#cleverfox

[that-twink-over-there]

I can’t give you a 🍕 because I’m reasonably sure you’re a gay man and I’m just an ambisextrous woman but I’ve followed you for a while and I think you’re neat so I offer this: 🧁

I will cherish this 🧁 forever 🥺

[cloverfalldesigns]

The biggest piece of advice I have for any kind of decorative journaling at all is to accept that you will make mistakes from time to time. We’re human, we’re perfectly imperfect, it will happen. However, we can still work to make things as clean as we want or just fully embrace the chaos a shaky hand and winging it will bring (I do both all the time). 

There are three things you can do with a mistake (i’m talking like you inked the wrong section or wrote somewhere you didn’t mean to). 

1. leave it and move on 

2. alter it to become part of the design in some way (I have a great example coming soon with my 2021 set up videos). 

3. cover it up with stickers or washi tape. 

They’re all fairly simple, and every time I’ve used on of these pieces I’ve loved how the page turned out - after I mourn the lost original design for a moment. 

The ideas of ‘how do I make a bullet journal’ and ‘how do i keep myself organized’ are two separate things but also very much the same. Check out Ryder Carol’s video on the original idea for the bullet journal system. You’ll see that it’s fairly simplistic and analog in style. But if you type ‘bujo’ or ‘bullet journal’ into most any platform like tumblr, Instagram, tiktok, Pinterest, you’ll get flooded with more maximalist ideas of what these pages can look like. 

The only way to find out what you’d like is to give it an earnest try. 

Personally, I find it very cathartic to set up pages and to put time into drawing something detailed, but then to leave myself wide open with space to alternate between simple check lists or more detailed weekly spreads. It’s taken me a long time to come to that conclusion, but whatever it is you want to try it’s okay! There’s no wrong way to do a bujo - it’s yours. embrace that. 

To Start A Bullet Journal

really you only need any kind of notebook you like (if you hate the notebook you won’t stick with the routine of keeping up with it, seriously. my favorite are the Clever Fox Dot Journals ) and a pen. That’s it. Seriously. 

Personally I know I love collecting washi tape and pens. Michael’s regularly has 40% off coupons that you can use on their tubes of tape to get a great deal, and Esty is FULL of cute and unique washi tapes and stickers. For 2021 I’ll even be coming out with bundles for each month do you can just tape in pretty pictures too. 

For pens and markers I recommend Crayola Super Tips. These are great to practice hand lettering with and are pretty cheap. After that go for anything from Zebra, they have fine liners, mild liners, and brush pens too. I’ve loved these for years now and they are my tried and true. 

Browse Pinterest, IG, or tumblr. Find something you like and give it a go. Don’t like it? That’s ok, now you know, and move on <3 That’s seriously the best advice out there for starting your own bujo. 

Have fun!

[fwizard]

cleverfox replied to your post: also i am. 25 tmrw and i don’t like it

I have a pet conure, which is a sort of very small, very loud parrot. When we go to bed, we must put a sheet over her enclosure to block out light. Otherwise when the sun comes up, she will shriek in joy at it. Basically like a very small tie dyed rooster. If the black out sheet is up when the sun rises, then later in the morning when we wake up and remove it, she is like “no sunrise today, the sun just happened. No need to scream today.” Her name is Noot. Try sleeping though it like Noot!

noot has somethin goin for her there i'll tell u that

[hawtchocolate]

From Volume 5 to Volume 6!!

[hawtchocolate]

How do I mark up the mini-cals in my future log, you ask? I only put Jewish holidays on the mini calendar itself, and use half-boxes to remind myself which sunset actually starts each holiday. And I put an X through each fast day so I don’t get excited thinking it’s a fun holiday and then check below and realize I can’t eat

[hawtchocolate]

I put a page at the beginning of each bujo with just space to jot down what works and doesn’t throughout, and give myself a jumping off point when designing the next journal. I didn’t fill out this last one very much, which I suppose is a good sign that I’m sitting in a happy place with bullet journaling :)

[hawtchocolate]

halfway through the month but way more than halfway through the space I thought I’d need for my gratitude log...guess I need to stop being so grateful for everything

[hawtchocolate]

Happy October!! Here’s my (blankish) monthly, with a light orange color from my Crayola Supertips pack (I think it’s the “tan” color but the individual markers did not come labelled). Since I have some extra vertical space with the 4mm dot grid in CleverFox notebooks, I added a reminder to myself to focus on in the Jewish new year.