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- Thank you to Squarespace
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All right.

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We're back.

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This feels so weird.

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If you missed my break video,

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then you're probably like,
what do you mean you're back?

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I didn't even miss you.

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That's fine.

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If you didn't miss out on
anything, then hello again,

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but I did take some time off YouTube.

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I'm back now.

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It was very refreshing.

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I definitely needed that time.

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And I did just want to say

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before we get right into everything,

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thank you guys for always
supporting me and my decisions.

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And especially on that video,
it was really nice to see

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all of the supportive
heartwarming comments

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and hearing your guys' stories

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about taking care of
yourselves and taking breaks.

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So if anything, if that
video encouraged you

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to also take some time for yourself,

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then that's also a plus for my break.

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I'm gonna do my March plan with me

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and my March bullet journal setup,

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which feels weird because
literally the last video

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on my channel was the February setup.

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I just re- uploaded the stream that I did,

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which also was really fun.

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I did like the entire plan
with me live on Twitch

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and that was like the most
viewers that I've ever gotten

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on a Twitch stream before.

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So thank you to everyone who tuned in

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or enjoyed watching the real-time spreads.

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It was definitely different vibes

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from like my normal plan
with me videos, but very fun.

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So maybe in the future,
we can do more of those.

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Let's just get right into it, honestly.

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Like I've taken three
weeks off of YouTube,

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so why delay it anymore?

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Let's get started.

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Hi, friends.

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This is voiceover Amanda.

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Just wanted to quickly pop in and mention

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if you haven't seen in the
news, there has been an increase

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in violence against the Asian community,

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particularly towards the elders,

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due to racist rhetoric
around the COVID-19 pandemic.

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So because of that for a whole
week, starting February 27th,

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which is tomorrow a hundred
percent of the profits

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from ShopAmandaRachLee Dotted Notebooks

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will be going towards
Asian communities in need.

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So if you want to buy a notebook,

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support the cause, I'm
going to link it down below.

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It also happens to be the
notebook that I'm using right now.

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Okay, that's all, love you.

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Back to the regular voiceover.

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If you've been watching my
channel for a while now,

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then you know that we have a
little tradition every March,

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which is to do a green plant-ish theme.

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So of course, I'm not
gonna break that tradition.

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We're five-year strong so far,

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so of course I had to do a plant theme

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and surprisingly, in
all of the March themes

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that we've done, I've never done

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like a full-on houseplant theme.

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And I figured this would be
the perfect month to do that.

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The inspiration behind
this theme was actually

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my real life house plant,
my little fiddle leaf fig

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that's in the corner next to my coach.

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You guys see it in my videos
all the time, but you know,

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it's kind of a wonder how I've managed to

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keep that plant alive for so long.

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And me and my friends
like to call him big boy

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because he's grown quite a lot.

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I'll put a comparison picture
of what my fiddle leaf fig

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started and how it is now.

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So yeah, I kind of got
inspired by that house plant.

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And also, I found a lot
of pictures on Pinterest

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of actual beautiful spaces
with a lot of plants,

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almost like a greenhouse,

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so I wanted to emulate
that on my cover page

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and just draw a whole
lot of plants in pots.

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It was actually kind of
fun to draw all of these.

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I know it might not seem like
it because I'm drawing a lot

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but these doodles are super easy to do.

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So I didn't really even plan
out the actual leaves too much.

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I mostly just, you know, planned out

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where I wanted the pots
to be with my pencil.

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And then with my fine liner afterwards,

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I went in and drew random leaves.

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But if you guys want a tutorial

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on how I draw each type of
plant, I can definitely do that.

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But pretty much what I was doing is just

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looking at pictures of real life plants

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and trying to doodle them
really quickly and loosely.

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I wasn't too focused on making it perfect.

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And then my favorite
part of this cover page

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was that I included hanging
plants from the top.

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So I drew a lot of like hanging vines

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and I drew this shelf at the top

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where I could put smaller potted plants.

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And I think it turned out so cute.

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I know that there's a lot
of green leafy doodles

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and themes out there, but I
really tried to make it my own

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by just adding a ton of
varieties and playing around

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with the different sizes of
pots and plant varieties.

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So when you're doing this,
if you want to recreate it,

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I encourage you to
experiment with your doodles,

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try different plant varieties,
look up actual pictures

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of plants and leaves, and
it's really fun to experiment.

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And the good thing about
plants is because, you know

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they're natural, it's in nature,
nothing's ever too perfect.

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So, you know, even if you
quote, unquote, mess up

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it kind of just looks more natural.

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So I hope you guys have fun
drawing plants this month

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if you're drawing them with me.

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Another fun thing about
this theme, I think,

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is that I actually only
used one green marker

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for the coloring part of this cover page.

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I wanted to keep it really simple.

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So I used one Tombow Dual Brush Pen

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to roughly fill in the leaves.

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Really.

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I promise you guys, if
you saw the realtime clip

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of me coloring this in, it
would be like 30 seconds,

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because I was just scribbling.

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I did not sit in there
and, you know, try to fill

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in every individual
leaf to make sure it was

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within the lines.

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That'd be way too tedious.

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So I just did strokes of color.

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And I kind of liked that look

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with just the single accent color.

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It actually really reminded
me of the very first year

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that I bullet journaled, 2017.

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A lot of my themes from
then were also similar vibes

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where there's just one
accent color, really loosely,

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you know, colored in and just, you know,

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with some fun doodles all around.

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In order to add a bit more dimension

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to that single green
color marker that I used,

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a few times I would actually
layer the green quite a lot

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to make it look a bit darker,

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but it was just that one marker.

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So you'll see that sometimes
I go over like the center

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of the leaves with some added strokes

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and it just gives you that dark green

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to light green gradient

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without using multiple green markers.

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So I just went in, colored
the rest of those leaves.

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And actually I just realized,
I lied to you guys earlier.

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I did not technically use
just the one green marker.

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I realized I went in
with like a light gray

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for some you know, shadows,

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but honestly it didn't really add much,

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so you could probably go without this.

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On the other side of the spread

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is where I'm drawing my monthly overview,

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so I have a calendar.

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I've been shying away recently

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from doing a full two
page calendar spread,

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just because, you know, I
was on break last month.

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I'm still kind of easing
into things a bit.

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So I figured this size
calendar would be perfect.

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And then just underneath
I'm writing out any events,

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meetings, to-do lists
things that I need to do

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for the month.

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And since this theme really reminded me

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of my old school bullet journal,

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like my bullet journal from 2017,

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I decided to bring back
the drop shadows, guys.

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You guys know, if you
watch any of my old videos,

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I was a big drop shadow guy.

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So I thought I'd bring
those back because you know,

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we love a good drop
shadow in this household.

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Other than that, I kept it pretty simple.

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I just wrote out this month
underneath the calendar

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which is where I'll list everything,

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and then drew a few potted plants up top,

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like the header was a shelf
and another potted plan

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at at the bottom, just for fun.

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Oh, I also used some washi
tapes in kind of a fun way.

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So this is the ShopAmandaRachLee
Dark Neutral set.

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We actually restocked the washi tapes,

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in case you guys were wondering.

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So I'll link those down below
if you guys want to grab a set

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before they run out again.

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And what I did was I
actually put the washi tape

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on a few of the pots,
just to a couple of them.

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And then I took my X-ACTO knife

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and lightly scored around the pot.

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You could kind of see
the outline underneath,

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so I made sure to follow that.

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And then when you peel back
all the edges around it,

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you're left with the
washi tape that fills in

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the center of the plant pot.

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And I thought it was just a unique fun way

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to use washi tape.

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It also adds a nice pattern
and pop to any design.

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Next up, of course we have my trackers,

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and I'm starting out
with my habit tracker.

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So I'm writing a simple
title with my brush pen.

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By the way, of course this
is the Tombow Fudenosuke

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Hard Tip Brush Pen.

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I use this pretty much
throughout the entire spread.

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Both for the doodles and for the writing.

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You guys know, I love it.

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This is my go-to pen.

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So if you're curious
as to what else I use,

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I'll link it down below.

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And then I added some hanging
plants next to it at the top

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just for some added little doodles.

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For the mini calendars, I
used these calendar stamps

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that I had.

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A lot of people ask me where
I got these calendar stamps.

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I got them as a gift,

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but I believe you can find
them on like Ali express

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or Amazon.

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Just search rubber calendar stamps.

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So I just put those on one
of my acrylic stamping blocks

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and stamped out the calendars.

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I kinda messed up in
there a little slanted

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because I just refuse to
plan anything out apparently,

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but that's okay.

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You know, you just gotta go with it.

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Things happen in your bullet journal

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and it's for you anyway.

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So accept your mistakes,
as Bob Ross would say,

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there are no mistakes, just
happy little accidents.

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And I think that's kind of the mindset

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that I'm going into a
lot of things nowadays.

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So yeah, I had initially had six calendars

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and then I decided to add a
couple more at the bottom.

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I just have these drop
shadowed, rectangular headers

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up top where I write out what
habits that I'm tracking.

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So I'm talking about,
you know, watering plants

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taking my vitamins,
doing my vocal exercises,

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because recently something
that I've done over my break

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is start vocal lessons.

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It's been a fun little
hobby for me to pick up.

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So it's just stuff like that.

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And then next to it,
I have my mood tracker

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and for this, because my fiddle leaf fig

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in real life was the
inspiration behind this theme,

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I decided to draw my
little plant baby again

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and this was the habit tracker.

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So each leaf represents day
and I'll be coloring it in.

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According to my mood.

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I mentioned this I can't
remember when I mentioned this,

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but I'm starting to get
into the habit of drawing

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the darker colors as my happy mood.

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I used to do it the opposite way,

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where the dark color
represented, you know,

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a dark, sad mood.

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But then someone in my
comments section pointed out

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that it stands out a lot more

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when you flip through the darker colors.

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So in order for things to stand
out more in a positive way,

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when I flip through my bullet journal

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I want the darker colors
to be the happy days.

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I feel like I didn't
really explain that well,

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but hopefully you understand
what I'm talking about.

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While we're here talking about
moods and how you're feeling

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just wanted to check in with
y'all and see how you're doing

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during all of this chaos, the pandemic.

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I hope you're setting boundaries

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and making sure you're
taking care of yourself

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and doing things for you.

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I feel like while I was on my break,

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I really got to figure out
how I'm feeling recently

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without it being tied into work.

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So that was definitely a huge plus

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of me taking my break and
interesting to separate that out

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because a lot of times I
feel like my feelings and,

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you know, I've mentioned this before.

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A lot of times I equate my value to work

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and how productive I am

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and I'm really trying to stop doing that.

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It'll definitely be a
long-term thing where I need

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to figure out how to untrain
myself from that thinking.

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But that's kind of been
what I've been thinking

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about recently and
checking in with myself.

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So I hope you guys are doing
the same and doing well.

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All right.

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So moving on to the next page,
which is my playlist spread.

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I discovered a lot of great
music during my break,

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because I kind of had
nothing better to do,

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besides watch a lot of dramas and movies

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and listen to music on Spotify.

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So I did create a big playlist

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of all the songs that
I've been loving recently.

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So if you want to check that out,

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I'll link my Spotify playlist down below.

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Honestly, it might be one
of my favorite playlists.

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I've been shuffling it
on repeat a lot recently.

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So I'll link that down below

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'cause I didn't include all the songs

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from the Spotify playlist on this spread.

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There was just way too many.

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I just kind of included some
of my top faves on this spread.

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And I thought it was really cute.

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I printed out the album
covers in little squares

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and then I made it look like
they're sitting on shelves.

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And I also made the
album covers kind of 3D.

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And in between them, I added,
of course, more potted plants.

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Funnily enough, in my real life bedroom,

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I am going to be putting up
floating shelves like this

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so that I can display
more decorative things

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like plants and actual music albums.

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So I've already ordered
the shelves from IKEA,

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and I'm going to be putting them up soon.

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So hopefully it turns out
as cute as this spread.

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Anyway, I'll just list out
a few honorable mentions

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since I didn't actually write out the name

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of the artist or the
album title on the spread.

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So first we have Raveena's new single.

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I love Raveena.

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She's one of my favorite
artists of all time.

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Her music is just very chill
and magical and dreamy.

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And it's great.

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I also discovered this fully
animated bunny who releases

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like pop songs and it's
kind of incredible.

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APOKI.

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I also, oh!

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Recently my friend Stephanie Poetri,

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came out with a song, "IRL"

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and I'm actually included
in the music video.

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So that was kind of a
cool thing that happened.

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Go check her out.

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She's very talented and yeah,
there's just so much great

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awesome music that I've
been discovering recently.

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And it makes me very happy.

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I feel like, especially
while I'm journaling

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I love playing this playlist.

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It's like the perfect
vibes and you guys know

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I love music so much and
it just ties so nicely

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into journaling and drawing and self care.

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So, I just love it.

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Anyway, moving on.

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Oh, of course I added
more of those washi tapes

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with a couple of the potted plants.

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But then next to it, I
have a very simple spread.

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If you watched my 2021
Bullet Journal Set Up video,

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then you'll know I
created a package tracker

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for me to track, you know,
when I purchase something,

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whether the item has come in or not,

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I've actually filled that up
already, which is I don't know,

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that's kind of embarrassing to say,

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but I filled that one up that was

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at the beginning of my bullet journal.

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So I decided that maybe moving forward

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I'm gonna do it monthly
and maybe, you know

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a shorter little table.

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I don't know, I'm experimenting with this.

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So that's what I have there.

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I have a little tracker with
the columns that have the name

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of the item that I ordered,
whether it's been sent or not.

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And then I check off
when I have received it.

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And then underneath that,

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I have my monthly shopping list as well.

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And the individual headers
say things like, groceries

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household items, and other.

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Finally we have made it to the
first weekly spread of March,

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which, by the way is extremely satisfying,

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because the first week of
March begins on a Monday

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and you guys know I make my weekly spreads

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start on a Monday.

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I know some people do Sunday out there.

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I respect your preference,
but it ain't me.

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I love a good Monday start to the week.

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And March begins perfectly on a Monday.

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Anyway, so I'm doing this vertical layout.

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You'll see I'm drawing
out this horizontal line

00:15:57.990 --> 00:15:59.720
up top that looks like a shelf,

00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:02.090
adding more of those potted
plants, but then underneath it

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is where I'm doing the
actual weekly spread.

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And for this, I divided
the columns out into three.

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I just referenced my grid spacing guide

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at the beginning of my bullet journal.

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And I think it's eight
dot spaces, each column,

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like the width.

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I know a lot of you guys asked me,

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about Docker spacing a little bit,

00:16:22.450 --> 00:16:27.220
but honestly I just referenced
my grid spacing guide a lot.

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So yeah, I have this
green header at the top

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and I just divided it out
into three, really simple

00:16:33.893 --> 00:16:36.230
just draw those vertical lines.

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And then for the weekend I split the page

00:16:38.900 --> 00:16:40.573
up in half that way.

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You'll see I'm dividing
out the columns also

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with a line at the top.

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And that's where I place my weekly events

00:16:47.890 --> 00:16:50.980
like any meetings or things
that I need to do for that day.

00:16:50.980 --> 00:16:54.813
And then underneath it is where
the actual task list goes.

00:16:56.190 --> 00:16:59.840
To finish off this weekly
spread, I drew some black circles

00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.300
and then used my white gel
pen to write the numbers

00:17:03.300 --> 00:17:04.960
on top of the black circle.

00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.170
Wrote out the days of the week,

00:17:06.170 --> 00:17:07.940
just in simple capital letters.

00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:11.760
And I filled in some of those plant pots

00:17:11.760 --> 00:17:13.830
with the washi tapes again for an accent.

00:17:13.830 --> 00:17:17.250
And I also use the
washi tapes as a divider

00:17:17.250 --> 00:17:19.750
for the weekly events and the tasks.

00:17:19.750 --> 00:17:20.650
And that was pretty much it

00:17:20.650 --> 00:17:22.910
for the first weekly spread of March.

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I like this spread
because it gives me a lot

00:17:25.486 --> 00:17:27.833
of planning space for the week.

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All right.

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So here's the final flip through

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of my March, 2021 bullet journal setup.

00:18:42.360 --> 00:18:43.870
I really like how this one turned out.

00:18:43.870 --> 00:18:47.600
I just feel inspired to fill
it out and be productive.

00:18:47.600 --> 00:18:49.880
And the plant doodles
were just really relaxing

00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.100
and fun to draw throughout the month.

00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:52.933
So that was it.

00:18:52.933 --> 00:18:55.230
Amanda's great return back to YouTube

00:18:55.230 --> 00:18:57.880
after her three week break.

00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:59.110
It really wasn't that big of a deal.

00:18:59.110 --> 00:19:01.400
I'm sure some of you guys didn't
even notice that I was gone

00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.920
but I hope you guys of
course enjoyed today's video.

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.650
Seeing my March 2021 bullet journal setup.

00:19:06.650 --> 00:19:09.520
As usual I wanted to showcase
some of your recreations

00:19:09.520 --> 00:19:11.630
from last month.

00:19:11.630 --> 00:19:13.670
Even though I didn't post a normal

00:19:13.670 --> 00:19:14.820
February plan with me video,

00:19:14.820 --> 00:19:15.820
I did stream it.

00:19:15.820 --> 00:19:18.020
So a lot of you guys still recreated it,

00:19:18.020 --> 00:19:19.600
which was really nice to see.

00:19:19.600 --> 00:19:21.300
And of course, if you
want to see how the rest

00:19:21.300 --> 00:19:24.290
of my setup plays out,
all of the weekly spreads

00:19:24.290 --> 00:19:26.260
come tune in on Twitch every Saturday

00:19:26.260 --> 00:19:29.830
at 11:00 AM Eastern time, I
create my weekly spreads there.

00:19:29.830 --> 00:19:32.600
Live, realtime and it's very chill.

00:19:32.600 --> 00:19:36.680
There's low-fi music and coffee
and good vibes all around.

00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.970
I feel like I'm talking really fast.

00:19:38.970 --> 00:19:41.110
It might be because I
haven't been on camera

00:19:41.110 --> 00:19:43.841
in a while, but anyway, hope
you have an awesome day.

00:19:43.841 --> 00:19:45.122
Keep doodling.

00:19:45.122 --> 00:19:46.590
See you in the next one.

00:19:46.590 --> 00:19:47.423
Bye guys.

00:19:48.528 --> 00:19:51.028
(chill music)