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Bullet Journal & Planning

My 2024 Hobby Bullet Journal

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Hello and welcome to another post! Today I am going to me sharing a look inside my 2024 Hobby Bujo, which I have actually used a little bit already in 2023, I ended up running out of room for December in my old one…oops. Either way, I am looking forward to sharing some of the spreads I added to this years bujo. There is going to be some reading spreads, knitting spread, and more!

My first spread is of a 3×3 knitting bingo board. Last year I did a full 5×5 board, but this year I decided to just make it 3×3 to keep it fun, but keep the pressure off. The 9 items I placed on the board are; knit in public, complete a blanket, finish a pair of socks, knit while listening to an audiobook, finish a project for Mom, make a scarf and glove set, finishing a lingering project, knit a cardigan, and frog a project.

Next is a spread is my personal knitting Queue, this is a list of projects I already own yarn of. I decided to list the project name, yarn I plan on using and a pace for a checkmark once I finish it. If you want to see my entire list of my knitting queue you can do so by visiting my Ravelry.

The next section is a pace for me to keep a dynamic list of grams in and out of my stash throughout 2024. I have an area to label the month, a place to write the year, then I can write the grams under either in or out. At the end of the month I will find the total in and out and then an overall net at the end of each month for the year.

Next I doodled a bookshelf and then added the titles of books from my owned TBR. I ended up adding some extra books incase I read books from the library or end up adding more books to my shelves. \

Next is where I start to set up for January 2024. I ended up adding a little calendar to mark this new section of my notebook on the lefthand side and decided to give some fancy font a try. On the right side I ended up adding a space when I can make notes of the projects I finish and books I end up finishing as well throughout the month. I thought this would keep all this information in one handy spot instead of all over the place.

All the other pages are basically me counting and marking my current spot in patterns or little notes of changes I made to the pattern so when I am done I can add these notes to my Ravelry project page. Since these pages have details of paid for patterns I did not feel comfortable taking a picture of those. But, if you want some more details on this I am happy to explain it in a bit more detail.

Anyway, this is a look into my 2024 Hobby Bujo! I hope you found some fun spreads and as always if you have a questions about how these are working for me, feel free to ask!

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Bullet Journal & Planning

Bullet Journal | 2021 Reading Bujo Set Up

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Hello and welcome to a post where I share some of my spreads from my new reading bullet journal for 2021. In the past I had my life and reading in one place, but this year I decided to use a planner for my life, but I wanted to continue to use a bullet journal for my reading. I really find it a ton of fun and I can’t wait to see what books I will be adding to it this year!

The Spreads

This time around I wanted my year long or bullet journal long pages to be pretty neutral for the most part so I used a black pen, torn up tan paper, and a few blank tags and cut outs to decorate the pages. I also wanted to tie all the pages together so I decided to put a black boarder on every page. The first page on the left is 10 books I want to read in 2021. I putt bullet points to add the books later on. On the right I put a place for random book recommendations I might get. I decided to add a little bee because these books will most likely have some buzz around them.

On this pages I continued to use the tan paper and boarder to just have some type of continuity. On the left I have a space for a favorite book of each month. I need to measure so I can properly print the covers as the months pass. On the right side I decided to list the three series I want to read in 2021. I want to read The Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Traders Trilogy and The Hobbit and Lord of the Ring Series. I just listed the books under their series title and I can put a check when I have read them.

Continuing with the same theme I made a page to track more of my 2021 reading goals. On the left I listed my use the library monthly goal and placed 12 circles to color in, twelve non-fictions with 12 circles as well and lastly for this page read 50 books and I added 50 circles to color in. On the right I made 6 rectangles for each book of the International Booker Prize where I have the title listed and I can add my rating and date read later on. I also added a ticket that was mostly blank and put the title on that.

I wanted to continue to track quite a few stats that I tracked last year so I made a single place for all of them on this page called monthly stats. I am going to track number of books, number of pages, fiction/nonfiction, library/owned, DNFs, 5 star reads, hard cover and soft cover. I left the page on the right empty incase I end up wanting to add more or I end up needing more room.

This year I really want to keep my TBR in check, last year I actually got my TBR down to 0 at one point and I really want to keep it reasonable from now on. I decided each month I am going to keep track of the books I have at the start of the month that are unread, how many I hauled, how many unhauled, and then what I have at the end of the month. Somewhat similar to the series Balancing the Books by Drinking By My Shelf on youtube. Each month has a rectangle and then within that each stat has their own box.

Last and one of my favorites is my Someone Picks My Books spread. Last year I just kept a simple list, but since I love this series I have been doing over a year now so much I wanted to give it a really awesome spread. I decided that I would make a bookshelf for each month and doodle a book on each of those shelves and then label the book spine with the book I am reading that month. I also drew some doodle arrows from the month and name of the person who picked my books to the book. I have the first half of the year already set, huge thank you to those who helped me! I will probably look into getting more help around may of this year.

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