Starting a Bullet Journal

I recently happened across the phenomenon known as a 'Bullet Journal'. I saw this first on Basically Innocent's blog, and instantly wanted to have one of my own. From what I've been looking at online, I would describe a Bullet Journal as...a calendar/diary/journal/to-do list all rolled into one neat notebook that you can get as creative as you want with. This is most definitely my favorite thing ever!

I started with the key - a list of symbols I would be using in my journal, and what they mean. I stuck with the original symbols suggested on the bullet journal website, as I wanted to start simple and modify once I was used to the system. Following this logic, I set up my bullet journal following the BuJo website, and got cracking...

It's been over a month, and I can say I'm a full on bujo-er, and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon!

Here's some pics of my pages, hope they inspire or intrigue you enough to check out the bullet journal system  and give it a try yourselves :)

Journal

I recently discovered this cute little journal on Amazon. A friend on Facebook posted about it, and I fell in love with it.  So of course I HAD to have it. The end.

It's a small A6 bound gold edged 5 year journal. Each page has a question at the top that you answer, and the next year you go back again and re-answer, and you can compare your answer to the previous year(s). Such a novel idea! The question are brilliant, totally random. Some are deep and meaningful, while others are silly and fun. For example 'what can you smell right now?' Which is silly at the time, but when looking back can trigger Memories you may have forgotten (smell being a strong memory jogger). This makes a really cool gift as well, something a little out of the ordinary.

I'm going to have fun with this, though I'm hoping I will be able to keep it up for the next 5 years!!