September Setup!

Hello Butterflies,

It's that time again SETUP! Can you believe it September is here!


Before I get into how I set up September, I would like to update you. Right now I am back into my Traveler's Notebook, it no longer houses my leuchtturm1917. I have started making my own inserts to place in my A5 Traveler's Notebook. The reason I have removed my L1917 from my Travelers Notebook is that my L1917 is almost full, and I would have to copy my collections, business notes and some other things to a new L1917. So going to Travelers Notebook inserts I can keep them in their own booklet. I will only have to replace the Insert that I will be using for my Monthly, Weekly and Daily Spreads.

A Lot of New Changes for the Month of September!

My Travelers Notebook houses 6 inserts and cut down composition. I will be sharing with you what categories I have in each of the 6 inserts. So let's go ahead and jump into September Setup.

My First Insert is my Collections. 

1. Birthday's
2. Holiday's
3. Zone Cleaning 
4. Family Sizes
5. Family Wish Lis

I set this insert up like I had in the past in my L1917.

My Second Insert is PlannerButterfly

1. Blog Tracker
2. Website Notes
3. Blog Post Ideas
4. Project Plans
5. Editorial Calendar

These are some new things I have added, I did not add these to my L1917 as I was getting close to filling the book.

 For my Third Insert is my Goals

For My Monthly Goal spread, I made 3 columns Goals, Achieve and Hindered. I also made 5 rolls for the week in the month that way I can go back and do a review each week, at the end of the month can do a monthly review all on one spread.

The page is my weekly and monthly review.This layout is more for project and tasks that I want to complete each week.

 The next couple of pages are trackers, with my kids going back to school there is more for me to track like Self Care, Chores, School stuff and Electronics Time. So Each Child has got their own page.

For my self  I also have it broke up into sections, Personal Care, House work, Work, Sleep, and Steps. 

This is all I have in this insert.

The fourth Insert is my Projects. This booklet houses my Someday / Maybe list, House Projects, Personal Projects and Brain Dumps.

 The fifth is Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Insert. I have added the daily planning in and removed my weekly for now. I am not sure if this will work for me but want to try it out to see how it goes. I have enough room in this insert that I could have all three like I said before this insert I can see being the most replaced out of the 6.

With having more space in this insert I want to try Boho Berry daily spread. If you would like to see how she has her daily please click her name.

 The sixth insert is Personal. This insert hold my pen test, marker test, how I have color coded my Crayola Super Tips and Washi tape samples.

The Composition book is for a random note and grocery list.

As always I hope you enjoyed seeing how I set up September. 

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave your questions down in the comments box below. 

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

What Supplies Do You Use To Plan With?

Hello Butterflies,

So what supplies do you use to plan with? 

What I use on a daily basis is my go to pen my Pilot G2. When I am setting up my spreads for a new month I will use so much more. 

When I am color coding a Tasks I will use my Staedtler Finliners, I love using them the colors are bright and help tasks stand out. 

 When starting a new spread I will draw it up in pencil first, then use my Black Staedtler Finliner to go over any lines that I want permanent. 

I use my Crayola SuperTips for any titles or header colors. With having a 50 pack of them sometimes it's hard to choose a color for a spread.

I will also use my Tombows for writing headers and color in area's to add pops of colors to a spread. I will also use them to write titles in calligraphy with the brush tip side.

Sometimes I will use Gel Pens that I bought from Target Dollar Spot. They don't have a name but they write very smooth without skipping.

To add background colors to a title that I just want a hint of color I use Crayola Twistables. Which is a crayon in pencil form.

When it comes to rules I have many kinds, steel ruler, a clear sewing ruler, and a small plastic planner ruler. When it comes to using them I prefer to use the clear rulers to be able to see lines that were already put down to space equally. 

So what do you use to plan with?  

Please Share down below what you use as I am always looking to try new items.

Please join us on the facebook group as well to share what you use.
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As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

How and Why I Removed My BuJo from the Hard Cover

Hello Butterflies,

Today I want to talk to you about How and Why I removed my BuJo from the card cover.

Let's start with the Why! 

Going to give a little history for the why. When I started using a planner I started with a Traveler's Notebook and printed inserts. As I was looking around for different styles of inserts for my TN, I ran across information about Bullet Journal. 

I fell in love with the concept of the Bullet Journal. As I was looking around for more information about Bullet Journals I watch a ton of YouTube video's and see that a lot of them was using the Leuchtturm1917 Notebook due to the paper quality. 

So, I order my L1917 , when it comes in I set it up and used it for months. Love it, paper quality is very good, but was missing my TN.  So, how could I combine the two?  Why don't I remove the hard cover and put it in my TN! 

Now it's How!

When I open my L1917 that there is a thicker page in the front and back. So I cut with Exacto between the thick front page and the index page. Flip to the back cutting between the thick back page and the pocket. I removed the cover from the paper, but want to cover the glue and support the spin. Washi tape for the win! I ran three strips of washi tape down the spine of the paper to make sure that it will be flexible and keep the paper together.

You are probably asking your self why didn't go for the soft cover?

I went with the hard cover L1917, because of the more pages in the notebook.

It set nicely in my Traveler's Notebook and if I need to take it out, I still can. So, if you find yourself need to use two different type of planners Join them together.

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

How I set up my 3 Ring Binder

Hello Butterflies,

Today I want to share with you how I setup my 3 ring binder. I decided that we need to have a family desk top planner, with school starting up and life is going to get really busy.  So, I hopped in the car and head out for some supplies I need to make the planner. Stopping by Target to check out the dollar spot I found a mini 3 ring binder for $3.00 and head to Office Depot for a ream of paper. 

I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write down what sections we want to keep in the binder. I end up with 7 section on the sheet of paper, Future Log, Social Media, Planning, Kids, Personal, Notes, and Brain Dump. 

Now that I had the section we needed in the planner it was time to add what we need in each section. 

Future Log:

Future Log

Holidays

Birthdays

Social Media:

Editorial Calendar

Milestones

Social Media Cheat Sheet 

Social Media Note/ Brain Dump

Planning:                     Kids:                                Personal:                      

Monthly View                 Tracker                             Weekly Review

Weekly View                   Books Due List                Monthly Goals

Daily View                       School Stuff Notes          Tracker

Daily To Do's List          Wish List                           Bill Log

Daily Hourly                   Password Log                   Expense Log

                                                                     Personal Passwords 

Note:                            Brain Dump:

House                             Home Project

Business                         Family Activities

                                         Project

I know this semis like a lot for a mini planner. 

This planner is Bullet Journal style with some Inserts. The  Inserts that I am using are the ones I made and will be putting up in PlanneryButterfly  Insert Library for free download. 

Please keep an eye out for the PlanneryButterfly Library in the next couple of days!

When you set down to set up any planner, make a list of sections. Then what you want in each section. Don't panic if it does not work for you, in the beginning, you can always change it up or move things around to make it work for you.

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

August Setup

It's August Bullet Journal Setup!

Hello Butterflies,

It's that time again, time to set up a new month in my Bullet Journal. This month I decided to go with a theme for the month. If you read Tuesday Post you would have gotten a sneak peek of August set up a theme. Yes, it's a rose theme!

I have removed some of my layouts for the month of August. The reason I decided to remove them is that my children will be going back to school and I know that the month is going to be busy. The layouts I have to keep in for this month is the calendar, monthly goals, weekly review, family tracker, and my weekly's. I have removed my one-line a day spread, changed goals spread from 2 pages to just one page, change my tracker to only track sleep and steps, and just change the look of my weekly's.

With all the changes in this month, I have also added the images of the rose through out this month to keep the theme going on. I am new to having a theme each month because I feel like I can't draw well. If you like to know how I over come to this problem, please check out I Can't Draw, But Want My Layout to Look Like I Can!

Will onto the Pictures of August Spreads:

I hope you enjoyed seeing my monthly layout and it gave you the inspiration to try something new in your Bullet Journal. 

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

I Can't Draw, But Want My Layout to Look Like I Can !

It's That Time! August Bullet Journal Set Up.

Rose is the theme for this month. What if you can't draw roses? 

Hello Butterflies,

Today I will share with you how I got this look but can't draw roses. If you have any adult coloring books laying around you can use it for a theme that you want.

You are probably saying to yourself " What ".  Yes, I said Adult Coloring Book!

I have a couple of coloring books laying around and thought to myself why can't I draw like that. So started flipping through and found a page that had images of roses that I liked.  So, I went ahead and drew up my monthly view of August. Think how can I add these flowers to my layout?

Why Not Trace Them!

With using a Leuchturm 1917 Journal I can place the coloring page under it and see the out lining of the picture, as coloring pages have a dark out line to the images.

I place the page under the monthly view and started thinking how I want to lay the rose around my calendar.  I got out my trusty pencil and started tracing the flowers on to the page as I vision them.  Then went through with my Sharpie Pen and went over each line for each flower.

This took me a couple hours to do, but I only worked on it when I had time to. So, I may only set down for 5 to 10 minutes at a time to work on it. This way I was not overwhelmed with the process. I normally don't beautify my Bullet Journal but want to try some thing different.


I hope this may help you with the problem that  I have with I can't draw some images that I want in my Bullet Journal.

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

I am Back, Plan with Me July

Hello Butterflies,

I know it’s been some time from the last time I have posted. Life had gotten busy around my house with my kids were out of school for the summer. I am back and have missed you all.

Updated what I am now using to plan in.  I am still using the Bullet Journal method, but I do it in a homemade Traveler’s Notebook A5 size.  I use the Leuchtturm1917 notebook and 2 other A5 size note books that I have removed the hard cover and placed on my Traveler’s Notebook Cover. I use one notebook to write notes, brain dumps and plan how to do my weekly layouts. My second notebook 1917 I use for my monthly overviews, goals each month, tracking habits, weekly views, and my daily to do’s. My third and last notebook I keep my yearly bill tracking, Vacation saving plan, Content lists, my project plan list, and the action steps. Coming soon I will be posting how I removed the hard covers and place them in my traveler’s notebook, so if this something interested in seeing how I did this please feel free to subscribe.

Coming soon in the next couple of weeks PlanneryButterfly will be opening a Facebook Group, I will also be updating the look of the website, and posting on Instagram Bullet Journal Layouts. With all that out the way let’s get to the July plan with me.

For the month of July, I decided to go with a red, white and blue theme. I have changed how I did my monthly view this month and went with and calendar view with a monthly to do’s list on the right side.

New to my layouts is a Weekly Review. I used this last month and found that help me with my monthly goals staying on track and writing what hindered me from reaching my goal for the week. I have four questions I ask myself and the end of each week,

·       What did I achieve this week?

·       What helped me achieve this?

·       What hindered my progress?

·       What will I be changing next week?

I have always had a goals page to my monthly layouts, but found that I would not go back and look at them. So, have decided to break them up in to daily, weekly and monthly to do’s.  I have goals broke down into four categories Personal care, Family, Home, and Business.

I have also added one line a day and removed one doodle a day. I may go back to one doodle a day, but with such a busy month I am going to try and stick to one line a day. The last time I tried this spread I did not stick to it and found half way through the month I would not fill it in.

I have also changed up the look of my monthly habit trackers. I have switched to the vertical habit tracker so that when I am filling them in each night that I do not have to turn the book. I have found with this lay out that I can keep all my trackers on two pages. Before I would have three pages of a tracker and found that I was only filling out two of the three trackers. I track my children chores and self-care, for me I track self-care, cleaning, work outs and walking. I also track my step per day and sleeping.

    

This is my weekly and daily layout. On the left side are my weekly overview and weather tracking. On the right side is my daily to do’s. I have the daily side due to the fact I do not have enough room for on my weekly for all me to do’s. On the second page Sunday box, and movie box, note box, next week box and a weekly water and step tracker.

Thank you for planning with me for the month July. You can see this month I am trying a lot of new things in my bullet journal to try and keep it simple.

 Hope to see you next Sunday with an update how this month is working for me, and also for information on the Facebook group and Instagram.

As always have a good day Butterflies, see you soon.

How I Bullet Journal in a Binder.

Today I am going to talk about bullet journal in a 3ring binder. When I started looking into bullet journal I did not have any blank notes book laying around with two kids going to school. So, I decided to print out dot grid paper and place it in my mini 3ring binder to try out the bullet journaling. I still care the basic idea of bullet journaling in my binder but add in some dividers into the mix.

I have four section in my binder…

1 Calendar

2 Collection

3 Tracker

4 Daily

Calendar Section:

In my calendar section, I had the year of calendars printed out so I continue to use these printables for my future planning. I also have holidays and birthday marked on them. This section is pretty simple and direct. In this month, I am started to add color coding into them for the different members of my family. I also note any work appointment’s or deadlines for work.

Collection Section:

In this section, I have many different items. Here are the collections I have in this section:

1 T.V. Show watch and Time they come on.

2 Movies I want to See and Movies the Family want to see

3 Books I want to read

4 Monthly Cleaning list

5 Each Person in My Family Their Sizes

6 Each Person in My Family Wishes List

7 Password Log for Work

8 Password Log for each child

9 Password Log for my Personal use

This section keeps a lot of information for me and my family. I do want to say that this binder does not leave my house. I keep at home so that anyone in the family can use it.

Tracker Section:

This section I track many things in it. Each Sunday in my house whole we have family meetings and we talk about the different trackers for the family. With using the tracker’s, we can see what we are doing with no problems and what we need to do more consistently. I find with bullet journaling I have become a more positive person about life and I would like to help my family do the same.  I know this sounds like I am micromanaging my family, but I am not. With our family meeting, we ask what each of want to improve on and add to the tracker. So, my children choose what they want to add and take away from the tracker, the only rule we have is they must try anything they add for at least 2 weeks before removing it from the tracker. 

Here are what kinds of takers in this section:

1 Habit Tracker

2 Mood Tracker

3 Minstrel Tracker

4 Gratitude Tacker for Myself

5 Bill Tracker

6 Weigh in Tracker Log Myself

7 Walking Log

Daily Section:

In this section I track weather for each day, water intake for the day along with me to do’s list. I will write in any future dates of appointments or due dates, I will also color code these for the family member it’s for. Then I will go to my calendar and put a dot of the color and page number of when I wrote it in the daily. If you have heard of a calendex it’s the same concept. Some months I will go back to just writing the events in. I am trying to stick to the calendex style so that my monthly calendar can be easily viewed.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email or leave your questions below.

Have a Good Day and Plan on PlanneryButterfly

What System am I using?

Over the past 6 weeks I have talked about 6 different planning systems, so today I will be talking about what system I use and what I use it in.

So, when I started out on my planning journey, I looked up a lot of information on what housed your planner to what you can have inside one.  After doing this for a month or so I felt like I should start out in a ring binding system. This way I could customize the inside with the planner inserts I felt I need. So, I went to my local Target store and bought a mini binder. When I got home I went to Pinterest a found free printables and started printing the inserts that though I need.  That was the start and I was hooked at planning my life. So, over the next year, I have tried many inserts, I got to the point I started making my own inserts in Word. I thought I found planner peace at this point. I was wrong I started watching videos on YouTube and found others making their inserts every eye pleasing, I want to do the same.

 So again, I went on the hunt for planner peace. Will on the hunt I found the world of traveler’s note book. I was not sure that this system would work, but want to try it out. Not wanting to drop $90 dollars on something I was not sure was going to work for me, I decided to make my traveler’s note book. I made my traveler’s notebook from cloth for a cheaper alternative to making it out of leather. I have large hand writing so I knew I wanted a large one. So, I went with the size of a wide traveler’s notebook.  Started making my inserts again, figuring out how to make the inserts that worked for me in the binder.

For some time, this worked for me but again could not make them as eye pleasing as I found on YouTube. So, again went on the hunt for a system that allowed me to plan and make it eye pleasing.

Now that you have my back story of my journey for planner peace. I found that Bullet Journal is the system that gives me planner peace. I can bullet journal in my 3-ring binder and also use it in my traveler’s notebook.

This way I can make it eye pleasing and also have a functional planning system.  Bullet Journaling is a forgiving planning system that works very well for me.  I can plan my House, Work and Personal Task in it without giving my attention just to one category. I can equally share my attention between the 3 categories’.

I just want to share with you all the way I plan and what system I feel most comfortable with for my planning.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email or leave your questions below.

Have a Good Day and Plan on PlanneryButterfly.