December 2021: Easy Christmas Bullet Journal Theme
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Deck the halls - or the pages! The silly season is here, and I’m pouring all of my Christmas cheer into my December bullet journal pages! I don’t own a Christmas tree, so rather than tree trimming, I’m bujo trimming instead.
My Favourite Easy & Cheap Bullet Journal Decoration
One of my favourite quick-and-effective ways to decorate my bullet journal is with wrapping paper! It’s thin enough to not weigh down your journal pages like scrapbooking card, available in every pattern you could dream of, and usually pretty affordable too. Most of us already have some wrapping paper lying around, or will need to buy some for Christmas anyway so it’s a very economical way to decorate your book! I even keep wrapping paper from gifts I receive if I think they might work in my journal!
I’ve used two wrapping papers in this setup, specifically on my cover page - one candy cane striped red and white and one very elegant grey and white with gold foil. Both are from Big W, and cost me AUD $5 total.
A Christmas Cover Page
I used the base of a candle to mark out the circular shape of my wreath, and took inspiration from a font called The Holidays for my December cover page lettering. I’ve used four Tombow dual brush pens throughout this setup - the 856 Chinese red, 277 dark green, 192 asparagus green, and 312 holly green. The gold lettering is the gold Sharpie, and fineliner for drawing and practical page elements like the calendar are all done with the Sharpie pen.
If you’re loving my wreath, you can include it in your journal too! It’s available as a printable on my Etsy store here, so you can adorn your title page, your walls or print your own Christmas cards.
Holly Jolly Bujo Trackers and Logs
The tracker pages for my goals, gratitude log and phone and sleep trackers are the same as my last few months, with plenty of washi and sticker accents as page borders to continue the Christmas theme. My washis and stickers are all from Spotlight - you can find the stickers on my tracker spreads here. I can’t find the exact washi tape set on the Spotlight website, but there’s a similar style here, or a couple of options from elsewhere - these Christmas Eve and Roving Reindeer sets from the Washi Tape Shop are so cute!
My “phone and sleep” header got a little lost in the poinsettia tape pattern - I’ve used a 0.7mm Posca pen for the white lettering, and I think it still could have been much more bold!
The mood tracker this time is a series of Christmas ornaments hanging from a string of holly - I think it will be so cute when it’s all filled in! They’re decorating the area around my habit tracker, which is positioned to the top right of the spread.
A Weekly with Washi
I’ve included two weekly spreads this time - usually I only show the first one, because I typically stick to one style for a whole month, but I realised after my first weekly that I’d forgotten to use another sticker book, and I hadn’t got to build Tinsel Town yet! That required a page setup that left horizontal negative space!
The first weekly is my go-to lately - a left page for events, a right page for to-dos, and some space on each side for a washi/sticker decoration… but not the kind of decoration I wanted this time!
Welcome to Tinsel Town
The second weekly features a column for each day of the week, leaving space at the bottom and left sides of the page for… stickers! These stickers are all from the Crate Paper Busy Sidewalks sticker book from Spotlight. I clustered the house stickers together in the lower right corner to form the town, with the residents of Tinsel Town on the left side… and my favourite part, a very Aussie Santa Claus on his firetruck coming to wish the families a merry Christmas!
Aussie Santa Rides a Fire Truck
In Australia, since Christmas falls in the middle of summer (and bushfire season), Santa doesn’t ride on his sleigh - he rides on a fire engine. In the days before Christmas suburban families will hear the siren sounding, followed by a jolly “ho ho ho!” over a megaphone. It’s Santa, driving through town, flinging lollies from the fire truck and making everyone’s day! The local fire fighters help - I guess they’re the Australian Christmas elves! It must sound bizarre to my non-Aussie friends, but this is one Australian tradition I look back on really fondly. I loved waiting for Santa on my front lawn, waving to him as he drove past - plus, free lollies!
This fire engine Santa in my journal was cut from some wrapping paper from a gift I received last year. I love that this Aussie tradition is such an institution, it’s even on our wrapping paper!