(Background Music)
Hello everyone, it's Amanda welcome back to my channel and when I say welcome back
I truly mean welcome back because it has been a while since I've done a plan with me video
I skipped last month because I was on a break.
If you're curious to see how my February bullet journal did end up looking I posted a little flip through sort of update video
It was really chill and casual but I did just show you guys some of the spreads that I ended up doing
So if any of you guys were curious, check that video out. But today of course
I am doing an actual plan with me for March
2020 I'm really looking forward to sitting down and planning because I haven't you know
Sat down and filmed and shared spreads with you guys in a little bit
So it's gonna be fun before we get right into all of the fun spreads this month
I did just want to say a quick thank you to Squarespace for kindly sponsoring today's video
I know a lot of you guys have many dreams and goals and talents and side gigs and
Websites are definitely an important step to supporting all of those goals
So with Squarespace you can build the perfect online website to help you out, and push you in the right direction.
But I will talk a little bit more about them later in the video without further ado
Grab your notebooks and your pens and your markers and a cup of tea
It feels like it's been so long since I've said that but let's get planning
Alright, March
2020 so
Those of you who have been following me for a while now or have seen a lot of my previous bullet journal videos will know
That it's become sort of a tradition that my March theme is green
I don't know how it ended up happening that way but
Pretty much though all of the previous March bullet journal setups that I've done have been green
So, of course I had to continue this tradition and the theme are these tropical leaves
I think these types of leaves are called monstera leaves
But yeah
They're like big tropical leaves and I really love the way these look I actually want to get one of these plants for my apartment
I've done a tropical leaf scene before but those ones were more palm tree leaves
So I thought this would be something a little bit different
I know I'm not the first person to do doodle these types of leaves, so don't come for me
But I did try to put my own twist on it and change up the color scheme a little bit
Obviously we have the the classic green, but I also threw in
Some beige as well as a pop-up like this mustardy yellow color
Just because I like that warm
Aesthetics vibe and in terms of actually doodling these leaves. They're really simple to draw you guys know
I'm a sucker for a quick and easy type of doodle. So I started out with a pencil sketch sort of of like a
teardrop peach shape and then I go in with the fine liner after and do those dents in the leaf and
Sort of follow along with the pencil outline that I have and I changed it up. Sometimes I drew that center stem
Sometimes I actually drew the leaf with the color and I think that gives it a bit more visual interest
Especially on the cover page, so it's not just like a black outline with color on the inside
I sort of switched up from time to time
but yeah, we are just coloring it in I actually
chose a couple different types of markers
One of them is a tombow dual brush pen
And then the other one is this dual tip pen from Crayola Signature Collection as well as my classic super tips
You guys know I love these
But I will link all of the supplies that I end up using down below as usual and I'll try to find the specific
Color names so that you guys can see if you have it in your collection
But you know any green will do actually I feel like this pattern would look good
Even if you switched it out and didn't do just green leaves like it could be fun to do
Sort of rainbow palette or super pastel colors. I think the shape of the leaves will lend itself to that
I just went for a very simple cursive on the center that says March
Yeah, I also added those little polka dots which I did to fill space because it wasn't a big enough space to draw another leaf
But I I like that sort of like abstract look anyways
Now last month for February. I did my bullet journal set up
Off-camera, I didn't do a planning video. But if you watch the flip through then you will have seen that I tried
Experimenting a little bit and I actually drew the calendar spread on the left side of the cover page
Normally, if you've seen my previous plan with me videos recently
I just do a regular standard full-page calendar spread, but when I have not so busy months
I feel like I'm gonna end up going for this because a it saves the paper and also I like the look of the cover
page being next to the calendar
So yes, I did do this calendar on the other side of the spread the size of the boxes as you can see
They're a little long and skinny. So definitely would not work if you have a lot of
Events and stuff to write down in your calendar, but this month is relatively chill for me
So I think this one would work. Well the size of the boxes are 3 by 5, I believe
And it fits perfectly right in the center of that page. So we'll see how this goes. I think for next month
I'll have to go back to a two-page spread because it's a bit busier
but for now this works for me and I just
You know did colors of the dots to match the cover page and added some washi tapes as well
you guys know I love me some washi tape and
To finish it off. I doodled a couple leaves in the corner just to decorate it Oh
Something else to note is that I would not recommend this type of spread if you have really big handwriting
I have relatively small handwriting so I can fit
Usually all my main events in small calendar boxes like this
But if you have a larger handwriting then I would definitely go for the two-page spread instead
Alright, so for my trackers this month, I decided to try something a little bit new
I tried a lot of new spreads this month. So we'll see how those end up going, but I was feeling very crafty and creative
so I actually did my
trackers
Split over two pages, you'll see what I mean. But for the past year, I would say I did my
individual habit trackers all in one page and it would be three by three so there was not
individual trackers, but
Recently, I've only really felt the need to track six specific habits
So I don't need you know the extra three, so instead of doing nine on one page
I did six spread across the half and then I did my mood tracker on the bottom half of the double page spread as well
So it's a little bit different. I mean, it's essentially the same
Concept but just arranged differently on these pages and for my mood tracker
I just drew a bunch of those leaves since they were so quick and easy to do and
What will happen is that I will color them in according to the mood
I have a nice little legend that denotes which color means the what mood and
I'm actually this is something that I saw in a comment recently. I went back to one of my old videos and someone suggested
that for my mood tracker
I do the happier moods as the darker colour
so that they stand out in your bullet journal
so that you are not seeing like your
sadder days
First if that makes sense because before I would do like darker color means sad mood the lighter color means a happier mood
but obviously when you're looking through your bullet journal the darker colors stand out a bit more so, you know
I thought maybe it's not the greatest idea to emphasize those
Bad days and I reversed it. Now the happier days are going to be the darker colors
It's still a little bit foreign to me because in my mind, I think I just automatically associate bad days with dark colors
But we're trying to flip that so we'll see how that turns out. Nonetheless
I did just doodle a bunch of these leaves in various sizes and orientations and
Twisted and flip them all around
Make sure you sketch out so you have enough space. I perfectly fit the 31 in here
so is no biggie, but I've definitely had times when I
Ran out of space if I didn't sketch it. So sometimes pencil sketch is good. I
I am just finishing up outlining all of those monstera leaves
I think that's what it's called watch. It not actually be called that probably should have looked it up before stirring this voiceover
But if I am completely wrong, you can let me know in the comments
Anyway, nonetheless. That's what we're gonna call them. I drew so many of these leaves. I think I can
Draw a lot of them in my sleep now, but I promise they are pretty easy
I know they look a little complex at first, but you will get the hang of it. I believe in you
Alright, I numbered off each of the leaves so that you can see what leaf equals what day we have the legend at the top
There with the colors and then on to my next page
oh, no, I outlined to the the cursive my handwriting in the
Various colors just to give out a little pop to the titles
Now moving on to the next page I am bringing back my monthly
Playlist I didn't do it for
January and obviously February I was on a break so I didn't get to share too much of my music, but we are back
There's been a lot of good music released
So I wanted to do a little playlist spread and as usual
I'm gonna make a Spotify playlist with all of these songs on it so you can go check them out
And actually you can follow me on Spotify
I feel like a lot of people always ask me about the music that I listen to and
What song is this if I play it on Instagram and stuff?
So if you follow me on Spotify, that's the best way to keep up with what I am currently listening to
In terms of the spread I had this tan paper
It's sort of like a tan color with a grid pattern on top and I thought it matched perfectly because I was using that
taupe color in my color palette this month
So I ripped that up sort of scrapbook style placed at the top and I also wrote out
Playlist with the green markers that I was using this month and I created an ombre effect
Cut that out and place it on top of the toe paper. I really love the way this looks the top of this spread
I think it looks really cute
Obviously if you don't have these same like scrapbook type of paper
You can either print out a pattern that matches your theme or you don't need to include the paper at all
I think it would look cute even with just the title
I wanted to spice things up a little you know
Now for the actual songs, I drew the boxes a bit scattered and random
Normally, I would do it sort of like all in a column
But I figured because the leaves were all over the place and also scattered
I think these scattered boxes would look really good with the spread. So that's what I did
Oh, yeah, this is me being very indecisive about where to place the washi tape, but we figured it out in the end guys
In turn I'm not gonna list out all the songs, but trust me. These songs are bops
We have a bunch of different types of songs styles of songs. We have some whole albums
I couldn't include the whole album, but I did list out some of my favorite songs from these specific albums
But again, I will list the Spotify
Spotify
Playlist down below if any of you guys have song suggestions that you think I would enjoy
Let me know in the comments down below. I always love discovering new music through you guys
It's my favorite part about making these spreads
So let me know what you guys are currently listening to on loop and I will see maybe they'll be added to next ones playlist
All right
So for the spread next to it and decided to do a simple quote page since normally I love doing these quote pages
But normally I put them next to the cover page. But since the calendar was taking up the space
I thought this page would be
perfect for a nice quote and this one it has to do with
Plants since we are going with a leaf plant theme it says keep watering yourself
You're growing and I didn't do anything super fancy. I mean, I just wrote it out in this like
handwritten cursive e font and drew one of the leaves in the corner and
I bordered it as well and that was pretty much it. Nothing too crazy
But I think it looks really nice and I like that there's a lot of white space in it
Lastly we are doing the first
weekly spread for March and we're doing something a little funky so I know you guys have seen me do a
Dutch door spread, but cutting the page vertically this time I decided to cut the page horizontally
So I have my weekly events all along the bottom and that way no matter where I flap the page at the top
you can see the weekly events at the bottom and this actually works out really well because you do get quite a lot of
planning space at the top for to-do list
so I split them up into two columns per page as you can see so
each
This is so hard to explain you guys can see what I'm doing. Each flap has two
Days on it and you're gonna have one extra
I just put an extra section for notes, but this I feel like this spread is pretty efficient
If I do say so myself because you do have a lot of planning space for to-do lists
And then you have your weekly events at the bottom
But it's it's new to me. I feel like it's like a hidden cat door or something at the bottom
in terms of the actual headers
I just drew the leaves which is where I'm going to place the numbers and then
A little highlight for where the days of the week are going
The vertical Dutch door spreads are some of my favorites to do. I always love doing them
So I guess now I have another Dutch door spread in my arsenal. I think it's almost like a bullet journal magic trick
I love doing them. If you haven't tried one out yet. I highly recommend you test it out and see how it works
All right guys before I show you the final flip through of my March 2020 bullet journal setup
I did want to take this time to quickly talk a little bit about
Squarespace and how they're helping people achieve their goals and their dreams
I know that so many of you guys are very talented at a variety of different things and you have your own dreams and goals
But I feel like regardless of what your dreams are websites are
Definitely a really important thing these days in order to make those goals real whether you want to make your own personal
Website for portfolio maybe or make an online store to sell something as a side gig or you know?
Maybe you just want to build your online presence Squarespace is definitely perfect all-in-one platform to do
So my website Amandarachlee.com is actually built on Squarespace and it's just super easy
Especially since I'm dealing with a lot of things like images of my artwork Squarespace has automatic image scaling
so your images will always look right in high quality and there's also easy importing so you can import images straight from your Instagram or
Your Flickr stuff like that that you just don't want to have to deal with or worry about Squarespace
Has you covered and if you do ever have any issues they have 24/7 consumer support
So there's always someone there to help you out. I know building websites can be very overwhelming but trust me you got this
So if you have been contemplating starting your own website or portfolio or online store, whatever it is
I highly recommend you try out Squarespace. It can never hurt to have something that speaks about you
So if you want to try it off yourself head to Squarespace.com/amandarachlee
for free trial and for 10% off your first purchase of a domain or a website now back to the flip through
Here is the final flip through of my March
2020 tropical
Monstera still unconfirmed whether that's what it's actually called leaf theme
But I feel like I tried out a lot of new spreads this month
So let me know what you guys thought of it in the comments though. All right, my little doodles
So that was my march 2020 bullet journal setup
I hope you guys enjoyed usually this would be the time that I showcase your recreations from last month
But seeing as there was no playing with me last month
I'm just gonna showcase some cool spreads from you guys or some cool things that you guys have been tagging me on Instagram. So
Here you go. Um as usual if you do recreate this setup or any of my previous setups,
Be sure to tag me on instagram @amandarachlee and you can also use our hashtag
Hashtag Little Doodles so that I can lurk and see what you guys are creating every single month
I love to see how you guys put your own twist on my setups
It's like my favorite part of every month, so I can't wait to do that
You can also follow me on instagram to keep up with any other
Doodles and bullet journal spreads that I end up posting this month, but I think that's pretty much it
So I hope you guys have a great day
A great month actually the month of March keep doodling and I will talk to you in the next one. Bye everyone
[ relaxing music ]