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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today we are back with yet another monthly
plan with me, bullet journal set up video.
We're doing November 2019 bullet journal set up.
Almost the end of the year, which is insane,
but I'm excited to sit down and get planning,
especially because this time of the year
is always my favorite time of the year.
If you guys have been watching this channel for a while now,
then you will know that fall time
is my absolute favorite time of the year, hence my outfit.
I decided to dress up in full autumnal,
is that the word?
Full autumn gear, and I even dyed my hair
back to brown to suit the season.
It wasn't just for the season,
but it just happens to work out that way.
Anyway, I know you guys are really excited
to get right into it, but before we do, as usual,
I'd like to give a quick thank you
to today's sponsor, Skillshare.
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Without further ado, let's get planning.
Grab a blanket, and a nice cup of tea or coffee, whatever,
and your bullet journal and pens, and let's get planning.
All right, so for this month's theme
I decided to do something that I love very much.
It's very near and dear to my heart,
and it's a part of my every day life, coffee.
You guys have been asking for me to do
a coffee theme for the longest time now,
and I thought that November would be the perfect month
to do it, because it's fall time,
and whenever I think of fall,
I think of cozying up with a cup of coffee, or a cup of tea.
I know some people aren't big coffee drinkers,
so you could technically turn all of this into tea,
if you prefer that,
but for the cover, as you can see,
I decided to draw a bunch of different coffee cups,
and this theme was so much fun
because coffee cups are pretty easy to draw,
but what makes it look fun and interesting
is that I changed up the design on the mugs.
I drew some take out coffee cups,
I drew some iced coffee cups in a glass cup,
and I also drew some coffee pots.
You can switch it up depending on what you want,
and really just have fun with it.
I pretty much just used three colors.
A light brown, a dark brown, and then the black fine liner,
and then I switched between all of those.
For some of the coffee cups,
I actually outlined it with the brown,
just to change things up a little,
but in general this design is pretty simple.
It does remind me a lot of my bubble tea theme.
Which is another beverage that I love a lot.
Also, the cactus theme that I did,
I think a couple years back, and whenever I do cover pages
like this where the doodles
are kind of scattered all over the place,
I really have so much fun because there's a lot of freedom,
and you can go whatever direction you want.
Especially for you guys when you're recreating,
don't feel like you have to do the exact same
mug designs as me.
You can decorate them however you want.
You can do polka-dots, stripes,
you don't have to decorate them at all if you want,
you can also change the sizes of the cups,
and the color palette.
I obviously decided to go for a very brown,
sepia-toned theme.
I think it's very fall and autumn,
and obviously goes well with coffee.
To finish off the design,
I outlined the whole page in a border,
and I also added the little swirly steam doodles
to make it look like the cups were piping hot
with a fresh pot of coffee.
For the page next to it, I decided to do a quote page,
and I drew this coffee cup from above,
like an overhead angle,
and actually I guess it would be considered a latte,
because I drew that infamous latte design
that baristas do sometimes.
The swirly design with the milk foam.
I drew that, and colored it in with the brown,
and then above and below it I have a quote.
Some of the footage got cut,
which is why you don't see me writing it,
but it says, "Change the world... Start with Coffee."
It's just a quote I found on Pinterest,
and I thought it was really cute.
And, to finish it off, partially because I wanted to drink
a cup of coffee while I was doing this spread,
but also because I wanted to incorporate it into my spread.
As you can see, I purposefully spilled
a little bit of coffee on my bullet journal,
and made these coffee rings in the corner edges
of the quote page, and I thought it was really cute.
Please note, if you're going to try
doing this on your bullet journal,
this did actually end up bleeding through
a little tiny bit to the other side of my page,
so be careful, maybe test it out on a piece of paper
beforehand, or if you want to,
you can just recreate it drawing the coffee rings
with markers or watercolor paints,
or something if you don't want to use real coffee.
I thought it added a little bit of authenticity.
All right, for the next spread, my calendar spread,
I drew out the individual calendar boxes.
It's been a while since I've done a monthly calendar
in this style, because for the past
couple of months, I've just drawn one big rectangle
for the calendar.
I decided to do the individual squares.
These squares are five by five dot spaces each,
with one dot space in between.
I did some quick brush strokes with my brown brush marker
at the top to highlight the days of the week,
and I used these brown brush strokes a lot
throughout the rest of the setup,
because I thought it mimicked the look of coffee spills
or coffee stains, and it's really cute.
I'm going to link the exact color code
of the Tombow Dual Brush Pen that I used
in the description box below.
As usual, all of the supplies I used
will be down there as well.
At the top I wrote out November with my brown brush pen,
then on the side I have little boxes
for goals, and YouTube tracker.
I finished off this calendar spread
by doodling a bunch of the coffee mugs
in the empty spaces, and that's it.
In general, this spread, and actually this entire setup
was pretty simple to draw,
and it was one of the quicker setups that I've done.
I've actually been leaning towards quicker simple spreads
in terms of efficiency, but despite that,
I do think there's still enough
doodle-y and creative elements on it to make it fun.
Next, I'm doing my trackers,
and I'm using my days of the month stamp
that I have, and coloring it in with the marker,
in order to stamp.
I should probably get a stamping block eventually,
but I've been using this janky method
for a while now, and it works.
What's good about it, is since I'm using the exact marker
that I used for the rest of the setup,
it matches the whole setup perfectly.
It makes it look very cohesive.
I highlighted the headers of each
individual habit tracker calendar,
and then I wrote out the habits
that I wanted to track that month.
Which, actually this month I included a coffee tracker
so I could see exactly how much coffee I consume.
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I messed up this title, guys.
Do not leave a bunch of comments about it,
I'm going to fix it later.
I literally did not even realize
until I was editing this video,
but I did write out mood tracker on the habit tracker,
and I wrote habit tracker on the mood tracker.
I don't know what I was thinking,
maybe this is a sign that I'm drinking too much coffee,
or maybe it's because I wasn't drinking enough that day,
and my mind was just elsewhere,
but yes, mistakes happen.
It's okay, I still think it turned out cute.
For my mood tracker, as you can see,
I drew those same coffee cups, latte cups
from above with the latte art,
and what I'm going to be doing
is numbering out those foam designs
and on every single day, I will color it in
depending on my mood, which I thought was pretty cute.
I mean cute aside from the fact that I completely messed up
the titles and now I'm going to have to figure out
a way to fix them, but there's always a way.
I'll probably end up patching the title
over with white paper or something,
and then just redoing it.
Make sure you don't recreate this exactly.
Do the right titles, y'all.
I finished off the trackers with the coffee doodles,
and that's it for this spread.
Next up we have my brain dump page.
This is pretty simple, just an empty page
for me to dump out whatever's in my mind,
because there's a lot happening in November,
and I have a little doodle
of the same latte mug in the corner.
Other than that, this side is pretty simple.
I haven't done a brain dump in a while.
Next, I'm doing my monthly playlist spread,
and this month I decided to go with the theme
and do a cafe playlist.
One of my favorite things to do is just to go to a cafe,
get some work done with my laptop,
or read a book and listen to some music.
I think cafe playlists, we all know the vibe,
it's very chill music.
That's my favorite type of music to listen to,
so I compiled a bunch of songs
that I've been really into this month,
and a lot of my favorite artists
came out with new music last month,
so there was a lot to share,
but of course, as usual,
I'll put it all into a Spotify playlist for you guys
and link it down below,
if you're interested in what I'm listening to.
Some of the songs on this playlist
that I've been listening to on repeat
are Nothing by Bruno Major, UN Village by Baekhyun,
Control Me by Colde, a lot of UMI's new album,
and TXE's new album.
When I was filming this, a bunch more music came out,
so I probably am going to end up adding even more
to the Spotify playlist then is on this actual spread.
I finish off the whole spread by doodling
the coffee cup above the phone
with the headphones, and with a nice title
that matches the whole vibe with my brush pen and brown.
Finally, we have the first weekly spread for November.
I used the back end of my Tombow Dual Brush Pen,
the thinner side, to outline the boxes
on this horizontal layout,
and just using the brown, no fine liner.
I actually didn't use any drop shadows this month,
which is super weird.
A lot of you guys have actually been pointing
this out to me, that I haven't been doing
very many drop shadows in general, recently.
I don't know what's gotten into me,
the drop shadows just haven't been speaking to me
for the past couple of themes, you know?
Maybe I'll get back into it eventually,
but for this theme, I really like how the plain brown
looks with the black,
so to finish off the spread on the left side of the boxes
I drew out the coffee mugs, with the number of the day
on the mug, and I wrote out the days of the week
above it, with that same brown highlighting method.
Lastly, I have a box at the bottom for any notes.
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of my bullet journal setup,
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but anyways, back to the rest of the video and flip through.
All right, that was my November 2019 coffee themed
bullet journal setup.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
We had a little bit of a hiccup along the way,
but no worries, it turned out okay.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments below.
All right everyone, while I wrap up this video
it's time for me to showcase your beautiful
recreations from last month,
which was October, the moon theme.
You guys absolutely crushed the recreations.
I love seeing them so much.
If you happen to recreate this month's bullet journal setup,
or any other theme, the best way to make sure I see them
is to tag me on Instagram, in the caption and the photo,
and you can also use our hashtag, #lildoodles.
I always love seeing your recreations every month.
It's my favorite thing to do,
just creeping on you guys,
so I can't wait to see what you guys do this month.
And also, besides that, Instagram is a great place
for you guys to keep updated on my life
and we do weekly live streams there
where I do the rest of the weekly spreads as well.
It's a fun time.
I think that's just about it.
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I hope you guys have an awesome day,
keep doodling and I will talk to you in the next one.
Bye everyone.
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