I know its a little late in the month to talk about my planner set-up but with the long weekend and my impending trip to Portland for the PNW Pen Show, things have been a little topsy turvy. This month, I built another mermaid theme for the Patrons and myself. I feel like no…
It’s July already and we are halfway through 2026. So, I thought it would be a good time to stop and evaluate my current journal/planner/notebook set-up in an official Techo Kaigi (stationery meeting). I started the year with a B6 Aura Estelle Daily (5053), a Mark’s EDiT B7 semi, a Creeping Moon B6 Tarot Journal,…
For a few months now I have pledged to re-dedicate myself to journaling without any real direction. So I decided that for July I’m going to structure things a bit differently. I keep seeing Instagram challenges with 31-days of prompts so I went looking to see if there was one for journaling. And wouldn’t you…
Ana’s post about re-devoting herself to journaling made me want to take a look at my practice this year. This year I have been using three primary journals: For my daily planner, I use the Effin’ Birds planner. This is my third year using it and it just meets all my needs really well. For…
(Editor’s Note: I tend to use the terms of planning and journaling interchangeably since I write what I do, what I need to do and what I want to do whether I am writing bullet points or long form writing.) All of us have moments where we hit a mental roadblock in our planning and…
Planner Peace. Do those words make you anxious or calm? Up until March, I had planner peace. I’ve stuck with my franken-bullet journal for 4 years now. It took me many years to figure out a system that worked for me. I have a stack of used A5 Breeze TRP68 notebooks from Taroko Stationery archived.…
For April, I needed to reboot my set-up after a less-than-stellar March. I fell off the planner wagon for a couple weeks in March so my planner has some blank pages. I’m not switching planners, I am just turning the page and going to keep going. Those blank pages tell their own story about how…
