Journals

Elevate your writings and memories into art with a blank journal from Painted Turtle Design!

Painted Turtle Design offers a wide variety of blank journals to commemorate and celebrate the important passages and events that mark life's journey.

Inspired by nature and by world culture, each journal is carefully hand-crafted to preserve your memories and treasured photos for the future. Meticulous attention to craftsmanship and a striking flair for design and detail highlight each journal. Whether for a once-in-a-lifetime event, like a wedding or the birth of a child, or just for your own musings, a journal is a special gift for yourself or a loved one.

Each journal is covered in wonderful hand-crafted papers imported from around the world and filled with archival blank sheets. Types of filler paper and number of sheets is noted in each journal description. Special details, such as beads, buttons and ribbons form closures and decorate the bindings. Beautiful objects found in nature or collected from curio shops accentuate each book.

Go to Journal Descriptions. Please contact info@paintedturtledesign.com for information on current selections.

We will consider special order commissions, please write for details.

Note from Robyn:
"All my life I've loved books. I created my first book at around age 9. It was for my aunt to take to her summer school class, and although I don't remember what it said or what the pictures were, I have rarely felt prouder than I did when I gave her that little book. Some of that joy and delight in creating goes into every one of my journals and artists' books."

"A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there / that of the pulse, the heart beat."
 - Quote from Henry Miller (American author and writer, 1891-1980)