February Bullet Journal

Happy last weekend of January! you made it! For February’s bullet journal theme is drum roll 90s! Its no secret that I love nostalgia and because of that I love the 90s. By the end of last months theme (Among Us) I was done and over it. I want a theme this month that was a litte more broad. I wanted something I could play with and not get bored of. I recently added a 90’s sticker sheet to my Esty shop (you can find that here) I did a fake bullet journal type page and I had fun making it that I wanted to so a whole month 90s. Lets get into it.

For the cover page I did some 90’s inspired patterns with popular 90’s slang. This was so fun and nostalgic, I felt like i was in middle school all over again decorating my binder or front page of my notebook. So the month at a glance page I kept it pretty simple again. I really like one page versus two, so i used use some classic 90’s bubble letters and carried over the colors from the cover page.

Next one of my favs the mood tracker page. Who had a tamagotchi and has thought about getting one again as an adult? slowly raises hand. I loved them back in the day and I feel like watching one poop and eat and eventually die would bring me so much joy lol. So I used tamagotchis as my mood tracker for this month. I love how this page turned out and I’m very excited to fill in my moods for the month. Not only do I plan on coloring in the tamagotchi but also filling in the middle screen with a smiley face or sad face. I think the finished page will be really fun. Next to that I did a simple 90s inspired graphic page for lists.

For each weekly spread, with the help and encouragement of my twitch chat, Ill be picking a 90’s theme like 90s cartoons or 90’s toys. The first week I wanted to pay homage once again to everyone’s notebooks and school supplies with Lisa Frank. I am obsessed with how this turned out. I enjoyed drawing this spread so much. Twitch got to see me create this spread live and I’m thinking about uploading that video to YouTube to share with everyone else. Ill of course post it here also. If you’d like to watch me create art including bullet journals live you can find my twitch here. Let know if you like how this weekly spread turned out as much as I do.

Ill be live streaming my weekly spreads this month on twitch because of how excited I am about this month. Follow me on twitch to get notified about when I go live.

Until Next Time,

Mickey

January Bullet Journal Review

Its that time of the month! no not that time a Flo… Its time to get ready for next month in the 2021 bullet journal. February is almost here and I cant believe how fast January went by. Before we dive into my February bullet journal lets review January. More specifically what worked for me and what didn’t work for me. To see more of my January Bullet journal check it out here: Jan Bujo.

I enjoyed January’s mood tracker this really worked for me. Use a scale of five colors allowed me to analyze how I felt with putting a true label or name to how I felt. This is the first time in a long time I actually took the time to sit with my emotions and figure out how I felt the previous day and why. Through this practice I realized that I associate how good I felt with how productive I was. If I felt like I didn’t do anything significantly productive I felt bad and in turn felt bad about myself. Though I do love that I do that I do love that I now know that about myself and can acknowledge that about myself and my feelings.

I never enjoyed habit trackers I’ve always had a hard time keeping up with them by the end of the month I cared less about the things I felt important to track at the beginning of the month. Which would lead to me not tracker habits by the end of the month and kind of leaving me feeling bad about it. I realized in week two there were some thing I wanted to make habits of so I started doing weekly habit trackers. This really works for me. This allowed me to change the habits weekly without looking at a daunting monthly tracker.

Those were the biggest take aways from Januarys Bullet journal. Tomorrow Ill post What I have so far for February!

Until next time,

Mickey

2021 Bullet Journal

Bullet journaling is my favorite way to stay organized. In all actuality it is THE way I say organized. I love it because its essentially a planner but on my terms. I decide what each month looks like and what each week looks like. I get to decide what I want to track and each month, and I can see if what I did the previous month is going to work for me or not. I get to change it and mold it to what fits my needs, apposed to a structure someone else made for me. I wont go into detail about how to use a bullet journal (there’s plenty of how-tos on the internet. Pinterest is a great resource) But I’ll share here what I create and what worked for me and what didn’t. I live stream my bullet journal every month on twitch if you’d like to watch this live. The videos are still up if you like to go back and watch. you can find there here: https://www.twitch.tv/ahteamickey

The end of 2020 I was doing a lot of laying in bed playing Among Us. Some might say I was obsessed.. This addicting game is what inspired my 2021 bullet journal cover and first theme. I don’t usually paint on the cover but I just loved this idea too much to not have it on the cover.

At the start of my bullet journal I have my year at a glance, its just a place to track important dates like birthdays and anniversaries in advance. I also have a goal page, which took me a long time to fill in because of how unexpectedly crazy 2020 was. Setting goals for 2021 felt just as hopeless as the previous year. But I mustarded up all the hope I have a made some goals for myself which I may write about in a future post. Next is a page is a page to track the books and movies I’ve read and watched. Let me know if I’m alone in this but I love looking back on old bullet journals and seeing where I was in my life and what I enjoyed. Honestly, I’m hoping having a book tracker will encourage me to keep reading, something I wish I did more of last.

Now begins January. I kept my monthly spread small. I felt like I just had no idea what January had in store for me so creating a big monthly spread just didn’t feel right. The drawing next to the January spread was influenced by my twitch stream and I love it. I do not love the quality of paper in my new bullet journal however. Last year I got an inexpensive journal from Michaels. This year I want to do a more creative spread so I thought Id treat myself with a more expensive journal. I bought myself a Moleskine dotted journal. The paper quality is terrible everything bleeds through its so frustrating. This year Ill have to get creative with using other paper and gluing it in.

For my mood tracker I just did the beans from Among Us and used a five part color key to show my moods for the day. I wanted the moods to be very generalized because feelings and moods are very complex and trying to narrow down each mood would be impossible. We’ll revisit this in a month to see how this worked for me.

My first weekly spread is very simple. Again I didn’t know what January had/has in store for me. The next week when I figured out what I want to do and how I was using my bullet journal in this new year I created a more specific to my needs weekly spread.

Now you are mostly caught up. I’ll keep updating how my bullet journal is going here. Let me know if you’re bullet journaling and how its going for you!

Until next time,

Mickey