As I'm learning to organize and write down tasks again, I realized that I need a fully customized bullet journal that works for me. The planner that I was planning on using is something that doesn't work for me since I didn't know that I would prefer a weekly layout instead of the monthly one and that planner didn't have a lot of pages for me to make those myself for the whole year.
Luckily, I got extra notebooks for different purposes. :D
This is the front page of my bullet journal. I honestly didn't plan on heavily decorating it since I didn't want it to be too bulky but I realized when you use tapes instead of glue, there will be no warping of the paper so even if they become thick they won't be awkward. So I just went on with it.
On the next page, I have the calendar for the whole year.
It took me quite a while to measure the layout so they would be in the center.
I also took a lot of research to look for some ideas to include in my journal so it would be functional to me. Since I am new to this, I didn't have time to learn from experience. lol. I took a lot of ideas from Erin Smith, Lootengstudio, and Journal Away.
The future log is all the events and tasks for the whole year.
Apparently this spread is called a Dutch Door cos it looks like a door lol. To make this, I just had to cut the other pages vertically and horizontally. Pretty amazing since I probably would have never thought of that. :D
Dutch doors are an easy choice for me to do since I'm a visual learner and I remember things better if I see them clearly. So this thing helps me to easily find them and lets me know I'm still in the Future Log section instead of the full page that you have to flip. In normal full pages I can get lost easily.
This spread will be my monthly highlights in pictures. :D From January to December, I will pick one or two images to put there. Will be really fun to look at by the end of the year and in the future as well.
Also I am jumping from one theme to another, from cute to vintage. I don't really limit myself to that but in monthly spreads I will do one theme per month so it will be easier for me to identify which pages are which.
And here I can put some random affirmations I can find to rewire my brain and do some manifesting or whatever lol. On the right side is therapy notes also for the same purpose but also to target more specific problems I'm currently facing.
I also downloaded a bunch of resources like vectors and illustrations from Freepik and printed them as stickers. Like here, the daisy stickers are from Freepik and I just edited them quite a bit so they will look like borders. Freepik is pretty amazing haha.
Next is my goals for the whole year. I have for personal, art, and social media.
The design is called waterfall tabs which looks quite like the dutch door except it gets less in every page so the end of the pages are visible. It looks so good and also very easy for me to locate. :D
The borders and flowers are printed and I downloaded them from Freepik here and here
This is the last page before the monthly spreads (which includes habit tracker, weekly tabs, and some other stuff too).
A lot of them have other spreads like finance trackers, content planner, budget etc. But I have them in a completely different notebooks so I don't get too overwhelmed in one journal. This journal will focus mostly on tasks and personal stuff and that works for me.
As you can see I really enjoyed making this and heavily decorating my journal makes me want to use them and look at them more often. In my previous mindset, I wouldn't wanna touch them if the item looks too good in fears of messing it up haha but I'm changing that and I actually enjoy writing on them and I wouldn't mind any mistakes or if the handwriting is not perfect for my standards. Life is too short to worry about unnecessary things. :D
Oh that looks really nice and wonderful. 😍 It shows that you really enjoyed making it.
Indeed! Thank you :D
This is dope b🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!!
I liked the section of “movies I want to watch”, you are on my team, I also write them down, although I don't have the ability to keep a diary by hand, I prefer to do it on the computer and I list the progress of the activities.
I am following the same people on IG you mentioned for inspo. I just dont have many stickers. I would love to do the waterfall tabs and dutch door designs but I don’t have a dotted A5 notebook. I saw one here in the grocery but it cost 20 euro. The horror of the price. XD I’ll stick with my simple notebook until pages are full. But happy to create the habit tracker on my page, so useful. 😁
Dotted ones are so nice and convenient and now I understand why they exist lol. I think it will still look nice and practical without the dotted but yeah it is a lot better and easier to have a dotted.
Yeah damn... 20 euros for a notebook T_T. I see a lot of other brands too that are $20 minimum. Thankfully I saw one here that sells them for $7 and it's handmade and thick!! Which is really nice. Maybe it's worth looking into some local brands there. :D
I found something on AliExpress about 7 Euros so I might get it this October for next year. XD
That looks both professional and completely one of a kind :) How long did it take to make???
Happy New Year 🎆
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It took me a week to finish them, along with printing and looking for resources. It really takes a while to do them when it's your first and quite unsure. lol
Thank you and happy new year!
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I do the same thing but without the art work, just finished the first five months off 2024 on my yearly spread because i need to plan some leave, plus my January page and one focus items page. Bujo is the best, i also use a fountain pen for that extra feeling.
Nice! Yeah I can imagine getting bored of decorating every month so not having any designs would be nice as well as you don't have to think about it lol. Fountain pen sounds nice and very vintagey feel :D
Decorating is also a good feel, the brushes and the colors, sometimes I will draw a plant pot and color in the leaves
The spreads are sooo pretty!! 😍😍
This is really pretty.
Wow! I remember my childhood hobbies, one of which is writing a journal. I can see the effort of this piece. Keep blogging!😇
Your bullet journal is so so beautiful! I am feeling inspired to make such a flowery work of art myself. Thanks for sharing!