#bujoing 101

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what you’ll find here: an accumulation of all of my interests, but mostly fandom-related. more specific list under the cut

sometimes an interest peaks and i get REALLY into it that i make another side blog for it. here’s a list of my side blogs

interests!!!

top ones got their own sideblogs

tmnt

transformers

making fanzines

wolves and werewolves!!!

reading and writing in general

dc but only the animated series universe (btas, stas, justice league + JL unlimited)

marvel but mostly avengers earths mightiest heroes and spectacular spider-man

invader zim

phineas & ferb

the owl house

amphibia

gravity falls

infinity train

ok k. o. let’s be heroes!

mao mao: heroes of pure heart

my little pony friendship is magic (specifically luna and the other alicorns)

babar the elephant (the ‘89 show)

retro animal disney movies like 101 dalmatians and the aristocats

linkin park

music (hard/alt rock, screamo, nu-metal. i like other genres too but i listen to them less)

how to train your dragon books (not really the movies)

dungeons & dragons

animation and the process of it. the whole industry really

the wga and sag-aftra strikes. strikes in general :)

bullet journaling!! i do it myself and i tag as #bee’s bujo

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A Dream of 2023: Techo Kaigi

Journaling became a thing for me this year. After many years of trying to get bullet journaling to work for me it finally stuck. And with that came a whole rush of other things - notebooks, pens, washi tape, a whole online community of planners, tomoe river paper, and now, to finish, a techo kaigi which shows just how deeply I’ve fallen into this journaling hole.

How did 2022 go?

When the year started I was still in my (largely failing) Leuchtturm 1917s. I’d discovered the wonders of dotted pages (I’ve used grid pages for years - everything must line up in my brain). I had a few of them where I’d tried, got a few pages in, and then failed. In particular, I really struggled with setting up the daily page only on the day vs setting up pages in advance and not using them. Then I came across a video from Plant Based Bride called BuJo 101: The Rolling Weekly. And it clicked. This method just clicked. I’d tried similar things. I’d tried very different things. But for some reason it was this very specific layout that worked for me.

I started off trying it for a few weeks in one of the failed Leuchtturm’s with the idea that, if I could stick with it, I could get a fancy journal. And I did stick with it. So I got an A5 Archer & Olive. I’d wanted to start incorporating some art and my preferred medium is watercolour. I needed something that would survive and 160 GSM seemed a good bet.

In this first journal I used the rolling monthlies and wrote down everything I wanted to record. This was my all in one journal. I carried it everywhere. I filled it really quickly. So next time I decided to try a larger journal and started on a B5 Archer & Olive.

Is one journal enough?

At this time, I started to think - wouldn’t it be easier if my collections were in their own books so I could look reference them as a whole. Especially my notes on learning to write. Oh, and a media journal seems a good idea. And maybe I should have a journal for each of my writing projects. And then another journal to index everything. And so one book became many and about halfway through the book it stopped being an all in one. This is fairly common for me. I buy a lot of notebooks! But the core part of the journal was still working. I felt a bit bad about so many books, I’ll admit. Until …

Stationery Brew

Did you know there is a whole group of stationery and journaling people who stream their journaling on Twitch? Well there is! The amazing Stationery Brew stream team was something I came across, quite by accident. And then I found even more cool things. Toastytreat inspired me to get my fountain pens back out. Kittykatcollar showed me where to buy all the cool stationery. Jasminemarieplans made me want to try memory keeping and everyone inspired me to try personal journaling. Celerymin made me want to try copy writing books (which turned out to be really useful). I could carry on forever here - finding a group of people who share your interests has been an amazing experience.

There was one common journal in particular that heavily affected my decisions for 2023. By later in the year I was now using a B5 Notebook Therapy journal (which worked better with my chosen pens and inks). I’d started doing personal journaling in this too. But a lot of people were using planners by Hobonichi. And when I looked I realised that my layouts looked a lot like the ones in those planners. So I brought a Hobonichi. Or 4.

My 2023 planner line up

Daily carry: Hobonichi Weeks Mega

As the year went on I realised that one of the major issues with a 160 GSM B5 notebook is that its big and heavy! So after a little watching of the Youtube I realised I would find a daily carry useful - a small journal I can carry everywhere. A practical planner where I can add everything as I need to. The Weeks also has a lot of blank pages at the back, so I can use this for collections (in the Bullet Journaling style) that I wanted to have with me. I can write ideas for blog posts down on the train, or add a book that someone tells me about.

Bonus feature: in the My 100 page I have written, to replace goals, a set of Achievements (think MMO achievement logs) for the year covering all the areas of my life that I want to improve on - health, some home renovation, journaling, writing, art, blogging. A goal is something you can fail. An achievement is something you get eventually.

Creative and personal journaling: Hobonichi Cousin

As the B5 journals might suggest, I fill a lot of space. I don’t do short writing very well. And the Cousin is what inspired me to buy a Hobonichi. This is where I will do personal journaling, plan my creative activities and goals. I’ll use all the washi and stickers. I’ll write notes and ideas for creative projects. I’ll put some media journaling in there too, when its more about the enjoyment of the media and not learning from the media. This is my place to splurge all the things in my brain across the page.

I have a cover (Night Flamingo) and a cover on cover (Light in the Distance), but to protect the book a little more, I added a MD Codex clear cover to the book, mostly as a defense against cats walking across my journals. And sitting on my journals. While wet. Note - you need the Codex version of the clear cover to fit a Cousin.

Health journal: Hobonichi Weeks

I wanted to put a bit of extra focus on my health after a bad year, so I have a separate mini journal for that. I need to track quite a few things and wanted to be able to look back on the year and see how some of the things I was trying and how well they worked. I’ve been messing around with the format for this a little, but it seems to be working so far. At least as far as encouraging me to record my health. Its not encouraging me to eat better or do more exercise. But that’s a bit much to ask of a little book.

I have a got a cover on cover on order for this. For now it doesn’t leave my desk. I think I would like a cover that lets me put both Weeks inside it.

Commonplace book: Hobonichi Journal

While i was researching the ways that people used their journals I came across a video called how i use my notebooks | hobonichi avec, commonplace by Megan Rhiannon which showed a commonplace methodology that I really liked and I adapted that a little to be my commonplace book. I liked the idea of putting it in the same cover with the Cousin, so I grabbed a Hobonichi journal and just loved it. I use a lot of sheening inks and they look amazing on the tomoe river paper. I added an MD clear cover to this too. In fact, all of my journals have one apart from the Weeks (which has the Hobonichi cover on cover instead). I really don’t trust those cats.

Writing journal: Hobonichi Journal

NaNoWriMo hit and I made my third attempt at completing this. I decided to grab a Hobonichi journal for this too. Its light to carry, its a pleasure to write in. I need as few barriers as possible for NaNo success (I need to handwrite or I get lost editing). It worked. I won NaNo for the first time this year. So I’m going to stick with this. Instead of one per project, I’ll keep one just for writing.

The smooth paper that works so well with fountain pens is ideal for this. To write, I need to be able to write quickly. The tomoe river paper allows me to do this. Its smooth and gives little resistance. But it doesn’t have the excessively slick feel of other papers like Rhodia. As I am using two of these journals, I added stickers to each to let me tell them apart without having to open them.

Bullet Journal: MD Codex

I had been planning to have no bullet journal. But then I started watching Youtube videos from CoffeeMonsterzCo and saw her mini bullet journal. This made me realize that bullet journaling could still be useful. And it can help overcome the limitation of the Hobonichi - what to do if I want to write more than a page in a given day.

This is, therefore, my ‘overflow’ journal. I’ll only use it on days where I need more space. To break down tasks, create lists to complete, record things that don’t fit in elsewhere. Or to record little notes and things that don’t quite fit elsewhere.

I was already using the MD Codex to do creative planning, so I reformatted those planning notes into a bullet journal format. I need to find something colourful to put on the front as MD journals are incredibly boring.

Work journal: Hobonichi Original

I like to keep my work notes completely separate, so I got a different journal for this. At first I was going to use an MD, but I’ve decided I really don’t like MD paper. And it will save me time to have a journal that is pre-set rather than bullet journaling.

This is the riskiest journal here. I have all sorts of trouble finding a work journal that works for me. If this fails, I’ll repurpose it and go back to a Bullet Journal approach for work.

This is the Navy cover with the Light in the Distance Cover on Cover.

And thats it. I have a couple of Stalogy notebooks kicking around - I use the half size ones for making messy notes so I can keep all my journals clear of them. And I have nearly completed Tarot Journal in another Notebook Therapy B5 to finish this year. This is the only case of ‘one-notebook-per-project’ that worked out for me. I’ve collected insights from different place and use this book as my reference instead of all the other individual ones.

[nobodysperfectbuteveryonestrying]

101 : Manifesting the life you deserve

Interview yourself: what is your favorite colors? Do you prefer ice cream or cookie? Do you want to live on nature or in a big city? These mondains questions tends to be forgotten when we arrive to adulthood. You do should to a chinese portrait (yes, like the one you did in pre-school.) to start to know yourself. At the end of the day, you are alone with yourself, so its better to know you well. Do not hesitate to be really intimate; you will be surprise what you might discover. This is the good moment to review your past with a neutral mindset (if you need help, do not hesitate to ask for the help of the therapist.).

Boundaries: you have to know what you will tolerate, and what you will not. If you want to be a high-maintenance girl, be it. If you consider that someone late is someone that doesn't respect you, then spoke your voice. To have boundaries is respecting yourself and to know what you deserve.

Get a bujo: write you dreams, goals, visions of the future, etc. Plan you way to success by subdividing your goals in small steps and make them happen. You can have due time or plan to work on it 1h a day. It's doesn't have to be ultra fancy if you don't want it to be, its doesn't even have to be on paper! It supposes to be a tool to help you achieve your goal, so do what work best for you.

Moodboard: aka how to hack your brain. Create a moodboard with your dream life (try to cover differents aspects of your life like carrier, hobby, house, pets, look, food…) and use it as a wallpaper for everything: phone, computer… The idea is to see regularly your purpose to keep it in mind, even on subconscious level. At the end of the year, you will be surprise to see how many pictures became realists! As a personal anecdote, I did one on Pinterest dedicate to my dream job and I open it while I'm studying. Its always help me to be in good mood to work and to stay focus, sometimes its even inspire me for my assignment.

Declutter: that friend, that never root for you, that music that keep reminder your trauma, those clothes that doesn't suit you or even that family member that cross your boundaries again and again. Get ride of them, you need clear mind and space to achieve your deserve life.

Get the rights habits and routine: you can find ideas to create your routine on Pinterest and other social media. There is so many things you can do, and it might feel overwhelming. You should be smart and choose the one that fit your lifestyle: for example, if you have trouble to organise yourself, you can choose habits that will help you get organise. Habits and routine have to be personal or they don't work. And thats totally okay to change your routine if you feel the need.

Learn: books, podcast, videos… You have multiple ways to learn how to develop yourself. Be aware of sects, they can be really nasty, but you can really find interesting sources of knowledge. Read on what you want to learn about yourself. Another way to learn about yourself? Go to therapy.

Be selfish: nah, be selfish isn't about putting everyone away and stealing food from people. Being selfish is standing up for yourself. Being selfish is setting boundaries and make people respect your boundaries (or leave.). Being selfish is staying bright when everyone want you to be cynical and bitter. Being selfish is loving, caring and respecting yourself.

[mariamuses]

I posted 516 times in 2022

81 posts created (16%)

435 posts reblogged (84%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@morganofthewildfire

@shyvioletcat

@theladyofdeath

@rowanaelinn

@mariamuses

I tagged 160 of my posts in 2022

#mariamuses bujo - 19 posts

#bullet journal - 17 posts

#bujo - 17 posts

#weekly spread - 17 posts

#my bujo - 16 posts

#my art - 14 posts

#mariamuses art - 14 posts

#my lettering - 12 posts

#bullet journaling - 10 posts

#mine - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 134 characters

#it's just a game where you are constantly owing money to a rat to get a bigger house for one person why is it so addicting and calming

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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31 notes - Posted February 28, 2022

#4

okay consider this:

aelin and rowan not being together yet and they’re fighting and rowan screams “fuck you!” and aelin snaps back “no, you fuck me!”

84 notes - Posted November 17, 2022

#3

february bujo

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101 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#2

april bujo

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124 notes - Posted April 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

2022 cover page + january bujo

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146 notes - Posted January 3, 2022

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Harry Potter Bullet Journal With Me!!!

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25.03.22 9.51am

Yesterdays messy library study as I desperately try to get my head around the vast knowledge I need for my OSCE+VIVA long case in two weeks

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Cruella (2021)

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Tarot 101: Tarot Journaling

(Photo Credit:  Hannah Jacobson)

With the popularity of many methods of journaling from the diverse and widely popular bullet journaling to gratitude journaling, study journals and books of shadows, it’s no surprise that something with such a wide field of study as tarot also has a journaling method. Like the methods listed above, tarot journals are as diverse and adaptable as you choose to make them, but diving in can be daunting if you’re not sure where to start. Let’s explore them together.

What does a Tarot Journal Look Like?

Your tarot journal might be a standalone notebook or journal exclusively for your tarot practice, or you may choose to include it as a section in your existing bullet journal or grimoire. It might also be a private Twitter, Instagram, or Tumblr account that you use to record the things I mention below. The format you choose it up to you. As you create a tarot journal, you might want to ask yourself the following questions to find your best setup:

Would a physical or digital tarot journal be most accessible to you?

Is complete customization a priority?

Do you want to include your tarot journaling with other journaling or tracking activities you already do or keep it separate?

Do you want to confine your journal to specific time periods (ie. a tarot journal for each year)?

Is your journal purely for journaling and tracking or do you plan to use it as a reference text, too?

Tarot Journaling Basics

These items apply broadly to tarot journaling and ways you might use it. Each of these can be customized to your own preferences and usage needs depending on your practice.

Symbology

(Image Source: Unknown. Found in this tumblr post on codes for closeted witches.)

When you’re tracking tarot card readings and taking notes, having symbols or a shorthand for referencing cards can be useful. One page/post you might choose to include in your tarot journal is a breakdown of these symbols. Personally, I like to have a symbol for each of the major arcana (alternatively you could have a major arcana symbol that you add a number to for each card) and then a symbol for each suit that I can apply a number to. If you read reverse cards, having a symbol or notation for reversed or upright cards can be useful, too.

Reference Materials

Tarot keyword cheat sheets, number meanings, card relationships, anecdotes like the Fool’s Journey/story of the major arcana, and other notes can be useful things to keep in your tarot journal. When you’re doing a reading, having all of these things in one place will make your readings more streamlined and your journal more effective.

Trackers

(Photo Credit:  Estée Janssens)

Tracking the cards you pull can be useful as it allows you to notice patterns like reoccurring cards and repeating numbers or combinations as well as which suits you are finding yourself with most often during a given period. 

To track your cards, you might choose to do a simple grid bullet-journal-style tracker that you fill in with your card for each day (a perfect place to use that symbology!). You might also choose to create a card-a-day calendar like the one Xia Hunt describes in this article. In my experience, trackers work best for keeping up with daily one-card pulls.

Tarot Journaling as Deck Bonding

(Photo Credit: Viva Luna Studios)

Tarot journaling can also be an effective method of bonding with your deck(s). A tarot journal is a great place to outline and record deck interviews, personalities, and other important qualities you want to note about a particular deck.

Using Tarot Journaling to Push Your Readings 

(Photo Credit:  Viva Luna Studios)

One of the major benefits of keeping a tarot journal is that you can track your progress as a reader over time, but it also provides you with a space for engaging with your readings as well as recording them. 

Entries

Whenever you do a reading, you might quickly layout your cards and sit with them for a bit, you might even leave them out to return to and keep reading later. With a tarot journal, you can give yourself even more time with your cards. Whenever you do a spread, sketch it out in your journal, labeling the purpose of each position and the cards you pulled for them. This can be accompanied by bullet notes about the meanings of the pulls or longer more in-depth reflective journaling. This will encourage you to look deeper and more thoughtfully at your readings, and give you something to look back on later when you feel like your reading has come to pass. 

Reflections

A moment ago, I mentioned tracking patterns in your readings. One thing you might choose to write about in your tarot journal are those patterns. If you notice that you’ve been pulling almost exclusively wands cards for several weeks, sitting down to journal about why you are surrounded by that suit might help you puzzle through it. The same can be said for repeating numbers or images. 

You might also choose to reflect on even bigger pictures when it comes to readings. Reflecting on all of the cards you pulled in a week, month, or even the year can be a useful and even cathartic experience.

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How do you use your tarot journal? What do you prioritize? Tracking goals, readings, and more can be a useful part of encouraging daily practice, but it can also be part of what makes your tarot practice fun. Expanding and adapting this system to fit your own work.

More Tarot 101: Welcome to Tarot / The Story of the Major Arcana / Card Keywords / Choosing a Deck /  Practice Makes Perfect / Bonding with Your Deck(s)  / An Introduction to Court Cards / Methods of Reading Court Cards / Using Personality Types to Understand Court Cards / Tarot Journaling

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Monday magick and correspondences in my spirituality/ book of shadows BuJo 😇 🌹 🤍 🐒

[just-the-hiddles]

Bullet Journaling | My Life in a Notebook

So I got a couple of questions about my bullet journal today (and I have gotten a few throughout the past year or so). So here a bit about my planner history and my current bullet journal.  Nobody may care but here you go.

Here are all my past (and current planner):

I have been planning in some fashion like this since at least 2014.  I used to use a coil planner from a company I am not naming.  I used that for about three years.  And while using those, I discover planner stickers and sticker kits.  So I used sticker kits and did “no white space” planning.  But that planner was big and heavy and didn’t serve my life.  So I loved the idea of bullet journaling because 1) I could do what I wanted and 2) I could draw and use fun pens and pencils and be creative. So since about 2018, I have bujo’d.

Here are all my bullet journals:

Each notebook hold about six months.  But I like looking at pretty things.  So I started buying cute icons.  And washi tape.  And before you know, I am back to using full blown sticker kits.  And by now, people were making stickers with foil.  And down the rabbit hole I went.  My bullet journal is so a point of joy for me.  I love looking at it and smiling at how pretty it is.  So I spend the money on pretty things for it. 

Supplies:

- Notebook:   I currently use an Archer and Olive journal.  They are not cheap but they usually go on sale every so often.  You don’t need a fancy journal. There are dot journals at Michaels, Hobby Lobby, and Walmart.  I started off in Leuchtrumm and then used Scribbles That Matter and the last two are A&O.  But any notebook will work.  

- Pens and Pencils:   Again, any pen/marker/pencil works.  I current use a Pentel Ener-gel Clean .5 in Black.  PaperJoy gel pens are popular.  So are Sharpie Pens, and Muji Pen.  Find yourself a pen that doesn’t smear.  For the brush lettering I use a Fudenosuke by Tombow, they have hard and soft tips.  I also have the Tombow Dualbrush Pens that can double as watercolors.  A great cheap option is Crayola Supertips, which I started off with.  But again find something you love and use it!!

- Washi Tape: I sometimes love washi tape and sometimes I hate it.  Washi tape is paper tape and that is removable without damaging paper.  You can buy it at Walmart, craft stores, Amazon, Etsy, Ali Express.  

- Stickers:   You don’t need stickers to make a bullet journal work for you.  I like pretty things.  So I use my discretionary income on planner stickers.  They give me great joy.  I buy both full kits (I often buy mini kits or B6 kits based on the size of my notebook).  I also buy functional stickers (label stickers, scripts, little bullet dotes, icons).  And I buy decorative stickers because they are pretty and are often foil so my planner shines.

What I Track:

I am a simple hoe.  I do a weekly spread, I usually create a monthly calendar, I track some things for work.  I have swatches of my Tombows, swatches of my washi, a grid cheat sheet for dividing pages evenly, my fic tracker, and a tracker of my closet, bill tracker, year at a glance.  Lots of people track habits monthly.  I put it in a weekly tracker.  Honestly put in it what you will use.

Resources:

- I watch a lot of YouTube videos of Plan with Mes with planner girls using kits and what not.  That is how I get inspiration on how to layer things and what is out there and how to make things pretty.  I also watch haul videos.  I shouldn’t but I do.  They are super enabling.  When I wanted to learn brush lettering, I watch YouTube videos.  I watch people setting up bullet journals.  I am a research gal.

- I also follow a bunch of planner girls and bullet journal accounts on Instagram.  Huge inspiration.  Here are some of the peeps I follow on IG and YouTube:

Gathered Plans, Planning Klo, Moon Prism Planner, Scribble Prints Co. Viv Luvstoplan, Shawnte Plans, lauralee_plans, TheCoffeeMonsterzCo, Cindy Guentert-Baldo (great for lettering!), Erin Floto Designs, planmoshplans, jannplansthings, plansthatblossom

- Here are some of the places I buy stickers from:

Sadie’s Stickers, Scribble Prints Co, TheCoffeeMonsterzCo (that is where the little Lokis are from), The Giving Girl, Nicollette Amour Designs (she is closed right now), honeyinked, Clever Gal Crafts, PaperMuseCrafts, MegBMakes.  There are a ton of shops out there all over the world.  Find a few you love.

Most of my washi tape is either from Simply Gilded or TheCoffeeMonsterzCo. Hobby Lobby has great selections (if you have one)

How to Save Money:

-Don’t buy everything at once.  Start small.  See what you like, what you don’t.  No need to break the bank right away.  You would hate to buy everything and then not use it!  I have bought things I won’t use because I was like “ooooh sparkly.”  

- See if printables work for you.  Printing and cutting stickers yourself can be way cheaper.  Just an option

- Look for ways to try things out or buy smaller amounts.  This is especially true with washi tape.  Tons of shops on Etsy sell washi tape samples.  A lot shops have sampler sheets.  

- Look for coupon codes and sales.  Planner stickers are always going on sale.  And shops almost always have a coupon code on their IG account.  They also have PR peeps who have coupon codes too and it often means the shop throws in an extra freebie.  Black Friday is huge. Follow shops on IG.

- Don’t worry about keeping up with the Joneses.  I have been planning for a long time.  And this style gives me joy.  I have been building this collection for years.  I have pretty much narrowed down what I love.  And I have the money to spend (I haven’t been spending money on gas or eating out!)

But for me my bujo is a piece of art and a little bit of beauty in my chaotic world.  I hope this helps someone.  Love you and I am always willing to answer questions about my bullet journal or where anything in particular is from.  Love you all!

[dandelion-jester]

27.7.20

Day 1/30 days of productivity

Word of the day:

Inflorescence (n)

- A flowering or a blossoming

I realised today that I was quite behind with my bullet journal (my July theme is dragons) so I spent some time catching up with that. Then I did a ton of reading because I know that may not sound productive, but this month is the last month of my 100 books in a year challenge I started in August 2019, and I'm on book 99 so... I need to finish that. I also spent some time tidying my desk and the floor around it because that was very very messy!

Productivity rating: ***

[adayofff]

11.1.20 / 14.22

Packing ! OMG aku tuh suka banget bagian packing tiap ada pesenan karena ikut excited pengen pesenan mereka cepet sampe dan diterima. Selalu pengen packing serapih, seaman, dan tentu selucu mungkin ><

Day 19 #100daysofproductivity

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hbd somi! seeing u grow has been an honour <3

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[academedical]

10.09.21 4.00pm

My desk became a mess this morning with my final push through my pharmacology VIVA revision.