Plan With Me | FEBRUARY

Hey hey hey, everybody! It's time for another plan with me video! :D I'm excited for February because my birthday is on the 1st and I'll be 21! Also, it's me and Amelia's 13th anniversary of being friends, ON February 13th! Golden year! So this month's theme will be anchor, green, and blue themed to celebrate our friendship.

Plan With Me | FEBRUARY

I go over January in this video because it's probably one of my favorite months I've done so far and I totally spaced and didn't make a video for it. So you're kind of getting two months in one video, but you mostly see February. Also, you'll notice a bunch of washi in the thumbnail because at the end of the video I timelapse my washi tape process! Enjoy! (:

I used a lot of spreads and ideas from other bullet journalists, so here are their links!

@sunshine.and.stationery (mini calendar, washi layering)

@bujoboosted (checker life check, ultimate productivity challenge)

@blank_space_bujo (column weekly spread)

@bluelahe (running list)

@chartreuse_giraffe_bujo (post-it note memories spread)

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Overall, I'm kind of disappointed with how my February turned out. I don't hate it, but I wish I had better washi combos for this month since so many milestones will be happening. Also, I realized how redundant my weekly dashboards were after I inked them in, so March will probably look vastly different depending on if I decide I like the last week of February or not. I can definitely say that I'm going to be making a February Review + March Planning spread like I did for November and December of last year because that helped a TON for me and I'm surprised I didn't do it for January and February considering it was my first Leuchtturm experience. Also, the music in the video got messed up and I didn't catch it so you can barely hear me toward the end of the video, so sorry! :(

Oh well, bullet journaling is all about learning what works for you and making mistakes to get there! Happy February, everyone! <3

My Healing Crystal Experience + Shop Reviews

Hi all! Today I'm going to share with you my experiences with healing crystals! I'm really excited to "show and tell" in this post because I'm OBSESSED with my crystals, and it's one of the few things I actually believe in 100%, as I've seen it work wonders with myself and others! I originally was introduced to healing crystals by GentleWhispering and her second vlog channel on YouTube and I hope to have her size of a collection someday, but hopefully it'll be over time and not all at once. Crystals are expensive, sometimes!

It all started with four! My friend, Krissy, bought some and shared it on her Snapchat story and at that time I was half-and-half about healing crystals. I wasn't sure if they really worked so I didn't want to waste the money, but at the same time I was always drawn to them so it was hard for me to stay away. I've always been interested in crystals, ever since I was little. I used to write stories about them and now I'm glad it's come full circle and now I can use them efficiently! So, instead of buying the chakra set, I bought the four I thought would benefit me most. I ended up buying Citrine (which is still my favorite crystal kind to this day), Carnelian, Blue Onyx, and of course some Clear Quartz.




My friend and I got these off of Sacred Soul Stones, and just because of the person I am, I was a little nervous to see how these would come to me! I had never ordered crystals before and I didn't know what to expect. But they took care of me VERY nicely! I received my four crystals in little baggies, each with a piece of paper that explained each crystal's properties in detail. I even got a personalized letter, coupon code, and a free mesh bag of dried rose petals, which scented my room for a good few months! They're all tumbled crystals, as I'm attracted to them more and at the time natural crystals were too expensive for me to purchase.

I tried these crystals out for a few weeks and I just, overall, felt better when I used them. I accidentally missed my whole class once because I carried Carnelian (which helps with creativity, along with Citrine) and I ended up planning all of November in my bullet journal and totally lost track of time! A lot of my stones have the property to help with creativity, I'm so predictable. I remember feeling odd carrying around a crystal throughout my day because:
1) I was afraid to lose it.
2) Even though no one could see it I still felt silly carrying around a "rock."
3) I didn't know how it would affect me, and I didn't see the results at first.

Crystals truly are the kind of thing that chooses YOU. Even when I buy my crystals online I always feel pulled toward one more than another and it's crazy to wrap my head around that my own spirit is choosing which crystals come into my life, not necessarily my brain. And this might sound crazy, but if you work with crystals or have had experiences with them, you know the feeling.

After I bonded with my first four crystals, I decided to look around for other crystal sites, because I knew there had to be cheaper ones out there. Soon, I found Raven and Crone and I was happy to see their prices were about $3.00 less per crystal than Sacred Soul Stones. Another perk at Raven and Crone was that I can choose what size crystal I wanted. For example, on SSS my Blue Onyx was the same price as my Citrine and it's about half it's size. Over at RaC I can choose between extra small, small, medium, large, extra large, and sometimes larger than that! They have decently sized crystals, and a ton of options of each kind of crystal, for $2.00 and under. It's amazing but VERY dangerous for my wallet!

My order from there had 9 crystals for the same price as I paid for 4 at SSS, and they sent me a FREE CRYSTAL! The packaging was a simple small white box (I ordered mostly small or medium stones) with each of my crystals in their own tiny baggies, and in those tiny bags they had specified properties neatly typed up for me to read about. All of that information PLUS more than what you get on the little papers is found in all of the crystals' descriptions on their website. I've since gotten some crystals from my friend, Nicole, when she went to California over break, and in shops around me! (I'm secretly hoping Nicole and I can go on a crystal shopping weekend and go around to places haha).

Overall, my crystal experience has been a very positive one. Rarely, do I ever feel negative, as I tend to do a lot of the time, whenever I have a crystal with me. I keep them on my artsy table that sits at the head of my bed, and I've noticed a significant decrease in nightmares since I've started collecting more. I read somewhere that some crystals can dissipate nightmares, so I'm assuming that's what's happening! I've learned to tell my crystals their intentions and they listen to me very well. I've cleansed them a few times, but it's been a while since I've done that, so I'll probably do that this week sometime. To share something that Maria (GentleWhispering) said in one of her videos, no crystal can be harmful unless you will it to be. And as I'm experimenting with these crystals, I'm seeing more and more how they improve my life and I hope to have quite the collection someday, because it's nice to believe in something like this when the outside world can be so negative and dark.

I highly recommend healing crystals to anyone who wants to try them. And if they don't work for you, that's okay too! They're fairly inexpensive if you get smaller crystals to start out with! <3

*~* My Crystal Collection *~*

My crystal collection has grown over the last few months, so I'll share which ones I have in the best way I can, based on the above photo!

• To the far left I have a fossil whose organism turned into a crystal whenever it died (I got one for Austin and I from a state park near us and we broke ours open together), going to the right of the smaller piece, I have a Selenite sphere (local find), Natural Rose Quartz (from Nicole), Tumbled Rose Quartz (RaC), and Chrysophase (Nicole).
• Second "row" is Basalt (RaC), Tiger's Eye Red (freebie from RaC), Tiger's Eye Gold (RaC), Clear Quartz (SSS), and Carnelian (SSS).
• Two middle ones are Green Aventurine (RaC) and Tumbled Citrine (SSS)
• Third "row" I have South African Amethyst (RaC), Blue Lace Agate (RaC), Jade Nephrite (RaC), and Natural Citrine (RaC).
• The bottom two are Natural Blue Calcite (RaC) and Amazonite (from Nicole).

My First Bullet Journal! | COMPLETED

Hi everyone! I'm SO happy to finally be able to share this post with you! (: I'm officially out of my very first bullet journal, and I can't believe everything I've tried and all the people I've met because of it. I don't go over too too much in the video, but here is the link and I'll show some of my favorite spreads further down!

First Bullet Journal | FLIP THROUGH

// What I learned from this first bullet journal //

I learned a lot from this journal! I started it in June/July (I count June because I technically started in June with a cheapy $6 journal from target but it fell apart and that's when I started this journal!) and I had a TON of time because it was summer vacation and I had recently lost my job. So, I had a lot of time to plan and color in spreads and add in random pages and collections I would never use. And, once my next semester of classes started, I had a lot less time than I did in July to decorate the pages as elaborately as I wanted to, so my style changed A LOT.

In August, I actually had time to make a Plan With Me video (my very first one!) before classes kicked in. I remember being really nervous to keep bullet journaling through the semester because I was so dependent on my calendar planner for knowing what was coming up and, since I was still very new to the bullet journal system, I hadn't found my groove for within the semester at the time. August was color coded, colorful, and decorated just like July.

September is a train wreck. Homework and exams kicked in hardcore, I was trying to get everything, or as much as I could, done before I left for Michigan/Art Prize, and it was overall just a busy month. Even my mom was swamped with events and work, it was nuts! I ended up almost stopping bullet journaling altogether, and posting on my BuJo Instagram as well, but I decided to power through! I started out good in September, as I was planning on having a blue mushroom and rainbow theme (kind of like the colors of the Instagram tracker above) and I LOVED the double dashboard spread I had created, but the second one didn't even get finished before I went to full page, boring, black and white dailies.

October is probably #3 on my favorite BuJo months I've done so far! I really redeemed myself, got into hand lettering, and tried some new things! October was a key month because I found my style a bit more. I realized the dailies worked for me if they were more like thirds or half pages, I found out how to manage my time with school and planning out spreads and keeping track of everything in my bullet journal, all at the same time. Once I figured that out, I was set for the rest of the semester. October is a pretty black and white month as well, but it was a lot more filled in and organized.

November was an experimental month. I ordered my Leuchtturm in October and November was my month to try out spreads I thought I'd like to take advantage of in my next BuJo. This included dashboard, weekly, and daily experimental spreads. I loved it and wished I had done something different at the same time, even though I can't really put my finger on what I want to change. November was also the month I decided to take care of myself more, so I was regularly going to the gym, not eating out, drinking more water, and becoming more self aware with some helpful spreads! I also started journaling on my dailies regularly, like I did at the end of October.

December was the first month I really felt like I knew what I was doing. I had used sticky notes to plan it all out ahead of time, I made the planning spread above to make sure I knew what worked for me and what didn't, and I got WASHI TAPE! This was a big game changer because I wanted more color in my BuJo, but I didn't want to bleed through my pages with markers or inks. Now I'm addicted to washi. December is #2 (close 1st, but January in my new BuJo is my new top favorite) on my favorite BuJo months list.

Phew! That was a lot! It was so cringe-y to look at the beginning of this bullet journal, especially the amount of blank pages I wasted! I was so anal at the beginning with ghosting from my Microns that I washi taped pages together and left a lot of pages blank! I could easily have fit 2 or 3 more months at LEAST if I hadn't had that many blanks, which makes me curious at how many months I'll fit into my Leuchtturm. Honestly, I'm thrilled to see the improvement in my BuJo skills, and even January looks better than December! :)

Thank you all who have stuck with me since the beginning, I get inspiration from all of your wonderful planners and support! <3