Recently I went on a Temu bender (I know, they’re evil, don’t lecture me, it was just a summer thing) and I ended up with a mountain of stickers. It was so hard to resist all these pretties for a dollar a pack! And I ended up with not one but two sets of Taylor Swift lyric stickers, primarily focused on her Folklore album (that and Evermore are my favorites of hers). I looked at them and thought, what on EARTH am I going to do with all of these?
Then I was trying to decide how to do up my bullet journal for the new month, and had a wonderful idea.
Even better: One of the songs on Folklore is called “August.” It’s fate!
I give you August, decorated primarily with stickers but also with hand lettering and doodles by myself. I’ll probably do that a lot the rest of the year since I have SO MANY stickers: Tarot cards, coffee, book themed, cats, more cats, pigs, moths and butterflies, more cats…oy vey.
If you’re new to my bujo style, I always include a spread called Good Things where I write in or draw something good about each day – a person, a food, an event, whatever.I hadn’t been doing mood trackers since I got back into my bujo, but I felt the need to do one for this theme for some reason.Yep, I’m at less than 20k words on Shadowsong. Expect to see me grow crazier and crazier between now and October 31. (The time between that and release day are for final edits and coding.)So the weekly spreads are partly blank so I can fill in my hydration checker and a to-do list. I went ahead and made all the weeks ahead of time and decorated them so I wouldn’t have to worry about it all month – I tried doing week by week in July and half the weeks ended up looking like hot chickenscratch garbage. This way I can still move things around but it’s not just a big blank page.Please to not notice the fact that I was off by a day on every weekly page and had to patch over the dates to fix them. 😀One of my favorite lines from the whole album is from “The Last Great American Dynasty.” “I had a marvelous time ruining everything.”
