February Discussion Post

[lunabee34]

Post a photograph of your journal or planner! Show off what you've been doing. :)

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[lunabee34]

Here's my Books Read page and one of my Pill Tracker pages.



And here's the title page:

[fay_e]

Nice stickers and washi tape on the collections page for your Wardrobe!

I usually just stick stickers without thinking how it looks like on the spread /o\

[lunabee34]

Thank you! That one turned out pretty well!

I am kinda over the top with the stickers, but I can't help it; I really like it. LOL

[fay_e]

All the stickers all the time! I like them but I get so worried about mucking them up.

[lunabee34]

Mucking them up how?

[fay_e]

Well, because I use stickers as rewards usually I only paste them after I do my review for the day. And sometimes it ends up pasted at an awkward place, or there's words in the way ;)

[lunabee34]

Ah, okay.

I am usually putting mine on at the beginning as part of the layout, not afterwards. I see how that could make using them awkward if you don't have enough room or a good place to put them.

[fay_e]

I've got a new fic to work on throughout February, which is in my project planner:



Started some new habits:



And checked off some items in my digital monthly log. Sorry if the image gets a bit big, but the text couldn't be seen at smaller sizes!

[lunabee34]

I love the icons you use for your habit tracker, and I love how cleanly laid out the electronic planner is--the double pleasure of writing on paper and easily storing and working with something on your phone.

[fay_e]

Thank you! Gotta make sure I take care of all parts of me, and the icons help. Plus, stuff with checkmarks get a digital alert, so my phone buzzes and helps me to remember to do it/ go for my appointments.

[lunabee34]

I have become a convert of alarms on the phone. I never used them before until I got prescribed all this medicine that has to be taken at bizarre times, but I love them now.

[lizbee]

Okay, I have a Hobonichi! I use the calendar pages in front for planner stuff, especially work-related, but I keep the day-to-a-page section for more general journaling. I aim to write a bit and include a self-portrait (cat optional) every day, and while I haven't met that EXACT target, there have been no blank pages yet. Depending how much time and energy I have, I add washi tape and decorations and so forth, but that's super-dependent on what else is happening, and whether or not I'm at work.

So this is a page from January, and it's the nicest layout I've done so far in 2017:



My Hobo runs from April - March (the Japanese financial year) so I'm looking forward to starting a new one soon!

[lunabee34]

That is so cool! I love your Self-Portrait with Cat, and I love that you alternated your handwriting between sections.

What pens/markers do you use to draw?

[lizbee]

Thanks! I use Sakura Pigma Sensei markers to draw. They're really smooth and last a long time.

[lunabee34]

They make really nice lines.

I'm not a very good artist. I used to draw and take art classes as a teen, and I was passable. I think if I had continued to practice, I would be competent at it now, but I haven't seriously tried to draw anything in like twenty years.

But I'm having fun doing my best and drawing simple things in my journal, mostly by copying what other people have done. LOL