one of the things i did, sort of, keep up with was my yearly journal/planner... i could never figure out what to call it. it is a journal, it is a planner (calendar pages, etc), i put art in it, it's part bullet journal too.
i started working with these a few years back, inspired by a favorite art teacher. it starts with just a plain composition notebook and grows from there. when i first started i would switch to a new notebook whenever the current one was full. then in 2023, i took the covers off a second notebook and taped the books together so it is all one book per year.
as you can see in the photo below, it becomes quite large and unwieldy.
near the end of october i started thinking about how to make this a bit smaller, not necessarily in bloom but in just general size.
so this is what i came up with for this year.
so far, i'm really liking the smaller size. the new one is a Moleskine Cahiers lined journal. they only have 80 pages so i have no idea how many i'll end up needing to get through the year. but i decided i would glue covers together and just keep building the depth.
only three days into the new year and new journal/planner and it is already blooming wonderfully.
after spending a year calling it my planner/journal, a journner, and my life; i've decided to call it my collective. it's not a grimoire or a book of shadows, so collective sounds nice.
anyhoo...that's it for today.
though i did want to let Debra know that i agree with her comment, chocolate is definitely the way to go. :-)
love & kisses & magical wishes...
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