August Setup

Hello, Butterflies

Can you believe it? August is here! It's that time again for another monthly setup. For August I went with a back to school theme.  

This month I have added in a couple of new layouts to my month, so this months layout is larger than normal. I have been working on trying to find the go-to weekly layout that I can use each month, so this month I will be changing my weekly layout each week. At the end of August, I will be posting what each weekly layout looks like and how I used them. I will be talking about what worked and what did not work for me. 

For this month set up, I will only set up one week as I will be setting up each week as they come. This way I can change what not working for me the following week.

Let's jump into August Setup...

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my August Set up and has inspired you to try some new spreads in your Traveler's Notebook or your Bullet Journal.

If you have any question please free to leave them down below, If you have any suggestions on a spread I should try for September please also leave comments, image or links to them.

As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

May Setup

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It's that time again a new month and another setup. For this month I decided to go with a rainbow theme, as I did not want to go with a flower theme as I did that theme for March.

So let's jump into May setup.

This month I am trying a new weekly layout, with this layout I have removed doing daily pages. I have left the room just in case I need daily pages. 


I hope you have enjoyed seeing my May setup if you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the commits.


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As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

Monthly Challenges Help with a Daily Routine

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Have you ever struggled with wanting to have a daily routine? or Having a daily routine and just could not stick to it?

Just to let you in on a secret, your not the only one with this problem. There are many people that have this problem. I am one of them, but no longer.

I would set down and write a list of how I want my morning routine, I know this would not happen every day the same way, but most of my days would go this way.

I was so wrong! I would not fallow the list. Until I started doing monthly planner challenges!

Yes, that is what did it for me. 

Each morning I would get up and jump into my planner to my Monthly Challenge, just to see what the day's doodle was. Will I was waking up I would think of how I want to draw the daily doodle. Get dress and then set back at my desk to draw the doodle, then go through my planner to see what I need to do for that day.

After doing this for a month I started getting up at the same time each day, Was ready for work early so that I could set down and draw. I found that I had started a routine of this each day. I was also finding I was having more time in the morning then I had before. 

I had added to my goals that I want to get better at hand lettering but was having trouble fitting in time to practices.

So the next month was coming and I need to set up my Travelers Notebook for the new month. So I added in my normal Monthly, Weekly, Daily and now my Monthly Challenge for doodling. Then it hit me there is hand lettering Challenge too. So I added a lettering Challenge to my morning routine, in the first couple of weeks I felt like I was in a rush to get my doodle and lettering Challenge done before work. 

I just need to realize that I had the time, I had rushed around for so many years before because I was always late getting up. With getting up a little earlier to do the daily doodle I had extra time to do the lettering challenge too. 

I found that I was able to add other small things in that I could to do also in the morning. Until I had that Morning Routine that I had wrote down months ago.

So, just add little things to your routine that make you happy or feel good. You will find that it's much easier to get a hold on that routine list and check it off like it was nothing.

I hope my routine story help you get a hold of your list and squash it with no problems

If you have any questions please leave them down in the commits.  

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As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

How I made my bookmarks

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Have you ever had a bookmark that falls out when you pick up your Travelers notebook? Do you get tired of when you open your TN the bookmark slides out?

Will today I would like to show you how I make my bookmarks so that they don't fall out. 


Supplies for this project:

• Laminating Pouches
• Laminator
• Scissors or Paper Cutter
• Decorative paper
• Ruler
• Pen

I first off take the Decorative paper and cut it into the shape I would like my bookmark. This would also mean cutting the tab shape at the top of the Decorative paper. You can cut the word "Today" or " This Month" that part is up to you how you want the tab to look when it is peeking out your TN.

I then open my Laminating pouch with the seam on the left side. Now it's up to you what side of the decorative paper to be the front or back. Place the decorative paper in the pouch all the way to the right, but leave enough room for them to seal closed.

Run your sheet thought the Liminator to seal closed.

Now when I am cutting the excess of the laminating sheet, I do not cut the sheet on the left side of the bookmark yet. I  measure 2 inches from the side of the bookmark paper side and mark it with a pen.

I then cut the laminating sheet on the 2 inches mark, now you have a flap of an extra laminating sheet. Bend the extra flap over but don't bend or fold the decorative paper. 

Now you can leave the flap like it is or you can cut flap to have smaller flaps. All you will need to do is to cut the center section out the flap.

So it will look like this... 

I slide these flaps into the fold of the insert binding. 

I will push the bookmark all the way to the decorative paper. The flaps will be sticking out further back in your insert. This will keep the bookmark from falling out your TN and make it easier to move at any time you need to move it.

I hope this helps you if you have the problem of your bookmark falling out.

If you have any questions please leave them down in the commits.  

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As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

Planner Update

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I want to update you on the planners I use and how I use them to get things done!

If your apart of the Facebook Group you got a sneak peek of a small part of the change I have made in my planning. 

Ok, I will stop dragging this on. So Last month was my Birthday month and my Sweet Husband got me a New Journal from Barns and Noble. It's a Leather Floral Book Cover. When I add the cover to my wish list I knew when I owned it I would be turning it into a Travelers Notebook. 

So I know own two Travelers Notebook show in the picture below.

So Now that I had two TN, What was I going to do? I did not want to stop using my First TN because it's my first and still beautiful. I want to use my new TN because I want it for months. So I sat down with a blank piece of paper and made two columns one was new floral and the other one was old floral. Going throw my old floral TN I carried eight inserts and want to lite the weight of it. 

So, why not make a work and home desk planner and my personal planner that I carry everything I need when I am out and about.

With the paper with the two columns, I wrote what  I want to keep in the work and home planner. 

Older Travelers Notebook holds:

• Bill Log
• Project Planning
• Inserts for random notes
• PlanneryButterfly Business info
• Family Password Hints & House Maintenance Log
• Weeklys &Dailys

New Travelers Notebook Holds:

• Collections 
• Monthly
• Weekly & Daily 
• Trackers & Challenges 
• Insert for random Notes

I have used both of the planners for one month and found that I have a lot of room so that I can spread out the lays that I make in each. I have also found that I am more productive with having a desk planner and having a personal planner.

Well, my story does not stop there...

My son comes to me and said that he likes using his planner but found that it was hard to use will he was in class. So I had seen a couple of YouTube videos talking about Digital planning. 

So I spent the next week looking up videos on digital planners and app that could help him with his problem. He carries his phone with him every day so why not use it.

I learned how to make the PDF  that made it looked like a real planner. So I made one but need to test it out before sending him the file. 

So then...

I added goodnotes to my Ipad and download the pdf right into it. 

Yep, I got sucked into digital planning too. I use this planner for everything. I enjoy using it and feel like I am saving a couple trees with digital planning. My son and I also like to learn new things we can do in goodnotes and show each other. 

So I am now up too three planners I use on a weekly base. 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my planner update. You can have more than one planner as long as you have your system down.

If you have any questions please leave them down in the commits.  

As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

April Setup

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Today I would like to share with you my April set up. This Month I have changed up how I have my spread laid out. This month I have also switch Travelers Notebook, I will be posting more about the new TN and also how I am using my older TN. so make sure to follow me by email so that you can get notified as soon as I post.

With that let jump into my April Setup!


This month theme is, the cloud for the April Rain, I did not want them to look like they are about to raining but how they look after they had.

This month I want to try a new calendar view. I also took the 30th and move it up to the top with not having the room for one day at the bottom.

Also, I want to have a larger monthly task list, so for this month, I have given one full page. I have also added a time log on the page to the right. I want to see where I am spending most of my time a day.

This spread was inspired by my Son. Each day my son has a goal to make me laugh until I cry. So this spread was a way that I can saver the memories of how he makes me laugh. So when I look back this pages will put a Giant Smile on my face. Just open up my TN to this spread puts a smile on my face knowing that he will make me laugh each day. 

On the right side, I have a Goals page. I am not good at completing my goals each month. So I made this page next to the "What Made Me LOL" so that I keep in mind of the goals I have set for myself, and Why I have them.

This month I have also added in a Mood Tracker, I found in the past that I would forget to fill in it in. So I am giving it another chance and decided to put it next to my Goals page.

This month I went with simple as for last month I did a lot of drawing and doodles. I feel like I took time away with drawing that I could have been working on my goals for the month. 

I have kept the full page daily this month. I find that it gives me room for To Do's, Notes or Journaling.

I have my weekly review but I had to change the look of it this month. I found that I was fighting with my self to fill in the little boxes each week because there was not enough room. So this month I open up the spread to a two-page spread, I may find that this is to much space an I can decrease the side each month to fit what I need.

I have changed up the look of my main tracker. I have the tracker divided into four sections, House Work, Each of my children habits and then my habits. At the very bottom is my sleep tracker and on the right side, I have my step counter.  I have Placed my Tracker at the end of my Insert so that I will have to flip throw the insert before I reach it. This way anything I may forget to fill in I will get it done. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing my April Setup. I hope I have inspired you to try new spreads or just add a little color to your month.


If you have any questions please leave them down in the commits.  If you have any suggestion for May' s Theme also please leave them down in the commits

As always Have a Good Day Butterflies

March SetUp

Hello, Butterflies

It's that time again another monthly layout setup. This month I am sticking with the same weekly spread and daily spread for the first couple weeks of March. 

March is my Birthday Month so I decide to be more artsy with the layouts. I have joined skillshare and found some class on how to draw florals. The class that I took was Botanical Line Drawing by Peggy Dean. She breaks it down into steps so that you can pick up if you don't draw much. 

How February Turn Out

Hello, Butterflies

Today I would like to share with you how my February Layouts Turn Out. 

This month I tried a lot of new things in my layouts. I went from having to just have weekly, to now having daily pages also. I was finding that just having the weekly spread was not working for me, I did not have enough room to put any notes for the day. I also like to Brain Dump on my daily pages, then having a page within the insert to have them.

I was finding myself holding back from filling an insert by the end of the month. So this month I gave myself more room, spread my wings for more note taken, brainstorm and a brain dump. 

For the last full week in February I went from a weekly overview to a weekly overview with an hourly setup. I want to try and hourly view within my weekly to help me with time management. Last month I did not complete as many tasks when I want to, I think that because I felt like I had all day to get my list done. When it comes to the end of the day I may get one or two task done, I was losing time thought out the day. 

I was not completing all my task for the month, which I was setting my self behind on work I need to get done for the month. I was also setting myself behind on my goals. I understand sometimes you have those kinds of weeks, but if I keep it up it will become a habit I will have to break.

I have also started to Journal daily and felt with having a full page that I would have the room that I could fill with daily task, notes, and journaling. In the past, I have not been big on journaling, but I need a place that I could talk about my day the wins I have that day and even the lose that I had and maybe how I could change it the next time.

DIY File Folder into a Folder for Your Travelers NoteBook

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Today I would like to share a DIY with you. I am always looking for a cheaper way to add things to my Travelers Notebook. Plus I like doing DIYs. There are many YouTubers that I have seen make a File folder into a T.N. Folders. They are sharing how to make a folder with a file folder with a clear coating, so I decided to see if this could be done with a plain old vanilla file folder. I also want to put to the test how long this folder would hold up in my T.N. 

I made my folder for my T.N. four months ago, and it has held up and still look like the day I made it. I am not easy with my Travelers Notebook, so for it to hold up as well as it has got a thumbs up. 

Don't get me wrong I would think that the file folder with the clear coat will last for a longer time than the plain old vanilla. So if you need a folder but don't have the time to run to the store and have just the plain vanilla folder laying around, it will work until you can get a folder you would like. 

Ok, so let jump into the Supplies you will need to make your folder.


Supplies Need: 

• File Folder
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Tape

When I measure for my folder I just removed a dashboard from my T.N. and trace around it putting the fold of the dashboard to the fold of the folder. 

I cut down the longest part of the folder, removing the side with the tab. Leaving the marked part that below the trace dashboard. 

With the line across at the bottom, I drew a thin triangle to the bottom of the folder. The line across will be where you fold the folder up to make the pocket in your folder. The thin triangle is where you will cut out so that it will make it easier to put papers in. 

So when you fold the bottom flaps up this what it will look like. Now its time to tap the side of your pockets to the large panels.

Now you have a folder for you're T.N.! I took it a step further and round the corners of the folder and where the folder folds so that I had a place for my elastic to set. 

I also did the middle fold think that the elastic would not pull as much on the fold and rip it. 

If you have any suggestions for a DIY  you like me to try please leave a commit below.

If you have any questions leave them below in the commits. 

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Thank you for stopping by

As Always Have A Good Day Butterflies, See You Soon.