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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today's video is of course my October Plan With Me.
October is right around the corner,
which means a brand new bullet journal setup.
And you guys can plan along with me.
Before you get into it,
I wanted to showcase some of your creations from last month.
They are above me.
Look at how beautiful they are.
You guys are seriously so talented, it blows my mind.
But anyways, of course if you recreate
any of my bullet journal spreads,
whether it be from this month or a previous month,
be sure to send a picture over to me.
You can tag me in your Instagram photos.
My Instagram is @AmandaRachDoodles.
Make sure you tag me in the actual photo,
not just the caption so then I can like and comment
on all of them,
and of course, my Instagram has a ton more
bullet journal inspiration and doodles
and all of that stuff over there.
So, check me out on Instagram.
It's a really fun time.
But back to this month's bullet journal setup.
My theme for October was very fall themed,
of course because fall is starting
and Halloween is soon and all of that,
so I wanted to stick with the falling leaves,
Autumn leaves, that sort of vibe.
And I wanted it to look very rustic,
so my accent color was brown.
So I hope you guys enjoy my bullet journal
setup for this month.
Sit back, relax and now,
I'm gonna hand you guys off to the voiceover.
Since my theme was autumn leaves,
I decided to do a reef for my cover page around the letters,
as well as a bunch of different falling leaves all around it
to kind of give it a nice, fall vibe.
And later on I am going to use my watercolor paints
to color these leaves in various shades of brown.
The watercolors that I'm using
are the Sakura Koi watercolors,
and these are actually new,
but I really liked the formula
and how small and compact they are.
They're really good for travel,
and I'm just using a water brush pen
that came with it,
and yeah, so I'm just picking out various shades of browns,
reds, yellows and greens
to kind of give it a very earthy vibe.
I feel like the watercolor just
really suits this fall theme.
And I know usually I pick one accent color,
but for the cover page, I couldn't resist.
I wanted to make it look and feel very fall.
The next page is of course my monthly spread,
and last month, as I mentioned,
I switched over to a standard calendar layout
and I found that this worked really well for me,
so I decided to do that again.
Except this time, I'm actually drawing
the individual squares
and I'm going to be adding multiple shades of drop shadow
to match the cover page, if that makes sense.
I just really wanted to play around with these watercolors,
so I did utilize them a lot
throughout this setup for October.
In case you guys are wondering about the spacing,
I believe each of these squares
is around five by five dots
for the Leuchtturm journal,
and of course, I have five rows
and seven columns for this calendar.
As you can see, this grid did have rounded corners,
and I also didn't use a ruler for this layout
because I really wanted this whole layout to have
a very handmade kind of rustic look to it,
so I feel like the imperfections of this calendar
added to that whole scrapbook vibe
to my bullet journal setup.
So again, I wanted to add the accents of the brown shade
so I went back in with my watercolors
and I added a nice drop shadow
and I kind of scattered the colors around
to make it look more autumnble.
And then after that, I, of course,
added some more falling leaves all around the calendar,
in the empty spaces,
just to tie everything together.
I actually haven't used watercolor
in my bullet journal in a while.
I think the last time that I used it was in February,
so I know that I'm gonna get a lot of questions
about watercolor with bullet journal and the Leuchtturm
and all of that,
so I personally find that
the Leuchtturm pages really do hold up the watercolor,
as long as you don't use a ton of water
and soak the page, of course.
As you can see, I just do kind of a wash of colors.
So I don't find any wrinkling or bleeding of any sort,
which is awesome.
Next pages are of course my trackers,
and my mood tracker is something that
I'm really excited for because
it's really different from what I normally do.
As you can tell, from my last Plan With Me in September,
I've been trying out new methods
of doing tracking because
for a while, I was a little unmotivated to fill them in
and I found that there is
large periods of times
that I just wouldn't fill in my trackers.
So, again, I've been trying to switch things up
in order to get myself to do them.
So as you can see, I drew a bunch of larger leaves
and I drew 31 of these,
and basically, each leaf represents a day
and when the day is up,
I will fill in the leaf with a color,
depending on my mood.
I forgot to do a legend for the color scale,
but I do kind of have a mental scale in my head
about what color represents what mood.
But you can do whatever colors you want.
On the other side, I did my habit tracker, of course.
This one is kind of standard,
except usually I do them landscape,
and this time I decided to do it portrait,
since I did have the whole page
to do these habit trackers.
Either way, the Tombow dual brush pen that I used
in order to scribble behind the header
was shade number 977, in case you guys were wondering.
Flipping over to my expense tracker,
this layout is exactly the same.
I don't think it's changed
since I started bullet journaling.
It's just a really simple standard layout
that's really easy to follow and
I just find it works for me.
So if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I, of course, had to add little leaf accents
and I just really like the whole vibe.
Everything is really coming together.
Since I had this empty space before my weekly spread,
I decided to do a motivational page.
This one says "Enjoy the little things,"
and I did larger illustrations of leaves
that I, of course, watercolored in later.
Personally, I really love doing lettering
and motivational pages like these in my bullet journal,
because I find them really stress relieving
and therapeutic to do,
especially when my life is so hectic and crazy.
So I can just sit down
and be creative with no rules, anything goes.
And it also is a nice break in your bullet journal
from all the structured agenda stuff.
Speaking of structured agenda stuff,
the last spread is my weekly spread,
and this spread is something new.
I actually haven't done this layout before
in my bullet journal.
So I actually split up the two pages into eighths.
I, of course, used my Tombow Fudenosuke hard tip brush pen
to do some lettering.
It's not really calligraphy.
I didn't really connect the letters.
It was more like a handwritten vibe.
Especially to go along with this whole theme.
I had to use my brown brush pen for the accents
to color in the background of the letters.
And of course, y'all know me,
I had to add some drop shadows.
In the bottom right corner,
I have goals and next week,
and what I'll do is for goals,
I'll write out all of the things
that I want to complete for that week,
whether it be homework, assignments, readings,
having that weekly goal section is great because
you are able to assign them to specific days if you want to,
and kind of track your progress for the week.
The next week section is where I put
any tasks that have to be pushed for next week, obviously.
But this layout just really gives me
a lot of surface area and space to plan,
which I love for school.
So here is the final flip through
of my October bullet journal setup.
It's something a little bit different
from what I normally do,
but I'm really digging the vibes
and I hope you guys did as well.
All right everyone, so that was it
for my October bullet journal setup and Plan With Me.
I can't believe we're already at October.
That seems insane to me
that we're so close to the end of the year.
But I hope you guys enjoyed
this bullet journal setup none the less.
Again, if you decide to recreate any of my spreads,
be sure to tag me on Instagram, @AmandaRachDoodles.
Think we pretty much covered everything,
so I hope you guys have an awesome day.
Keep doodling, and I will talk to you in the next one.
Bye, guys.
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