#paper planner

I got into paper planners and journaling in June of this year and and it’s become a hobby now I guess because in the past I could never stick with it and here I have five notebooks I update daily/weekly.

It’s weird to say you love your planner but that one covered in stickers has so much of me in it. It’s my main planner everything goes in there. I’ve also done a bit of junk journaling in it too, where I just add stuff from my day or fun trips or wrappers from yummy snacks. There’s also a lot of gift cards from my favorite places in there. Most restaurants and stores will give you an empty gift card. You will get weird looks though lol

The one with flowers is my gratitude journal. Some days it really helps to actively look for the good because it’s so easy to spiral when things have been shitty.

The one with the banana charm is probably the most creative thing I’ve ever made lol it’s for memory keeping and I can’t wait until it’s full and all fluffed out!! I see other peoples Hobonichis and they get so thiccc lol I can’t draw but I fill it with stickers and “junk journal”, saving every scrap of my day lol my Husband now knows to check before he tosses anything out.

(I don’t to know if junk journaling is collecting and keeping what most people would throw away or if it’s actually making a journal out of junk/scraps of things. Does it matter?)

The journal with strawberries is for journaling/brain dumps. It’s where all the feelings go and it’s not decorated at all inside aside from a few random stickers. I try to focus on getting thoughts out and not so much caring what it looks like.

The pink one with breakfast on it is my “List Planner” it’s just a daily to-do list because I work full time, I’m a parent, and I’m in an Ultrasound program so I always feel like I’m drowning with things that need to be done. I still feel overwhelmed but at least I know what needs to be done and when and half the time I get it completed lol

04.02.2021/Thursday

Even after going paperless, I realised that I need at least one paper planner to sort of "ground" my plans everyday. So I decided to start bullet journalling again this month in this beautiful dot grid notebook by a local company called Factor Notes 🥰

I won this last year in a giveaway and after using it as an art journal for a while, decided to use it as a bujo. I am in love with the paper quality,it's literally buttery smooth 😍🥰

Eyeing their newly launched art journal now. 🥺

Oh and as for the pens, I use a Pentel Super RT ball pen and a Kuretake Zig Mangaka Flexible pen in F for my bujo. Both of them in black, of course. The Pentel pen is like one of the SMOOTHEST everyday black ball pen I've used and the Zig is the perfect middle between flexible and firm. These provide a 100% waterproof combo so that even if my clumsy self spills coffee, it's nbd 😆