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My semester has ended and I have switched out of my Erin Condren planner and into an old Filofax personal size which will fit in a handbag. I would love to carry on with this for the rest of the year, because it turns out I don't like carrying around big planners.

My ordered refills for my Filofax and while I ordered Month At A Glance pages, I haven't put them in because they don't seem strictly necessary. Does anyone have any clever use for these that makes them worth the ring space?

I'm planning to do daily notes in the Filo as well; I've put in a ton of note pages and split the into a section for a bujo/meeting notes and a section to be a journal of my FEELINGS.

Basically, this is a post asking for good Filofax resources/ideas/suggestions! The old pages that were in there were from 2016 so it's been awhile since I was in a Filofax!

ysabetwordsmith

Dad's binder for my prose is full, so I'm making him a new one for Father's Day. I scanned images of the cover and spine posted here. He likes to keep copies of things I've written, which is actually a small bookcase in the living room now, not sure this new one will even fit. I still need to print off at least one new thing to put in it.

I really like using 3-ring binders for journal/planner work. The sleeve lets me insert a cover and spine. The D-rings hold a lot of pages. I use top-loading archival page protectors to hold the pages so they stay nice. It's easy to pop open the rings and add or move things. Scrapbooks typically use posts or straps that may look a little nicer, but are much more fussy to change. So I prefer this style for things I'll be adding to over time. The 1 1/2" size holds a considerable amount of pages without feeling too clunky to handle easily. I can go up to 2" for a bigger project but it's not as wieldy.

Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

I finished a couple of Altair Designs pages for Mom's memorial scrapbook. For journaling or other craft purposes, note that the squarish ones leave a good bit of blank space at the bottom of the page. You can trim if you want smaller or more decorate margins, but if you leave it, you've got room to put another image or a journaling block there.

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Current Mood: nostalgic

ysabetwordsmith

Yesterday I started assembly of the memorial scrapbook for my mother. Today I posted pictures of the first few pages with a discussion of my process and materials. So far, it's pretty simple to present the memorial memorabilia; the more artistic stuff will come later. The gather page Come and Cry with Me has links to other posts about collecting materials and laying out plans for this project. Since I mentioned this project during the Planner Snowflake, I thought folks here might enjoy seeing the start of it.

Current Mood: nostalgic

ysabetwordsmith

During the Planner Snowflake event here, I mentioned that I was working on a memorial scrapbook and a memorial board for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021. I thought that you folks might enjoy seeing the posts I made about the construction process and final results.

Her Celebration of Life service was today, and I just finished the board last night. The memorial board has a chronological and thematic structure, using some of the same techniques I use in my journal and planner projects. It even includes a couple of scanned excerpts from my mother's journaling. The posts talk a lot about the tools and materials I used, the process of planning and constructing the board, and resources on memorial boards as a healing tool for grief work. So now this project exists both in hardcopy and in electronic format.

* Memorial Board: Mockups
* Memorial Board: Finished Pictures
* Memorial Board: Text Blocks and Scanned Text

Those are the main posts with the detailed descriptions and pictures. The gather page "Come and Cry with Me" has links to a bunch more short posts where I talk about the steps of planning the project and collecting components for it. For anyone working with memorial projects, I hope these resources help.

Current Mood: accomplished

gokuma

The other day I found this cool video by Gayle Agostinelli. I hope her tutorial can help (and motivate!) some of us :)

"Beginner Tutorial - Quick Easy First Journal! You Can Do It!" (Watch on YouTube)

Current Mood: calm

gokuma

So I found these two great wildflower tutorials by Jordan Clark. They're very easy to follow and recreate in your journal, diary, planner...

Watch on YouTube

gokuma

I know this suggestion might seem a bit weird but I've discovered you can totally use old/discarded/not-really-liked eyeshadows to decorate journal/planner pages. They make pretty and colourful smudges, you can use them to decorate edges of the page, space around stickers or below/above washi tape. They don't damage pages in any way, all the writing, stamps, doodles are still perfectly visible.

And the best thing? Even cheap eyeshadows work! In fact, I've discovered the cheap, no-name ones seem to look the best (maybe because I'm not worried about "wasting" them so I'm more likely to experiment with them than with the better/more expensive ones). Plus, you can have them in so many colours! They can competely change the way your journal/planner looks, changing a bland ("Give me a break, I was so tired on that day") page into a pretty one :)

One warning though: decorate the page AFTER you finish writing; otherwise your pen may not work on the pigmented paper.

Current Mood: curious

gokuma

Journaling / planning / scrapbooking makes you broaden your horizons in some very... unexpected ways. I've started laughing today when I noticed I was customizing my journal cover using: a) a cross-shaped screwdriver, b) a long nail, c) an upholstery needle I bought once in some stroke of brilliance/foresight.

What's the weirdest tool/medium your journaling/planning made you use?

Current Mood: okay

gokuma

When do you decorate your pages? Do you do that in advance, during writing on an actual page or afterwards, when all of the writing is done? What supplies do you enjoy using (stickers, markers, watercolours, stamps etc.)?
Do you use tip-ins?

Current Mood: pensive

lunabee34

I have just purchased a Leuchtturm1917 A5 dot grid in navy blue. *rubs hands together in glee*

I have also just purchased a pack of Papermate Inkjoy gel pens and some Pilot Precise pens in .7. I am ready to journal!!

I have to admit that I am currently using my work planner to keep me on track and get everything done; I'm thinking of approaching the Leuchtturm1917 as more of an artsy type project--more like the collections pages in a bullet journal than the actual functional part of a bujo. LOL I realize this might be Doing It Wrong, but I'm having an inordinate amount of fun being creative and drawing and stickering.

Does anybody have recs for decorative pages or pretty collections or layouts that you can link me to? Or show me a picture in your own journal I can use for inspiration?

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Entries tagged with medium: paper

Filofax without months?

Cover Pictures

Memorial Scrapbook: Altair Pages

Memorial Scrapbook Photos: Memorial Memorabilia

Memorial Board for Mom

How to make a Junk Journal?

Two cool wildflower drawing tutorials by Jordan Clark

Decorating your journal/planner with eyeshadows

Stranger Tools Happen

Decorating your journal/planner

Rec me some decorative journal pages!

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