A Journal Addition

A NEW MONTH FOR JOURNAL

INTRODUCTION

    Days just come too fast so another month is approaching, which means another page to your journal. Specifically, the month of April. I started journaling just this year and set up my first ever journal/planner. I've studied and tried to understand the system which was made by Ryder Carroll. I adapted his system and added a touch of my designs to personalize. If you prefer to make it simple and minimal, you could do to.

    I can't explain the system very well but you could go to the bullet journal website for a more clear explanation: https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn

    I personally make mine colorful, a bit cute, not too overwhelming, and creative. My journal notebook is a simple 148 x 200 mm lined notebook. It has a yarn stitching that I sewed which I use as a bookmark for the current page that I write in. Each month has its own theme, as well as their monthly logs, and daily logs. I don't use weekly logs because I think it would be repetitive if I write tasks and events on both the weekly and daily log.

    For the next month, I decided that I'll give it a star theme. I just got inspired by my random doodle on the notebook, and then why not make it the theme on the upcoming month. Here's how it turned out:

Disclaimer: I am not a professional in calligraphy and designing. So please don't hate it. Thanks!

TITLE PAGE

    This is the April's title page. Every title page that I make, I'll put a quote at the side that has the month's theme. [ On the right ] My title page has the month's name in it as a heading, a calendar, and stars as the design. It also has a border a black box outline around it, and another one inside it using my color pencil. In this case, I chose yellow. I decorated the stars around the month's name and four patches of stars on the corners and at the sides. [ On the left ] There's the quote that I found on the internet. I wrote them in cursive form with black inked shadow and another color pencil shadow. I also decorated it with stars all around it with the orange, blue, sky blue, green, and red ballpens that I have. 

    Here's a closer look at the two pages:

MONTHLY LOG

    Sorry if it's a bit blurry but this is my monthly log setup. I, again, put the month's name on the upper left corner of the page. I wrote it in red; in a simple cursive style with sky blue shadows and a blue star beside it. I made a very big box that is split into six rows and seven columns. In each box, there are the numbers that indicate what day of the month it is. 

    There are five excess boxes in which I wrote the word "Craft". The seventh row is a long rectangular box which I made into my "Currently Watching Youtube Series". I drew the youtube logo on the left and watch series on the right. The one on the right is supposed to be watching series, but because I wrote it too much on the right, I didn't have enough space to write it correctly. Hehe, my bad.

    On the right, there are two sidebars that are entitled Notes in which I keep stuff that I have to remember and the other one is the Upcoming Events section where I write the events that are going to happen that month. I also included a saying, I think, or quote that says " I love you to the stars and back" which I found on the internet and I heard on a movie.

    A closer look at the monthly log pages separated:

    I hope the picture is clear now. I took this picture on my camera that is poor in taking pictures.

DAILY LOG

    

    This is blurry again, sorry. This is how I designed my daily log to be. The days are written vertically. Its color is orange and it comes with a green star under it which contains the day. I used my yellow color pencil to make a border to separate each of the days. I've placed the week I'm in, on the top decorated with brace "{" like shape rotated ninety degrees that has stars at either side, top, and bottom. There are also two sections that are named as notes for the week and what are the events that are going to happen next week. I forgot to put the month markers on either the top corners of the pages. It's like the shape of a rectangle that has a triangle cut at the side. I got this idea from Pypah's Art, here's her February plan with me video -> https://youtu.be/mBFTubN2ydE?t=701. You can see it on the side of her habit tracker.

                              

    Here 's a closer look on the separate pages

OUTRO

    That's pretty much all of it. Thank you for reading! Don't forget to come to see more of my what I do. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of it. See you in the next post! Bye!