May Spreads

Hello friends.

Am I the only one who feels like April went too fast, but also way too slow?

Well the benefit of it is that I get to do my May Spreads

I really like this month’s theme. I call it “Choose to Sparkle”, because this month is a whole lot of work for me, but I am choosing to put in the work and make the most of the opportunities I have.

I’m used to seeing this theme in purple, so I knew right away I didn’t want to do that color. I’m really loving this green and blue color scheme. It reminds me of nature and renewal. It’s soothing.

I wish you could see how sparkly it really is, especially in direct sunlight. It feels like joy.

This is my last all gel pen month, but these glitter pens will return. I kinda love them.

I don’t love my coverI can’t think of anything more to add to it. I’m mostly annoyed at my own shaky little hand.

Next I did my gratitude and illness a minimalist style because the BJA Class said so, but I don’t hate it. It was definitely quicker to make, and those logs don’t need all the bells and whistles anyway.

yes, I know you can still read it, but don’t.

Now for my favorite spread of the month. My mood tracker is a pretty standard design for this theme, but it came out really nicely, and I added in the theme quote with it. My biggest concern is that days with lots of colors will look weird, but I will cross that bridge when I get to it. I tried to pick colors that are similar enough that it won’t stick out like a sore thumb.

I took illness out of my mood log since it’s in the previous spread.

For the first time this month I’m gonna show my mental health journaling spread. There’s nothing in it yet, and I haven’t been the best about filling it in, so I put it adjacent to my first weekly. I worked with a therapist to refine a quick system for working through problems. If you wanna bujo your feelings, this system works well.

What happened?

What do you think about it?

What else is on your mind?

What are you gonna do about it?

Now to my last spread. Please don’t close this post yet it’ll be done soon I promise.

I totally reworked my habit tracker. We’re all used to the big people in bujo with their fancy month long habit tracker spreads, so that’s how I started out, but it just wasn’t working for me.

So I moved it into my weeklies. We shall see if that helps.

Otherwise, I’m keeping the quick weekly layout I have been using for a while.

As always, I hope that you like this post. Please leave any recommendations below. I’m still learning. I also hope you all have a lovely month of May, and that you not to be so hard on yourself this month.