PLANWITHME: November/Marraskuu 2017

Late on this one, but at least it's an actually plan with me this time.  And of course, everything what working against me during the filming, but I still pushed through it.  I'm also terrible with working out the voiceover.  Woops.

PLANWITHME: October/Lokakuu 2017

Not really too much of a plan with me as much as it is a flip through. Everything's explained in-video though, so enjoy.

PLANWITHME: Weekly&Daily Setup Video

Last time I posted was a whiiiile ago and I really don't have much excuse for not doing so recently either.  I've just been in a huge slump as far as my art.  I haven't even sketched anything.  The most creativity I've had is doing those changes to my bullet journal.  I feel bad about it, but I know that will only discourage me in the long run, so I need to just forgive myself and move past it.  Once I regain some of my muse, there should be more here.  I have a reminder in my phone for something dumb I wanna sketch, but it's better than nothing. :P

But!  I recently did something a lot of people have been encouraging me to do for a while.  It was a bit difficult, I'll need to work on my filming setup, but I think it came out decent.  If I feel accomplished enough about this, maybe I'll do more in the future.  I already shot October by starting the spreads before even filming this woops.  Maybe November I'll do a monthly plan with me...

September (Syyskuu) Setup

It's been a really long while since I've done some major changes to my bullet journal, which is why I haven't posted much on it.  But with being unexpectedly disconnected from my computer longer than predicted and my recent move to Finland (thusly much bigger changes to routine and such), I needed to rework some stuff.  Some of it I hadn't expected either, but I'm suuuuper pleased with it overall.

This is a modified version of Boho Berry's moon/mood tracker.  When I first saw it, I knew it would work out super well for my monthly covers and here it is!  There will be some tweaks for October's (move the numbers to the outer ring, try to fit in the days of the week, colour changes, etc), but this is the look.

My usual monhly tasks/events page with a few extra Finnish tweaks to continue my learning.  This page is 100% a creation of mine and would appreciate credit if anyone uses it.  I'm so proud of it.

Then my completely overhauled monthly tracker page.  I wanted to ditch having to turn the book to fill in my habits and when I found the inspiration for that in a video by MyLifeinaBullet, she convinced me to try that mood tracker.  I haven't had much desire to and thought it was kind of silly, but I like the layout, so I'll see how it goes for me.

The highlights section is something I hope might help me out a bit in keeping myself motivated.  It's really hard for me to give myself credit for anything and I'm really good at belittling anything I do so...let's hope this helps me break that mentality.

My expenses page is another big change.  I didn't really need as much space in "description" as I somehow convinced myself I did, so shortening this helped me to find an area for jotting down grocery lists that won't fit in my weeklies (or anywhere else).  Then Mabon will be filled in sometime during September, that's most likely not going to change.  These particularly I want to match by the end of the year.

I'm pretty excited for September now with this overhaul.  It's really motivating to look a fresh, new spreads like this.  And it's filled the void left in being unable to continue art projects I don't have access to until my computer parts arrive. xD;  Then I'll be back to posting more regularly~

January Journal Calendar 2017

I'm still playing catch-up with these, because I lost track when my trip started mid-Jan and didn't get back to it. So yup, I still have to do the whole month of February and maintain March in the meantime. 8)

Inked - Filofax Dashboard

Took a bit of willpower to get me there, but here's the finished physical piece!  I'm super fucking proud of it.  I'm pushing myself outside of my comfort zones by pursuing mediums I usually avoid, like lining anything with an actual pen, lol.  Also put that grey mildliner to work. ;)

I'm going to scan it eventually, and put it through some proper line-work in photoshop.  Then I'll figure out how to get it printed to some cardstock, maybe laminate it.  Just need it to divide properly as a binder insert, you know?  Not sure what I'm going to do with all the empty space too, hmmm...

November Journal Calendar

I've had this finished for a few days now, but forgot to get pictures. :x  My bad.

There were almost six days I really struggled with, because I just have "sleep days" where I really need to catch up on my rest due to being very unable to find a good routine in that regard.  I'm not really intending to change that, because it works for me, but it does make this a little hard when I've done nothing but that lol.

And then I'm really less inclined to write in negative days, even though I know I should.  The 1st and the 17th being big ones in this month.

WiP - Filofax Dashboard

A wip of a dashboard design for my filofax binder-journal. :3  It’s far from complete, I plan to throw in a ton of mushrooms and flowers and junk too, but I really like where this went. ♥

October Journal Calendar

I ended up shifting the days on this one, because I think it's ridiculous to try and squeeze in half-boxes for the end days when I have more than enough boxes to work with.  So, excuse the fact that it doesn't start on Sunday or Monday.

It's a lot less colourful than the last two months, but still fun. :P  I didn't expect too much colour, considering the month...lol.

#planwithmechallenge - Days 14-17

I've skipped two days, Goals and Experiments.  I feel the images would just be repeats, but I don't really have individual spreads for things as specific.  I'm also not a very goal-oriented person, as I'm sure I've said before... all you'd really see are lists, like things I plan to draw and write.  Experiments...well, this whole thing is one big experiment, isn't it?



Day 14: Adventures
I don't have the resources to go on very many of them, nor the time or energy most of the time, but the ones I do have are always memorable.  I have another Finland trip coming up in January too, though I'm not sure what kind of a spread I'll be doing for it.  Would be a bit bland to just draw this again with slightly different layovers pft.



Day 15: Self-Care
The whole point of my bullet journal is self-care, so here's the half-year review I did.  Gotta say, though the challenges are nice in theory, I'm not sure how positively they impacting my process, because I either feel like I skip too many or I don't have the time/energy and have to catch up all of the time.  Ehhh...



Day 16: Planning Tips
Intense planning isn't really a focus for me at the moment, more of a long term goal. So, unfortunately I don't have much to advise on the matter. Just take baby steps, if you're anything like me. I tend to be more in the moment due to my BPD.  Planning week-to-week is the best for me at the moment.



Day 17: Colours
I'm pretty fond of colour, and it has always been a part of my system. It always will be too.

#planwithmechallenge - Day 10 & Day 11

Day 10: Journaling
Fashionably late, as always. The reason behind why my dailies get chaotic is exactly this. I do a bit of traditional journaling there to dump and process mentally. This week didn't even manage to stay on these two pages. I usually get it to.



Day 11: Just4Fun
Aside from these challenges, this is probably my biggest and most involved "just4fun" ;P

#planwithmechallenge - Day 6, Day 7, & Day 8

Hustling to catch up on these.  I've been doing them as I should, the problem is I just haven't been posting them as I do them, pft.  It's alright, I guess.  I think I'd prefer not to have tons of consecutive posts in a row on it.  At least not here.




Day 6: My "Why"
Crudely scrawled, but pretty much self explanatory. I don't currently study and I'm not a hugely busy. I do this to minimize dissociative tendencies, to track my BPD cycles, and dispel my most problematic coping mechanism, memory loss.

 

Day 7: Favourite Tools
By far, the most commonly used tools are my Faber-Castell Pitt artist pens, my ruler, and my gel pens. Mildliners are starting to play a bigger role in my journal more recently.

  

Day 8: Sidekicks
I do a lot of messy note-taking in here (even though I showed a neat page lol). I get a bunch of thoughts at work too, so I needed something small that would fit in my pocket.

#planwithmechallenge - Day 5: Holiday Planning

 

I try to do a brief fact sheet for them with my personal plans for the day. Admittedly, I tend to celebrate alone and in smaller ways, eg. targeted tarot readings. I'm pretty solitary.

#planwithmechallenge - Day 4: Routine

Nothing keeps me on track more than my weekly spread. My dailies can be very messy and chaotic, even. But my weeklies really pull me back together after I spew all over the next pages, lol.  This week has changed slightly with the divided note box. :B  We'll see how well that plays out for me.

#planwithmechallenge - Day 2 & Day 3

I skipped day 1 because the prompt was “Introduction” and I really couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do for it.  You guys don’t need me to introduce myself by now tho so, yea.

Day 2: Monthly Overview
I have surprisingly little planned for one of the most important month in my year lol.  But honestly, it's all revolved around planning for Samhain & Hallowe’en, so really that’s all that’s necessary for that page pft.

Day 3: Today
Lots of wiki work for today…and moonsickness is kicking my ass. :x  Funny how my hand smudged the red droplet and it reflects how bad the pain's been lol.

September Journal Calendar

I'm pretty pleased with how these pages look by the end of the month. :>  Let's hope I can keep this up.  Some of these are honestly kind of hard to do.  I have many days at a time where I just haven't done anything of note due to work or I've done the same things as another day.  Gotta get creative in those cases, clearly.

New Bullet Journal Preparations

By January I expect to be done with my Leuchtturm1917 journal, so I picked up a nice Filofax domino from ebay to be my next bullet journal.  I'm already much happier with the binder layout.  I can scrap pages I'm not pleased with and remove the pages for more flexibility in drawing.  Makes such complicated designs like the wheel of the year a lot easier to do for me.

August Journal Calendar

Pretty late on this one, but due to the excitement of the trip I didn't really have the time to fill them in as I went. Here it is tho! August's journal calendar.  This month I decided to do some light coloring with my mildliners.  I think it helped a lot of them pop and look more complete. ♥

Ps. Yup, välipala is missing the I.  It is fixed on the page, but I'm too sick and exhausted to redo the photos, so deal with it.