua- good quality is good quality.

Jennifer Wilson: Yes, yes. Well, Mo Lovely, can you share where our listeners can find you online?

Molove Lee: So you can find me on Facebook at Remember the Dayz Days, D-A-Y-Z. can also find me on Instagram, also RememberTheDayz21 and the name on there is Mo Lovely.

Jennifer Wilson: We will include those links in the show notes for the episode, as well as everything else that you have mentioned. Thank you so much.

Molove Lee: Thank you for having me.

Jennifer Wilson: And to all of our listeners, please remember that you have [00:31:00] permission to scrapbook and junk journal your way.