hello again team it's jess or jashikarin and welcome back for another video
today we are setting up a new bullet journal for the new year but this one isn't from me as the
title suggests this one is a giveaway journal that i'm setting up in this a5 artranolove notebook
this is the crescent moon design which is actually being retired once it sells out but we're setting
this journal up for january to june of next year if you wanted to enter to be in to win this one
make sure to stay tuned but for now we're setting up the first page in preparing for the setup of
this journal i was asking a bunch of questions over in the jashi korean community facebook group
around pages that i could include in the start of the journal themes for the monthly layouts
what pages to include in the monthly layouts etc i very much want to make it so that whoever gets
this journal can still make it their own and essentially just has some good layouts to get
themselves started this first page we're setting up is a year at a glance so it has a mini calendar
for each of the months of next year i personally find this to be a really handy reference at the
start of the journal just so you can quickly see what day of the week each day of the year falls on
or for when you're setting up your monthly spreads no more day to start your calendar on
each of these calendars is a monday start and at the end of each week i also include the week
number in a light gray prior to pinning this one in i made sure to go in with pencil first and
write down when each of the months started just to avoid any possible errors of miscounting and then
throwing the entire calendar off i've seen this happen to other people before
and i didn't want it to happen in this giveaway journal penciling in first is my safe place as you
can probably tell from the decoration we have on this first page for this start of journal
setup i've gone with an astrology theme so lots of little stars constellations that type of thing and
i've carried that theme through all of the pages we're setting up today just to make them all tied
together nicely to keep it fairly minimal we're just working essentially with some black pens a
gray tombow dual brush marker and for the starter journal setup i also added some gold touches
using my calera finetec gold watercolors and also the metallic gold acryla graph paint pen
as always any of the equipment i use in the setup can be found in the description box below though
like we talked about for our last giveaway journal i want our giveaway winner to be
able to pick their own color palettes for each month if they choose to have one for that reason
all of the pages i set up here are going to be quite minimal in terms of equipment used
for the most part it is just a black pen this not only allows them to make it their own but it also
means that they'll actually have the right gear to keep their themes cohesive if they want to
in terms of timing though our year at a glance page took approximately 30 minutes from first
touch of the pen to final raisings but as always this doesn't include penciling in time or idea
generation time flipping over though and we are on to the future log where we're splitting the spread
into 12 boxes one for each month so two rows of six boxes each of these are eight squares across
and sixteen squares down this of course is just one style of future log that you can use and if
you are looking for more inspiration when setting yours up i do have a separate video
on future log styles that might be helpful to add a decorative element to these ones and in keeping
with our astrology theme i made a printable of the constellations for each of the star signs
this one is available over on my patreon which is also linked in the description box cutting
these out we have one little circle for each of the months with the star sign for that month now
i know that each of the star signs don't actually perfectly fit into a calendar month so i've just
associated each month with the star sign that the majority of the days for the month is related to
does that make sense for example libra is roughly september 23rd to october 23rd so as there are
more days in that period that are october i've put the libra star sign in the box for october
yeah to bring some more gold into this setup though after all the little cutouts were stuck
in i just put some more of that gold paint over where the stars would be for each of them
and then i also used gold to denote the month's initials but this one was an acrylograph pen
you'll see that i didn't bother to put many calendars here with the future log boxes
just as with the year at a glance having the mini calendars here too would seem a bit redundant in
terms of timing though our future log took 20 minutes from first touch of the pen over the
page and we're on to the space for goals so this one includes a general goals page on the left
so a space for our giveaway winner to write out what they want to achieve in the year to come
and on the right we have a 22 in 2022 list but more on that in a bit because i know that people
like to set goals differently and the things that our giveaway winner wants to record are
likely going to be different to me i've left this page fairly open with just a header and a
decorative banner at the bottom so bringing in more of those constellation cloud decorations
this one took eight minutes to set up the time for which was certainly increased by using the
paint examples for how this page could be used though are something like a goals brainstorm to
identify their goals or a list of their goals for the year ahead they might want to use it to make
an action plan for a particular goal or to record milestones they achieve when working on their goal
obviously there's a lot of flexibility with a page like this given that we just effectively
have a nice empty space here but i didn't want to essentially prescribe to the winner how their goal
page should be on the other side of the spread though we have the 22 in 2022 list so this one
has a space to record 22 things that our giveaway winner wants to achieve in the year ahead i've
previously really enjoyed using pages like this and in fact i enjoyed it so much that this year i
decided to expand mine to be 101 things they don't have to be big things though some of them might be
but i find that lists like this are a great way to commemorate the stuff that you accomplished
in any given year now that we've set up a few spreads though and you can see how this giveaway
journal is coming together how do you actually enter to win the journal in the description box
and in the pinned comment below you'll find a link to the giveaway page where you can sign up
at that link there is a bunch of ways that you can earn yourself extra entries like by subscribing to
my vlog channel or hitting up the jashikaran facebook group but when you do have to be a
subscriber here though so make sure to hit the subscribe button on the way to the giveaway link
the giveaway is open internationally though and will close on december 3rd 2021 11 pm new
zealand time and the winner will be announced that weekend in my regular sunday video our 22
and 22 page took seven and a half minutes though with two columns each with space for 11 things and
now we're flipping over to our media page by this i mean things like books to read or read movies or
tv shows to watch or already watched podcasts to listen to or already listen to that kind of thing
this is another one that i've tried to set up in a way that makes it flexible so we have four
spaces per page for a total of eight spaces and i haven't put any labels into the boxes
this mainly comes from how i know i would use this page because i'm much more of a watcher or
a listener than i am a reader so if i were to use the spread i likely wouldn't have to have a full
space dedicated to books and probably multiple spaces dedicated to movies i figured that our
giveaway winner may well be the same so i didn't want to designate each space to a specific thing
given we're leaving the headers out as well this also means that our winner can use this as
a things to check out page or as checklists or as a space to write down some memories for the
six months that this journal spans they don't actually have to use it as a media spread at all
but that's just what my intention was for it in terms of the decoration on this one
though you can see we have two circular components one in the middle of each page
and in these i put some doodles that fit with our astrology theme so i have a little telescope in
the one on the left and the big dipper and some other constellations in the one on the right
from first touch of the pen to final erasings our media spread took about five minutes
and then we're actually going to flip back to the start of the journal to put in a grid
spacing guide in our last giveaway journal i had the grid spacing guide on a spread inside the
journal which didn't make it as easy to reference as it could be for this one though i wanted to
resolve that issue by making a flip out grid spacing guide on the inside cover of the journal
i've talked about this previously in our video on different styles for grid spacing guides
so if you hadn't already seen that video do make sure to check it out but what this one involves
is taking a piece of paper either cut out from the back of your journal or from making a dutch door
or you can use the paper from the artran olive a5 notepad and washi taping it into the inside
cover of the notebook such that it can flip out to be used i'm making two small grid spacing guides
so one for the vertical edge along the side and one for the horizontal edge at the top
on each of these pieces of paper i'm just marking in the spacing that would be needed to divide a
journal page into halves thirds and quarters there is a little bit of extra space on these
so our giveaway winner could also mark in any other grid spacings that they use regularly
both of these spacing guides will be washi taped into the front cover so that they can be flipped
out and seen from any page in the journal because of where they have to be stuck to be useful i did
have to cut away some of the top or the horizontal grid spacing guide just so that they could both
fold back into the journal the grid spacing guide is something that i know a lot of people find
really helpful to have in their journal but it's actually not something that i put in my one
probably in part because i've been journaling for a while now and essentially only use archer
and all of notebooks so i've gotten to know the spacings quite well but question of the day for
you though what are your must-have layouts when setting up a new journal i'm really excited to
show you my new bullet journal setup for next year but first i actually need to finalize what pages
i'm going to include i'd love to hear about what your must-haves are so that i can get inspiration
from my journal and make sure to read what other people leave in the comments too so you can find
inspiration as well for our final flip through though we have the flip out grid spacing guides
year at a glance featuring the week numbers for the year
the future log with constellation decorations
our goals spread with a space to record goals and the 22 things to do in 2022 page and then the
media spread to record things like books to read and movies to watch hopefully you enjoyed today's
video and have entered the giveaway as always team thank you for watching if you found today's video
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