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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
Today's video is of course my March Plan With Me
and bullet journal setup.
February has come and gone,
I feel like it literally went by in a snap,
that's also because there are less days than most months.
But the good news is that now we can sit down, relax,
and do a little bit of bullet journaling for the month.
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More on that a little bit later in this video,
but let's jump into, of course, showcasing your recreations
from last month.
You can see them all above me.
Look, look at them.
Look at them above me.
Wow.
If you guys wanna send me more recreations,
you can do so by tagging me on Instagram @amandarachdoodles,
be sure to tag me in the photo, not just the caption,
because I always like to keep tabs on the recreations,
scrolling through all those recreations
literally makes my day, so keep them coming.
I can't wait to see what you guys do
with this month's bullet journal theme.
Speaking of, I'm going to hand you guys off
to the voiceover, let's get right into it.
All right so as you can hopefully tell
by the cover by now, the theme for March is cacti.
You guys have been asking me for this theme
for quite a while.
I have done succulents in the past,
but to me, cacti and succulents are different,
even though they're probably in a similar family.
So, I drew these cacti in some pots,
which I thought were so cute.
Since I didn't just draw one type of cactus,
there were several different types.
There was a risk of making it look too chaotic
or hectic or incohesive,
which is why I decided to do a spread apart,
repetitive pattern to give it a bit more structure.
After I aligned it with my fine liner,
I went in with several shades of green.
I'm using multiple types of markers.
I have a Crayola supertips, I think I'm using a Kuretake
brush pen at one point.
Whatever I had.
I did try to keep in the same family of green,
as you can see they're a bit more on the mid tone,
muted green side.
And then to bring all of those shades of green together,
I used the same brown to color in the pots.
But I didn't just color it in with a solid color,
as you can see, some of them I did solid,
some of them I did a stripe,
some of them I did just the top half,
just to give it a bit more visual interest.
And then on the left hand side of the spread,
as you can see I did this quote page,
which is something I've been loving incorporating
more into my bullet journal.
It gives me a chance to be creative
and have fun and doodle a bit.
So I drew this quote page that says,
the best is yet to come.
And I drew a larger version of the cactus.
Moving on to my monthly log spread,
I really really loved the calendar layout
that I had last month.
It has the perfect amount of space
and previously my monthly calendar layouts
seemed a little squished,
but with this blown up calendar,
it feels like there's the right amount of space.
So, just in case you guys were wondering,
the width of the columns were six boxes,
and then the height I believe was seven.
I used my Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen
to do all of the titles.
And something that I've been really liking the look of
recently is not so much cursive,
but just regular loose handwriting
with the Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen,
which by the way, I'll link down below
all the supplies that I use as usual if you're curious.
For the decoration on the left hand side,
I wanted to do a line up of different pots of cacti.
So I drew different shapes of pots,
I did round ones and then filled it in
with various cactuses.
Oh, cacti.
I always mess that up. (laughing)
I am gonna be doing a cactus tutorial for my Instagram
coming very soon.
Just because I had a lot of fun drawing these
and I realized how many different ways there are
to draw them.
So I realize it can be a bit overwhelming
so I will have a tutorial up on that soon.
Be sure to go follow my Instagram @Amandarachdoodles,
if you wanna see that in the future.
Of course, had to do my YouTube growth tracker
in the bottom corner.
And then would it really be a video of mine
if I didn't add excessive amounts of drop shadows
to all of my boxes. (laughing)
It was looking a bit empty on the top left side,
so I drew some more cactus pots,
but these ones were actually hanging from the top
by a string.
Basically I did the same thing,
but then just drew a line straight up
from the actual pot of the cactus.
Moving on to my trackers for the month,
you guys know that recently I have been experimenting
a bit more with my various types of trackers.
One of which is the mood tracker.
So this mood tracker requires a lot of cacti,
as you can see, I'm setting up the pots
and I'll fill them in with the cacti later,
but I just wanted to get the spacing
of all the cacti correct.
Since there's 31 days in March,
I did five pots by six pots,
and then the last row actually has seven.
And then I'm going in and filling in the pots with cacti,
and I wanted to spread out the various types of cactuses,
I keep messing that up, cacti,
just to give it more of an even look.
I also had fun with drawing different types of pots,
so I had semicircles, squares, trapezoids,
just have fun with it.
And then basically how you track your mood
is you color in the cactus.
You can set up a little diagram at the bottom
that will tell you what color means what mood,
and every single day you can just fill it in
with the color that corresponds to your mood.
Something that I forgot to do
is put the numbers of the days
so I actually had to do that later.
I don't know why it slips my mind.
But you can put the number of the day in the pot,
or just next to it.
Oh I did color in the pots with the brown,
to again, give it more of a cohesive look,
because I figured there's gonna be
a lot of different greens going on,
so I might as well use the same type of brown.
Oh yeah, here is the scale that I drew
telling myself what color means what mood.
So the page next to this is my habit tracker,
and last month I actually tried out
doing individual trackers for each habit
that I wanted to track,
and it really did work well for me.
I found that it kept me more accountable,
and it was easier for me to look at one habit
and see how I did for that month
because basically the goal is to fill in
these entire boxes.
It is a bit more time consuming to create.
As you can see, it takes quite a while to do all the boxes
and then fill in the numbers,
but personally I think it's worth it.
So if you haven't tried doing individual trackers,
maybe try this out,
because actually that's one of the things
that I get a lot in the comments
is that you guys find it hard to keep up with trackers,
so again, switch things up,
try to see what works for you.
Hopefully you'll be able to find something
that you enjoy filling out every day.
I finished off the page
by outlining each individual habit tracker box
with a different shade of green.
And then, of course, what else did you expect?
I had to draw some sort of cactus somewhere on the page,
so I drew them hanging from the top,
just two of them, just to keep it simple.
Turning over to a new page,
I created my video planner spread
which is just a blank spread for me to spew out
any ideas for videos,
whether it's planning or story boarding a video,
or coming up with different video ideas.
I like having this blank space.
And by the way, if you guys don't need this spread,
because a lot of you guys don't need a video planner spread,
it can just be a journaling spread
or a shopping list spread,
whatever you guys see fit
to use a blank page for.
Or you don't need this at all, of course.
But I drew some more cactuses, oh my god.
I'm gonna keep messing this up throughout the whole video.
I drew some more cacti lined up at the bottom
and then I just drew a green boarder around it.
The next spread is a budget tracker,
and this is something that I changed up
from the passed couple of months
because I used to do an expense tracker,
but recently I've been finding
that I haven't been wanting to fill I in.
Actually the passed two expense trackers
have been mostly empty
because I've been either too lazy
or I haven't really found it beneficial to create it.
So I wanted to try something different
with the budget tracker,
and split it up between all of the different areas
of my expenses.
So I have rent and utilities, groceries, household,
restaurants, entertainment and extra,
which means like clothes, make up, blah blah blah.
And then miscellaneous.
And then I am just going to add up every single week
what I spent for that specific category.
This way I don't need to write down each
and every individual expense.
It's more of a week to week thing,
and I'll also be able to see where I spend my money,
which is something that I'm really interested in.
So I'll keep you updated on how that goes for me,
hopefully it turns out better
because the expense tracker really has been
a drag in my bullet journal
for the passed couple of months
'cause I haven't been wanting to do it.
Anyways, the last spread we're doing
is the first weekly spread for March.
A lot of you guys asked me for the grid spacing
of my spacing for my spreads,
so the height of this box was eight squares,
and there is one square in between each box.
I drew a line down the right side of the box,
dividing it into two different sections,
the right side is for any events for that day
and then the left side is any tasks that I have to do.
I wrote out the days of the week on the left side
with a little cactus doodle
that had the number of the day on the pot.
This is a pretty simple and easy to do spread,
I've been loving doing quick weekly spreads,
just throughout the week.
By the way, if you're interested in seeing more
of my weekly spreads throughout the month.
I do a weekly livestream every single Sunday
setting that up, so be sure to check me out there.
Anyways here is the final flip through
of my March bullet journal setup,
filled with cacti.
(laughing) After a million times saying
that in this video, I finally got the word right.
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I really hope you guys enjoyed it,
I had a ton of fun making it,
and I can't wait to see your recreations.
So until next time, keep doodling
and I'll talk to you in my next video.
Bye everyone.
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