There’s nothing like a new pen to inspire a spread. I bring you the white gel pen! I’m known for my minimalist designs around here and it’s taken me this long to get a white gel pen. It easily gives a spread a clean and bright look. A color combination I adore is dark blue and gold! This moody January spread goes so well with my NEW mustard colored journal from Archer and Olive.
Cover Page
My cover page for the month is phases of the moon. The moons are opposite, using the navy as the full part of the moon. I didn’t use any tools for this, just made the circles free-hand. It’s not precise but I think it gives it a whimsical look.
This spread also goes lovely with my NEW writing journal! You can see it and my list of zero waste journaling supplies in this post. These two journals are ones I have with me all the time so they have to go well together. Again, dark blue and gold were made for each other!
Weekly Spread
I’m doing something different this year with my weekly spreads! I’m doing the rollover weekly inspired by The Plant Based Bride on YouTube. On the left side I have my agenda where I have important events or deadlines. On the right I have a rolling to do list. I have the list of things I want to accomplish for the week and the days of the week to the left of that. Then I can mark the day I started the task and draw a line to that task.
The key for the task bullets are self-explanatory. The x means it’s completed. A half x means it’s started. Then I can draw an arrow to migrate the task to next week or another week in the month.
By absolutely favorite part of this month’s design is the blue mountains!
Here my beautiful bujo in action with the two ribbon bookmarks. I always use the ampersand ribbon to mark the current week.
I have each week written at the top and have set up all four weeks of the month ahead of time. I usually watch some TV and draw my spread for the month.
Month in Review
Something I dearly missed that I haven’t done since my 2019 journals is a month in review. I love this space to wrap up the month and long-form journal a page about my thoughts. It really helps me frame the month and prepares me for the month ahead. This is the slow part of journaling that makes it more than just an agenda and keeper of lists. It makes it personal and meaningful. It’s a page I can go back to and reflect and remember.
I have been loving seeing reading journals but haven’t wanted to take the plunge into creating one for myself. I track my books on Goodreads (follow me lol 😉 ) but I’m excited to track all the books I BUY each month. This way I can visually see how many I am buying. Booktok has not been a help in that department!
I brought back the moon for the brain dump page. When this page is filled with writing it looks a lot better!
I’ve already listed some ideas for things I want to do post-covid when things open up again. I definitely want to have a murder mystery party! How fun would that be?
There are not too many supplies or skills required for this spread. And PLEASE go ahead and copy these ideas. I’d love to see them. You can tag me on Instagram or upload your spread to Pinterest with my pins. Can’t wait to see what you create!
Happy Journaling-
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How long does it take you to create these beautiful themes? I really love all of them. I gave it a go myself, but it took forever and then I sort of lost interest as the result was not as pretty as yours. It looked more like a little kid was drawing something!
I would say probably an hour on average, but over an hour especially for this one! I usually watch a favorite movie when I create them and so a little self-care time. It honestly depending on the spread but I’ve been trying my best to go simple! I had a lot of fancy ones last year and felt a bit burned out from it. So I totally understand losing interest.
And I’m sure yours wasn’t too bad! Mine got sloppy as I went haha. You can always try drawing the spread at the beginning of the week and doing it week by week instead of trying to do the whole month in one go. Thanks for using it as inspo!