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- Hello everyone. It's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.

Today's the day, since it is June,

we are wrapping up the
first six months of 2021

which means that I am almost at the end

of my current bullet journal.

To be exact, I think I
have about five pages left.

So today I'm gonna be switching
into a brand new notebook,

setting all of that up.

By the way, if you're
confused as to where I am,

because I'm not in my regular background

or my regular apartment,

you probably haven't seen my update video.

I recommend you check
that out if you're curious

or if you have any questions,

but yes, I'm not in
Toronto or my apartment,

which is kind of perfect for this video

because it's new bullet journal, new city,

fresh start, all of that.

I'm gonna be switching
into this guy right here.

I chose this color.

This is the slate gray
from Shop AmandaRachLee,

the new collection that we just launched.

It has the nice colored edges.

I feel like my bullet journals

always have kind of a color scheme.

Like last year, both of them were blue.

This year, we're going dark and sleek.

So that's what I'm going
to be switching into today.

We're gonna be cracking
open the new notebook,

which is always so satisfying.

Like just hearing the spine crack.

(spine cracks)
Oh yeah.

So I'm gonna be showing you guys

what I'm transferring over
into this bullet journal.

All of these spreads, all of that.

If you're also switching into
a new bullet journal soon,

then let me know in the comments.

Also, I've done about four
of these videos before,

one for every year that I bullet journaled

because I always kind of
switch into a new notebook

around this time of the year.

So if you still need some more inspiration

after watching this one, I'll
link all of those down below.

But I just kind of wanna get
started in the new notebook.

So let's go.

Okay, so it's that time, time
to switch into a new notebook.

This notebook has done me well
for the first half of 2021.

Definitely have filled it
up with some fun spreads,

and a lot of memories, but
we're moving on to a new one.

Thank you, next, if you will.

This, for the second half of the year,

I'm using the slate gray Shop
AmandaRachLee dotted notebook

with the colored edge.

I'm obsessed with the colored edge.

By the way, I'll leave
a little coupon code

in case you are looking for a new notebook

for the second half of the year

and you wanna grab the same one as mine.

You wanna twin with me.

So check it out in the
description box down below.

But let's open it up into the name page.

You guys know this is like,

I feel like this is the best part

about opening up a new blank notebook

is just like cracking open that spine.

Hearing the sound, and then
just writing that first word.

So I'm just writing my name.

By the way, just as a
warning for this video,

I don't have my usual lighting
setup in Vancouver with me.

So if the lighting changes a lot,

or if it's not as clear it
usually is in my other videos,

that's why I wish I could have brought

all the lighting stuff, but
you know, it is what it is.

I just thought I would
try to get this video up

as best as I could.

So the first spread that
I am transferring over

in to my new bullet journal is,

of course, my handy-dandy
grid space guide.

You guys know I always use this

and I always put it on the very
first page on the left side,

which makes it really
easy for me to flip to

whenever I'm creating a spread

and I want to reference
any grid spacing dilemmas.

If you're curious as to
how I use this spread,

because I always get so many questions

about grid spacing guides and all of that,

I will leave a video that I did

actually explaining how I use this,

but I just did the exact same setup

as the first half of the year.

Before I show you guys
the rest of the spreads,

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There's guided meditations.
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My favorite section of the app

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but I've been really
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Especially if I just have
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You can kind of choose

depending on how long of a
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Also, if I'm not in the mood

for a full-on guided meditation,

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and listen to an
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or while I'm drawing.

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So thank you to Aura for
sponsoring today's video.

But with that being
said, back to the video.

A lot of the spreads
that I make in this video

are going to be very similar

to the very beginning of the year set up,

just because I like to keep
some sort of consistency

amongst my bullet journals,
at least for the year.

So that's why you'll see a
lot of repeating spreads.

The only thing that I did
change is the color palette.

Part of this is because I didn't bring

all my markers with me to Vancouver,

to a new city, because
that would be insane.

Imagine if I brought
1,000 markers with me.

But also I thought that could
be like the fun switch up

for the new notebook, is just
changing the color palette.

On the right side of this spread,

I just created a little quote page,

and it says the best is yet to come.

Again, I'm using those
kind of pastel colors

and also this thin bubble letter font

that I use throughout this setup,

as well as the beginning
of the year set up

that I did early in January, 2021.

So I thought it was pretty cute.

I have the little bubbles, I
also have some crosshatching,

those like diagonal lines,
which I think makes it pop.

You know, we love a drop shadow.

I know it's been a while
since I've said that,

but I'm still loyal.

I still love drop shadows. (laughs)

Oh yeah, and then I just finished it off

with the Shop AmandaRachLee,

I think this is the light
neutral Washi Tape set,

which by the way, we're
working on restocking.

So don't worry.

And then moving on to the next spread,

we have my future log,
which basically just has all

of the future months for the rest of 2021,

so July through to December.

And in the old bullet journal,
the one that I just used,

I did like this file folder thing,

because I had all of the months.

But since there's only six
months for this spread,

I divided each page into three columns.

And that's how I fit the calendar spread.

Also in terms of the pens
and supplies that I'm using,

I'm gonna link them down below

but the markers are pretty
much all Zebra Mildliners.

The very thin pen that I'm using,

usually I would use a fine liner,

but because I wanted it to be super thin,

especially for when I'm doing
those diagonal drop shadows,

I'm actually using my
all-time favorite gel pen

which is the Uni-ball Signo 0.38 Gel Pen.

And otherwise, I'm just using the classic

Sakura pigment microns,
typically in 0.3 or 0.2,

especially when I'm trying

to get really small numbers like this.

But yeah, so I'm just writing
out the mini-calendars,

making sure that I don't
mess up any numbers,

because I'm traumatized.

There's one year where
I messed up the numbers

and it kind of affected
the rest of the months.

So I had to redo all of the
mini-calendars. (laughs)

That was a very traumatizing year.

So you live and you learn.

Now I always double-check

so that I don't need to
fix anything, but yes,

I have July through December,
and then underneath it

I left space for me to
write out any events.

And then I just decorated the rest

of the spread with any
doodles, Washi Tapes.

And there we go.

So the next spread that I'm
doing is my 2021 highlight reel,

which is actually where
I just put my Polaroids

for the month.

I think it's pretty cool

that I've been doing this type of spread

for the past three,
three-ish years, I think.

It's just one of those things

where I think it's gonna be really special

to look back on when I flip
through my bullet journals

as an old person, just
reminiscing on the times,

and you can kind of
see what you were doing

at each month during that year.

I just traced out a Polaroid that I have

and I fit six, one for each month.

And I just outlined that
little rectangular shape.

You guys always ask me about

like what Polaroid printer I use,

because you know, when you're
living life in the moment,

sometimes you don't carry around

your Polaroid camera with you.

So I actually do use a Polaroid
printer for most of these

so that I can go through the pictures

that I've taken for the month

and print out my favorite memory

for this highlight reel spread.

I use the Fuji film in Stacks Share,

just in case any of you guys are curious.

Those ones are really good

because you can just print
it out after the fact

and you don't need to worry about

carrying your instant camera everywhere.

All right. So moving
on to the next spread.

I think this is my mid-year goal check-in

so at the beginning of the
year for my January setups,

I do a lot of goal setting spreads

just because it's the
beginning of the year.

You have New Year's resolutions.

I don't like to do as
intense of a goal setup

for the middle of the year

when I'm switching into a new notebook

but I do kind of like to
do a mid-year check-in.

So instead of creating
a brand new full spread,

like double page, and
breaking down all the goals,

what I actually wanted
to do for the spread

is kind of check in and see how far along

I've been on the goals
that I initially set

at the beginning of the year

and whether I wanna set new ones.

So I have divided this
page up into four sections.

I have my work goals, personal goals.

I have affirmations.

And then I also have manifestations,

similar to the spread that I did

at the beginning of the year,

except this time I added these columns

on the right side, as you can see.

And basically each individual column

represents whether I completed that goal,

whether I'm still in
progress of that goal,

or whether it's a new goal.

Maybe I want to write
down a new goal under one.

So I've written a column to indicate that.

And I think it's a good way to look back

at your beginning of the year goals

and see where you are at at this moment.

On the other side of this spread,

I have my content planner.

This time, I'm actually
just going to be doing

kind of like a brain dump section.

So I have YouTube and TikTok,
which is the two platforms

that I've been focusing
on a lot more recently.

And they're the platforms
that I really need

a lot more planning space for ideas.

So I just have a little
brain dump section there

for whenever I have something
that I wanna jot down.

At the beginning of the year,

I had a more intense content planner

where I had charts to signify

like whether I was editing the video,

whether it's been posted, all of that.

But if you've watched
my Notion set up video

where I compare Notion
to bullet journaling,

you'll see that a lot
of the content planning

is now done on Notion digitally,

just 'cause it's easier for me
to communicate with my team.

So that's why all I need
in this bullet journal

is just a place for me to jot down ideas.

So moving on to the next spread,

which is my things to check out spread,

I wrote this cute title that just says,

hey, you, check it out.

And I'm actually splitting
this up into more sections

than I normally would.

In the past, I've just done four

where I've had like TV shows,
books, movies, all of that.

But as you can see, I cut
out a panel on the right side

because I actually wanted six sections.

Recently, I've been
really getting into anime,

K-dramas and books and all of that.

So I wanted to separate out TV
shows into further sections.

So I have K-dramas. I
have animes, TV shows,

movies, books, and audio,
which is just like podcasts

or whether there's specific
guided meditation tracks

that I want to check out.

So then on the next spread,

I have my Shop AmandaRachLee
kind of main ideas page,

another sort of like
dashboard landing page

in the beginning of my notebook.

So as you can see, on the left
side of that smaller flap,

I have this column that says Future Ideas.

And that's just where I
list out any ideas I have,

whether they're small or large,

something that I wanna launch or work on.

And then on the right side,

I've split it up into four sections.

I have Q3,

Q4, Q1 and Q2,

which is just the third
quarter, the fourth quarter,

the first quarter and second quarter.

And what I do is I will take
any of those small ideas,

those things that I've
jotted down on the left side

and move them into the general timeline

once I figured out when
I want to launch those.

So that's just a little look
into the behind the scenes

of how I plan out my launches
for Shop AmandaRachLee.

Next up, we have my package checker.

This is something that I implemented

at the beginning of this year.

It was a new spread that I had never done.

And I found it so, so helpful.

Although the beginning of the year one

kind of filled up quickly
so then I sort of switched

into doing monthly package checkers,

which I might continue doing.

So I have that,

where I just have the
item that I've ordered,

the date that I purchased it,

whether it's been sent, and
whether it's been received.

And then on the right side,

I just have my wishlist and my gift list.

My wishlist is just for things

that I have been meaning to purchase,

if it's on my shopping
list, things like that.

And then my gift list is
when I have ideas for things

that I want to gift to people,
like for my family members,

for Christmas or for their birthdays.

Alright, guys.

So here's the flip through

for my brand new bullet journal
setup in the new notebook.

It's always exciting to switch
into a brand new notebook.

By the way, in case you didn't notice,

I filmed this on two days,
which was why my nails changed,

but like, look at how cute
my strawberry nails are.

Just wanted to point those out.

Hope you enjoyed the setup again,

I'll leave the previous year's setups

in the description box below

in case you want any more inspiration.

Alright, guys. So
that's it for this video.

I hope you enjoyed seeing
my new bullet journal setup

for the second half of 2021.

I already feel excited to use it.

I feel like whenever I
set up a new notebook

and a new bullet journal, it
kind of like refreshes my mind

and keeps me motivated for
the second half of the year.

So again, as I mentioned,

if you are still in need
of any more inspiration,

I'm gonna link all of
the other setup videos,

mid-year setup videos that I've
done in the past down below.

Thank you again to Aura for
sponsoring today's video.

And I will talk to you
guys in the next video.

Keep doodling, bye.

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