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And we’re halfway through summer already. With the kids home from school, things have been busy, to say the least. Between that and moving, July went by in the blink of an eye. So I found myself panicking over what my August bullet journal theme was going to be. Naturally, I asked the only people around, my kids. This is what you end up with when your kids choose the bujo theme.
When I asked my girls what my theme should be I was really just musing to myself. But as soon as I said it out loud, I realized that I couldn’t just discard their ideas after asking for them, that wouldn’t be nice at all.
So my oldest wanted me to do emojis and my youngest wanted me to do food or summer treats… so as a mom how do I blend these together?
Shopkins.
Yes, you heard that right. My theme for August is the Australian collectible toys based on grocery store purchases.
And it’s surprisingly fun.
Planning it out
Last month was busy. And this month might be busier.
I was so happy to have gotten to spend pretty much an entire week just unpacking and making our new place feel like home. But since I did that, some of my work got neglected.
I had huge plans for August including quite a few back to school posts and a video or two. With my move, some of those plans got put on the back burner. But this week I’ve been doing my best to complete the projects that I had started so that I can get them out to you!
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August priorities for my spreads
I wanted to have simple layouts that would maximize my space.
A blog planning page that I would use.
Keep the fun, summer feel of my July theme.
What worked well last month
The condensed chores and gratitude page has been working well for me.
Having two task boxes, one for moving and the other for more regular tasks was awesome and I got a ton of use out of them.
What needed to change
My calendar was cute but it wasn’t that functional. I’ll be moving back to my Ryder calendar for this month.
I also noticed that I totally got out of my good eating and fitness habits over the past 6 weeks in the hustle and bustle. With this in mind, I wanted to start having some more bujo accountability.
The Spreads
This month, my theme is really simple and super fun. Who doesn’t like cute food?
Shopkins seemed like such a silly idea but after I started to draw them out with my daughters, we had a blast.
Calendar
I kept all my spreads pretty minimal in terms of the decoration. I wanted them to be easy to draw and simple in colour scheme.
For my calendar page, I drew a large pineapple with sunglasses on the right and then did a large simple Ryder calendar on the left.
I even got a bit traditional and wrote “hello August” at the top along with a mini calendar that would give me the layout of the month a bit more visually.
This month, on the mini calendar, I got back to my roots (finally) and circled dates that I have things happening. It gives me an idea of when I’m busy and when I’m not.
The green Monday lines also break up the page nicely.
Gratitude and Chores
Like I said, I’ve been liking having my chores and gratitude on the same page. It saves space and if I’m terrible with my trackers then at least I don’t have a ton of blank space.
I’ll be needing to come up with a bit of a different chores line up since my house needs different things than the last. But those will be minor and doesn’t change my set up.
I’m going to keep this light green as my accent colour through the month since I’m loving the way it looks. So I just used it to underline my headings and added some little emphasis marks for fun.
This little lollipop is my youngest’s favourite so I drew her in early.
Blog Planning
Last month my blog content really slowed down. I had been on a bit of a roll previously, dabbling in some new things and getting ready to try out more new ideas.
Super exciting.
But with a wrench in the timeline, this month is going to be about returning to form.
Getting back to my regular content schedule shouldn’t be too much of a problem but building towards my larger goals is going to require some momentum.
It’s time to get started.
First weekly
I had really been liking elements for the last few layouts that I had been playing around with. I liked the smaller daily boxes and the double task box. This first spread is similar to the one from my last week of June (check it out here).
The only thing I wanted to make sure I added was my workout accountability. With this in mind, I made two rows at the bottom of the right page. One for the weather and the other for my workouts.
We lost our gym fob in the move so we have to go and replace it but after that’s done I should be able to get back on the horse.
In the meantime, I’m going to try and do some routines at home. Last night I did some yoga and it was great. I didn’t realize how tense I had been until I did it.
I have a specific blog task box in this weekly spread as well.
My hope is that by having an emphasis on it like this, it will be easier to focus on.
Do you have any tricks you use to make sure you remember something in your bujo?
Let me know in the comments below!
