Plan with Me - March 2019

I started bullet journaling to keep myself organized a looooooong time ago. Five years ago, to be exact. Since then, I’ve been more or less devoted to it at various times. I find that my planning is pretty sparse during the summer months in particular. But like so many people the new year always gives me a spark of organization and I always recommit to my planning ways.

This year when I rededicated myself to my Bujo — as we bullet journal obsessed refer to it — I took a few minutes to think about how I wanted to use my journal. In particular, I’ve been looking for a place to do more sketching and painting and I was hoping to be able to combine that with my daily planner pages.

When I looked around for a planner that could handle both types of pages, I found the Archer & Olive journal. This book has 160gsm paper that promises no ghosting or bleeding through with most pens, inks and even paints. Perfect!

While I waited for my new journal to arrive, I dug into Pinterest for new layout ideas and I found a billion or so. It was so inspiring that I decided to move away from my boring, old practical bullet journal and try doing some more of the pretty doodle-y stuff I was finding online.

My first full monthly and weekly spread in my bullet journal had a daisy theme and it was super fun to put together. Watch me draw it out in this video:

Here are some close-ups of the layouts in the video:

Supplies used for these layouts:

• Archer and Olive A5 dot grid notebook
• Sakura Pigman Micron 05: https://amzn.to/2HdQdnl
• Dear Lily Designs Bullet Journal 5mm Bundle
• Dear Lily Designs Rectangle Box Tool 5mm
• Kelly Purkey Cobble Hill stamps
• Kelly Purkey Brooklyn Heights stamps
• Yellow/Orange Zebra Mildliner
• Grey Zebra Mildliner
• Studio Calico Power Suit dye ink

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