Please do not mind my different eyelid shapes at the moment
It's been rough out here.
My left eyelid is a bit swollen.
We're going to ignore that
hello my friends, it's Nina. Welcome back
I hope you guys are staying safe and healthy
Today is March 20 something
and I just want to chill out and work on my April bullet journal spread
It is that time of the month
It is time to prepare for my next month.
What goes on next month? I don't know
Will I have anything to do next month? I also don't know
but I'm just going to show you my updated bullet journal spread
I feel like it updates every month or so.
I'm always seeing new things learning new things and recently
I've been trying out a new weekly spread
that I am eager to show you guys
I briefly showed this on Instagram
But some of you guys asked for a longer tutorial kind of thing
first things first this is the bullet journal that I use it is a-
i still haven't bothered to actually learn how to pronounce it. So here we go
it's right here
I've been using the same bullet journal for the last few years.
This is probably my third one I think
it does the job for me. So that's when I use
i have a 0.38 tip pen
and then I have these zebra mildliner pens.
These are the colors that I'm going to use
I'm focusing more on this color.
Just because with my spread I only use one color basically
I use one or two colors maybe three
for April I wanted to do a yellow spread
I don't think I ever really use yellow in my life
I was looking through my washi tapes as well, and I don't have yellow washi tape
This might be a little more difficult than I thought
but for April I wanted to try yellow
I just wanted a happy color because times are rough.
It's hard out here.
We all need a boost of serotonin
So I'm going with this bright yellow color.
I also have blue and red just to back me up
I love primary colors, and I thought that would be a nice color palette for this month
I do kind of doodle a tiny bit in my bullet journal just to make things cute
Apparently the flower of April is a daisy and I love drawing flowers and plants in my bullet journal
It's very simple, but also very cute. This is usually what I do in a bullet journal
So hopefully all goes well
I am going to bring you guys in closer to show you my last month spread
and then we're going to create April
so here was the last spread for March
I don't always put all these washi tapes but this month I was just really feeling it
i like the blues and the greens
as you can see some things that I like to do is make a fake washi tape
It's basically just a line of marker and I doodle in these tiny little drawings.
I think it's a nice little divider
So March has been a kind of messy month
I think for all of us
so I didn't actually fill it out to the best of my abilities
I haven't even crossed out the days and stuff
so much for all this
but this is basically the gist of my monthly setup and
Then on the next page, I have my habit tracker that I also didn't keep track of that well
and then I have my brain dump that I can't show you because it has a lot of information on it
And then the biggest change is this weekly spread. I saw this kind of spread on social media
And so I just wanted to try it out.
I feel like it's just better for my productivity
I also doodled some plants on the corner. There's still plenty of room for future tasks, notes
These little boxes are for tasks and bigger picture things
and then here I divided everything by hours
We're going from 6 a.m. To 10 p.m.
And this is basically like a Google Calendar or online calendar
I will show you an example of a week
So here was an upload day and I had all these little tasks
I basically make boxes corresponding to a time and this just helps me to
Visualize my day a little bit
before I just used to have a list of tasks, which is great
But I also did want to try out actually planning out the times of my tasks
just to make myself a little bit more productive
So this is basically what I'm going to show you for this video
And if I'm not using the spread then I'll just go back to a
weekly spread that I've done in another video
Yeah, that is it for March. We're going to move on to April
So in the past I actually used a ruler to do all this but now
I have no patience
and I just don't mind free handing anymore.
I kind of trust myself a little bit more
So as you could tell from March there was just one main color, which was green
I'm going to use yellow for April.
So taking up two spaces
I'm going to write it first in capitals.
That's a pretty yellow
April 2020
so I have it down
and then I'm going to make a line for the washi tape
Continuing it onto here
now I'm going to write April 2020 in just like a lowercase font
I think it's just cute.
Oh, I already kinda messed up but that's ok
It gives character
2020
And then since we're going with a daisy flower kind of theme
I'm just going to draw tiny little flowers
I think it's more simple just to do a five petal flower
and then a little circle
and then I'm going to continue doing this
This is just a nice divider
So here we have our nice little border
I think it's really cute
and then we're going to move on to the month
We're going to start right here
there's two columns here
the little section for where the days are going to be is a
Six by one box
and then the days of the month are going to be six by six
Now we're going to move on and make-
how many weeks are in April?
there are five weeks in April
So we're going to make five rows
each box is going to be six by six
be patient with yourself
One two three, four five. Oh God
After two years you have finally finished your month
and now we get into the fun part of filling out the colors
April first is on a Wednesday
so we still have days from March
and we have days from May
So I like to use a gray marker just to make the days for March
Because they don't belong in April
and then here we can start with April
and we continue on
I of course also make little marker marks for the days of the week
now we're going to fill out the rest of the days
and then we're going to write the days of the month
and then over here
this is when May starts
here I drew a little line for a goal section
This is going to be our future section and then we have a tiny little notes section
And that is it
now all we have to do is write everything down
May 1, may 2
and this is our simple month
I am going to decorate this a little bit just because that makes me happy
if it wants to cooperate, I'm going to take out a daisy sticker
please
cmon
don't stay there forever you're so cute aha
I shall put this right here
I always like something in the corner right here
taking another one putting it right here
putting one right here
I'm gonna put some washi tapes right here
I like putting washi tapes everywhere just for a little accent
and then to balance it out
I'm going to put a few daisies here
one in the cor- oh god it already stuck. Okay, that's it
I'm just gonna put you in the corner here as well just to balance things out
So I don't have yellow washi tape for some reason
I don't know why, I have so many washi tapes but not a single yellow washi tape
So I will be using a nice red color
I'm going to just put a strip of this on the side just for a little accent
So I just put it right here
it already looks good with the yellow
I can't decide between these blues
I am going to go with this nice blue color
I'm going to take a strip of it and place it next to the red
just a nice little detail. There we go
I mean since it is a yellow theme anyway
I'm just going to put this little flower sticker on top
adding a little white flower here. Why not?
And then if you don't have stickers just draw some flowers for yourself
I'm going to draw a nice big yellow dot
I'm going to make my own daisy
This is my layout for April.
I think it is very pretty. It has a sort of scrapbook feel to it
I have all these daisies everywhere.
I put some birthdays. I'm gonna put more later on
moving on we're going to do the habit tracker and the brain dump
So the habit tracker is basically the same thing I've done in the past,
but of course I just decorated a little bit
So we're just going to write habit tracker big
just anywhere. Don't worry about it
a nice line
And then over here, we've got our brain dump
Again lower case have it trucker
And then back with our flower washi tape
flower flower flower flower flower
I'm sorry.
I think it's only appropriate that I play that clip actually.
It's a very wholesome clip
This is jungkook saying flower flower flower flower
Well wasn't that great?
now that we've done our headers we're going to move into the tedious part
of making these little habit trackers
so I track about nine.
Do I track all of them all the time?
No, I don't
but I make them anyway, just in case I actually want to
habit trackers just kind of help to make you feel like you're actually keeping track of yourself
Keeping track of your life
makes you feel like you have some stability in your life
I'm basically going to make a line that is seven dots long
because we're making tiny little months
so this is exactly seven dots
I guess that's kind of a good thing about paper that ghosts a little bit
You can see the past lines that you've made
I'm going to skip two dots and make another line
skip two dots
they should perfectly space out
So I track how many YouTube videos I've made
how many Instagram posts I've made
and then I've been tracking exercise
now we're going to make a five by seven grid
this is going to represent a month. So here we go
We're going to just freehand. We're going to trust ourselves
Skipping two lines and we're going to make another line.
Don't worry if you mess up
life is not perfect. You're not perfect
No one's perfect
Finally for me I have one more row to go
And there we have our finished boxes
I'm just going to decorate this a tiny bit
I'm gonna add some cute daisies over here
a nice big one and a small one big one small one
And then here in this blank space I'm just going to add this washi tape
I know it's not perfectly the same yellow color, but it's still cute.
I think it's just a cute little element here.
i just came up with a little idea
So I'm going to just take this yellow post-it and kind of tape it
tape on some illustrations
I'm gonna just rip it. There we go.
Oh duh I should have done this
and then I'm just going to draw a little something-something
So I am done with this
and the brain dump is going to be completely empty
Because I'm going to fill it out later.
Actually, I forgot to add some washi tape, of course i gotta
There is our completed brain dump
and then finally we're going to move on to our weekly layout
lately I haven't been reflecting a whole lot
so I don't think I'm going to make an April reflection page like I have done in my past videos
But if you want to add it, go ahead
So the weekly layout is not as complicated as it looks
this is just something I've been trying out
Because I want to experiment with actually timing out my tasks
Of course
There's a lot of freedom with just having a list of tasks and actually choosing the time that you want to do it
But I feel like sometimes you just want to time things out
see how your day looks to see if everything is possible to do
So here we go.
So we are starting at the very top
And again, we're making a space to write the days of the week.
We're going to make a small little row
And then we're going to divide this into four
just like that. I separated them into six
So it's a one by six little box.
We're literally going to extend it all the way to the bottom.
Here we go
Yay, and then here we're going to make a small box.
This is going to be where events can go
These are just like big picture things that you can't really time
that was the straightest line I've ever made.
Oh my goodness
And it's actually very simple to do
now we're going to make three more
and then a little section over here
I like this weekly spread
just because I feel like it helps me be a little more productive
and it really organizes your time
Here is a little future section for future tasks
and then somewhere halfway down were just going to make a little notes section
again we are just going to make a little section for the days
with our yellow marker or whatever color you please
So we're gonna start on Monday, slash, and this day is the 30th
and we've got Tuesday, Friday
Saturday Sunday
and then I will write future and notes
I also like to doodle something on the corner, so I'm going to just draw some daisies
And finally I'm going to just write the times, you're starting from 6 am
Now that the times are written down
I will show you an example of how this actually kind of works
it's pretty simple
I'm not really sure what I'm going to be doing on the 30th
but I do know that I usually wake up at around 8
So I am going to reserve 8 through I'm going to say 10 a.m
Just for getting ready and eating breakfast.
I actually wrote "eating breakfast" because I can't multitask
I'm going to cross that out
then I'm just going to box this up with a pen
and then here this is usually about the time that I do makeup
So I'm going to write makeup
and then with these kind of tasks
I just like to use a green pen
Just make up your own coloring system.
It smudges a little bit
These pens are a little smudgy
and then honestly, I don't know what else I'm doing on that day
So this will be for later,
but that is basically the system
this is literally like an online calendar but in your bullet journal
I'm gonna let it dry a little bit
that is a weekly setup.
And then I do the other weeks as time passes
I will now just give you a flip through of the final journal
This is our lovely month
I love the colors
and then moving on we have our habit tracker and our brain dump
very simple
but I love the addition of doodles
and then here is the weekly spread
with the new setup that I'm trying out
I liked using this setup in March
I will see how April goes
aren't these flowers are cute
But that is basically it for this month
For those of you guys who like simple bullet journal setups
but also like to color things up a little bit
I hope you guys enjoy this.
So that is the end of this bullet journal session
This has been my updated minimal, simple, but cute the bullet journal setup
Do not be intimidated by the washi tapes
or the markers or any of that
do whatever you're comfortable with
But also have fun with it
times are kind of weird
But hopefully having some kind of system helps out a little bit
I certainly like to take time to set up my bullet journal
plan things out a little bit, take things slow
I hope that you guys are staying safe and staying healthy
I hope they enjoyed this time with me and I will see you in my next video
I am exposing my pajama pants
We are social distancing.
This is appropriate
bring it in for a virtual hug
and I will see you guys in my next video! Goodbye :)