hey friends Elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today I'm super
excited to set up my brand new bullet journal for 2023. it's always so exciting to move into
a notebook and this time is no exception I'm using this beautiful B5 size Raven notebook
from Archer and Olive I'll have it linked in the description box if you like it I did a live
stream with my patrons a couple weeks ago and had them help me choose which notebook to use because
I have amassed quite the collection of B5 size notebooks and was feeling a little overwhelmed
by the options we all agreed that the Raven felt very wintry and Moody perfect for this time of
year and I was really inspired by The Raven itself to take inspiration for the theme of this setup
from Edgar Allan Poe I decided to use some of my tea stained paper that I usually reserve for my
reading Journal to give a bit of an antique Vibe and to mix a vintage inspired cursive handwriting
with the typewriter look of my stamps I wanted to do my fold out bonus spread in the inner cover
again as I've done for the last several bullet journals and as always just using a white sheet
of paper folding it in half and gluing it into the inner cover this allows me to fold it out
and have a spread that I can see no matter where I am in my notebook I'm using the 0.7 millimeter
black acrylograph from Archer and Olive for all of the lettering and then using some black ink to add
splotches all over as if everything was really quickly and messily written with a fountain pen
I could have been more authentic and done all of the lettering with a fountain pen but I'm
a beginner with a fountain pen and I'm very out of practice with a little bit of experience I do
have so I decided to go the safer route and use my acrylic graph which I'm a lot more familiar with
this year I really took the time to reevaluate which spreads I include in my new bullet Journal
setups I feel like the last couple because I have had such a busy couple of years with moving
times and buying a house and everything I've been a bit on autopilot with just redoing the spreads
that I'd already used a couple times feeling like that was my sort of status quo that was
what worked and not wanting to mess with it but this time I really wanted to think about which
spreads I have been using lately and which spreads don't really serve me at this point in my life so
you'll see some things are a little shifted I'm doing fewer spreads in the setup than I have in a
while trying to be more efficient and really focus on the spreads that add the most value to my life
of course my foldout spread is always going to be my grid spacing despite
the fact that I've used art Journal of B5 size notebooks for several years now
I constantly forget the dimensions of the page so having the number of spaces ready here helps
so much when I'm planning and setting up spreads I stick to writing out the full half and third
measurements for easy division but you can get as carried away with this as you like I also decided
to switch up which spread I include in this inner portion of the bonus spread for my past few bullet
journals I've used this as a key but I had to be honest with myself that I was doing that really
only for all of you for anyone who is maybe newer to a bullet journal to be exposed to the concept
of a key and the symbols which are the basis of the bullet Journal system and wanting to include
that for the benefit of anyone who's maybe just starting out but I've been using the same symbols
in my bullet journal for so many years at this point that I really don't need a key and it's
just been taking up space my bullet journal with no practical use so I decided instead to put a
spread here that I use quite frequently which is my waiting on spread so this is what I use when I
order something online I'll create a new entry for it Write a brief description usually one or two
words to describe what it is and where it's coming from and then I'll quickly jot down the estimated
delivery based on whatever effort says at checkout and then when it arrives I can cross it off and
write down the actual delivery this just helps to make sure that I know to follow up on something if
it doesn't end up arriving and helps me to keep track of the real delivery times in comparison
to the estimated delivery times which helps me if I'm reordering from somewhere in the future and
I'm trying to get something on a certain deadline considering I use the spread pretty frequently I
thought it would be nice to put it in this spot which is super easily accessible [Music] foreign
over to my next spread which is going to be less of a practical spread but one that I really didn't
want to Omit which is a header for the new year and a quote of course using the Raven notebook and
taking inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe I wanted to create a messy ink splattery Raven inspired
artwork and then of course to use a classic Edgar Allan Poe quote which I used before back when I
did that Raven theme for my husband which must have been last year at this point I'll link that
down below if you want to see more Raven related art but it's a classic for a reason [Music]
[Music] I started having a bit too much fun dropping ink splatters from higher and higher
up and started to make a bit of a mess on my table I would definitely recommend if you're
trying something like this to lay out some scrap paper or something underneath your notebook to
avoid staining your table with a bunch of ink like I did it was pretty fun though foreign
[Music] over to the next bread which is going to be my future log I've been getting quite a
few questions about whether I'm going to do 2023 calendar stickers and the answer is complicated
in terms of physical stickers no I won't be shipping has become so ridiculously expensive
that I really feel not okay about charging for the true cost of shipping but the profit
margins on making the stickers are so tiny that I can't afford to subsidize shipping or
pay for part of the shipping just doesn't make sense for me to do physical stickers
right now as far as digital stickers I haven't had time to design them yet so they aren't for
sale yet it's possible that after plant Miss is done I will find the time to do them but I
was also hoping to take a week or two off of work because I don't get a lot of time
off during the year so right now things are up in the air right now they're not available and
I apologize to anyone who has enjoyed using them over the last couple of years I've been
so busy and it takes a lot longer to design them than you might think so that's where I'm
at now I will keep you all updated probably on my Instagram if you want to get updates on that
if you have more questions about that feel free to reach out to me over there [Music]
I wanted to announce that our Journal of has kindly agreed to host a little giveaway with
me for Plymouth this year one lucky winner will get a notebook of their choice from the Archer
and Olive website any size or style that's in stock and a set of acrylograph pens all of the
rules and how to enter will be in the description box make sure to read those carefully and I'll
reach out to the winner as well as announcing them in the pinned comment on the 25th foreign
to the final spread of the setup on the left is going to be a tried and true my period tracker
which I cannot live without and on the right is a new spread that one of my patrons recommended
I try and spread to track the places I want to visit both locally because I've only lived
in my current area for about a year and a half and places I want to visit in general all over
the world for my period tracker I've used this same style of setup for a couple years now and
I really love it I use a combination of different symbols to track the days that I'm menstruating
to track certain symptoms that I'm trying to keep on top of to report back to my physician and also
ovulation days I love this really simple setup and you can use different colors or different
symbols to track just about anything which can be really really helpful and my favorite thing about
it which I mentioned every time I talk about it is just having a visual representation of the entire
year getting to see the pattern of my cycle to get a really clear indication of when it is regular
and normal for me and when something stands out as being abnormal that should be looked into
for my places to visit spread I decided to keep it super simple a list for local places
I want to visit and Away places I want to visit there are so many little stores and
restaurants and historic sites within a couple hour drive of where we are now that I would
really like to go see so I thought it'd be really nice to have a place to make a list
of those spots and to be able to keep track of them as we visit them [Music] foreign [Music]
and that is it for my new bullet Journal setup I'll do a quick little flip through so you can
see all the spreads I really like how this theme turned out with the mix of the handwriting and
the stamps to look like a typewriter the ink splotches the messiness and of course
the warmth and texture that comes from the tea stained paper I'm loving it and I'm so
excited to move into this bullet journal on January 1st thank you so much for watching
this video if you missed plantmist day one and two make sure to go back and watch those
they'll be linked in the description box don't forget to subscribe if you haven't
already and hit that Bell notification so you will know right away when I upload plantmist
day four five six and seven and with that I'm gonna get going thank you so much for
watching this video and I'll see you really soon in my next one for plantmas day four bye friends
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