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- I feel like there will be
a riot from Little doodles
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if I did not put this in chef's kiss.
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It's getting upgraded to a chef's kiss.
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Am I gonna do that every time,
put one under chef's kiss?
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Probably.
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(soft music)
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Hi guys, it's Amanda.
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So today is going to be a fun video.
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We are ranking every
single bullet journal setup
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I've ever made over the past
four and a little bit years.
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So there is quite a lot to go through.
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I have done a bullet journal
setup every single month,
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since February 2017.
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And you guys always ask me,
which setup is my favorite,
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which setup I don't like
et cetera, etcetera.
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And I thought we would just do
the ultimate tier list today.
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This is something that has
been going around in training
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recently, people just
making different tier lists
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for different things like
TV shows and cartoons
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and all of that.
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So you know, I wanted to do that
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for my bullet journal setups.
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Now my main criteria
for ranking all of these
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is basically just whether
it sparks joy or not.
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So that can mean whether the
doodles that I did spark joy,
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or maybe whether just
the actual functionality
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of the set have worked for me.
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So let's go through the tiers right now
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that I'll be ranking them
in the number one tier,
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the top tier, is the one
for the ultimate faves.
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I like to call them the chef's kisses.
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Then the second one down is
called the makes my heart warm,
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which is self explanatory.
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Third, right in the middle we have,
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I call it would swipe right,
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because it's kind of
like on Tinder, you know,
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you would swipe right on it,
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you like it, you're not
sure if you love it,
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you don't hate it.
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You know, there's still,
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it's just middle ground.
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And then the second one from the bottom
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are the ones that I kinda forgot about
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and left no lasting impression on me.
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It doesn't spark negative energy
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when I think about those setups,
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but it also doesn't spark
necessarily positive memories.
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And then finally, the bottom
tier, the bottom of the barrel
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are the ones that do not spark joy at all,
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maybe even sparks negative feelings
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associated with those setups.
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So those are my ranking
criteria for today.
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Just as a little disclaimer,
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this is all in good fun of course.
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Bullet journaling is very personal.
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So when I say that
something doesn't spark joy,
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if it does for you
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and if you set up your
bullet journal in this way,
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that is totally fine.
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We're just having fun here and
this is my personal opinions
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on my own bullet journal.
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Anyway, with that being said,
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let's start ranking.
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I have uploaded all of
my bullet journal setups.
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As you can see, there is 50 I think,
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50 exactly.
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So I guess we'll start chronologically.
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February 2017, rose theme.
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This is the very first
full on monthly setup
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that I've ever done on my channel.
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Honestly, this one, just
because it's so nostalgic for me
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it,
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I'm gonna put it in, makes my heart warm.
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I actually recently, because this year
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is my fifth year bullet journaling.
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I mentioned this in my
bullet journal setup video.
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But I really took inspiration
from my 2017 bullet journal,
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the very first bullet journal
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for this year's bullet journal.
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Kinda like, going back to where I started
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and I really liked the
simplicity of the spreads
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in the setup.
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I think I was like 18
or 19, which is crazy.
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I always say that my bullet journal
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is kind of like a time capsule
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and it's really interesting
to see like how I grew up
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and my art cell change and everything.
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Next we have March 2017,
which is the tropical leaves.
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This one, honestly,
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I'm going to have to go with
ultimate faves/chef's kiss.
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The reason why I love this one so much
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is because these leaves, I feel
like they've become a staple
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in my life in my channel.
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I literally ended up making
wallpaper for my apartment,
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kinda based on this bullet journal setup.
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And it was also a favorite
amongst little doodles
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at the time and also still to this day,
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I still see so many
people recreating this.
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April 2017, which is the
constellation and start setup.
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I'm torn with this one because,
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I personally love anything to do with like
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stars and constellations and stuff.
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But setup wise, I'm not
sure if it's my favorite.
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Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm gonna say this
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for a lot of my 2017 ones,
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because they all really
do make my heart warm
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because it's the first
year that I started.
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I think the fact that I'm
contemplating this much on it,
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means that I would swipe right on it.
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Okay, may 2017, which is the waves theme.
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I already would say that
I kinda forgot about it.
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I remember the cover page,
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like most of these I
remember the cover page,
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but just thinking to the setup,
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like the actual setup and the spreads,
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I don't think I remember,
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I don't think I remember
anything about it.
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June 2017.
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Oh,
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this one,
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okay, this one really makes my heart warm
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for the longest time
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when people would ask me
what my favorite setup was,
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I would say June.
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Because I really liked the
architectural drawings.
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It was the city skyline and
actually like In my art class,
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in high school, I would always draw,
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like architectural stuff.
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I feel like it really works well with
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my like loose drawing style.
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And it was also like a
fully black and white theme.
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I literally can physically remember
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the way the calendar looks.
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There's like the negative
space, and just the lines.
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And I used a lot of like black backgrounds
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with the white text on top,
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which I think worked really
well with this theme.
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Just reminiscing about
it, it's getting upgraded.
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It's getting upgraded to a chef's kiss.
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Am I gonna do that every time
but when a new chef's kiss?
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Probably.
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Next we have July, which
is this Daisy theme.
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This one is really pretty.
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I like the daisies.
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I can kind of remember some of the spreads
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that I did.
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But I also kinda forgot.
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So
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I think we're gonna put in
kind of forgot about it.
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This August, also immediately can place
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in kinda forgot about it,
because I literally forgot
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that I did a seashell theme
until just now. (laughs)
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We're getting to the end of 2017 here.
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So moving on to September 2017,
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which is this succulent green theme.
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I actually do remember
a lot of these spreads.
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I would say this one
is a wood swipe right?
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I remember some of the weekly
spreads that I made with this
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and I like the different
shades of green that I used.
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So that goes in the
solid wood swipe right.
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Next up, we have October,
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which is the autumn leaves theme.
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Um,
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oh, this is tough.
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I would say also this one
goes in would swipe right.
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I would also maybe recreate
this into an updated version.
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I would love to recreate
some of these super old ones
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in my bullet journal now
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and see like how my style has changed
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and what type of setups that
I can make with these themes.
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Alright, moving on to
November, which is the crystal
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and I can already say, for me personally,
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this one goes into an
ultimate faves chef's kiss.
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This one for the longest time
was one of my favorite setups.
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It's also been recruited
by you guys a lot, a lot.
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I've seen a lot of
different versions of this
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and it was really fun for me to make.
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I also just like lilac.
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I know a lot of you
guys like lilac as well,
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because when I made a
lilac doodle planner,
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that was sold out like immediately.
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So yeah.
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The crystals, a chef's kiss.
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I think it's still so cute.
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I would probably, if I were
to do this theme again,
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I'd probably just make
it exactly like this.
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So that tells you a lot.
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We have December 2017,
which is a snowflake theme.
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And I really like this one.
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I'm gonna put this one
in makes my heart warm.
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I actually remember a
lot of the weekly spreads
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that I made with this.
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I played a lot with
different styles of setups
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and calendars and all of that.
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And I just like the the
layout of the cover page
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as well with the little
sparkles going down.
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Next up we have January 2018,
which is the fireworks theme.
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I remember so many of these spreads.
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I really like to doing this.
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I also remember doing like
some doodle tutorials on this.
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Feel like I got to start being
a little bit more ruthless
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or else we're gonna
have so many good ones.
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My whole tier list is just
gonna be chef's kisses.
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This one I'm gonna go,
makes my heart warm.
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Start of a new year, I
think it was a cute theme
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for a new year theme.
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And even if I go through
my like weekly spreads
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from that month, I remember some of them
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and I really liked how they
worked for me at the time.
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And next we have February 2018,
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which is this Valentine's Day heart theme.
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Even though it's a love theme,
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I don't know if I love it too much.
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So I'm gonna go,
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I'm gonna go kinda forgot about it.
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kind of forgot about it.
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Oh, that's kind of sad.
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So March 2018, which
is this cactus cactis,
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cacti theme.
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You know, I'm gonna go would
swipe right on this one.
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I like to the theme,
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can remember some of
the spreads that I made.
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But I don't know if it gives
me those tingly feelings.
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Moving on to April 2018,
which is the cloud theme.
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I really really like this theme.
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I actually remember pretty
much every spread that I made.
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I remember the mood tracker.
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I did like a cloud
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and then the raindrop length
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was like the mood.
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I thought that was pretty cool.
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So, and I liked like neutral colors.
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(indistinct), makes my heart warm.
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Makes my heart warm you know.
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May 2018, which is lavender.
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I know a lot of you guys
really liked this setup.
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And I even had like a doodle tutorial
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on how to draw lavender
flowers, which you guys liked.
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But personally, I kinda forgot about it.
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Like I don't really
remember any of the spreads.
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I remember though my theme for this,
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Like my overall word of
that month was relaxation.
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So I tried to focus on relaxation,
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which I guess is kinda good.
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Would I swipe right on it?
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I would, I think I
would swipe right on it.
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I think I'm being a little too harsh.
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I'm being too harsh on my own setups.
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June 2018, which is the
traveling around the world theme.
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I remember making this setup
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because I was actually traveling
a lot during that year,
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or that month.
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So have really positive memories
associated with this theme.
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I just thought that was the
doodles were fun to make.
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I remember making some of the setups
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from like actual hotel rooms and stuff
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and live streaming from there.
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So I feel like this one just I've,
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since I have such positive
memories associated with,
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I'm gonna put it in, makes my heart warm.
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Now we have July 2018,
which is my sunflower theme.
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I personally, really like this theme.
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I remember a lot of the
setups that I made with this
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and I think I really liked doing it.
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I think I did.
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If I'm remembering correctly,
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I did a lot of different
types of weekly spreads,
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and like trackers and stuff for this one.
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And I played a lot with
like washi tapes and stuff,
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which was kind of fun.
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And also just doodling
sunflowers in general is,
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you can't be sad while
doodling sunflowers.
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They're like the happiest
flower of all time.
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So I'm gonna put this one
in, makes my heart warm.
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August, fruit theme, 2018.
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I liked it.
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I think I'm gonna put it
in, would swipe right.
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I'm putting it in wood
swipe right, because,
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I think the colors are really fun.
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This was probably one of the first themes
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where I'd use like a
lot of different colors
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and a lot of different...
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Oh, actually.
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Now I'm just thinking back
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and I remember some of the
weekly spreads that I made
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with like the mason jars.
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That's kind of cute, though.
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No, we're sticking to my initial,
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my initial reaction.
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I'm remembering some of them.
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I like the lettering,
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the lettering was kind of fun.
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I'm gonna put this in makes my heart warm.
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Okay, next we have September 2018.
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I was waiting for the one,
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because I already knew,
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I was gonna put this in
does not spark joy at all.
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I don't know what it is about this setup,
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but even,
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I remember even when I made this in 2018,
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I really didn't like how it turned out,
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and I just didn't enjoy the
spreads that I was making.
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Maybe I was in a little bit
of a slump or something.
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Funnily enough, it made it
into a doodle planner this year
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and I actually like it
better in the doodle planner
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as like a coloring book type of thing
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for the doodle plan.
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But, for the setups and
like my bullet journal,
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I don't know if I like it that much.
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This one, I'm so excited for this one.
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This is October 2018, which is the,
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magic wizardy Harry Potter theme
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and this one is an ultimate
faves, chef's kiss.
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I love the setup so so much,
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not just because you
know like Harry Potter,
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we all love a Harry Potter moment.
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But it was so fun to make these spreads.
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I remember every single spread that I made
-
and I remember having so many
so much fun, making the setups
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and trying out different
layouts and everything.
-
The lettering was really
fun for me to make.
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And I remember drawing
the scrolls and everything
-
and also besides that, this was when
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I did like a little trip to New York for,
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like actual Harry Potter fantastic beast
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and it just lined up
perfectly with this theme.
-
I also remember like making
a lot of different spreads
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that weren't just like bullet
journal productivity base.
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I made one about my
Harry Potter, like houses
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and all of that.
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So this one is a really fun one.
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And you guys recreated this one a lot.
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So I'm glad we are in agreement.
-
I hit 1 million during this month too.
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So that is another positive
memory associated with it.
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I didn't even remember so thank you guys.
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We have November which is
this like autumnal cozy theme.
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And honestly, I'm gonna say
kind of forgot about it,
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right off the bat.
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I like the cover page and like,
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the doodles were really fun to make,
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but I kind of remember.
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Oh wait now I'm remembering it.
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There was like sweaters
and scarves and stuff.
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Yeah, I remember making the weekly spreads
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with the scarves and stuff.
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Okay, and no.
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You know I'm keeping it and,
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I'm keeping it in kind of forgot about it.
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I feel like I'm bashing my own children.
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Moving on to December 2018,
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which is this Christmas ornament spread.
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And oh my God, I have negative memories
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associated with this one.
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I'm putting this in does
not spark joy at all.
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Just because I remember I
was in such an art block
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at this time.
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And just a video creation block in general
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and I remember having to
redo this multiple times,
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just 'cause I don't like
the way it turned out
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and I wasn't enjoying it.
-
This is like a true deep cut.
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If you have been following me
on Instagram or social media,
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since that time,
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initially, this spread was
like a nutcracker theme.
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And I hated it so much.
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There's actually pictures of it somewhere.
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But I hated it so much,
so I ended up redoing it
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and then doing this like ornament theme.
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It turned out, okay,
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but I just have negative
memories associated with it
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because of like the creative block.
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And I don't know if I
necessarily even remember
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any of the spreads that
I made during this time.
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So,
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okay, we have made it to 2019
we have my lantern theme,
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kind of Lunar New Year inspired theme.
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I liked this one.
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I want to put this one
in makes my heart warm.
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I had fun making the different
weekly spreads for this.
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There's this one weekly spread
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that I remember in particular,
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actually I recently recreated
it on the January theme.
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And it had cool like, patterns
that were a bit more like,
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in the Oriental like lantern style.
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So I remember this one, I love this one.
-
Moving on to,
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cherry blossoms February 2019.
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Ultimate faves, chef's kiss.
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I love this one.
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For the longest time
whenever people ask me
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what my favorite bullet journal setup was,
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it was this one.
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I remember every single
spread that I made.
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And I remember having
so much fun making it
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and, I just loved it.
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It's a chef's kiss for me.
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And I even made a doodle tutorial video
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for cherry blossoms as well.
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So this same is a great
arrow on my channel.
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Okay, we have March
2019, which is this like,
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green abstract plant leafy theme.
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You know what,
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I wanna put this in would swipe right.
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I remember some of the spreads,
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particularly I just
mostly remember, though,
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like, I made a lot of
quote pages with this,
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that I thought were cool.
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And I thought it was really cool using,
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'cause usually I use like
a fine line or a lot.
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But with this setup, I
didn't use the fine liner.
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And I just did kind of, leafy
shapes with my super tips.
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So this one was a would swipe right,
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but I don't really like,
it doesn't spark joy.
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It doesn't really spark joy.
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I like it, but doesn't spark joy.
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April 2019.
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You guys love this theme.
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I loved it as well.
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Hot air balloons were really fun to draw.
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And I saw so many different
like color palettes
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that you guys change it into.
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It's really versatile, easy to draw.
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And I remember a lot of
the setups that I did
-
were kind of like fun and
experimental and funky.
-
I am going to put this one.
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I'm trying to decide whether
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it is deserving of a chef's kiss.
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But I think the fact that
I didn't immediately know
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that it was a chef's kiss,
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maybe means that it should
go when makes my heart warm.
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Well, everyone in the chat is telling me
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that since I'm hesitant, I
should put in make my heart warm.
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So we're doing that.
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Ah,
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no, wait.
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You know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna give my chance at the end
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to shuffle three around,
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if there's anything that
really sticks out to me.
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So we're just moving on.
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May 2019,
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butterflies.
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I really liked this one.
-
Butterflies were fun to make.
-
However,
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I don't remember a lot of the spreads.
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I don't really remember.
-
So I'm gonna put this in, I liked it.
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But I kinda forgot about it to be honest.
-
Like, it was cute, don't get me wrong.
-
I really like the setup and the cover page
-
and the doodles were so fun.
-
But I can't even remember
what the calendar look like
-
or the trackers, or the setups
-
or like the weekly setups
I mean, the weekly spread.
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That it's,
-
it's kind of hard because this
is one of my favorite themes,
-
just because butterflies are
super cute to do and like,
-
but I just don't remember the setup.
-
I literally only remember the
cover page from this setup.
-
There's no other spreads that
are sparking joy in my heart,
-
and that's the criteria.
-
It's the setup as a whole,
like the different spreads.
-
This is what happens
when you have 50 Kids.
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Bulte.
-
I feel like there will
be a riot on my channel
-
from Little Doodles if I did
not put this in chef's kiss.
-
And personally, I agree
this one was a chef's kiss.
-
It really was just kiss.
-
It was recreated a lot by you guys
-
and also I had so much
fun making these setups,
-
like the weekly spreads.
-
One in particular that I remember
-
is when I made each day, just
like a full on bubble tea.
-
I remember that we
could spread so clearly.
-
And I just really liked the pastel colors,
-
I remember the calendar spread for this.
-
I love this one.
-
I think it's really fun and quirky
-
and also ended up making
it into the doodle planner.
-
So there you go.
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Okay, July which is the fish theme.
-
July 2019 is kind of funny.
-
It's like this fish, under the sea theme.
-
Really cute.
-
However, there are two spreads
that really stand out to me,
-
which is the iconic wavy
Dutch door to this day.
-
I think it's still one
of my most liked pictures
-
on Instagram for some reason.
-
So that one just really stands out to me.
-
I think it might actually also
be one of the first times,
-
like I started doing Dutch
store spreads more frequently.
-
So that really stands out to me.
-
I also remember I did this spread
-
and a lot of people
said the waves ended up
-
looking like bacon.
-
So that was kind of like a funny memory.
-
The spreads, like the actual layouts
-
of the spreads that I made
-
are so memorable to me.
-
So I'm gonna put this
in makes my heart warm.
-
We have August 80's theme
-
and I love this theme so, so much.
-
This one goes in the chef's kiss.
-
This set up was so fun for me to make.
-
I love the color palette.
-
It was also surprisingly
really easy and fast
-
to do in terms of like the setup
-
because it was a lot of doodles,
-
I experimented a lot with the doodles
-
and even the actual
like spreads and setups.
-
The weekly spreads in particular,
-
I can remember some of them.
-
Another one
-
that ended up making it into
the doodle planner this year.
-
I remember making like a
throwback Spotify playlist
-
to kinda go along with it.
-
And you guys had fun
with this theme as well.
-
So I like this one chef's kiss.
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September stationary theme.
-
A lot of people love this theme.
-
I've seen this theme be recreated a lot.
-
Personally, I kinda forgot about it.
-
I'm sorry.
-
I know some little doodles
-
are gonna come for me for that one.
-
Like, okay, actually, you know what,
-
maybe I'll put in one swipe right.
-
I liked it, but I just don't
know if I remember a lot of
-
the spreads.
-
I liked the style and it
was fun for me to draw,
-
especially it's kind of meta, you know,
-
I was like drawing stationery
with stationery. (laughs)
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I'm keeping it in one swipe right.
-
Moving on to October 2019,
-
which is the moon lunar phases theme.
-
First of all, when I look at this,
-
I just keep noticing that I
messed up the moon phases.
-
It's wrong.
-
Like the bottom two are the top two.
-
So that's kinda funny.
-
That's the first thing
I immediately noticed.
-
But I also remember how fun this setup was
-
to make because I use a lot of
like black paper in the setup
-
with like the white gel pen
and like the white on black.
-
I think this one deserves a chef's kiss.
-
Well, this one's a dark horse.
-
I didn't expect this one
to be in chef's kiss.
-
But now that I'm thinking
about it, the black paper,
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which I don't really ever do
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and I also don't really ever do
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fully black and white themes.
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So this one was fun to make also,
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because it was easy for
you guys to recreate
-
since all you really
needed was literally just
-
a black pen.
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We have November coffee theme.
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I kinda forgot about that one honestly.
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Just I literally forgot
I did a coffee theme
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until seeing this,
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until seeing this picture.
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Now that I'm looking at
it, I remember making it.
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But the setups,
-
like the spreads,
-
I don't remember any of them.
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All right, we have December 2019,
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which is the Aurora Borealis,
Northern Lights theme.
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This one, I love this theme so, so much.
-
I think this one goes
into chef's kiss for me.
-
I feel like I'm putting
a lot in chef's kiss.
-
But again, we're gonna
do a shuffle afterwards,
-
once I see everything laid out.
-
I just love this one
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because I had a lot of
fun with the watercolor.
-
It was the first time I
actually did watercolor
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in my bullet journal and I
think it turned out so well.
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It was also really easy to make
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because if you watch that video,
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I just did the Aurora Borealis,
like the Northern Lights
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a few times on watercolor paper
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and I just had it ready to
go to cut out for my setups
-
and I also use a lot of
stamps for this one which,
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stamps are some of my favorite
stationery items to use
-
in my bullet journal.
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And I try to use it sparingly
-
so that I don't get tired of it,
-
because every time I
break out those stamps,
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it just, I love a good stamp, you know.
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It's more of like a wintery theme
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that can be applicable to everyone,
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nondenominational unlike
the other December theme
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which sparks a lot of anger
and hatred in my heart.
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Okay, we have finally made it to 2020
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which feels like ages ago.
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We have January Art Deco theme.
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I'm gonna go, would swipe right on this.
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I remember some of the spreads and stuff
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and it was fun for me to
make and I like the gold pin
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and the lettering stuff, but
I'm just gonna go with swipe,
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just swipe right, that's it.
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Okay, February 2020.
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This is the month
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that I took the first
extended YouTube break on.
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And I feel like a lot
of people might think
-
that I would put February 2020
in does not spark joy at all
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because I was going
through such a hard time.
-
But on the contrary, this one
actually makes my heart warm.
-
It was the to all the boys
I've ever loved before,
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inspired the like the Lara Jean doodles.
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And the reason why this
one makes my heart warm,
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is because, I was on break
making bullet journal spreads.
-
So I think in,
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this was my fourth year bullet journaling
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and obviously, as you guys
can see from this tier list,
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there's a lot of different spreads.
-
And I've mentioned this before,
-
but it's kind of, when you make videos
-
about bullet journaling and
when you showcase your spreads
-
to the internet, it becomes this weird.
-
It becomes this weird thing
where you don't know whether
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you're making something for
yourself or for the viewers.
-
I've really had to figure that
out over the years of like,
-
what I make for me and what
I make for other people.
-
And this was fully for me,
-
because I didn't do a full
on plan with me video.
-
So I just had fun with it.
-
I had no pressure, I
just made whatever I want
-
and it was pretty fun and simple.
-
And I also remember being
on break, traveling,
-
that was actually the
last time I traveled,
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was February 2020, because
then the world shut down.
-
So this one just makes my
heart tingle, makes me warm,
-
makes me feel warm and
happy and I really like it.
-
We have the march
monstera theme from 2020.
-
I love this theme, I
think it's really cute.
-
It's almost like really
therapeutic to make.
-
I like the color palette,
-
the leaves were, to this
day are still fun to draw.
-
It's still fun for me
to draw monstera leaves.
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Yeah, I'm gonna put swipe right as well.
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April 2020, you guys already know,
-
you guys already know.
-
I feel like I've talked
about this so many times.
-
April 2020 is a chest kiss.
-
This is the LoFi theme,
-
one of my all time favorite
themes, also very special to me,
-
because this was like around
the second month of quarantine
-
and I feel like a lot of
people were struggling
-
and people like recreated it
-
but added different things,
from their workspace,
-
which I thought was really special.
-
And it was just a very comforting theme
-
and it's crazy that we're
kind of a year from that,
-
is coming up soon.
-
So and we're still in this pandemic.
-
Moving on to May,
-
which is the Animal
Crossing flowers theme.
-
This one, I'm going to have
to say makes my heart warm.
-
I remember being so obsessed
with Animal Crossing.
-
That was another era of quarantine,
-
was just when everyone was
playing Animal Crossing
-
and it also sparked me to
create Twitch and Stream,
-
which has been such a
lovely discovery for me
-
and has been such a fun
part of the community.
-
June.
-
We have the like 50's diner theme.
-
I think this was so fun.
-
I liked,
-
I had so much fun with the doodles.
-
I think I just like this color combination
-
slash like anything retro because the
-
August one was also kind of similar.
-
And I remember using
like the checkerboard,
-
the checkerboard paper
a lot and the setups,
-
like the spreads were really fun.
-
So for me, this one's gonna
go in ultimate chef's kiss.
-
I like this one, personally.
-
Okay, July I think a lot of you guys
-
will already know that July
-
goes in, does not spark joy for me,
-
July 2020.
-
I think I even talked
about it in the setup video
-
that I was just having such difficult time
-
during this time period,
-
not only from like
quarantine and the pandemic,
-
the Panini, the panoramic if you will.
-
But also I was just going
through a creative block
-
and this is what I squeezed
out of my blocked body.
-
This creation,
-
it's still my child, so
I still appreciate it
-
and where it's gotten me, but
it does not spark joy at all
-
so we're putting it down there.
-
Next we have August,
which is the Studio Ghibli
-
Miyazaki inspired theme.
-
And I already know this one is going in
-
ultimate chef's kiss.
-
It's also a lot of your
guys' favorites as well.
-
But even just personally,
I've mentioned this before.
-
Studio Ghibli Films have been
such an inspiration to me.
-
Even growing up as a child,
it inspired me to draw
-
a lot of like anime style things,
-
which in turn made me be
more interested in art.
-
And I was really like the beginnings of me
-
as a creative human
being, a creative small.
-
It almost felt like I
was doing an homage to
-
Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki
-
and also just that part
of my artistic background
-
as a child.
-
So it was super special for me
to make and I love this one,
-
it just,
-
oh, this one gets a chef's
kiss, makes my heart warm,
-
it would swipe right, it
gets all of the above.
-
Next step, we have September
2020 impewter theme.
-
I,
-
personally I like this one.
-
I thought it was really fun to make.
-
It was also kind of like simple to make.
-
I also experimented with a
lot of different spreads.
-
I remember doing the rolling weekly a lot.
-
And I specifically remember,
-
I remember a lot of the spreads actually.
-
So I'm gonna say this
one goes in swipe right.
-
I didn't fully Forget about it,
-
probably also because it's more recent.
-
But I don't necessarily get
the warm feeling in my heart.
-
October 2020, which is like
the goosebumps Halloween theme.
-
Green neon slimy.
-
I love this.
-
It's actually,
-
it's not necessarily a favorite
on my channel from like,
-
viewer perspective.
-
But personally, I had
so much fun making this,
-
I like cut out all the
slime and use neon green
-
and it was just such a
different style of spread
-
from my previous ones.
-
And I experimented a lot
as well with the spreads,
-
there's this once weekly
set up in particular
-
that I remember, it was like Dutch door.
-
I also did a lot of Dutch
doors I think during this time.
-
So this was really fun.
-
I'm gonna put this in.
-
I'm gonna put this in...
-
I'm gonna go with chef's kiss
-
just because I was really proud of myself
-
for experimenting that much.
-
And I got inspiration from a
lot of different cool things,
-
like goosebumps and
wicked and Billie Eilish,
-
so there's always a fun one.
-
November 2020, among us
another phase in quarantine
-
when everyone was just playing among us.
-
And this one,
-
this one's a chef's kiss.
-
It's got to be a chef's kiss.
-
It's kind of iconic,
if I do say so myself,
-
I had a lot of interactive
spreads, like the,
-
I remember the one where
you slide stuff out,
-
is kind of like a pop up book.
-
And I,
-
whenever I think of this theme,
-
I just remember like playing Among Us
-
on stream with you guys
-
and also drawing your
guys' Among Us characters,
-
I did drew Among Us characters a lot.
-
I feel like I could
draw Among Us characters
-
in my sleep if I had to.
-
But just even like the
colorful aspect of it,
-
it was such a fun time
and it was so special
-
to see everyone connecting
-
with so many different types of people,
-
just through this game.
-
And besides that, the setup
itself was a lot of fun.
-
Some spreads in particular
that I remember,
-
I had started doing like
more category type spreads,
-
instead of like a full
on monthly calendar.
-
Like I had a monthly calendar,
-
but then I had different
categories for to do lists.
-
Same with like my weekly,
-
my weekly spreads as well.
-
So the categories were really nice
-
for this month in particular,
-
because I was getting really busy
-
for the 2021 doodle planner launch.
-
And then besides that,
the trackers itself,
-
those were like a game to
play in my bullet journal
-
and it was just so much
fun, it was a blast.
-
We have December 2020, which
is this vintage parcel,
-
I like to call it like
my brown paper package,
-
is tied up with string.
-
That's my December 2020 theme.
-
I liked this one.
-
I don't know whether it
necessarily makes my heart warm.
-
I think I'm gonna put it
in kinda forgot about it,
-
which is sad because I do like it.
-
I liked the aesthetic of it
-
but that's not the only
thing we're evaluating here,
-
right guys?
-
So I think I'm gonna put
kind of forgot about it.
-
We're finally in 2021 which
is not a full year yet,
-
but we have three setups to include.
-
So first up, we have the
January paper crane theme.
-
I am gonna go, if I'm being
super honest with myself,
-
I'm gonna go makes my heart warm,
-
makes my heart warm strictly
because of the backstory,
-
the backstory in honor of
the paper crane society
-
in Sindaco that I just
remember when I was a kid
-
in fourth grade, my class made 1000,
-
attempted to make 1000 paper cranes.
-
So getting inspiration
from like a past memory,
-
I feel like that's what
makes my heart warm.
-
But the setup itself, it was fun to make,
-
like the paper cranes were fun to draw,
-
but I don't know whether
it's a chef's kiss yet.
-
Maybe it deserves a chef's
kiss just for the story itself,
-
because I know what's coming up,
-
I'm going to put this one in chef's kiss.
-
So speaking of which, February 2021,
-
this is also I was on
my second YouTube break,
-
it always ends up
happening around February.
-
It was actually pretty recent.
-
I made this one on Stream.
-
It was really fun to make on Stream.
-
Like I did this completely live
-
for the first time like I
didn't actually edit it down
-
into a YouTube video.
-
So that one was Fun just
in terms of the process,
-
so it makes my heart warm.
-
And again, I was focusing on
like just making fun stuff
-
that I wanted to make.
-
So that was the candy hearts
theme from February 2021,
-
pretty chill, easy to draw.
-
It's colorful, it's bright,
-
no notes,
-
no notes.
-
If you guys watch "New Girl,"
-
you would you would
understand that reference.
-
Finally, we have this month's theme,
-
which is this host plant,
greenhouse full of leaves theme.
-
I think it reminds me
a lot of my old stuff.
-
Like even,
-
I think I even use the same like markers
-
as this September 2017 one,
now that I'm looking at it.
-
I'm not sure if it's that
chef's kiss here yet,
-
because we're still currently making it.
-
You know what, we'll put
it in chef's kiss for now.
-
Okay, so I have sorted
everything into a tier list.
-
This is what I have so far.
-
I'm going to try to see if I
-
need to shuffle anything around.
-
I'm giving myself a
chance to shuffle anything
-
if I think so.
-
I feel like there's too many
in the chef's kiss category.
-
Chef's kiss is for when
it's like truly topped tier.
-
And there's a lot up here.
-
You know what?
-
I'm gonna downgrade October 2019
-
to makes my heart warm.
-
I'm sorry, I had to do it, I had to do it.
-
They're all my children.
-
How am I supposed to pick
between my favorite children?
-
I think it's kinda nice
that there's only three
-
that really don't spark joy for for me.
-
I know this might be a controversial move,
-
I'm gonna have to put the cactus one
-
in kinda forgot about it,
-
now that I'm thinking about it.
-
If I'm choosing between
the chef's kiss ones,
-
the ones that I met about are,
-
the June,
-
like the 50's diner theme
-
and the March.
-
Just because March is most recent,
-
like I'm not finished the spread yet,
-
so we're biased right now,
'cause we're currently in that,
-
I think June should go
in makes my heart warm.
-
We're in the honeymoon
phase with March 2021
-
'cause we're currently in it.
-
I think we'll put it in
makes my heart warm for now.
-
And at the end of the month,
-
if I decide that it is
deserving of an upgrade
-
to ultimate chef's kiss,
then we will do that.
-
But for now, you know, it's
just it makes my heart warm.
-
Alright guys, so here's
the definitive tier list
-
of Amanda rigidly bullet journal setups.
-
In my opinion, the
opinion of AmandaRachLee.
-
I can actually link this
tier list down below,
-
the website is public, so
you guys are actually able
-
to rank my bullet journal setups as well.
-
I'm really curious to see
how you guys would rank it
-
and see if there's any crossover
or any differences because,
-
a lot of the criteria for, whether
-
I put something in certain categories
-
was whether it's sparking joy
-
or whether I had good
memories associated with it.
-
So obviously that will be
different for you guys.
-
So if you guys end up
doing the tier list then,
-
send me a picture on Instagram
or Twitter or something
-
because I want to see how
you guys end up ranking them.
-
Alright, I think that's it guys.
-
Have a good day.
-
Keep doodling and I will
talk to you in the next one.
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Bye, everyone.
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