One Month With my Journal Post 1/8

Hullo everybody!

So I've decided to finally get around to the #onemonthwithmyjournal challenge! So today, I thought I should start by introducing you all to what I actually use for my journalling habits.

So, in the picture above you can see my supply storage. Yes it does take this much room and even then I'm pressed for space! :joy: I have a storage box which I bought in Tesco (I believe), an old shoebox, a tupperware box, several pencil cases and my pens.

The Bottom Box

The bottom box stores my notebooks, large stencils and anything too big to fit in the other boxes (particularly paper).

On the sides of some of the journals you'll see I've labelled them to know what time period they covered. I have an alphabetised system them, each journal is named after a sweet/pudding/food corresponding to the half of the year. For example, Apple Strudel covered the second half of 2017 and Baked Alaska covered the first period of 2018. This is mostly for my own amusement, but it does keep them organised!

The ones not labelled on the right hand side are my current journals in use and you can see them in the picture below.

I'll explain a bit more about them later on...

The Middle Box

The middle box is a shoebox which I use to hold my stickers and craft paper. All of of my craft paper thus far comes from The Range, which is a crafty store here in the UK. I have an assortment of colours and patterns and love using them.

The Top Box

The box on top is a hotchpotch of everything that I need for crafting. In there are my washi tapes (see below), scissors, holepunch, glue, sharpener, rubbers (erasers to those speaking American-English and looking at me in confusion) and some spare pens and rulers.

Pens and Stationery

When I first heard of Bullet Journalling and decided to get into it, the first things I ordered were my Tombow Dualbrushes and my Staedtler Triplus Fineliners. I still use them today and they are my main tools for adding colour to my journal.

However, I also use whatever pen, biro or pencil I have to hand to fill in my spreads, I'm not particularly fussy about what I use, as long as it won't bleed or ghost through (like I find with some very heavy ink pens).

My latest favourite however, are my Uniball Signo's, which I have in Bronze, Gold (not shown), Silver and White.

I use these in practically every spread I do and I am totally in love with the bronze colour, it's much warmer than the gold and shows up much better in pictures.

Other crucial stationery for me is pencils and a sharpener (I always draft layouts out before I go over in ink), scissors and glue so that I can stick in my paper and pictures throughout.

The Journals

I will be doing a separate post on two of these further on my challenge posts, but I want to give you an overview as to what journals I have, what I use them for and how I would rate each one.

These two journals are not journals I use on a daily basis. Instead I use them on a "as and when basis".

The top one is a Leuchtturm 1917 in green (the decoration on the front was my own addition and I love it) and it is currently in use as an art journal. It is the newest to my collection and so is still very empty.

The one below that is my morning pages journal. I bought it on Amazon and use it to complete three pages of "stream-of-conscious writing" in the evenings. I used to use it on a daily basis but lately, have not needed it as much.

These journals I will discuss more in depth in my second and third posts, but to give you an overview I'll introduce them now.

The top journal is a Scribbles That Matters notebook, and is my UniJo: my bullet journal for university. I prefer to keep my class nots and timetable etc separate from my daily BuJo and so I use this.

The final one is my personal bullet journal, I use this for everything else in organising my daily life and I will be showing you how I set it up in the next post. If anyone has seen my recent comments, you may know that this is my favourite journal: it's a Dingbats Earth Journal and in my opinion, the best journal I have tried yet. I love pretty much everything about it and can't wait to talk more about it in the next part of this challenge.

So... That's it for today. I've talked you through the supplies I use will be using throughout the remainder of the challenge. I hope you enjoyed it and look forward to completing the next part of the challenge.

Take Care Everyone!

-Elbee :feet:

Edit: Thank you for the feature! :blush: