July 03, 2017

This Month I Enjoyed

July 03, 2017/ Kim Alvarez

Welcome to Day 91 of my #100DaysofBulletJournalIdeas Project!

Idea 91: This Month I Enjoyed

This Month I Enjoyed

Here's a fun collection that is all about commemorating the things you enjoyed over the course of the month.

Some ideas to include can be:

Books you read
Shows you watched
Movies you watched
Apps you enjoyed
Events you enjoyed
Favorite meals
Favorite songs
Memories with Friends
Accomplishments

And more!

This idea is in the same vein as idea 73, a log that spans the lifetime of your Bullet Journal, except that it's on a monthly scale. It's a coincidence that I received a comment on that article about how they enjoy doing that, but in a monthly scale, like I've described here! :)

I added icons to add a bit of extra fun, but it's really up to you however you decide to run with this idea :)

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Excited about being featured on @AARP along with @BulletJournal’s inventor @RyderCarroll recently! 😊 The link is in my bio if you’d like to read the article! #bulletjournal #bujo

Happy #CalligraphyDay! Scroll to enjoy a short and messy video while I’m trying out a new phone stand since my last one broke ages ago and I finally got a new one...the angle is all sorts of weird and my hand was in a cramped position, but all in good messy fun I suppose. I am also a little rusty, haven’t done brush pen calligraphy in a while. The photo version of it looks a little nicer haha, I guess it’s true what they say about angles 😂 What’s your favorite kind of calligraphy? Brush pen, dip pen, marker, watercolor, digital, fountain pen, pencil, pen, faux, etc.? Wow, there are a lot of different kinds, I’m sure I’m missing some, too. Not to mention styles such as Copperplate and Spencerian. I love them all, really. They’re all a fun way to learn something new and stretch your creative muscles all while having fun with the mess and incremental improvement that comes with it 💛 I have some calligraphy supply recommendations in the links in my bio if you’re interested in that sort of thing 😊 #calligraphy #calligraphylove #worldcalligraphyday #writing #brushpen

Happy Book Lovers Day! This is a peek of some of what’s on my nightstand. I usually have a pile of various books I’m reading along with my Kindle tucked in there for good measure. I love reading physical books. I love holding them and seeing my reading progress with each page flip. I also love reading e-books, it’s fun swiping through the pages and picking up where I left off on my phone when I’m waiting for something and switching between the two.

I have books off to the side of my nightstand in a bookcase, more books in another bookcase, The Bullet Journal Method book on my desk for @TheBulletJournalMethodBookClub, and books next to the cozy yellow reading chair. Currently looking into putting up more shelves for more books 🥰 I love books so much that I got this book-themed tissue holder...which I occasionally refill, I usually prop the tissue box on top, because, well, I guess I’m a little silly like that 😂😅 I’m also always on the lookout for bookends.

Do you love reading? Do you prefer physical books, e-books, or audiobooks? What are you currently reading? And what do you want to read next?

#bookloversday #books #bookstagram #bibliophile #book #reading #bookstack

Today’s my birthday! This is the fifth birthday I’ve celebrated here online 🥳 Celebrating with a new incredible ink I just received as a sweet gift 😍 Also exciting news! I created something I’ve been wanting to make for a while now: a month calendar! You were so supportive and kind about the sunflower I shared recently and that encouraged me to share a bit of my art and love of calendars with this month calendar. You can print it out and stick it in your notebook or frame it and put it on the wall or your desk to reference 💖. There’s 30 petals so you can color in a petal each day as a way to check in with yourself or as a minimal mood or habit tracker 🌻 I hope you enjoy it as much I enjoyed creating it. You can grab it from my shop @tinyrayofsunshinedesigns via the link in my bio. Now I’m off to enjoy the rest of my birthday 🥰 Thanks for 5 lovely birthdays here so far! ☀️💖 #birthday #ink #calligraphy #cursive #tinyrayofsunshinedesigns #printable #sunflower #monthcalendar #bulletjournal #bulletjournaltracker

The kind folks at BENU @BENUpen recently sent me a Briolette Luminous Blue fountain pen along with the matching holder to review. It’s a pen I’ve been interested in, so I was thrilled when they reached out.

You can read my first impressions in the photos.

I wrote with it on a daily basis for a couple of weeks to test out how it performs.
- The silver shards look like they’re suspended in a mesmerizing way.
- It’s comfortable to hold, good weight, and the acrylic resin it’s made out of feels smooth and high quality.
- It’s great for writing in my notebooks with its EF nib.
- The nib (#5 Schmidt) has a bit of feedback while being smooth and pleasant to write with and has a slight amount of line variation.
- The included converter (standard international) has a generous ink capacity and after using it to write short and long-form as well as occasionally draw, I still had a lot of ink left.
- I looked forward to using it since it writes well and it was fun to feel like I was breaking off a crystal stalagmite to write with.
- Doesn’t post (cap on body while writing), but that’s ok since I rarely do.
- No clip, but the facets (diamond-like plates on the body), prevent it from rolling away.
- Both the pen and holder glow in the dark, which adds a bonus unique interest.

After a couple of weeks, I set it aside on its side (keeping in mind not everyone may get the matching holder) for a couple of weeks to see whether it would dry out or if it would start back up again when I went to reach for it. I tend to rotate between several fountain pens at a time and sometimes leave some without use for a while, so I wanted to know whether it would still write. I’m happy to report that it started right away!

I continued my thorough review by using it until the ink ran out to test its performance over time. It took a while - which I thought was a good thing because that meant the ink lasted quite a while. Definitely a great pen to take notes with.

Scroll to watch a walkthrough video of it and a writing sample.🖋 It’s a fun addition to any collection!

You can grab these from @GouletPens. Special thanks to @Brian.Goulet for sending BENU my way!

#sponsored #benupen #gouletpens

Here’s the whole page welcoming a new month. Featuring quick sketches of a few flowers I saw when I went on a walk the other day. 😊 Sometimes it’s the tiny things that help to brighten things up 🌻 #bulletjournal #notebooklove #flowers #inkadventures

Here’s a simple little intro page for the month 😊 May we head into new adventures 🌻 #bujo #bulletjournal #notebooklove

Kept my Month in Review simple this time, logging any and all thoughts. Fun things that happened, things I tried out, experiments, new finds, moments I’m grateful for, kind messages, some ideas, and more! Such a fun way to reflect 😊 A lovely review all logged in one place to wrap up the month. Do you reflect on your month?
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Somewhere in the aloneness we feel comfort
If only temporarily for a time
A soothing, scathing ember flowing
Through the gentleness unspoken
A calming fire
Can be reignited,
Reinvigorated
Reimagined.
A pulsing, a pause.
Weeping, in the volcanic ash
Somewhere you -
Could not extinguish

Today marks the 3 year anniversary of when I first shared the FREE Bullet Journal Reference Guide. Thanks to your appreciation of it, sharing it, and translating it to 30 languages(!!!) it has become a much greater resource than I could have ever imagined. It’s exciting to me that in 3 years, we’ve grown this to 30 translations!

When I first created it, it took me hours of brainstorming, non-stop drafting, re-drafting, and lovingly handcrafting each part after revising all the resources I could think of to create something I thought would help synthesize everything Ryder @RyderCarroll wants you to know about getting started with Bullet Journaling, along with extra info added by me.
In 3 years, it has grown to 30 translations thanks to all of the wonderful Bullet Journalists around the world who took the time to create a translation that would help others get started Bullet Journaling.

It’s meant a lot to me how much this has spread, especially when Ryder took notice of it and welcomed it as part of the BulletJournal.com website. This is all thanks to your support.
Today, we have the guide in:

English
Arabic
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Farsi
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Panduan
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Russian
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Thank you to everyone who has seen this as a useful resource and shared it.
To download it in the language of your choice, sign up to my Sunny Newsletter (link in bio), or @BulletJournal’s newsletter (or both). To celebrate 3 years of the guide, I’m giving away a little something as a thank you (scroll to see what it is). Enter the giveaway in the latest article through the link in my bio.
Thank you! Feel free to send over a translation!
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Check out this cute feature I wrote for Jumpstart Magazine @JumpstartMag! I just picked up this issue they sent over and saw that they added these adorable illustrations! I like how they edited my photo to look like I’m holding the Nordic blue color Bullet Journal to match the color motif they were going for 😊. To clarify for step two, title the next 4 pages after the Index, Future Log 💗 Hope you enjoy and this helps you out! Thanks again for the feature, Min and everyone at @jumpstartmag! 🥰 #BulletJournal #BuJo #BulletJournaling #howtoBulletJournal

We discussed this over at @thebulletjournalmethodbookclub recently, thought it’s been a while since we talked about this here. Would love to hear your thoughts on which you prefer and why. If you use another, share that below also. 😊 Feel free to use the #taskbulletorcheckbox and the #bulletjournalkey hashtags to share visual examples and your reasoning if you’d like to as well! #BulletJournal

Here’s a little March in review. I set up a few topics that came to mind in order to log a snapshot of the month. I wrote a small snippet on how it went overall and logged the rest in bullets. Here are the topics:

How did it go? (An overall feel of how the month went).
Progress made (it can be hard to remember everything that was done. This is a great opportunity to reflect and log).
Tough moments (Experiences to sit with and learn from).
Happy moments (To balance out the tough moments, recall positive moments).
New (I tend to forget some things I buy and when. In order to be more mindful and aware of them, I’ve logged them here).
Notable (Most of the previous topics were logged by memory. This topic is where I flipped back through all of my pages from the previous month and logged moments that brought happiness, were notable, where progres was made, or that I simply wanted to capture here as well. It’s a catchall encompassing all of the topics so nothing got forgotten). Do you reflect on how your month went?
#BulletJournal #BulletJournalMonthReview #BuJo #Leuchtturm1917 #Lamy #LamyStudio

Happy April! Hope my photo from yesterday’s April fools silliness gave you a chuckle 😜 I’m so excited to share with you my Monthly Log for this month! It’s inspired by notepaper and I love it 😍 I even put together a tiny tutorial on the blog on how to make it that you can check out via the link in bio. It’s pretty self-evident, but the tiny tutorial is there in case you’d like the step-by-step with tips, supply recommendations, and more photos 😊💛 #bulletjournalmonthlylog #bulletjournal #monthlylog #notepaper