As I said in my last blog, the idea for the Garden Journal developed over a series of months and other projects.
In September 2009, I came up with the idea for a blank Dream Journal. I consider dreams to be an important part of life and a key to the subconscious. When I was a kid, I had a lined blank book with photos of clouds on each page. I remember eagerly writing my dreams in there because it was so cool to write on clouds. It was like capturing a part of the sky in your hands and imprinting it with a very personal part of yourself: your dreams.
Thus inspired, I began to work on the Dream Journal. I did produce a few early versions, but I wasn't very satisfied with them. I didn't have a lot of cloud photos so had to take some (if you saw a woman photographing the sky last fall, that was me :-}). I couldn't develop the Dream Journal at a price point where I could make money and the books weren't very colorful or informative.
That's when I hit on the next iteration: a Flower Journal. You could write your day's events and emotions on flowers! I had taken some very attractive flower photos on all my trips, so I used all of them to produce a nice journal. It was very colorful. However, yet again, it was too expensive to produce and it didn't have enough "meat" in it for me or for the buyer.
Then, I began to think: how about producing a journal that would help people with their flower gardens? And I wouldn't want to exclude gardeners of vegetables either.
Continued...
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