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There’s a new blog post up on my website all abo There’s a new blog post up on my website all about using Weekly and Daily logs and whether we need both at once. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which of the core spreads are actually essential for our Bullet Journal. I don’t necessarily think all of them are and it depends a lot on your own unique needs and planning style 📕 For the past few months I’ve been using a monthly and daily log and not bothering with weeklies. I haven’t enjoyed too much structure so a weekly log allows me more planning flexibility. However now that I have some super awesome WORKSHOPS (hint hint link in my bio) on their way I need to be a lot more organised so I’ve added a weekly overview page to give my planning a little more structure while retaining some freedom with my days 🤔 I’ve switched back and forth a lot with my planning style in my Bullet Journal because different phases of my life have demanded different things from my planner. When our lifestyle changes so much our structures and planning methods. Take a look at the blog post to figure out whether a daily or weekly log is more suited to you AND remember that I’m running three workshops next week for beginners to get into bullet journaling with time for you to ask questions and talk about how a Bullet Journal will work for YOU. Check out my Highlight ‘Workshop’ for more info or click the link in my bio to find more information and to read the latest blog post! 😁
Big thing alert!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I’m running onli Big thing alert!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I’m running online Bullet Journaling Workshops for beginners starting NEXT WEEK! I have three sessions set up that are going to be run on Zoom - so you can take part wherever you are in the country (or even in the world!) Tuesday 26/05 at 12pm - 1pm Wednesday 27/05 at 8pm - 9pm Saturday 30/05 at 10am - 11am (all times are BST) ⏰ LINK IN BIO TO BOOK 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 These workshops are for beginners to Bullet Journaling who are intrigued by the system but don’t quite yet understand how they can use it to suit their goals and tasks. It’s a more personal interactive introduction to Bullet Journaling than sitting watching youtube videos and reading blog posts. You’ll also get a copy of my PDF book Bujo Basics and a reference sheet to familiarise yourself with the basic concepts 📕 HOW IS IT STRUCTURED? For the first part of the workshop I’ll be doing a demo of how Bullet Journaling works in practice and how we use the spreads together to organise our lives. Then I’m leaving plenty of time for you to ask all of your questions - no matter how ‘stupid’ you might think they are!!! Sometimes it can take a little while for us to figure out the Bullet Journaling system so I’m here to help you do that and give you ideas and suggestions that will help you get started on your journey. I’ll be using Zoom so you can get involved but if you’re not comfortable being on camera you’re very welcome to use the chat feature to interact 💬 HOW MUCH? 💰 General price is £8 but I have 5 early bird tickets in each session that are £6 AND if you’re a subscriber to my newsletter you’ll have received an email that gives you another £2 off so you get 50% off in total! So if you subscribed before now - check your inbox! I’ll be talking about these a lot this week so any questions please feel free to comment or send me a DM! And if you book on it means a lot so thanks so much I can’t wait to see you in a workshop!!! 😁😁😁
There’s a new blog post up all about building a There’s a new blog post up all about building a sustainable Morning Routine! For me the ‘perfect’ morning routine is just not possible right now. I’m not sleeping well, I’m waking up at weird times and generally the mornings are just tough! 😴 If I try and hold myself to a perfect morning routine where I wake up at 6am, spring out of bed then get straight out of the house for a morning run after only an ice cold glass of water - well it’s not gonna bloody happen is it! I’m just gonna wake up feeling guilty every day instead. And for me guilt is completely counterproductive to productivity! 👎🏼 Instead I’m trying to be more realistic of what my body and my mind is capable of during these weird mornings. And if I don’t manage to ‘complete’ my morning routine fully that’s all good. It doesn’t mean the rest of my day is going to be crap and I definitely don’t want to let my ‘morning guilt’ ruin a perfectly good day 🌞 How are you coping in the mornings at the moment? Do you consider yourself to be a morning person (I used to - HAHAHA)? 😂 Also remember to go read that blog post to find out more about my sustainable morning routine - link in the bio it will take you to my shiny new landing page! 🙌🏼
It’s another week! How are we all doing? I’m f It’s another week! How are we all doing? I’m finding the mornings incredibly difficult at the moment. I like them once I’ve got going but the ‘getting going’ has been so hard recently. I don’t really have a proper job where I need to be up at a certain time to work nor do I have anything else to really get me up apart from my own motivation. And in the mornings I have to really dig deep to find it when my bed is so cosy and I can stay asleep and blissfully ignorant of all these restrictions and uncertainty! 😴 I did this page in my journal last week when I incredibly got out of bed just before 8am and sat down and just created this first thing. It was definitely a more productive day and I do know that when I just get started straight away with things I’m usually due a more productive brighter day 🌞 Hopefully this nice page in my journal will help me remember that I can get up and going a little faster and it will usually do wonders for my mood! ✨ Have you had to try and motivate yourself to get up and going in the mornings How have you found it? I have a new blog post coming on Wednesday all about building a sustainable morning routine so look out for it! Swipe along for the video and another cute pic of this spread ➡️
Happy Bank Holiday Weekend! 🌞 I hope the sun is Happy Bank Holiday Weekend! 🌞 I hope the sun is shining where you are and I hope you’re able to enjoy it even a little bit! Yesterday I had a lovely walk with my mum and then in the afternoon after seeing a few chalk pictures on the roads on our way back I had a little idea… this was the result! 🥳 Four hours later, after inhaling a lot of road and chalk dust, grazing my fingers and getting friction burn from tiny stubby pastels my creation was complete! Yes I’m a bit more sunburned now but I think it was worth it. My last chalk creation (which is still visible!) was done in the privacy of our back garden but I decided to be brave and do this one right at the front next to the road for all to see! It was a bit scary before I started. The thought of ‘exposing’ myself at the front of the house and creating something I didn’t really have a proper plan for and I bet some people were wondering what the hell I was doing as an ‘adult’ getting filthy on the driveway and drawing a rainbow but a lot of the people that passed were really lovely and some even stopped to chat. Sometimes it’s hard not to um and ah over whether we should dive in and do something creative and a little bit scary. It isn’t always easy to just go for it, we worry about what other people might think of us and it’s hard not to worry that your creative efforts might be judged by others. But sometimes if we can let those thoughts go then lovely colourful magical things might happen that might even brighten up someone else’s day 🌈
I feel like I’ve been a little quieter on Instag I feel like I’ve been a little quieter on Instagram this week and part of me is telling myself I need to pop up more and be more active but I don’t want to force it. When that happens I often fall out with Instagram and disappear for weeks. But hello I am still here 👋🏼 blog post is up very soon on my favourite online classes Bullet Journaling so check it out (link in bio) and have a look at my new Instagram landing page! 👀 But my silence doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on Stationery Magpie. In fact there is a lot going on behind the scenes. I spent last week sorting out a lot of the little technical issues and design flaws on my website and now that National Stationery Week is over I’m putting my energy into some big new exciting projects ✨ I have a tendency to dive in head first but I’m trying to be a little more methodical in the way I approach things, namely the marketing. I’ve been making a lot of pages similar to this one for my notes. It might not really be that necessary to make your note pages pretty but I often find it helps me to focus my attention and think carefully about what I’m writing down. If my notes look neat I’m more likely to go back and look at them as well. Big shout out to Milly from @blinklettering whose incredible workbook has done wonders for my brush lettering. I’m taking every possible opportunity to add brush lettering into my life like on these notes! 😍
[workbook gifted] Yesterday was the last day of th [workbook gifted] Yesterday was the last day of the Better Brush Letters challenge by Milly of @blinklettering and I LOVED IT! 😍 look at my letters now! I’ve never actually consistently practiced my hand lettering until this challenge, I’ve just muddled along and tried a couple of tutorials but the difference that consistent practice makes has really shown! I decided to try the Better Brush Letters after doing a workshop with Milly (which was when she gifted me the workbook - not in exchange for this post I just genuinely really think it’s fab and you should try it!). I definitely recommend her workbook which is available to buy on her website go to @blinklettering to find it I love it so much I’ve featured it as my favourite resource for brush lettering in my new blog post on my Favourite Hand Lettering Tools! (Not sponsored just really like it!) Link is in my bio - go have a look as I’ve spent most of my day today jazzing up my website! See if you can spot the differences 👀 Did you take part in Better Brush Letters? Tag me in your progress and let me know how you found it 😃
A lot of people are feeling a lot of pressure righ A lot of people are feeling a lot of pressure right now in many different ways. One of those ways is this pressure to use our time to be ‘creative’, pick up new hobbies, paint a masterpiece, learn an entire new language or write a book. Well this creative pressure is all too much. So too is the pressure on us to feel like our creative efforts aren’t worthy because they are ‘not good enough’ 😕 I know a lot of wonderful creative people who will enjoy the process of creating but the finished piece isn’t ‘good enough’ or ‘worthy’ of the time it took to create it because there’s maybe something they don’t quite think is professional enough about it. WELL I SAY ENOUGH! We need to be kind right now, to others, to ourselves and to our own spurts of creativity. No matter what the end result, creating is important. The process of creativity is a medicine and it shouldn’t be just about the end result. We shouldn’t be comparing ourselves hopelessly to others. Our creativity is individually ours and if we never let it out to play without fear of judgement and imperfection we can never let it develop and evolve into something that we can love and be proud of 🥰 A few years ago I very rarely gave myself the opportunity to be freely creative. I just didn’t seek it out. When I did start to dip my toes in the pool of creative magic what do you know… real magical things started to happen, and I was so proud of the things I’d created I felt like I was glowing with creative energy ✨✨✨ So today I decided to do just that and give myself an hour in the sun to be creative with some chalk and some vague ideas. I honestly didn’t know exactly what I was going to end up creating but I trusted that it would probably end up looking alright and even if it didn’t why not let myself indulge in an hour of creation. And what did you know my creativity did its thing and I’m pretty happy with how this came out 🌞 Why not try some chalk art yourself? You never know what you might end up creating 🌈