one good thing that happened in the otherwise mega yikes year of 2022 was that i started journaling! like on paper!

my 2023 muji planner arriving in oct

i had a journal once, yeeears ago. i was super into the amelia's notebook series when i was younger and was inspired to keep my own composition notebook to write down my thoughts. i wrote in about two pages before i lost interest lol but even if i failed to keep a journal i always loved collecting journals and notebooks and pens and stickers. i never used them, though, until this past year.

thank youuu amelia still

getting/getting back into journaling can be overwhelming though. i found bullet journaling (or bujo) to be the most popular way to journal but there's a lot of pressure to make a decorative and pretty layout month after month, especially if you want to share it online. imo the most important thing to remember is that journaling and planning should aid you, not stress you out. it should be fun to sit and write stuff and like stick stickers. it's fun for me. having a creative hobby that isn's drawing is something i really appreciate.

my current journal setup is an A5 2023 muji planner and an A5 midori md grid notebook! i don't journal everyday but i like having the simple structure of the muji planner for.. planning lol and the midori for when i wanna write about stuff and if i feel like doing some deco.

jan 17 entry in my midori

and talking about deco, i get most of my stickers from aliexpress (lol) but i do shop small as well. some of my favorite small sticker shops with great qualities products are kawinekoshop, shop.yuno, tuzi.studio, and youqi_studio.

shop.yuno is an animal crossing fan so you know they're good lol

and some people i follow for journal inspo: jenjens_dailynote, studiessouls, eggtabel, dearlimey, peachi.diary, plansandpumpkins, selenenen, twinkgln, ggusolee

all instagram accounts b/c that's where all the journal ppl seem to be lol

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