2024 Bullet Journal Flip Through: After the Pen ✨📖

Let's take a stroll down short-term memory lane, with a look at my now-full 2024 bullet journal. Which theme was your favourite?

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00:00 My 2024 Part 1 journal
01:13 New journal setup - classic storybook theme
04:05 January
05:34 February
07:11 March
09:00 Memory keeping spreads
09:56 April
11:59 April memories spreads
13:32 May
15:25 Memory keeping April & May
18:00 June
19:28 Memory keeping (pending) & fountain pen ink swatches
20:41 Theme moodboard pages & pen & ink tests
22:47 Mini-review: Mellow Days Revêrie journal

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[kyra]

It's refreshing to see that it's okay to be imperfect when using your journal despite having such a gorgeous setup. It's just part of life. I also love the idea of doing the planning/testing out the theme at the back before you start inkling on the actual page. (Your planning video is still one of my fav) Thanks!

[theradical_reesie_d]

This journal is perfection, Erin 😊😊 I would so much rather see a journal filled with things that are meaningful, regardless of how “scattered” they are, than a journal that has the perfect instagrammable weekly spreads that end up blank because they don’t end up being practical for your lifestyle. I want to see a journal that is USED and MESSY and full of life!

[rachelsebree]

Wow...that's so much set up..I'm glad you enjoy it, it's beautiful.

[birdsbooksbujo]

Congratulations on reaching an unprecedented level of chunky!

Thanks for sharing your pages, and I love seeing the memory keeping spreads too ☺

[brendabignall]

Hi Erin and Mitsu! 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️✨😻🐾
Thank you for Sharing your completed journal!!!
I found it encouraging that it's ok if it doesn't work out perfectly and love how you adapted it for memory keeping!
I also enjoyed revisiting the bookish themed yearly setup. After watching you set it up before, I had to buy a set of Alphabet stamps for decorative Drop Caps. I love them and plan to use them a lot when I actually start a journal.
😊 Love, Hugs, Blessings & Sparkles! ❤️🫂🙏🏻💖✨

[julielavers]

You did a beautiful job taking on something new! Your paintings are beautiful, I especially like June! ❤

[lauratolhurst]

I really find your reviews of the journals you use very helpful. I'm currently trying to decide on a B5 reading journal for the second half of the year, and your videos have helped a lot - even just taking a closer look at what they look like inside. So I'm keen for any more journal reviews in the future!

[hellskells]

Thank you or showing a real journal. I just bought my first and was feeling down that it wasn’t perfect. The flick through is beautiful but glad to see it’s real life you miss weeks or have ideas that don’t work out but that’s life

[ari.arietty]

I'm just starting to get into bullet journal and still don't have one (i'm just doing a simple reading journal), but it's so good to see how your journal doesn't stay perfect with use, it looks a lot more realistic! Thanks for sharing your journal with us! <3

[golden_ratio]

9:24 Omg I never thought about taking the entire hotel key card holder, always thought it would get me in trouble 😂 It looks so cute in the journal though!

[solar]

Love the start of the journal and the January set up with the band of colours with flourish and the frames. But my favourite are your memory keeping spreads (Celestial festival in particular). I started a memory keeping journal of special moments (shows, theatre, cinema, day trip, family gatherings etc etc) and I want them in one long term journal not spread out in several journals over the years…. I really liked the ones you did. Some are simpler than other but sometimes simpler is what is required 😊 Thank you for the flip through. Always fascinating

[blacKKorat]

I love that you have decorated pages, minimalist pages, as well as memory keeping pages in this! This is the kind of bullet journaling I'd like to see more of ❤ Sure, a beautifully set up weekly is fantastic, but this kind of variety is more true to what life really tends to look like, it's a perfect fit for the person at the time and in its entirety it still looks beautiful! Enjoyed this a lot, thanks!

[sofiewauters]

The colours are gorgeous! This journal is beautiful! ♥♥♥ You keep saying your paintings are not "art" but it sure does look like art to me.

[juliangelus]

Thank you for showing that a journal can be imperfect and occasionally barely used and still be beautiful. Your commitment to the painting journey is a credit to you, and I love the dragon set up especially. I love how you blanked out the faces.

[cvvzdesigns]

I put monthly tabs in mine (part 1 of year 2), and the daily habit trackers are opposite the cover page (with the tabs on it), so that I can always easily know where they, and my overview of monthly/weekly tasks and goals are for easy filling in.🥰. I just need to stop waiting until I'm too tired to care about journaling to fill them in. 😅. Edit: I also don't like how Dutch doors effect the book bulge, so I upgraded to a B5, so I don't have to cut off anything unless it's an esthetic choice (which it hasn't been, yet. 😉) and I fit my entire year in the 1 book. 🥳

[ChantelleArts]

your journal is so beautiful, I especially love the january set up 🥰

[missneko]

wow how time flies, I remember each of these set up videos! What a lovely flip through :)

[nourin_siddique]

Did I stop at every fountain pen spread too look at all the colours and see what pen you tried? DEF !! I am glad you have beautiful samples to look at. Thank Judi for me. Not me and Mark trying to make you and Jash a fountain pen convert :33

My favourite cover spreads were March, April and June maybe because you really liked setting them up anyways. They really were my favourite. I hope you try sth Plant Based Bride does, draw on separate art paper then print it to sticker on journals. I think that is def a more acessible way to keep on drawing and incorporating small gold paints.

[emkay]

I can’t imagine how much work went into that journal, definitely some stunning spreads! I decided to binge some of your recent videos & along the way I had a thought/question for others in the comments mainly…

So I have too many bullet journals 😂. I know I can never possibly use them all. I’ve been part of the A&O sub box since day 1. I have all those journals that you can’t get on their website (and let’s face it A&O sells out of many of their regular line journals quickly these days). My journals are in their original boxes, mint condition, and if I’m not going to use them maybe I could sell them. But I have no clue what platform I’d use. Ebay? FB marketplace? I’ve never used either to sell anything and I have no clue if people are even looking for things like this.

I also DO NOT want to start a culture of people buying & reselling journals for profit. If there’s even a chance this would happen I would not sell them.

I’m not trying to make a profit, I’ve already thought about how much I’d ask for the journals & it’s not what I paid. I just want these to go to someone who can & will use them, knowing I probably can’t.

Anyone else a compulsive journal buyer ever tried this? Anyone looking for an A&O sub box journal from 2 years ago look anywhere online & find anything? Sorry for the long post. Any input is much appreciated ❤.

[hibiscus_fieldshellen]

the tear in the beginning almost looks like a cat!! cute