June Planner-Journal Setup (2021)

hello it's don michelle from boho bloom and today we're going to take a look at the may pages in my a6 everyday carry planner slash journal and we're also going to set up for june so in may um i did sort of a theme based on a tarot deck so it kind of started out it was going to be a whale theme and then it ended up basically being a theme totally based on the cards that i was pulling from the tarot deck which was really fun i had of course my setup for may that i did on my calendar and you can see here that i have filled that out with the exception of today because today is actually the 31st so i haven't gotten anything filled out for today but i have my calendar here that i do my thing that i'm grateful for or memory or something like that that i track um every day and you can see that i've done it for several months now and it's just kind of fun to go back and look here and so every day yeah i just go through and and kind of make a note of something that was memorable or something that i was grateful for that day it's been a really fun practice so i have my calendar here this is basically my brain dump sorry they always catch my lights because they are quite shiny um you know they're plastic and i always have my covers with my brain dump section always has my kids i swap out the covers but the pictures stay the same because of the most recent pictures i have of my kids and this is basically just my brain dump i did actually switch it out to a new one because i filled up with the the previous one and something i did do a little bit different which i can show you in here is i created a focus page with sticky notes on it because one of the things that i was finding was that i was kind of brain dumping important things that i needed to like like i needed to remember to put it elsewhere or like to do something with it right i would end up just kind of writing it all over this front page in the other book and it ended up being a big scribbly mess that i just couldn't read by the end of the month so what i did here was i just created a focus page this is the first page of my new insert and these are just from paper penguin company they're just plain asics inserts the quality is fantastic and they are very affordable so it's okay that i go through them pretty quickly so anyway i just took a little small stack of sticky notes and i put them in here so that i could do that same process but then just basically peel off the sticky note when it got full and i would have a fresh one underneath because basically what i ended up doing was sometimes when i am like in a hurry or in the middle of something and i get like an idea or i'm like oh yeah i need to remember too what i would do would be to just pick this up open to the first page and then scribble something on the top of it and then later on i would go through and i would either like act on it or move it where it needed to be or whatever the case was like most of the time it was like work-related stuff that i needed to then transfer over and flush out in my planner for my for my channels so i'm hoping this will work a little bit better the other thing that i did in the front here in the first few pages was i actually kind of created sort of like a bullet journal style or the collection style list in the front here so i've noticed that i've kind of like accumulated a lot of books i have a lot of new books on my shelf and sometimes they get lost in the mix because they're just mixed in with the other books that i've already read so i started a books to read list um in here so that i could when i'm ready to move on to a new book i can come to this list and go oh yeah i still need to read this some of them are books that are i am in the process of reading right now this is just a lot more helpful than kind of going to my shelf as much as i enjoy looking at my books it's a little bit more helpful than going to my shelves and trying to find the new books in in the whole category so hopefully that will be helpful so i've dedicated two pages to that here in the front this does mean that when i fill this brain dump thing up i will have to rewrite this list but you can see i didn't do anything fancy with it so it'll be real quick to rewrite and then the books that i've read i just won't include in the next list moving forward i also have a bags to make a decks to mod and then then it goes into notes so i did kind of include a little bit of a collections just in this in the front there because i thought that might be helpful to again have that on hand so here is my daily planner slash journal and i'm currently using an asicstology now this one is almost full it's not it's actually not quite full there's i could probably get another month out of it but it's getting quite difficult to work in and i think i want to kind of try to like this with the craft paper was not a great idea for this particular setup because it added a ton of bulk and awkwardness to the i'm gonna pull my little clip off an awkwardness to it and so it's close enough that i got a new one to um start in june i also finally got my little orca it's a was a head came on a little paper clip i take them off the paper clips and i put them on the magnetic clips because i don't like the way the paper the traditional paper clips bends the paper in my um stology so i put them on the little magnetic clips instead and i finally got my orca so i'm excited about that okay let's jump into my pages for may so here was my cover page so anyway moving through my daily planner slash journal if this is your first time seeing it basically what i do is i use my two two page daily spreads as pretty much like a journal slash planner so i have some journaling in here and i have some planner things listed in here and it's just kind of a mixture of the two now what i did this whole month was i was pulling a card a day from the gentle tarot and i was using the imagery and the illustrations on those cards to create the designs on the page so if you're unfamiliar with that deck or do not read tarot then um it's just pretty illustrations right but for those of you who are familiar with the deck and you might notice some of the illustrations that tie in and that is always written in this kind of coppery pen here another thing i was doing is recording my nighttime polls a lot on the bottom um so anyway here was sunday you can see it's just a mix of kind of planner like here's some things i needed to do some errands i needed to run something i needed to do and then here's kind of like some journaling and then here's like some card pulls so it's just kind of a mix of whatever and then in between each week i have a week on two pages layout where it's this is like appointments most of the time appointments or things that i need to remember to do and this allows me to forward plan so that um when i kind of just dump things on here and then when it actually comes to the day then i can just for one look back at the list and go okay is that something i still need to do today or can it be marked off my list and then i just incorporate it into the daily pages here so again it's nothing too terribly like fancy or rigid these pages just evolve however it is that they evolve throughout the day and again that all the illustrations come from the tarot deck that i was reading so this particular day i pulled the eight of wands i really don't like the craft paper i really wish i hadn't done that it was kind of a pain in the butt all month long and i don't like the bulk that it added you can see this one very heavily journaling and i don't like that i swapped where it was at first when i first did it i was like oh that's gonna be fun it'll add some variety yeah i didn't like it and it mostly is because of the bulk and secondly it's because it just didn't match what i ended up doing this i think would have been so much better if i would have left that off and just written the date and allowed the illustrations to create all the um all the like here's a good example like i could have pulled this whole thing totally across here if i hadn't done this craft paper thing and i tried to pull it up and it wouldn't pull up like without ripping the paper so i just left it and i dealt with it all throughout the month but i really didn't like it really wasn't my favorite it was really fun to pull in my tarot card into my everyday journal and again you can see here's another week it was just like here's one i really like because this is the kind of decorative edging that's on the hanging woman card and sew and some of the flowers that are on that card so i just pulled that in it was really fun to do that as kind of a continuation of that practice every morning and i did really enjoy that so you can see that is the the majority of the month and how it went some days i did more than others some days it was like really just get it in there and get on with my day um occasionally there are days where i didn't come back to my journal again like see this i really didn't like this it just like this whole page i don't like the way it turned out um this page was kind of cool because i included like the volcano and the flowers and like there was a lot of doodling on that day i usually don't do a ton of stuff on sunday it is usually primarily my journaling day so i tend to do a bit more on those days so again here's my week layout i started incorporating my monday card because these were just blank just the dates and the lines so the card that i pulled for monday i started using that as kind of the basis for my weekly spread as well just because it seemed kind of kind of natural because monday is a lot of times sometimes i do it on sunday but most of the time monday is when i come and sit and figure out what i need to do for the week i do try to do it on sunday sometimes but most the time i'm busy doing other things on sunday so yeah that's basically how the whole week ended up going um some of them i really really like it some of them are like you could tell i phoned it in i like this one and again it just kind of depended on how much time i had in the morning as well like this one i spent a lot of time trying to doodle this whale not my strong suit but i mean it came out okay this is the main image on the strength card so it was really fun um this one i used to mark the week ahead and so you can see in this week i was really busy last week so i really didn't have time to do a lot um i was full on into work i didn't decorate this page at all i very rarely put anything in it just had a few couple things that i wanted to remember sometimes that happens monday here's a day where again i didn't pull a card that was the day i was sick i remember that i just i did journal because i i came back and journaled at the end of the um evening but i really didn't i didn't pull carter didn't do anything that day cause i really didn't feel good so here's tuesday wednesday thursday i do like this one with the little cat down here i'm not great at animals but it was fun to do this one was fun to do i kind of got into the borders because on that particular deck all the cards have different colored borders and again if i hadn't done the craft paper i probably would have done that throughout the whole month where each card or each spread would have had the same border color as the card that would have been really cool but i kind of blew that with this craft paper thing that i had going on i won't be doing that again it doesn't work it's great for a lot of my different journals but it doesn't work in this particular one so here's sunday and that's the last day that i did again kind of really basic but um you know it totally works and that's the thing that i really like about this process is each page just kind of works as it needs to work for that day and that's really all that matters um and that's the end because now we're going to actually move into a different stology okay so i have made some space and i have some things that i'm going to be using um for the next month setup i'm probably not going to actually do it on camera like i've done previously just because it takes way too long and it makes it a lot harder to put it together um but i did want to show you what i got and then i'll put it all together and then we'll come back and see what it looks like at the end so the first thing the very first thing is that i have a theme every month right and it's usually inspired by something that i see so i saw this image on um an on an instagram account okay so there's her instagram account and i'm just gonna kind of scroll through because oh my goodness there's the bee she's also making a tarot deck sorry like my hand's shaking but anyway she makes the most beautiful artwork and occasionally i just come across an image like that and i'm like oh my goodness that just really speaks to me i'm actually not a huge bee person but i really love this image let me get it really close in for you so you can see it it's just absolutely beautiful and so that inspired um my setup for the month i actually found that and saved that like a couple of weeks ago and the funny thing is is that i knew i wanted to do a bee theme at some point and so like two or three months ago i ordered a little bee clip um one of these we'll see it here when i'm done setting it up but um and i've just been hanging on to it knowing that at some point i wanted to do a bee theme so anyway that was the inspiration for everything that i got for this month i did again like i said i got a new stology because i want to kind of try to keep the bulk down this time and another thing that i found is a new cover so i have just a plain plastic cover you can see it there on this one that i just ordered off at amazon and i found these um designed ones i don't have anything good to put it on there you can kind of see it you'll see it when i when i actually put it on that journal but it has these white flowers on it and this one actually has like pockets in it and stuff so like it's so much nicer than this little cheapy one that i bought i mean this worked just fine but this one is definitely i think a higher quality it feels like it's a little bit thinner but it has like more layer to it which gives it some more stability i think and it's got like some little pocket areas in it which i don't know if i'll use that but that's really nice it doesn't have the pen holder like this one had but i can't use the pen holder because it sits in the exact same place as the pen holder that's on my chic sparrow cover so it never got used but if you're not putting it in a cover that is something to note there is no pen holder on this one and this one is from um laura phelps design again these are not like promotional products or anything like that i have no affiliation with these people these are just things that i saw i purchased and i wanted to use in my own journals so when i find high quality products from people that you know have their particularly when they have their own small shops i really love to share that so that everybody else can see it so lauren phelps design i will leave a link in the description box for you so that you can um check her out if you want and then i found some bee themed ephemera stuff from paper minty studio and i thought we'd just open that up together real quick because that would be fun and you can see what i got there and i also just happened upon like again a couple weeks ago i was in joann's they were having a sale on these big packs of paper and this one had bees and i was like oh well there's my there's my little you know decorative cupboards so so that's all of that um let's open up the paper minty paper minty studio pack um because look how cute it's put together i will be saving this bag for sure and this string i save i save everything because these are fantastic things to use in in your journaling you know particularly for junk journaling which is something i haven't had a ton of time to do and i would really like to get back to you because i do really love creating junk journals and i don't remember what i ordered so because this has been i ordered this like i want to say three weeks ago and i have kept it on my shelf and not gotten into it so that i could open it here with you today so i think yeah i got stickers and washi so i got some um bee themed washi and it matches the sticker sticker pack so it's going to be hard to see with the paper on in the glare but i'm sure i'll use some so you'll probably be able to see it then and then some kind of craft paper washi um with with little white flowers on it which again matched everything which it kind of matched this and i love that it's the craft paper look so i got the washi um because paper minty studio does these like collections and they have stickers and they have washi that matches so you can like if we find a theme like there's all kinds of things you can get to go with it this is a little thank you sheet because i didn't order these but oh my goodness those are the most perfect flowers i love that definitely we'll be using those and then of course this was the main thing that i was after in addition to the washi is these stickers and they are from the midnight b set which i thought just complemented this beautifully so that's everything i got from there i'm going to set it all up we'll do a flip through and i will kind of talk you through my process a little bit but it's the same thing every month i'm just using different stuff to create it and it makes the video really really long so we're gonna skip that this time let me know what you think if you're like totally cool with me skipping it or you're like hey that's my favorite part why did you cut that out just totally let me know in the comments for this time we're gonna try skipping all the paper cutting and the gluing and the you know shoving papers in and out of things and we're just gonna go straight to the flip through okay so i've made a complete and utter mess and i thought you know what rather than like trying to put my table all back together and you know doing all of that i'm just going to show you where i'm at um i basically have everything put together now and i just need to kind of get it all in in my book so i did finally change out the pockets i know they've been like the same for a couple of months now and i thought since i'm kind of going with this black and white yellow bee theme here i would add some elements from the craft paper generally the sheets that like have the little cards and stuff and i cut a few of those out and i used quite a bit of them this time which is kind of fun i don't usually do that let's talk a little bit about real quick what i did and i'll show you real quick what i used and i'm not going to worry about trying to put this all back together super nice to do this layout partially because um it's much easier to show you what i created when they're not in these plastic covers and just so that you can see them in a little bit more detail so i always have three of my covers right i have my calendar which sits in the first one so i did end up creating a calendar or my layout for june and i just did some flower doodles a little bit of a washi and one of the stickers now i only have this one sticker sheet so i'm probably gonna be pretty precious with them because i need to kind of make that whole sheet last throughout the month so i'm just doing them really sporadically i do have a couple different washes that i used obviously the two that i got from paper minty studio neither one i used on that page but i did use those this was a little package with little bees and a little honeycomb i used this gold honeycomb quite a bit and these little bees i'm hoping to just kind of cut them out and make them like little stickers which i haven't done yet but i will do those i believe came from hobby lobby i do believe um and then this little floral here i believe came from a pack from hobby lobby as well and then this was a pack that came off of amazon which is just the plaid or the grid pattern i use this a lot too so these were the washi's that i used just so that you can see them and i as you'll see i did not like full on do the whole month because i have a lot of stuff i need to try to get done today so i just wanted to kind of get it going and then i have more time later this week i can sit down and kind of finish flushing it out so the journal is first and that always has my cover page for the um for the month with the theme so this is the theme that i created i hope that is focusing it's hard for me to tell because i don't have my glasses on um so i did of course my inspiration piece here in the center some washi this is that same that same pattern or piece of paper that i have reused since april it started out originally as a background for my april cover then i used it in may remember it was behind the whale and i pulled it off again cut it down even further and reused it for june just because i wanted that pattern on there and i thought let's just see how long we can keep this one piece of paper going so then i put some washi down the two different patterns and this is actually the top of this card here where i just tore it off rounded the corner stamp the month and date and it is on a piece of the craft paper this has the little gold bees i'm definitely going to be pulling gold in this month and i do quite like the back and these are reversible so i don't need to add a back page in which is really nice so here's going to be the back side of that again that's another one of those tabs i just tore the top off rounded the corners and just glued it on top of a piece of the craft paper from that pack and again color in that honeycomb pattern i like really well so i'm keeping that in there so those just need to go i never know which is which they need to go in here um but as you'll see it's like much easier to show you what they look like before i put them in here because once i put them in here then like the camera catches them and it just you know it's hard to show but i can show you what it looks like again see that that camera is going to catch it so this is going to go in here but i need to get my my big thing in here first the other one that i did is my is i don't i don't do anything to this this is my brain dump where i had like the focus right um i don't do anything to that that's just it has its thing but i do create inserts to go in the cover so they are always of my kids so this is the one that i created for ash which says learn and grow which i thought was really appropriate considering ash is getting ready to graduate high school so exciting and i just like that with the butterfly it does also have the gold which is really cool again this is a piece of craft paper and i never glue these pictures on so that they're real easy for me to move month to month i just put some washi to hold them down and they do go in the plastic cover so they don't move throughout the month um the back on this one i wasn't that thrilled with so i pulled in my favorite little black and white dot paper and that's going to go in for the back and then on the other side of that i have my one with andrew again using the craft paper from that pack some washi to hold his picture down this was another one of those little tags from the pack it says thinking of you which again i thought was really appropriate because um andrew is now living in a different state and we often miss him so i thought that was a great one to include there and i do really like the back of this paper so that one's staying as it is so put those in there and then that's that one completed front back and insides i don't know did i show you the inside of these together i think i forgot to not that it really matters but so that's the journal the brain dump i got my pockets done i have my my carnage from may i do save all these because i i will reuse this stuff in other in other projects okay so i did also put the lauren phelps cover on my new asyxtology and i did also stamp this one um same as i had in in this one so that they you know oops so they're they're a matching set and i know that they go to go together and i love the addition of the flowers um i kind of would prefer this be on the front and i guess i could turn it around but the pockets all go this way so if i turn it around it wouldn't the pockets would be you know totally non-usable anyway let's look at what i actually did in here so i have my setup for my cover page for june i didn't layer on a bunch of craft paper this time i instead i just did the one picture that i glued on with some washi to cap it off and i just did some doodles and stamped down here the month and the year i'm gonna try to keep this one a little less bulky so that it's just easier for me to write in every day so you'll see that i didn't include a lot of layers so i did go ahead and set up this week because i i do need to actually use this and forward plan for this week i did include a couple of stickers i'm probably like i said going to be really precious with these stickers because i only have the one sheet and so i'll probably only do them on my weekly layout which will be really nice because this page tends to be not so pretty because i tend to put less effort into it but i included some of the little bonus stickers she included and some of the midnight b stickers and then i stamped everything this time which i definitely want to do this month because i love the look of it it takes like four times as long but i love the look of it so later on this week when i have some extra time i will go through and finish stamping out the rest of the month but i'm all ready to go for my setup to for my forward planing for june and then i did go ahead and do today's layout because you know obviously i need to actually work in this and so i decided to do just the um the tombow line which i used the 990 for this and then i stamped the number and the day over the top and then the rest of it was just doodles using my other tombow markers and you'll see that i was kind of taking influence from these stickers so i'm hoping to kind of do just some drawing influence some doodle influence for my days while still pulling in that theme i'm going to have to get way better at drawing bees but for that i just used the 991 the uh 985 which is this kind of orangey color the 991 is this lighter yellow color here in the same that i use for like the stars um this is zero to six is what i used for all the stems and i will probably write these down and or maybe write them on the back of one of these cards so that i can know which numbers i used because i don't hold these out they just go in my big tombow pen holder and that way i will know which ones in case i'm like i really want that color again then i just use my micron 05 to create some little dots across the page and i drew my little b um again i'm gonna have to get way better at that so i went ahead and did today and tomorrow so that i'm kind of like that gives me a couple extra days to really finish this up so for tuesday i really like the way this one came out actually again i did the just the tombow line and i did actually use the same color for the flowers here and then used the different colors of these tombows to finish the drawing out but i just have the data up here the little flowers here some stars and then just i did kind of like a little bee trail i do probably want to like stick one of these bees maybe we'll just do that real quick i know i said i wasn't gonna make this video take forever and it probably probably is but i'm trying y'all just let me know like do you do you care do you want the longer videos do you want me to just hurry up like like let me know i'd be curious so i'm thinking i can hopefully use these as little stickers and maybe then i don't have to worry about drawing bees all month long because i feel like that would probably get really repetitive although sitting here cutting out little washy bees might get really repetitive too but i was hoping to be able to just like pop those little guys in there perfect now i have a cute little bee and they're also metallic i don't know if that'll pick up but they're metallic which is awesome so that's that's my setup that's what i'm doing for the month and now i just need to kind of put this all back together one of the reasons why i started using these plastic covers was so i could run my string through there and it helps hold the book in place really really nicely so just put that in there and feed it back through here oh i didn't i forgot to get my little bookmark there's always something i forget always something okay now i'm gonna actually put these books in because i don't want to get these so tight that i can't get them back in okay here we go all right so there is that i have my calendar which says journal but that's because i repurposed it just the back of that i really like the way that looks then i have my brain dump one and then i have my my daily one i think that is going to work really well such decisions i kind of i kind of want to include my orca i think i'll put him in a different journal because i really really like that okay so of course these are my sugar and iv clips so that's gonna go in there and mark my daily page but i'm gonna put it on here we're not gonna do that on camera because like i said it takes a while to dry anyway that's my setup for june i think i already flipped through the whole thing for you i do hope that you enjoyed it i would love to know um what you're doing for june are you doing any sort of theme in your journals or planners so please feel free to share with me in the comments below thank you for joining me today i hope you enjoyed this video and 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Channel: Boho Bloom

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Keywords: journaling, planner, bullet journal, bujo, creativity, diy, inspiration, chic sparrow, traveler's notebook

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Length: 30min 46sec (1846 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 02 2021