Hey Cool Cat! You are this month's winner of the Notebook! Let me know which one you want and send me an email at sarra@heartbreathings.com with your full name and mailing address! Congrats!!
My best friend and I were looking at Disney the other day. I think it's great that you all are going on vacation! If anyone has the opportunity to get out and have fun, they should. We can't let this pandemic control everything we do; that's living in fear.
I am finding it hard to finish a notebook per month for multiple reasons. Lately, I've just felt so tired and unmotivated to write which is very scary since I'm seriously considering becoming an author and trying to publish and book. I want to start fresh this September and trying writing my thoughts down because starting school again is being very stressful, especially since it's now all online. I feel like writing my thoughts down will help lead to being creative with my novel again. That being said I absolutely love the "It's just a Phase" notebook, lol. I absolutely love galaxy and nebula themed stuff. I recently got some galaxy-themed pens to use for my planners and journaling. Glad to see you were able to re-record this. I hope it wasn't to much trouble. I hope you have a nice day!
Glad you were able to re-record. That is such a horrible feeling when files are corrupted. I wish we had Michaels here. That cat notebook is adorable. Am I the only one who feels like September feels like a new year type new beginning?
For me September is Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year. A new beginning. I am looking forward to seeing where the year 5781 on the Jewish calendar takes me.
Thanks for the re-record! Another great month of useful, fun content and notebooks, pens, books! I too find it hard to finish a notebook a month, so I love your idea of morning pages and finding a notebook to fit that plan. I may join you on that in September. And for notebook I would pick, you decide that are all super duper cute!
These videos motivate me so much! And I love the addition of the book suggestions/reviews. My TBR pile keeps growing and growing! As always, thank you for the amazing content.
Love these videos... I tried morning pages many years back. Found it difficult to fill three 8x11 pages, and have since told myself that the amount doesn’t matter, just the practice. I always loved Julia Cameron’s three steps of pages, artist’s dates and walks. They really help jog the creative brain back into action. And I love the cats notebook 😊
I've found myself writing less. So, I decided to just write small notes to myself and others in my journals, and drawing more. I may not fill my journals in a month, but I'm still being productive [taking small steps]. Hope your September is peaceful, fun and blessed. Thank you for all the videos.
I love your videos. I love notebooks and want to be better at using them too. I am going through a rough spot right now physically and I want to use a notebook to bring me joy.
Omg me and my mom just watched all the marvel universe last month! My heart is broken over Chadwick Bozeman as well. He was definitely my favorite character!
Glad you managed to get some time to re-record this video! It sounds like this approach is a very realistic one for you; especially with all that you're juggling i hope this takes some more pressure off!
I have long term journals (Life time reading list, Cooking journal) and short term journals that are meant as kind of "Common Book". Usually they're Composition books that I use to avoid perfection paralysis. When I'm done with them I transfer some what's in there to my long term journals. This year I started a Bullet Journal as a creative outlet and I'm about a third of the way through. It's 280 pages. I have noticed I'm slowing adding less and less to the BuJo and next time I will definitely be choosing a slimmer one to get that accomplished feeling. Right now I'm reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari.
I was shocked to learn he had died and even more surprised how people treated him online to the point he removed pictures where he didn't look great. I always enjoy watching your notebook challenge videos. I haven't been able to fill up an entire notebook because they have a lot of pages. Those bullet journals look so pretty. I tried to bullet journal but it wasn't a good quality one so I was bummed. Also, I think thats a great idea to devote one area to the buller journal. I just found a G2 007 FINE point in a 2 pack and in purple! I have been looking for colors other than black or blue, so i was excited! I would love peacock or the cat notebook.
Something that really effects my energy is stress. Someone will say the wrong thing and if I don't let it bounce off, it will sap my energy, motivation and productivity. ... Might also be something you might want to track... Especially with your schedule and deadlines. ❤🌅🌵😷
I’d love to see your health/fitness bullet journal! I mean to do morning pages but don’t do it everyday. You inspire me to make a new commitment to morning pages and creativity!
Hi, Sarra! Whenever I'm feeling down with my writing, I watch one of your videos and get my creative juices flowing again. I ran into the same problem with my notebooks--it was difficult to fill one each month so I like your change. I write fantasy and would love to win the peacock notebook! Happy writing!
The cat notebook is really cute. I totally agree with you on how completing a notebook will give you momentum. I’m going to look into morning pages. I’ve heard of it before but I think it might be helpful right now.
I end up not getting a full notebook most of the time in a single month, but I might fill it in two. I think this is because they are so big in size a lot of times. I am starting a new notebook this month and I am really excited about it! I have also started doing morning pages in a smaller notebook so that I can try to keep one month per notebook.
Trying to fill a notebook a month is really hard because a lot of them are in fact huge or have too many pages to be completely filled in 30 days, so I like your idea of using them for your morning pages. I really love all those new Michael's notebooks, they're so cute! I like the To moon and back one, or maybe the one with the unicorn better...
I know I have said this before, but it is worth repeating, your monthly notebook challenge videos have inspired me to use my notebooks. I don't need that many notebooks in use for my personal life, but it helps give me ideas. Video request: Full stationery collection (pens, notebooks, erasers, etc..)
I love the lama nope notebook! Wish we had a Michael's store in Germany, sigh. But thank you for recording this video twice, loved watching it and will try out morning pages aswell. The tip with the pages is a perfect idea, haven't thought about that before :)
I've been unable to finish each journal/notebook but they each have their uses that will make them fill up as I continue my practice. Like spells, information about my familiar, crystals, deities I work with, spirits I communicate with, etc. I tend to not write down a tarot draw in a journal. I just scribble it on a random scrap of paper 😅. I went to the Dollar Tree for some DIY witchy stuff and they actually have amazing journals. They have a manifestation one too, I was surprised. I've also begun writing again, but I have been using a binder instead because I'm scared to ruin my notebooks 😂 Do you have a writer's/journaling bag that you use? Obviously you can't really use it to go out these days, but like when you go room to room so you can take everything you are going to use that day? I know that you did one for planners but I assume you use more for your writing stuff? Disney? I've never gone, I've always been extremely sensitive to energies so all those energies would mess me up. I went to SeaWorld like twice when I was little and I was an absolute wreck because of the energies of not only the people but the animals,too. My mom could only calm me by sitting me in the water 😅 Theme parks are not my cup of tea (nor coffee). My Book of Shadows (my main one) is a little bullet journal I just got. I'm gonna use it for my more current practice. I like to separate the different practices that I do. I like having the darker magick/deities be separate from the lighter magick/deities. I'm Autistic so paper organizing perfection is my talent 🤷 I wish my city had an arts and crafts store but it's so tiny so no Michael's, no Hobby Lobby, 😭 I hate it all. We barely have a Wal-Mart😓 Anyway, I'm glad you're going on a spiritual path! It's a wonderful thing and life-changing! Always remember, it is YOUR path! Don't let anyone else tell you what you can and cannot do in your practice! It is YOURS! Do what feels right to YOU! If you feel like purple candles are better than green candles for money magick even though a website says green then go burn purple candles. It's what YOU feel! Trust your intuition 💖
I always like watching your notebook challenge. And I have trouble filling up a notebook. And I'm always buying new note books. And yesterday read a whole book in one day. I have a Kindle Oasis. So I can download books. And I take it with me when the husband has doctor's appointments or he has to go to the hospital. Since he is on a Liver Transplant list in Ohio and Indiana. He has alot of doctors appointment. To do for that.
Also the book sounds interesting. I’m Chinese, so I know all about the dating thing haha, but I now also have a chronic disease, so I’m going to investigate her now
Always loved this notebook challenge and appreciate your transparency on how things have gone month to month. For those of us who are stationery nerds we can definitely relate in having so many notebooks and wanting to use them of course - but it makes so much sense that one can have many going on at the same time for different purposes and it might take a long time to fill up! Does sharing your progress monthly help with reassessment and accountability as well? Been thinking it would be fun to document vlog style the current notebooks I’m ‘using’ 🤣
I struggle to keep up with multiple notebooks, and more so to finish one in a month. For me it's easier to keep a single notebook for everything, three at a time, at most, which is another reason why I prefer the bullet journal method. ^^
I love the moon notebook. I have a notebook to keep track of the different teas I'm drinking, a notebook that I keep notes from a book I'm reading and keep track of vocabulary words. I have a notebook to write story ideas. I'm finding I'm more comfortable with the smaller notebooks because I can fill the pages easier. I love the Midori from jet pens
So much to say, I'm making a list! 1. I love these videos so much and THANK YOU for filming this one twice! *shakes fist at corrupt file* 2. Your nails look amazing! 3. Do you know the new Hobonichi's launched today? I bought the A5 Cousin Avec again and for the first time, the 5 year notebook. It came in a cute gift pack... I guess it's a gift to myself! 😅 4. I love your tarot journaling, maybe that's what I can use my empty daily pages for in my A5... My dailies usually end up empty. 5. The first time I ever filled a notebook was thanks to Julia Cameron's 'Morning Pages'. I gave up on the habit to prioritise sleep but I'm trying again this month because I miss my morning coffee and journal routine. Thanks again for another awesome video! Good luck with the house stuff too 💛🤗
I am not doing very well with using notebooks I have, let alone one a month. But new ones seemed to have crawled in on their own! My reading has been slacking also.
Love the idea of filling up a notebook but find it harder with a 3 year old than it used to be! :o) I like your idea of using a smaller notebook with wider lines to achieve a sense of accomplishments and not feel so daunted from the beginning. Thank you for sharing what you're reading--I'm going to check out both of those books! And I'm going to pull out a notebook from my stash and start tomorrow--thanks for the continued inspiration!!
I feel you on those notebooks. I was at Chapters (Canadian version of Barns and Nobles) and I ended up buying myself more notebooks simply because all of the back to school items were on sale. And this was about a month after buying some notebooks that I still have yet to use. Also, that sloth one is so me. I procrastinate so hard on everything. Good luck with this month!! 😊💜
Have you ever tried to double laminate? I was looking at an old dashboard in my rings that's getting a bit shabby and noticed that I have laminated over an already laminated dashboard. I don't remember the specifics... I either went to Kinko's or used the laminator at PTO. But try double laminating a test piece and if it works for you, you can use it on that cover. ❤🌅🌵😷
So glad you decided to refill this video. I am so close to filling up my EC deluxe monthly so I’m on the hunt for a new notebook and the peacock one is definitely a contender.
I'd love to win the peacock notebook. I'm a new subby & just found you through Emiseverything. This is an interesting challenge. I've just started a covid notebook/journal. Starting from 16th of March when everything kicked off here. I hope to finish the first volume by the end of this month. xx
Hi Sarra! First off I love your nails, they are so cute😍 I finished Song of blood and stone this past weekend and loved it. Love your book recommendations! September is going to be an amazing month, it has felt like a new year of sorts for me, a new beginning, a new season. For us up here in the Midwest US fall is starting and it is my favorite season. Fall has always felt more like a new beginning rather than an ending. I love the "awesome" notebook. I've started morning pages this month, today, didn't think of choosing a smaller notebook so that way it would last only for one month, great idea. Thank you for being your radiant positive self💜
Last year I had three notebooks completed. You are an inspiration to write more for sure! I love The Soon...ish and the peacock notebook and all are beautiful 😊
I'm glad I found your channel. I've been wanting to start journaling and since September is my b-day month, I decided that would be a good time to do it. I love the cat one.
I find myself filing many pages, but most of them in my bullet journal/ring binder, which means I don't fill up any notebooks, just paper... Apart from the notebook with my story, just recently I filled up one (oooh, sooo satisfying!), but got stuck on the first page of the next volume.
This notebooks are adorable! I’m hitting up all the micheals in my area looking. For the black and pink Halloween decor. I desperately certain pieces of the collection! I’ll have to look for these notebooks too.
I love writing morning pages. They make me feel like I am ready to start my day. I like the idea of doing one per month. I have never completed on of my notebooks in a month.
The morning pages notebooks look so cute! I am super-hype about notebooks (of any kind especially ones with quotes on the front) I wish I could use up a notebook a month I just seem to be so busy all the time *sigh* oh well!!
I love those notebooks! None of my local Michaels has these! I really like the idea of morning pages. Like a brain dump before your brain gets a chance to fully wake up.
I love the cat one. I had one to use for morning pages but my 16 year old had to have a journal for Hope’s Squad (she has been a member for 2 years and has an amazing gift) so I had to give up my journal I picked for mornings
I’ve been completing notebooks off and on. I have to throw in smaller notebooks so that I could complete them quicker just to give me that satisfaction otherwise I would give up.
Thanks for the tip on the notebooks from Michaels. I find it really hard to do morning pages in anything other than cheap lined notebooks, and I love the idea of having one that is the perfect length to be able to fill the whole thing up in one month. I've been reading You Should See Me in a Crown. You should check it out, I think you'd like it.
Heyyy! I love the book you chose by Pintip Dunn! I work as an editor and got to proofread that one for the publisher before publication. It’s seriously one of my favorites from this year.
I actually finished off a notebook earlier this month with workshop notes. I'm almost halfway into another one after conference notes. I'm nowhere near done. Also, I just finished reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, and it gave me chills. So good.
I keep filling new notebooks lol, but I have a plan these are practice and the practice and try outs for set up of all I will want to track so hopefully on January I will start filling notebooks the way I want and feel comfortable doing♡, also maybe 2021 will give us more out time to have things to write in our journals lol Those notebooks are too cute Love the moon and back one♡
I haven’t been filling up an entire notebook each month, but your videos have inspired me to take a few off the shelf and actually use them! If I win I’ll go for the peacock! 🦚
On Julia Cameron's webpage, she has a blog. The first one is about the artist's date during COVID. Read that and it will explain what your sister was saying about trying different art mediums and just trying new stuff. ❤🌅🌵😷
Love your notebook challenge videos!! I am working toward that feeling of “completion,” also and agree that a 90/120 pg option could be the way to go!! Excited to watch your haul!
I always look forward to your notebook challenge videos! Love to see your ideas on how to use a notebook. You have some amazing suggestions. I think I will start with the morning pages tomorrow. Thanks again for putting out such great content. I like the fears notebook :)
Thank you Sarra for redoing this month challenge video. I have organized my journals for this month I have a morning challenge journal with 5 gratitude's a day, which I have not problem doing, but i would also like to setup an evening journal of my thoughts and feelings for the day. I use a bullet journal for daily trackers and a colouring bullet journal by Amanda RachLee which i have really enjoyed using this year. I just love your ideas for using journals. I will be doing a bing watch to catch up on your latest book reading as I have been busy with my own online business. Again thank you Sarra.
I have not filled a notebook, but I think this month I'll be able to fill my wonder woman notebook from EC! It's already halfway there :) August drained me despite being productive, so I'm going to be a little kinder on myself in September so my writing can come back.
Hah, that soon...ish sloth is awesome! I've just been trying to keep up with my current notebooks and have been doing pretty well - I'll consider finishing my planner at the end of the year a notebook finished!
I have both The Artist's Way by JC and Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, and that's where I thought I first heard about mourning pages. I'm not sure. Anyway, Natalie's goal is to finish a notebook a month and write every day. I suppose either way works, depending on the style of the writer. Your notes are so much more organized than mine, so it would be good to try the morning pages. Maybe if I did it on the computer, I would be able to search the notes for any big ideas more easily.
I'm loving working through my notebooks and you've inspired me to do so :) And I've just started reading Beautiful Demons. Just getting started on the series and excited to get more into it.
I didn’t do well last month but I’m hoping this month I’ll fill it up with Quinn Buoley’s Magic Morning to fill up my sketchbook instead of free flowing writing.
Those softcover notebooks are cute. Wish they had better paper. (Looked on Michael's site, it's 70 GSM which is roughly equivalent to 20# paper.) I was thinking the 120pg ones could be useful for quarterly daily notes. One page per day talking about your goals, projects, tasks or whatever. Finish one each quarter. (But I can't stand the permanence of bound books, not being able to add/remove pages; plus I hate fighting with the binding - so I wish you well with this one and will watch from afar, lol.) I took a Happy Planner Notes book and hand-drew the "productivity" column on the outer edge of each page (front and back) and have been using that to brain dump every morning as I unplug and sit on my porch. Sometimes I toss a couple stickers in for bullet points or whatnot. It combines two goals for me: get outside every day, and "get the hell away from my computer for at least an hour to let my brain have room to be creative instead of bombarding it with input" everyday. I'm *loving* the whole thing and already sad that I won't be able to do it come winter. I've fallen head over heels with the Sharpie S-Gel, too. It's been my main pen at my desk for a few weeks now. It might have unseated the Pilot G2 as my all-time favorite, as the G2s I've been getting lately have been scratchy or they rattle when I write. It's been really hit-or-miss with them, which is disappointing.
Sarra, I see dragonflies all of the time since I started Publish and Thrive! (Charlotte is a my pen name, doing the class under my legal name), and it feels like they are from you!! (I love the peacock!)
You’re a huge inspiration to me! I am hoping to use 4 notebooks this month (I draft first drafts by hand). Also I just started my manifestation journal 💜
I finished a notebook. I just bought two more. I am excited to fill them up. I am still working through one. It has 196 pages so it will take me a while to fill it up.
All of those notebooks for the giveaway are so pretty! It’s hard to choose just one that I like the best.
Hey Cool Cat! You are this month's winner of the Notebook! Let me know which one you want and send me an email at sarra@heartbreathings.com with your full name and mailing address! Congrats!!
Thanks for re-recording. I just love your notebook challenge series. The Disney trip sounds amazing!
I'm so glad you re-recorded the video. The notebook challenge videos are my favorites! I love all those little notebooks :-)
My best friend and I were looking at Disney the other day. I think it's great that you all are going on vacation! If anyone has the opportunity to get out and have fun, they should. We can't let this pandemic control everything we do; that's living in fear.
The sloth one is adorable i have a mask that has a sloth that says not fast not furious
I am finding it hard to finish a notebook per month for multiple reasons. Lately, I've just felt so tired and unmotivated to write which is very scary since I'm seriously considering becoming an author and trying to publish and book. I want to start fresh this September and trying writing my thoughts down because starting school again is being very stressful, especially since it's now all online. I feel like writing my thoughts down will help lead to being creative with my novel again.
That being said I absolutely love the "It's just a Phase" notebook, lol. I absolutely love galaxy and nebula themed stuff. I recently got some galaxy-themed pens to use for my planners and journaling.
Glad to see you were able to re-record this. I hope it wasn't to much trouble. I hope you have a nice day!
Glad you were able to re-record. That is such a horrible feeling when files are corrupted. I wish we had Michaels here. That cat notebook is adorable. Am I the only one who feels like September feels like a new year type new beginning?
That's exactly how September feels to me!
For me September is Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year. A new beginning. I am looking forward to seeing where the year 5781 on the Jewish calendar takes me.
Thanks for the re-record! Another great month of useful, fun content and notebooks, pens, books! I too find it hard to finish a notebook a month, so I love your idea of morning pages and finding a notebook to fit that plan. I may join you on that in September. And for notebook I would pick, you decide that are all super duper cute!
These videos motivate me so much! And I love the addition of the book suggestions/reviews. My TBR pile keeps growing and growing! As always, thank you for the amazing content.
First! Woohoo! This remains one of my favorite videos every month and I love the way the series has evolved organically 😊 TFS 💕
Love these videos... I tried morning pages many years back. Found it difficult to fill three 8x11 pages, and have since told myself that the amount doesn’t matter, just the practice. I always loved Julia Cameron’s three steps of pages, artist’s dates and walks. They really help jog the creative brain back into action. And I love the cats notebook 😊
I've found myself writing less. So, I decided to just write small notes to myself and others in my journals, and drawing more.
I may not fill my journals in a month, but I'm still being productive [taking small steps].
Hope your September is peaceful, fun and blessed. Thank you for all the videos.
I love your videos. I love notebooks and want to be better at using them too. I am going through a rough spot right now physically and I want to use a notebook to bring me joy.
Omg me and my mom just watched all the marvel universe last month! My heart is broken over Chadwick Bozeman as well. He was definitely my favorite character!
Glad you managed to get some time to re-record this video! It sounds like this approach is a very realistic one for you; especially with all that you're juggling i hope this takes some more pressure off!
Great vlog per usual! Cat or sloth... Sooooo cute!! I'll definitely check out that book. Sounds like a really cute read!
I have long term journals (Life time reading list, Cooking journal) and short term journals that are meant as kind of "Common Book". Usually they're Composition books that I use to avoid perfection paralysis. When I'm done with them I transfer some what's in there to my long term journals. This year I started a Bullet Journal as a creative outlet and I'm about a third of the way through. It's 280 pages. I have noticed I'm slowing adding less and less to the BuJo and next time I will definitely be choosing a slimmer one to get that accomplished feeling. Right now I'm reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari.
"I feel like he's a friend." I totally get that, Sarra, because I feel like YOU are a friend, too! 💜
I was shocked to learn he had died and even more surprised how people treated him online to the point he removed pictures where he didn't look great.
I always enjoy watching your notebook challenge videos. I haven't been able to fill up an entire notebook because they have a lot of pages.
Those bullet journals look so pretty. I tried to bullet journal but it wasn't a good quality one so I was bummed. Also, I think thats a great idea to devote one area to the buller journal.
I just found a G2 007 FINE point in a 2 pack and in purple! I have been looking for colors other than black or blue, so i was excited!
I would love peacock or the cat notebook.
I love the peacock notebook! I also have trouble filling a notebook in one month. I end up getting overwhelmed and giving up about halfway through.
Something that really effects my energy is stress. Someone will say the wrong thing and if I don't let it bounce off, it will sap my energy, motivation and productivity. ... Might also be something you might want to track... Especially with your schedule and deadlines. ❤🌅🌵😷
Awesome for me...love love your notebooks 📓 ❤ ♥ 💖
I’d love to see your health/fitness bullet journal! I mean to do morning pages but don’t do it everyday. You inspire me to make a new commitment to morning pages and creativity!
That sloth notebook is hilarious ! The notebook challenge video is something I look forward too every month and I’m so glad you are still doing them!
I LOVE the do more of what makes you awesome notebook! 😍 I’m looking for the perfect notebook to plan my book releases and that might be the one
Glad you were able to rerecord -- the Michael's journals are online under "fashion journals".
Hi, Sarra! Whenever I'm feeling down with my writing, I watch one of your videos and get my creative juices flowing again. I ran into the same problem with my notebooks--it was difficult to fill one each month so I like your change. I write fantasy and would love to win the peacock notebook! Happy writing!
The cat notebook is so cute! Finishing a notebook always give me this sense of accomplishment, but sometimes it's very hard.
The cat notebook is really cute. I totally agree with you on how completing a notebook will give you momentum. I’m going to look into morning pages. I’ve heard of it before but I think it might be helpful right now.
I end up not getting a full notebook most of the time in a single month, but I might fill it in two. I think this is because they are so big in size a lot of times. I am starting a new notebook this month and I am really excited about it! I have also started doing morning pages in a smaller notebook so that I can try to keep one month per notebook.
Trying to fill a notebook a month is really hard because a lot of them are in fact huge or have too many pages to be completely filled in 30 days, so I like your idea of using them for your morning pages. I really love all those new Michael's notebooks, they're so cute! I like the To moon and back one, or maybe the one with the unicorn better...
Woohoo HB Notebook challenge!!! I'm ready! Let's go!
Love all your notebooks❤️ great inspiration 💕
I know I have said this before, but it is worth repeating, your monthly notebook challenge videos have inspired me to use my notebooks. I don't need that many notebooks in use for my personal life, but it helps give me ideas.
Video request: Full stationery collection (pens, notebooks, erasers, etc..)
I love the lama nope notebook! Wish we had a Michael's store in Germany, sigh. But thank you for recording this video twice, loved watching it and will try out morning pages aswell. The tip with the pages is a perfect idea, haven't thought about that before :)
I've been unable to finish each journal/notebook but they each have their uses that will make them fill up as I continue my practice. Like spells, information about my familiar, crystals, deities I work with, spirits I communicate with, etc. I tend to not write down a tarot draw in a journal. I just scribble it on a random scrap of paper 😅.
I went to the Dollar Tree for some DIY witchy stuff and they actually have amazing journals. They have a manifestation one too, I was surprised.
I've also begun writing again, but I have been using a binder instead because I'm scared to ruin my notebooks 😂
Do you have a writer's/journaling bag that you use? Obviously you can't really use it to go out these days, but like when you go room to room so you can take everything you are going to use that day? I know that you did one for planners but I assume you use more for your writing stuff?
Disney? I've never gone, I've always been extremely sensitive to energies so all those energies would mess me up. I went to SeaWorld like twice when I was little and I was an absolute wreck because of the energies of not only the people but the animals,too. My mom could only calm me by sitting me in the water 😅 Theme parks are not my cup of tea (nor coffee).
My Book of Shadows (my main one) is a little bullet journal I just got. I'm gonna use it for my more current practice. I like to separate the different practices that I do. I like having the darker magick/deities be separate from the lighter magick/deities. I'm Autistic so paper organizing perfection is my talent 🤷
I wish my city had an arts and crafts store but it's so tiny so no Michael's, no Hobby Lobby, 😭 I hate it all. We barely have a Wal-Mart😓
Anyway, I'm glad you're going on a spiritual path! It's a wonderful thing and life-changing! Always remember, it is YOUR path! Don't let anyone else tell you what you can and cannot do in your practice! It is YOURS! Do what feels right to YOU! If you feel like purple candles are better than green candles for money magick even though a website says green then go burn purple candles. It's what YOU feel! Trust your intuition 💖
I always like watching your notebook challenge. And I have trouble filling up a notebook. And I'm always buying new note books. And yesterday read a whole book in one day. I have a Kindle Oasis. So I can download books. And I take it with me when the husband has doctor's appointments or he has to go to the hospital. Since he is on a Liver Transplant list in Ohio and Indiana. He has alot of doctors appointment. To do for that.
That cat notebook is super awesome. I have been using my notebooks, but I have not completed any at all....working on it!
Also the book sounds interesting. I’m Chinese, so I know all about the dating thing haha, but I now also have a chronic disease, so I’m going to investigate her now
Always loved this notebook challenge and appreciate your transparency on how things have gone month to month. For those of us who are stationery nerds we can definitely relate in having so many notebooks and wanting to use them of course - but it makes so much sense that one can have many going on at the same time for different purposes and it might take a long time to fill up! Does sharing your progress monthly help with reassessment and accountability as well? Been thinking it would be fun to document vlog style the current notebooks I’m ‘using’ 🤣
I struggle to keep up with multiple notebooks, and more so to finish one in a month. For me it's easier to keep a single notebook for everything, three at a time, at most, which is another reason why I prefer the bullet journal method. ^^
I love the moon notebook. I have a notebook to keep track of the different teas I'm drinking, a notebook that I keep notes from a book I'm reading and keep track of vocabulary words. I have a notebook to write story ideas. I'm finding I'm more comfortable with the smaller notebooks because I can fill the pages easier. I love the Midori from jet pens
Using a smaller notebook for morning pages is a great idea. Thank you for sharing. I like the sloth notebook.
So much to say, I'm making a list!
1. I love these videos so much and THANK YOU for filming this one twice! *shakes fist at corrupt file*
2. Your nails look amazing!
3. Do you know the new Hobonichi's launched today? I bought the A5 Cousin Avec again and for the first time, the 5 year notebook. It came in a cute gift pack... I guess it's a gift to myself! 😅
4. I love your tarot journaling, maybe that's what I can use my empty daily pages for in my A5... My dailies usually end up empty.
5. The first time I ever filled a notebook was thanks to Julia Cameron's 'Morning Pages'. I gave up on the habit to prioritise sleep but I'm trying again this month because I miss my morning coffee and journal routine.
Thanks again for another awesome video! Good luck with the house stuff too 💛🤗
I love the idea of filling out a morning pages every morning. And that 4 year notebook is awesome!
I am not doing very well with using notebooks I have, let alone one a month. But new ones seemed to have crawled in on their own! My reading has been slacking also.
OMG! Those notebooks are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! I really laughed when you came up with lama-corn...
Cat! What a fab idea for the morning pages -- the pages are the right size to keep the 3 pages from taking up too much time.
omg Sarra love those soft bound notebooks. i wish we had micheals in the uk xx
Love the idea of filling up a notebook but find it harder with a 3 year old than it used to be! :o) I like your idea of using a smaller notebook with wider lines to achieve a sense of accomplishments and not feel so daunted from the beginning. Thank you for sharing what you're reading--I'm going to check out both of those books! And I'm going to pull out a notebook from my stash and start tomorrow--thanks for the continued inspiration!!
I feel you on those notebooks. I was at Chapters (Canadian version of Barns and Nobles) and I ended up buying myself more notebooks simply because all of the back to school items were on sale. And this was about a month after buying some notebooks that I still have yet to use. Also, that sloth one is so me. I procrastinate so hard on everything. Good luck with this month!! 😊💜
Have you ever tried to double laminate? I was looking at an old dashboard in my rings that's getting a bit shabby and noticed that I have laminated over an already laminated dashboard. I don't remember the specifics... I either went to Kinko's or used the laminator at PTO. But try double laminating a test piece and if it works for you, you can use it on that cover. ❤🌅🌵😷
So glad you decided to refill this video. I am so close to filling up my EC deluxe monthly so I’m on the hunt for a new notebook and the peacock one is definitely a contender.
I'd love to win the peacock notebook. I'm a new subby & just found you through Emiseverything. This is an interesting challenge. I've just started a covid notebook/journal. Starting from 16th of March when everything kicked off here. I hope to finish the first volume by the end of this month. xx
Hi Sarra! First off I love your nails, they are so cute😍
I finished Song of blood and stone this past weekend and loved it. Love your book recommendations! September is going to be an amazing month, it has felt like a new year of sorts for me, a new beginning, a new season. For us up here in the Midwest US fall is starting and it is my favorite season. Fall has always felt more like a new beginning rather than an ending.
I love the "awesome" notebook. I've started morning pages this month, today, didn't think of choosing a smaller notebook so that way it would last only for one month, great idea. Thank you for being your radiant positive self💜
You are definitely tempting me to get a hobonichi! The cat with the glasses is such a cute notebook.
Last year I had three notebooks completed. You are an inspiration to write more for sure!
I love
The Soon...ish and the peacock notebook and all are beautiful 😊
I'm glad I found your channel. I've been wanting to start journaling and since September is my b-day month, I decided that would be a good time to do it. I love the cat one.
One can never have too many notebooks ✍
I find myself filing many pages, but most of them in my bullet journal/ring binder, which means I don't fill up any notebooks, just paper... Apart from the notebook with my story, just recently I filled up one (oooh, sooo satisfying!), but got stuck on the first page of the next volume.
This notebooks are adorable! I’m hitting up all the micheals in my area looking. For the black and pink Halloween decor. I desperately certain pieces of the collection! I’ll have to look for these notebooks too.
I love writing morning pages. They make me feel like I am ready to start my day. I like the idea of doing one per month. I have never completed on of my notebooks in a month.
Alright!!! I’m excited!!
The morning pages notebooks look so cute! I am super-hype about notebooks (of any kind especially ones with quotes on the front) I wish I could use up a notebook a month I just seem to be so busy all the time *sigh* oh well!!
I love the notebook challenge! The moon one is my favorite!
"CAT"
Notebooks are the key to keeping me on track. Thank you for all the examples you provide!
I forgot to ask, what laminator do you use? Will it do 10 mil pages?
I love those notebooks! None of my local Michaels has these! I really like the idea of morning pages. Like a brain dump before your brain gets a chance to fully wake up.
I always miss these!! I love the notebooks.
I love the cat one. I had one to use for morning pages but my 16 year old had to have a journal for Hope’s Squad (she has been a member for 2 years and has an amazing gift) so I had to give up my journal I picked for mornings
I LOVE the cat notebook, although ALL of these are so cute!
One more thing lol so are you planning on writing three pages front and back? I got some of the journals and I was wondering how you were doing it.
I’ve been completing notebooks off and on. I have to throw in smaller notebooks so that I could complete them quicker just to give me that satisfaction otherwise I would give up.
Thanks for the tip on the notebooks from Michaels. I find it really hard to do morning pages in anything other than cheap lined notebooks, and I love the idea of having one that is the perfect length to be able to fill the whole thing up in one month. I've been reading You Should See Me in a Crown. You should check it out, I think you'd like it.
I love the peacock one so much! It’s hard to fill a notebook a month but I am still trying.
The cat is adorable. Always enjoy the notebook videos. :-)
Heyyy! I love the book you chose by Pintip Dunn! I work as an editor and got to proofread that one for the publisher before publication. It’s seriously one of my favorites from this year.
OMG that cat notebook. (is watching this video with a cat on my lap)
I actually finished off a notebook earlier this month with workshop notes. I'm almost halfway into another one after conference notes. I'm nowhere near done. Also, I just finished reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, and it gave me chills. So good.
OMG!! I NEED THE AWESOME NOTEBOOK!!!
I keep filling new notebooks lol, but I have a plan these are practice and the practice and try outs for set up of all I will want to track so hopefully on January I will start filling notebooks the way I want and feel comfortable doing♡, also maybe 2021 will give us more out time to have things to write in our journals lol
Those notebooks are too cute Love the moon and back one♡
I haven’t been filling up an entire notebook each month, but your videos have inspired me to take a few off the shelf and actually use them! If I win I’ll go for the peacock! 🦚
On Julia Cameron's webpage, she has a blog. The first one is about the artist's date during COVID. Read that and it will explain what your sister was saying about trying different art mediums and just trying new stuff. ❤🌅🌵😷
I can’t wait to read You Had Me At Hola!!
Love your notebook challenge videos!! I am working toward that feeling of “completion,” also and agree that a 90/120 pg option could be the way to go!! Excited to watch your haul!
I always look forward to your notebook challenge videos! Love to see your ideas on how to use a notebook. You have some amazing suggestions. I think I will start with the morning pages tomorrow. Thanks again for putting out such great content. I like the fears notebook :)
Notebook challenge ! My first time! :-)))
Thank you Sarra for redoing this month challenge video. I have organized my journals for this month I have a morning challenge journal with 5 gratitude's a day, which I have not problem doing, but i would also like to setup an evening journal of my thoughts and feelings for the day. I use a bullet journal for daily trackers and a colouring bullet journal by Amanda RachLee which i have really enjoyed using this year. I just love your ideas for using journals. I will be doing a bing watch to catch up on your latest book reading as I have been busy with my own online business. Again thank you Sarra.
I have not filled a notebook, but I think this month I'll be able to fill my wonder woman notebook from EC! It's already halfway there :) August drained me despite being productive, so I'm going to be a little kinder on myself in September so my writing can come back.
Love seeing this videos each month! I love the lamacorn notebook!
I would like the unicorn, but will accept whichever. Thank you for doing this channel.
Mcu timeline watch list in an Wonder Woman notebook! You rebel!
Hah, that soon...ish sloth is awesome! I've just been trying to keep up with my current notebooks and have been doing pretty well - I'll consider finishing my planner at the end of the year a notebook finished!
Side note when you reached across the screen I saw your gorgeous arm tattoo. Would you mind doing a video of this beautiful artwork 😍
I have both The Artist's Way by JC and Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, and that's where I thought I first heard about mourning pages. I'm not sure. Anyway, Natalie's goal is to finish a notebook a month and write every day. I suppose either way works, depending on the style of the writer. Your notes are so much more organized than mine, so it would be good to try the morning pages. Maybe if I did it on the computer, I would be able to search the notes for any big ideas more easily.
I'm loving working through my notebooks and you've inspired me to do so :) And I've just started reading Beautiful Demons. Just getting started on the series and excited to get more into it.
I didn’t do well last month but I’m hoping this month I’ll fill it up with Quinn Buoley’s Magic Morning to fill up my sketchbook instead of free flowing writing.
I want the Llamacorn! LOL. (Dating makes Perfect sounds so cute, thanks for the recommendation!)
Those softcover notebooks are cute. Wish they had better paper. (Looked on Michael's site, it's 70 GSM which is roughly equivalent to 20# paper.) I was thinking the 120pg ones could be useful for quarterly daily notes. One page per day talking about your goals, projects, tasks or whatever. Finish one each quarter.
(But I can't stand the permanence of bound books, not being able to add/remove pages; plus I hate fighting with the binding - so I wish you well with this one and will watch from afar, lol.)
I took a Happy Planner Notes book and hand-drew the "productivity" column on the outer edge of each page (front and back) and have been using that to brain dump every morning as I unplug and sit on my porch. Sometimes I toss a couple stickers in for bullet points or whatnot. It combines two goals for me: get outside every day, and "get the hell away from my computer for at least an hour to let my brain have room to be creative instead of bombarding it with input" everyday. I'm *loving* the whole thing and already sad that I won't be able to do it come winter.
I've fallen head over heels with the Sharpie S-Gel, too. It's been my main pen at my desk for a few weeks now. It might have unseated the Pilot G2 as my all-time favorite, as the G2s I've been getting lately have been scratchy or they rattle when I write. It's been really hit-or-miss with them, which is disappointing.
PS - don't enter me in the contest! :)
Sarra, I see dragonflies all of the time since I started Publish and Thrive! (Charlotte is a my pen name, doing the class under my legal name), and it feels like they are from you!! (I love the peacock!)
You’re a huge inspiration to me! I am hoping to use 4 notebooks this month (I draft first drafts by hand). Also I just started my manifestation journal 💜
I finished a notebook. I just bought two more. I am excited to fill them up. I am still working through one. It has 196 pages so it will take me a while to fill it up.