Hey journal fans! We’re one month in to the new year, and nowhere closer to being able to open the bar by the looks of it. This means I still have heaps of time to do other stuff, such as baking, reading and journaling.
New year meant a brand spankin new journal, very much a symbol of a fresh start. This is the second bullet journal I set up, I’ve got a better idea of what I use (gratitude logs, scrapbook style pages) and what I don’t (habit trackers, grid space page) and what I want it to look like.
I started with the key! I don’t reference it often, but it’s a nice way to open up the book I think.
Quite a bit of this post will be blurred out, as I took the photos after I had already started filling it out. More real this way maybe? Hopefully. Anyway, the past few years I’ve done this setup in some shape or form, inspired by Gretchen Rubin, who’s podcast Happier I listen to weekly.
The tedious to do year at a glance-spread. A good way for dates coming up in months that I haven’t set up yet. Clean and simple.
Started doing this last year, as I’m absolutely hopeless with remembering birthdays. This definitely helps!
And so pretty! Really happy with this 🌙♎
New spread for this year: Gift ideas! Every now and again I think of something I could get for someone’s birthday, and then of course I’ve forgotten it by the time it’s time to organise. I’m hoping that this will help 🙂
On the right is my reading log!
I use goodreads, but I love having it on paper like this as well. When I took this pic I’d read four books, I’m on number 7 this year now 🙃
And that’s all the yearly setup stuff, keeping it pretty simple. On to January! Nabokov-quote on the left and moon phases on the right.
Love playing with the dutch door-concept.
Every month I start with a calendar and a page for my gratitude log. I try to keep this up daily, but without putting any pressure on it. I simply write down one fun, happy, nice thing that happened that day. It can be something someone said or something as simple as eating a perfectly creamy pasta for dinner.
First half week of the year and some other stuff. Goals, food ideas. Duncan insists that I don’t like fruit, so I decided to list the ones I do like.
First full weekly setup! I always do a weekly to do/events list, that I try to spread out throughout the week. Nowadays the weekly setups become more journal-y than task-based, due to obvious reasons.
Week 2!
Week 3! Wasn’t super happy with this layout, I don’t love being constricted by little boxes. I already knew this, so not quite sure why I set it up like this. Oh well.
And week 4! I much prefer this way of dividing the page. Gives me more space to spread out my thoughts.
Now it’s time to set up February, I’ve got a theme in mind that I’m really excited about! ✨
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