November 25, 2016

#RockYourHandwriting December

November 25, 2016/ Kim Alvarez

#RockYourHandwriting December

Welcome to a new month of writing practice fun!

November 23, 2016

#PlanWithMeChallenge December

November 23, 2016/ Kim Alvarez

#PlanWithMeChallenge December

A fresh challenge for the end of the year!

October 28, 2016

#RockYourHandwriting November

October 28, 2016/ Kim Alvarez

#RockYourHandwriting November

A challenge created to help you improve your handwriting - in any style you desire!

October 26, 2016

#PlanWithMeChallenge November

October 26, 2016/ Kim Alvarez

#PlanWithMeChallenge November

A challenge created to help you get more out of your planner system and get inspiration from our lovely community :)

September 30, 2016

#RockYourHandwriting October

September 30, 2016/ Kim Alvarez

#RockYourHandwriting October

Fresh new challenge to help you improve your handwriting!

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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?
#bulletjournal #bujo #monthinreview #bulletjournalmonthlyreview #journal #leuchtturm1917 #notebooklove #fountainpens #ink

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
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
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!
#BulletJournal #BulletJournalReferenceGuide

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

I’m pleased to announce that @BulletJournal and @Leuchtturm1917 have sent me the first prototype of a gigantic Bullet Journal notebook! See how it dwarfs all of these supplies 🤪 #aprilfools #bulletjournal #leuchtturm1917 #silly

Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. #bulletjournaldailylog #bulletjournal

I saw this on r/fountainpens on Reddit and had to share 😂😂😂 This totally applies to all pen collecting and stationery gathering as well, though. This is definitely my brain and I when I window shop online or head to a few local shops that have stationery I can check out before I buy...anyone else? 😂😂😂 P.S. If anyone knows who created this I’d love to give them credit! I’m not sure if who I saw it from created it themselves 🤷‍♀️ I also can’t find the original post now #stationerymeme #meme #pens #notebooks #stationery #fountainpens #fountainpenmemes #bulletjournal #bujo #pen #brushpen #planner

This is what I see when I sit down at my desk: my beautiful yellow reading chair. It’s a happy burst of sunshine sitting below the window, where the sun and rainbow dance on it most days. I enjoy curling up on it with a good book. It’s been a bit gloomy the last couple of days, with bits of sunshine here and there between the rain showers, so I brought the sunflowers over from the living room. My boyfriend surprised me with these beautiful sunflowers a few days ago. I’ve been working on some sunflower infused projects so it’s been the perfect inspo and added brightness to my days 😊 I have an L-shaped custom desk I put together, so this is the view I most often see. What brightens up your day? #sunflower #sunshine #desk #notebooklove #leuchtturm1917 #ikea #readingchair

Happy first day of Spring! Here’s some fun header lettering for today’s #bulletjournaldailylog 😊 #bulletjournal #bujo #bulletjournalheader

Um, since when has this little detail been here?!?! 😍😍😍 I just noticed this after grabbing it from my bookshelf, or rather, my notebookshelf 😁 I cleaned up my desk and set it up there, it usually lives on my desk at the ready. A few months ago when I shared a short video of the Collector’s edition of The Bullet Journal Method box set, I mentioned how I’d love to see the little lightning bolt detail on the spine of the luxe edition on the regular Bullet Journal editions as well and...I guess someone was listening because look at this! 😍 @RyderCarroll was this your doing? Oh man, I love it! I recently picked this one up from Barnes and Noble, but I also picked up another one and that one doesn’t have this detail so...now I’m going to be looking out for this everywhere 😍 Details like this make me so happy! #BulletJournal #Leuchtturm1917 #lightningbolt #detailsmakeallthedifference #howcute

It had been a while since I’d drawn or painted, that when I created this a couple of weeks ago I stared at it for a little while afterward contemplating. Is this even my style? It’d been so long that sometimes something that was a constant activity can seem a little strange to you. This was a quick illustration with a bit of color. Perhaps that was it, it was something new-ish to me. I usually either sketch (with pencil) or play with color. Doing both (and with pen) is something I haven’t done much of. It was fun to put together this sunflower from memory. I enjoyed adding to it, one petal at a time. 🌻 #art #illustration #watercolor #sunflower