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- Hey everyone. It's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today's video is a big one
because we are moving into a brand new notebook.
Wooh!
A lot of you guys have been asking me
when I'm switching to a new notebook for my bullet journal
'cause you've noticed
that I've been getting to the final few pages
but this is the time,
I actually lasted one more month than I normally would.
Usually I last around June.
So it's like six months and six months.
But I think because this year,
I had a couple like half single page, weekly spreads
and I ended up saving pages, I guess, along the way.
So we lasted 'til July, the end of July,
which was pretty cool.
But now of course, it's time for a fresh start,
which feels right.
I feel like I'm in the need of a fresh start,
but and guys, look, I dyed my hair back to a black.
So new hair, new me, new bullet journal, fresh start.
Let me know, by the way if you're switching
into a new notebook anytime soon or if you have already,
I know some people switch at different times
grab a snack and a cup of tea and let's get started.
A lot of people have been asking me
what notebook I'm gonna be using this time around.
So here it is.
Surprise! Yes, Shop AmandaRachLee's finally coming out
with dotted notebooks guys.
I'm so, so excited.
As you can see, they come in all of the colors,
similar to the Doodle Planner
but obviously it's just dotted pages on the inside.
I'm gonna be using the teal one to keep
within the blue theme that both of my notebooks had
for 2020, but guys, I'm so excited
that these are finally gonna be coming out.
They are gonna be launching at the end of August,
but make sure you keep updated on social media
and the shop social media account
to know the exact details.
I think the cover is super cute
but the paper on the inside is 160 GSM.
So it's super thick and the pages are also numbered.
We had actually meant to launch these
way earlier in the year but of course, because of the virus,
everything got delayed.
So I'm just really excited
that these are finally going to be coming out.
And don't worry guys, if you aren't in need
of a new notebook right now
or if you've already switched,
these aren't limited edition or anything,
we're gonna keep restocking them.
So at any point you should be able
to get your hands on them.
But yeah, that's my mini announcement. I'm so excited.
Back to the video though.
I went through the beginning pages of my old bullet journal
and kind of put sticky notes on the pages
that I wanted to move over.
Of course, because of the virus,
bullet journaling and everything, was kind of strange.
So a lot of the pages were like interesting
and I definitely don't need them any more
like the travel list.
I don't know if anyone's gonna be traveling anytime soon.
In the past, I would make a whole list of the spreads
that I wanted to change and move over.
But the sticky notes kind of do the same job for me
and also their puppy sticky notes,
so it gives me an excuse to use those.
Anyway, let's be honest here.
The best part about starting a brand new notebook
is writing your name in that fresh front cover page.
But the first spread that I'm gonna be moving over
is of course my handy dandy dot spacing guide,
grid spacing guide, sorry.
A lot of people have been asking me about how to use this.
And I know I had meant to make a whole video on this.
I still can definitely make
a whole separate video on this if you guys want
but I'll kind of explain as we're making it right now.
So basically I number out all of the grid spaces on the page
so I can kinda see how tall and how wide it is.
And then I'm splitting up the divisions
of the dark red spaces
into various amounts that I will need in future spreads.
So I've split things up into quarters, thirds,
quarters with spaces in betweens.
In betweens. In between.
And I've done that both vertically and horizontally.
And basically when I'm referring to this page
let's say I want to split a page up into quarters.
I can just look for the colored lines
that have split into quarters and see how many
high or how many dark red spaces wide that is.
I hope that helps a little bit. (laughs)
It's kind of hard to explain
but it just helps me when I'm making spreads.
In terms of the title style, I wanted to keep it
pretty similar and consistent to the style
of my 2020 bullet journal from the beginning of the year.
But I did kind of change things up
and I wanted to use craft paper, which is something
that I've been really loving using
during all of my setups from this year.
I feel like my style has definitely evolved for 2020.
So I wanted to reflect that in this second notebook.
I did cute little quote page next to the grid spacing guide
that says a little progress every day adds up.
I know a lot of people, myself included
have been kind of feeling a little sluggish
and meh during all of this,
especially at the beginning half of the year.
So I wanted to kind of do a quote
that's like one step at a time kind of mindset.
Also just to keep in mind, I kept the grid spacing guide
on the left side of the spread so that I can easily
flip to it whenever I'm referring to it,
which is why the quote is on the right side.
I finished off by adding a couple little doodles
with a gray marker, nothing too too complicated,
just random lines and stars similar to the style
from my first bullet journal from 2020.
And of course added some washi tape
but overall I wanted to keep things pretty simple
with still keeping consistent with my like 2020 style,
if that makes sense.
Now moving on to my future log.
So since we're over halfway through the year,
I actually only had five months to transfer
from my future log for this notebook.
So I went for a horizontal split. (laughs)
I don't know how to describe this.
Horizontal kind of future log layout.
I've done something similar to this before,
but speaking of the grid spacing guide,
this is kind of the perfect example of how I used the guide.
So since I know I'm splitting the page into thirds,
I refer to the guide and looked for my third division lines
and I saw that, oh, okay, I need
to split this into 12 dot spaces
and then that helped me count
when I'm making marks for this spread.
I hope that makes sense.
It's really hard to explain, but anyways,
as you can see I'm writing out the titles of the month
on top of the craft paper and I'm kind of doing
this typewriter-esque font.
It's kind of by hand, but I do like that hand drawn vibe
and then below it, I'm writing out the mini month calendars,
making sure that I don't mess up this time 'cause
the 2020 setup at the beginning of the year,
I messed up the numbers and I had to redo
like five of the months or something at the end
and paste it over because the numbers all got shifted.
So that was really annoying.
So I took extra care to make sure
that didn't happen this time around.
Anyway, that's just my future log.
As you can see, it's nothing too complex.
I didn't go crazy with drawings
or brush lettering or anything.
Mostly just the craft paper jazzes things up a little,
but that's kind of what I was going for.
I wanted simple, easy to look at
so I could have mental clarity when I'm planning.
And I really liked the way that it turned out.
The next spread I knew I wanted to make
was a mid-year review slash reflection page.
I titled it reflect and refresh.
Ooh, it sounds so fancy. (laughs)
But when I put a sticky note on my 2020 goals
and reflection pages from the previous bullet journal,
this is what I meant by moving it over
'cause I think it's nice to in the middle of the year
look back on what you were thinking about
at the beginning of the year,
what goals you made at the beginning of the year
and kind of see how far you've come,
what's changed, what's different and set up new goals
for the second half of the year.
Kind of like setting yourself up for that
back half of the marathon.
So I did give myself some prompts.
I can list the exact prompts that I used
in the description box below.
Or you can obviously pause and screenshot them
if you wanna use the same ones as me, but the top questions
were more so reflection questions.
So like, what am I grateful for so far?
What have I achieved?
And the bottom half questions were
looking forward to the second half of the year.
So what do I still wanna achieve?
What do I wanna keep doing, that sort of stuff.
I only did a half page spread
for the mid-year reflection page,
but if you are the type of person
who likes to write a lot you can definitely do
a full two page spread for this.
But on the other half of the spread,
I just moved my YouTube brainstorm,
keeping within the same theme, the simple lines.
I've been doing this weird thing
with like the dots at the end of the lines.
I feel like it looks so classy,
but (laughs) I split up my YouTube brainstorm
into different categories.
And yeah, if you guys have any video ideas
of what you want to see from me, let me know.
So I can fill up this spread.
The next spread that I'm transferring over
is my things to check out spread,
where I keep track of any TV shows, books, movies
that I want to check out as the name suggests.
I just changed the layout of the spread
in the previous bullet journal.
I did it only on one side and kind of did vertical columns.
But this time I did it over two pages.
At the top, I have my things to check out
and at the bottom I have songs to learn.
And within those two halves, I split it up
further into categories.
The function of the spreads are the same
as the previous ones from the first bullet journal
but just kind of in a different layout.
My purpose when I ever switched bullet journals mid-year
is never to create brand new spreads
and change things up drastically.
It's just kind of to give myself a mental refresh,
more blank space to fill it out and add new ones.
Cause obviously the previous bullet journal,
a lot of these categories have been filled out
and crossed off as I watch stuff.
But now you can add new things to the list,
but that is it for this one.
Finally, we are on a, to the Polaroid memories page,
my 2020 and photos page.
I actually wasn't sure whether I was going to
transfer this spread over and do a 2020
memories page at all in this new bullet journal.
I really didn't use it that much in my last page.
I didn't stick that many photos in
mostly because the beginning months of 2020
were me in my pajamas in quarantine at home.
So my mindset was like,
do I really want to print these out and remember this.
But something that I've been trying to teach myself to do
more often is to appreciate those smaller everyday moments
of happiness so I wanna challenge myself
to include those types of memories on this spread.
For example, if I just eat a dinner or lunch
that I really like, that can be a photo
that I include on this spread
and it doesn't need to be this wall
of Instagrammable, perfect moments.
So that's why I still decided to transfer this over,
even though 2020 might not have been the best year
for all of us.
Anyway, here is the final flip through
of my second half of 2020 bullet journal.
Overall, I really, really liked the way
this setup turned out.
I love the style of it.
I think it still keeps consistent with the 2020
bullet journal from the beginning of the year,
but it's still something different and new,
so I can feel refreshed going in
to that second half of the year.
All right so I hope you guys enjoyed seeing my new mid-year
bullet journal set up and how I switched
into a new notebook and now you guys know
the little secret that I've been working on
and why I've been so excited to switch into a new one,
but hopefully you guys liked them and are excited as I am.
Yeah, oh, I feel like I'm getting out of breath
'cause I'm so excited.
If you guys do wanna see more bullet journal stuff from me,
you can follow me on Instagram.
And I also live streams of every single weekly spread
that I do over on Twitch.
It's a fun time, but I think that's pretty much it.
I'm gonna wrap up for now.
I hope you have an awesome day.
Keep doodling and I'll talk to you in the next one.
Bye everyone.
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