{"id":44,"date":"2024-11-11T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejournalingmagazine.com\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2025-01-19T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:18:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejournalingmagazine.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to TheJournalingMagazine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello worldwide Journalers! Celesta here; also affectionately known as \u2018mom of Rajacenna<\/a>\u2019 the quadridextrous artist whose talent probably defies several laws of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s rewind a bit: at age 12 (we\u2019re talking 1978 here) I started my own newspaper for the local youth in my neighborhood and was I running a one-kid library empire out of my living room.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did I publish the latest \u2018news\u2019 for the youth of my hometown, but I also curated a collection of comics and books, renting them out to my friends like a pint-sized publishing magnate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to my early career: after stints as an editorial secretary for a major Dutch publisher, I teamed up with an old classmate to launch a coffee import business in 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the disaster, absolute chaos of a circus birth and as such miracle birth of my daughter in 1993, which dragged me through hell and back; my body decided it had had enough and promptly fell apart. I walked out of that birth (barely alive) with a baby in one hand and a grab bag of 80+ mystery ailments in the other. And since I couldn\u2019t exactly scream my way out of it, creativity became my survival mechanism, my way of making sense of the madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, as soon as I got my hands on an internet connection, CelestaMagazine burst onto the digital scene, where I spent the next era interviewing fascinating people and hanging out backstage at Dutch musical premieres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By then, I\u2019d accumulated enough ideas to make my own TV show. So, naturally, we bought a professional camera and launched Kinderjournaal\/KidsnewsTV; landing press passes to every film and musical premiere in town, giving us prime access to the red carpet and celebrity interviews galore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently documenting life is more than a hobby for me; for some reason it seem to be in my DNA. Since childhood, I\u2019ve been the one scribbling, cutting, pasting, and saving every little moment or celeb pics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I singlehandedly created new editions of history books, rewrote Donald Duck storylines, re-archived celebrity facts, documented the entire Walt Disney story and transformed school agendas into novels of their own, jam-packed with everything remotely glueable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, I brought this love of preserving life\u2019s minutiae to Instagram with @artjournals, a growing community of art journalers who understand the irresistible pull of paper and pen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time I already worked several years as graphic designer, cartoonist, webdesigner, owned 40+ websites myself and published and illustrated a children\u2019s book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now? I\u2019m bringing you TheJournalingMagazine, a space where my lifelong passion for capturing the uncapturable finds its ultimate home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So welcome! Dive into a world where every page begs for ink or glue, every moment is ripe for preservation, and if it\u2019s not nailed down, trust me, it\u2019ll find its way onto paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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