hey friends elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today
i'm setting up my husband's bullet journal for may with a coffee theme i did a coffee theme
way back years and years ago i will link the video in the description box so you can watch it
if you're curious but i haven't done another one in a long time
and when my husband mentioned it as a possible theme my mind started to go wild with ideas
there's so many different ways to do a coffee theme but i really wanted to do it in a different
way than how i did it last time so i decided to focus on creating coffee rings and splotches
as if my husband just kept putting coffees down on his bullet journal in an artistic
manner and for the authenticity of it all i decided to use real coffee to create this theme
now i had some trials and tribulations brewing dark enough coffee for it to really show up
the color i wanted i actually brewed two pots of coffee which were not dark enough for my needs i
then made a really dark espresso which was closer and ended up having to use a little bit of winsor
newton designers gouache in sepia which is a dark brown to mix in with my espresso just to darken
up some of those rings and splotches creating this theme is super simple and it's another one kind of
like my may plan with me which was an abstract theme where you can just kind of be free and
the more mistakes or messiness just add to the whole vibe so this was a really fun one to do
i ended up using a small glass for the larger circles and a mason jar with a smaller mouth
for some smaller circles and i also used a paintbrush to strategically darken certain
areas and to add splotches now my husband's bullet journal is one of the archer and olive notebooks
that i designed as part of my collaboration they were limited edition but it has the same paper
as all archer and all of notebooks which is 160 gsm and 160 gsm paper and this particular paper
from archer and olive handles water really well but it's still not watercolor paper
so i will say if you're recreating this theme in the same way i would recommend putting paper
towel behind the page that you are adding your rings to and your drops to so that if anything
leaks through the page it will hopefully be absorbed by the paper towel and not leak through
to the next page i also recommend skipping a page in between so you can glue your pages together
to prevent any ghosting or bleeding on your pages and to minimize any warping there wasn't a huge
amount of bleed through because i did make sure to shake off as much of the coffee as possible before
putting down the coffee ring but there still was a little bit this is quite a bit of liquid
being put directly on the page more than i would typically recommend for a non-watercolor paper
so just keep that in mind i just skipped a page in between each spread and glued those pages together
as for the lettering i decided to go with this font which is sort of bubbly and kind of reminded
me of an old timey coffee shop logo or sign and i wanted to add a quote to the left page here and i
started looking up quotes about coffee but quickly realized that there was really only one option
which was there's coffee in that nebula which reminds me that i have actually done another
coffee adjacent theme it was a there's coffee in that nebula theme which is very specific
that's a quote from star trek voyager spoken by captain jane way our favorite coffee obsessed
starfleet captain and i did a whole theme that was coffee cups with nebulas coming out of them
and the like so i'll link that down below as well if you want to check it out but
this is one of my favorite star trek quotes of all time jane way's obsession with coffee is iconic
i have a coffee mug inspired by janeway and her love of coffee it's a whole vibe and since
my husband and i are big trekkies and we always watch star trek together i felt this was necessary
once i had my lettering in i added some more splotches here and there
just to fill out the areas that felt a little empty add a little bit of emphasis
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and once that coffee had dried i flipped the page to start working on the calendar my husband
prefers a two-page calendar so that's what i do for him he's quite busy and he likes to be able to
write down every event that's happening every show every meeting so the priority is having a nice big
practical calendar and then i'm just adding some coffee rings and splotches to sort of the outer
edges to keep up the theme while i work on setting up this calendar since it's very straightforward
i'm going to share some coffee facts with all of you coffee dates back all the way to 800 a.d
legend has it that 9th century goat herders noticed the effect caffeine had on their goats
who appeared to dance after eating the fruit of the kaffia plant a local monk then made a
drink with a produce and found that it kept him awake at night thus the original cup of
coffee was born coffee beans are technically seeds they're the pits of cherry-like berries found on
the flowering shrubs but we call them beans because they look like beans groundbreaking
another fun fact you can actually eat coffee cherries which now is going on my bucket list
apparently you can also ferment the pulp of these berries to make a wine-like drink
there are two main types of coffee arabica and robusta arabica is the more popular species
because while robusta contains more caffeine it tends to taste slightly more bitter brazil grows
the most coffee in the world producing about a third of the world's supply twice as much as
second place vietnam you can actually overdose on coffee if you drink around 30 cups of coffee in a
very short period of time you would potentially get a lethal dose of caffeine there have been
attempts to ban coffee throughout the ages back in 1511 leaders in mecca believed it stimulated
radical thinking and outlawed the drink some 16th century italian clergymen also tried to ban coffee
because they believed it to be satanic however pope clement vii loved coffee so much that he
lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600. even as recently as the 18th century
the swedish government made both coffee and coffee paraphernalia including cups and dishes illegal
for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment the last fact for today coffee drinkers tend to live
longer research has linked moderate consumption about three to four cups a day with a longer
lifespan plus a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and parkinson's according
to harvard health publishing and this is the fact that i will use personally to defend my caffeine
addiction until the day i die hopefully as a very old person because i drink three to four cups of
coffee a day if you enjoyed today's coffee facts leave a coffee related emoji in the comments down
below moving on to the final spread of this setup the first page of my husband's notes pages i feel
like a broken record because i explain this in every video just in case it's someone's first time
watching one of my husband's bullet journal setups but my husband tends to use more of a traditional
daily log system as per the original bullet journal system but he likes to think of them as
just random notes throughout the day so i start his notes pages i make some sort of header that
fits with the theme and then he just uses as many pages as he needs throughout the month throughout
his work days for personal things drawing diagrams making lists whatever it is he needs
and that brings us to the end of this setup so i'll do a little flip through for you
this was a super quick and easy theme to set up and lots of fun there are so many options for how
you can create rings and splotches if you wanted to you could get really creative and
brew different strengths of coffee so you could have more color variation from light to dark
i had a lot of fun doing this theme especially because i had to brew two pots of coffee and then
make an espresso to have the right color coffee for this i drank a lot of coffee on the day i
was filming this video which i am totally fine with and because i had strewn about fresh coffee
beans on the table for the aesthetic of it all i was also smelling fresh coffee the whole time
also not complaining about that if you missed my setup in my own bullet journal for may
i will have that video linked down below in the description box so be sure to check it out
thank you so much for watching this video thank you as always to my patrons for your support
if you at home want to join the squad feel free there's a link in the card and in the
description box down below and with that i'm going to get going thank you so so
much for watching this video and i'll see you really soon in my next one bye friends
you