Improve Your Handwriting Challenge - March 2019
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
For March it's going to be 31 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Astronomy'.
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
For March it's going to be 31 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Astronomy'.
HERE'S HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Follow me (Christina) @christina77star over on Instagram.
Each day there is a corresponding prompt, that you simply have to write on a piece of paper. You can also choose to have a dedicated notebook for your daily handwriting practice. Try and focus on the word and the letters as you write them. You can repeat the word as many times as you want. Look at the way that you wrote the word the first time and the way you wrote it the last time. Is there a difference? Do you think you need to work on a specific letter?
Take a photo of your practice and tag it with #improveyourhandwritingchallenge, so that it gets added to the feed.
At the end of each month look back at your practice pages and see how you've improved.
Make sure to encourage each other and have fun!
Please share this post to spread the word and invite others to join in the fun and improve their handwriting as well!
Thank you for joining in!
Christina x
Plan With Me: My March 2019 Setup in my Bullet Journal
Hello everyone!
February has been such a short month! It feels like it has only lasted 2 weeks! And here we are again planning for the next month. ☺️ Usually Cyprus has very mild winters. However, this year we have felt the cold and the rain, especially in the last two months. So, I needed some sunshine and colour in my bullet journal to welcome the spring (that’s hopefully around the corner! 🌸). I wanted to make my spreads nice and colourful, without going for the usual floral theme.
So, for March I chose to do a theme about colour.
Hello everyone!
February has been such a short month! It feels like it has only lasted 2 weeks! And here we are again planning for the next month. ☺️ Usually Cyprus has very mild winters. However, this year we have felt the cold and the rain, especially in the last two months. So, I needed some sunshine and colour in my bullet journal to welcome the spring (that’s hopefully around the corner! 🌸). I wanted to make my spreads nice and colourful, without going for the usual floral theme.
So, for March I chose to do a theme about colour.
Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the post, because there's also a video, where I'm showing you exactly how I've created each spread.
As always we start with the Cover Page of the month. I personally like it when I add some sort of quote or saying in my cover page. So, every time I open my bullet journal I see it and get positive thoughts. For this month’s theme I went with the phrase: “Live a colourful life!”, which I placed on a canvas and added lots of paint splashes around, to add colour and dimension to the picture. I used my Tombow N75 to add the shadows that make the colour splashes pop. I really like how it turned out and it puts a smile on my face every time I look at it.
The trick with using watercolours in your bullet journal, is to add as less water as possible. And also you have to let it dry completely before you move on to the next page. I find it easier to use a water blush for this, but of course you can use a normal paint brush and some water.
This month I decided to create a Monthly Spread. I love that I have the option with this system to choose which pages I can add each month. This flexibility and personalisation is what drew me to bullet journaling in the first place. So, for March I went with a grid layout that I got inspired by the amazing @dutch_dots on Instagram. I really like this layout and the space it gives me on the left page to add all my monthly to-dos, appointments, notes etc.
I added some emoji colour buckets at the top, that I think are the cutest thing ever! So much so, that I made them into stickers! I created 8 adorable little characters that can fill with colour your pages. You can now find the colour bucket emotis on my Etsy Shop.
Cute!
Colour Bucket Emotis
On the next page I added my Notes Page. This has become a standard page in my monthly layout. This time around I decided to add some doodles to decorate it. So, on the top I added some paint brushes and on the bottom a paint tube. And as always I added my grey lines with my Tombow N75 marker.
For my Monthly Goals, I decided to do something different this month. I find that I’m very good at setting goals and plan things for each month. However, this time around I wanted to add actionable steps that will help me achieve those goals. I also changed a bit my 4 categories. Now my categories are: Health & Wellness, Career & Finance, Family & Relationships and Spiritual. I find that being more specific like this with my categories, helps me to set more specific and detailed goals. For each category I created 2 boxes next to each other. In the first box I’ll be writing my goals for this specific category, and in the second box I'll be writing the steps or actions that will help me to achieve it. This is a text month for this page. I’m not sure if the space I have will be enough to write all the things I want. So, we’ll see, and if needed I can turn it into a 2-page spread. But for now, I like how it looks and I can’t wait to start using it.
And then move on to the first Weekly Spread of the month. I chose one of my usual layouts, but I added paint buckets on each day to keep up with the theme and to add more colour. I also tried to create a rainbow effect, and I’m really pleased with the result. ☺️
SUPPLIES USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Markers (243, 491, 620, 062, 673, N95, N15, N65 and N75)
Watercolours by Tiger
And that is the March setup in my bullet journal. I hope you liked it and that you’ve found some inspiration. Let me know in the comments below what theme you’ve chosen for March.
Bullet Journal Ideas: 4 Weekly Spread Layouts for February 2019
Hello everyone! ✨
I’m back with my weekly spreads for February. As you all know by now, I love to plan all my weekly spreads in the beginning of the month , so that I have them ready to fill in all the information, appointments etc. that I need. That way I save time and I have space to plan everything.
Hello everyone! ✨
I’m back with my weekly spreads for February. As you all know by now, I love to plan all my weekly spreads in the beginning of the month , so that I have them ready to fill in all the information, appointments etc. that I need. That way I save time and I have space to plan everything.
The theme for February is 'Robots' and you can see how I've setup my bullet journal for the month in this post, or you can watch the video here.
For my first weekly spread I decided to create some floating boxes for each day. I also added a box for my weekly notes that is decorated with that cute little robot on his motorbike! As you can see, nothing is perfect. I don’t use a ruler any more for my lines and I’m ok with them being a bit wonky…!
For the second weekly spread I used again a similar layout with 4 sections on each page - one for each day of the week and one for notes (as always!). For the days I chose to use a black background to make everything stand out more, and wrote the date with my white pen.
I love how the little robots turned out and I also like the colouring I used for them. I’m always reaching for my pastel colours most of the time, so I thought to use pastel blues and pinks with lots of greys for my robots as well.
For the third week of February I used one of my favourite vertical weekly layouts. I really like the fact that I have lots of space for my lists and also enough space for any notes or misc things I might need to write down. I’ve sectioned the top part of each column and I plan to write my daily menu there.
Of course, since it’s Valentine’s week I had to decorate the page accordingly. I think the little robot turned out super cute and how can you say no to him!!???
The fourth week of the month has a similar layout with the first one. I love the simplicity of it, that’s why I go back to the same layout again and again. I’ve found what I like and what works for me, so that’s why I have a set of weekly layouts that I use all the time.
I’m super happy with the theme and the way all the weekly spreads turned out, and I can’t wait to start using them.
SUPPLIES USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Markers (673, 452, 451, 800, 491, N89, N75, N95, N15, N45 and N79)
Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen 08
So, these are the 4 weekly layouts for February! I hope you liked this post and that you found some inspiration for your own weekly layouts. If you liked the theme and you'd like to recreate it, please send me some pictures. I'd love to see your pages!! You can always contact me at christina77star@gmail.com
Improve Your Handwriting Challenge - February 2019
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
For February it's going to be 28 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Countries'. So, for February we can use the names of countries to practice our handwriting. But also, I thought it would be a fun way to see where everyone, that takes part in the challenge, is from. 🗺 So, if your country is not on the list, then on the day that the word starts with the first letter of your country, you can choose to use the name of your country instead, as a prompt for your practice. Therefore, if you share it on Instagram, we can all see where everyone is from. 😊
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
For February it's going to be 28 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Countries'. So, for February we can use the names of countries to practice our handwriting. But also, I thought it would be a fun way to see where everyone, that takes part in the challenge, is from. 🗺 So, if your country is not on the list, then on the day that the word starts with the first letter of your country, you can choose to use the name of your country instead, as a prompt for your practice. Therefore, if you share it on Instagram, we can all see where everyone is from. 😊
HERE'S HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Follow me (Christina) @christina77star over on Instagram.
Each day there is a corresponding prompt, that you simply have to write on a piece of paper. You can also choose to have a dedicated notebook for your daily handwriting practice. Try and focus on the word and the letters as you write them. You can repeat the word as many times as you want. Look at the way that you wrote the word the first time and the way you wrote it the last time. Is there a difference? Do you think you need to work on a specific letter?
Take a photo of your practice and tag it with #improveyourhandwritingchallenge, so that it gets added to the feed.
At the end of each month look back at your practice pages and see how you've improved.
Make sure to encourage each other and have fun!
Please share this post to spread the word and invite others to join in the fun and improve their handwriting as well!
Thank you for joining in!
Christina x
Plan With Me: My February 2019 Setup in my Bullet Journal
Hello everyone!
February is just around the corner and that means of course that it’s time to plan our month in our bullet journal. I don’t know about you, but lately I tend to create less and less spreads in my bullet journal. I prefer to create only the ones that I like to use every month, and that help me with my productivity. For me simplicity is the key. So, I like to stay away from fancy layouts, trackers and all that.
For February I chose to use a theme that you might have seen in my Etsy shop. I love my little robots and I thought that February would be the perfect month to incorporate them into a theme for my bullet journal. So, let’s see the spreads that I’ve created in my bullet journal for February.
Hello everyone!
February is just around the corner and that means of course that it’s time to plan our month in our bullet journal. I don’t know about you, but lately I tend to create less and less spreads in my bullet journal. I prefer to create only the ones that I like to use every month, and that help me with my productivity. For me simplicity is the key. So, I like to stay away from fancy layouts, trackers and all that.
For February I chose to use a theme that you might have seen in my Etsy shop. I love my little robots and I thought that February would be the perfect month to incorporate them into a theme for my bullet journal. So, let’s see the spreads that I’ve created in my bullet journal for February.
Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the post, because there's also a video, where I'm showing you exactly how I've created each spread.
As always we start with the Cover Page of the month. I think the little robot is adorable and cute, and it puts a smile on my face every time I look at this page.
I chose to use more grey and pastel pink and blue colours. As always you can find the list of all the supplies I’ve used at the end of this post.
It might surprise some of you, but I chose to not create a monthly spread this month!!! * gasp * I find that my monthly layout is a page that I rarely use during the month, and since I’m creating all my weekly spreads from the beginning of the month, I don’t really need it. Therefore, the first page after my cover page is my Notes (which, by the way, is my most used page of my monthly setup!). I’m using again the same layout with the grey lines and I’ve added one more cute robot at the bottom of the page.
On the page opposite I added my Monthly Goals, which are separated in 4 categories: Me, Work, Relationships and Fun. I’m thinking of adding more categories to my goal planning, because I truly believe that the more specific and detailed you are when you plan things ahead, you get to achieve more goals and quicker.
And then we jump straight into my first Weekly Spread. As I mentioned above, I kept my setup really simple and minimal for this month, and I only added the most used pages. It’s nice to be creative and to add spreads and pages into your bullet journal. However, some months you just need to focus on more specific things, and any extras can be excluded from the setup that month.
Even the layout that I chose for my weekly spread is quite minimal with only that cute robot added to match the theme of the month.
SUPPLIES USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Markers (673, 452, 451, 800, 491, N89, N75, N95, N15, N45 and N79)
Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen 08
And that is the February setup in my bullet journal. I hope you liked it and that you’ve found some inspiration. Let me know in the comments below what theme you’ve chosen for February.
Bullet Journal Ideas: 4 Weekly Spread Layouts for January 2019
Happy New Year everyone! ✨
I’m wishing you all an amazing 2019 full of love, laughter, incredible possibilities and precious moments. This is the time to start fresh, and take this opportunity to plan new beginnings and new ideas! I love January, because it’s the time of the year that I always push myself to try new things, and plan the rest of the year. Of course my bullet journal is always there to help me put my head in order and make planning and organising so much easier for me. 😊
Happy New Year everyone! ✨
I’m wishing you all an amazing 2019 full of love, laughter, incredible possibilities and precious moments. This is the time to start fresh, and take this opportunity to plan new beginnings and new ideas! I love January, because it’s the time of the year that I always push myself to try new things, and plan the rest of the year. Of course my bullet journal is always there to help me put my head in order and make planning and organising so much easier for me. 😊
One of the things that I love to do in the beginning of each month is to plan my weekly spreads, so that I have them ready to fill in all the information, appointments etc. That way I save time and I have space to plan everything. The theme for January is 'Coffee' and you can see how I've setup my bullet journal for the month in this post, or you can watch the video here.
For my first weekly spread I decided to use an older layout, that I used to use in my second bullet journal. I took advantage that I only wanted to add 6 of the 7 days of the week, and that layout is perfect for that. On the right there is enough space to plan and brainstorm for this and next week, which I think is important to have for the first week of the year.
For the second weekly spread I chose one of the layouts that I used in December as well. I love the way the space is arranged in this layout. Also the section above each day with the grey lines can be used for so many things: daily menu, top priority tasks, happy thought, appointments and so on. In December I used it to write down all my self-care tasks that I had for each day, but I think for January I want to add affirmations to set the mood of that day ☺️.
I love how the doodles and the theme of the month turned out! I wanted to add more cute and funny drawings and I think I managed to do that with the cute faces I added on each doodle and the titles I gave to each one.
For the third week of January I applied one of my most used weekly layouts. This simple grid that you can separate in any category you want, has saved me many times. It’s so simple to create and still functional. So, if I don’t have time to do fancy and complicated layouts, this is my go to one. ☺️
I decided to add this cool dude as well in my notes section! 😂 Living in Cyprus you get to drink cold coffees most of the time, so I knew I had to include a cold coffee (Frappe) in my spreads too.
I think the fourth weekly spread of January is my favourite one of all! I love the colours, the use of space. And the doodles make it even more adorable! 😍
I seriously can wait to start using it and start planning my day in these boxes!
SUPPLIES USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Markers (947, N15, N89, 977, 451, 452, 772, N75, 942, 992, 990, 192)
So, these are the 4 weekly layouts for January and the first ones of 2019! I hope you liked this post and that you found some inspiration for your own weekly layouts. If you liked the theme and you'd like to recreate it, please send me some pictures. I'd love to see your pages!! You can always contact me at christina77star@gmail.com
Improve Your Handwriting Challenge - January 2019
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! This is going to be the first handwriting challenge for 2019 and I’m super excited!!! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
So, for January it's going to be 31 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Words of the Year'. I wanted to make this one a bit more special and meaningful. I always like to choose a word for the year, so I thought to turn the challenge into a list of possible words that you could choose, in order to give you some inspiration.
I'm back with one more "Improve your Handwriting Challenge"! This is going to be the first handwriting challenge for 2019 and I’m super excited!!! ✨
This challenge is a fun way to practice daily, keep a photo archive of your handwriting and see how you've improved through time. You can also interact online with other people doing the same challenge, and also you can get inspired by others' handwriting too.
So, for January it's going to be 31 days of handwriting prompts that will hopefully get you to start practicing your handwriting every day. The theme for this month's words is ‘Words of the Year'. I wanted to make this one a bit more special and meaningful. I always like to choose a word for the year, so I thought to turn the challenge into a list of possible words that you could choose, in order to give you some inspiration.
HERE'S HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Follow me (Christina) @christina77star over on Instagram.
Each day there is a corresponding prompt, that you simply have to write on a piece of paper. You can also choose to have a dedicated notebook for your daily handwriting practice. Try and focus on the word and the letters as you write them. You can repeat the word as many times as you want. Look at the way that you wrote the word the first time and the way you wrote it the last time. Is there a difference? Do you think you need to work on a specific letter?
Take a photo of your practice and tag it with #improveyourhandwritingchallenge, so that it gets added to the feed.
At the end of each month look back at your practice pages and see how you've improved.
Make sure to encourage each other and have fun!
Please share this post to spread the word and invite others to join in the fun and improve their handwriting as well!
Thank you for joining in!
Christina x
Plan With Me: My January 2019 Setup in my Bullet Journal
The countdown has really started! With only 5 days till Christmas and 11 days till the New Year, everybody is crazy busy trying to plan and organise everything for the holidays. And don’t forget those last minute presents… oh, boy I don’t even want to go there! But even if you are incredibly busy, and caught up in the festive whirlwind, you need to set aside some time to plan and organise for 2019. It’s the best time to setup your bullet journal for the new year, and to plan January.
For January I wanted to try something different from the typical layouts that are related to winter. So, the theme I chose for this month is ‘Coffee’. I wanted to make this theme cute and fun, and I think that I managed to do that through my doodles and the little comments on them. I had so much fun creating these pages, and now I can’t wait to start using them.
The countdown has really started! With only 5 days till Christmas and 11 days till the New Year, everybody is crazy busy trying to plan and organise everything for the holidays. And don’t forget those last minute presents… oh, boy I don’t even want to go there! But even if you are incredibly busy, and caught up in the festive whirlwind, you need to set aside some time to plan and organise for 2019. It’s the best time to setup your bullet journal for the new year, and to plan January.
For January I wanted to try something different from the typical layouts that are related to winter. So, the theme I chose for this month is ‘Coffee’. I wanted to make this theme cute and fun, and I think that I managed to do that through my doodles and the little comments on them. I had so much fun creating these pages, and now I can’t wait to start using them.
Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the post, because there's also a video, where I'm showing you exactly how I've created each spread.
I started my setup for January with something completely different from what I’m used to do. I’ve noticed that the last single page of each month was not being used. So, I decided from now on to add my Notes page there. That way I don’t waste any pages and it’s actually easier to find it. I added my usual beige lines on the page and I also included a cute little coffee doodle with the phrase ‘But First Coffee’. That coffee cup is way too cute! 😍
The next page is the Cover Page of the month. I decided to add lots of hanging mugs and cups and I also included a cute little coffee maker at the bottom of the page. The quote I chose to add really sets the tone of the theme and puts everything together. I used my Tombow markers as watercolours for some parts of this page. You can see all the supplies I’ve used at the bottom of this post. I really like how they turned out and this is one my favourite cover pages, for sure!
The next spread is my Month at a Glance. I went back to my smaller one-page layout that I really like, but I wanted to add another cute doodle page on the left.
I decided to keep it simple and I created this cute little cup that will remind me to smile throughout the month!
Next comes my page with the Monthly Goals. As I mentioned in my 2019 Setup post, for this year I want to make sure to ignite my life and live it to the fullest. I want to intentionally create and pursue more fun moments and make sure to be happier and laugh more every single day. So, with my monthly goals I wanted to be more specific and that’s why I’ve added 4 instead of 2 categories: Me, Work, Relationships and Fun. It’s important to set the tone and your intentions from the very beginning and to program your mind according to what you want to achieve.
Like in December, my weekly tasks have moved to the page opposite and now it’s very easy to see what I need to do and allocate a specific timeframe for that task. Since I started using this method, a few months back, I have seen such a big improvement in my productivity! I finally get more things done! I also decided to use the same grid layout that I used for my monthly goals. It makes the two pages look and work better together.
I also added a tea and a coffee cup in the middle of each page respectively, in order to continue with the theme. Let me know in the comments below, do you prefer tea or coffee?
Lastly comes the first Weekly Spread of the month. I used an older layout that I used to use a lot in my 2nd bullet journal. Since I wanted to include only 6 of the 7 days of the week, this layout was perfect for that. And it conveniently has a lot of space on the right for me to plan this and the next week.
To keep up with the theme of the month, I added those cute little mugs at the bottom of the page that make everything even more adorable!
SUPPLIES USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Markers (947, N15, N89, 977, 451, 452, 772, N75, 942, 992, 990, 192)
And that is the first month of 2019 planned in my bullet journal. I’m wishing you all a very Merry Christmas to spend with your loved ones and a Happy New Year. May 2019 be inspiring and productive year for all of us, filled with precious moments.✨