June is nearly here and this will be the last month in my first journal for 2022! I didn’t get to spend much time with my journal in May, so I wanted to sit down and give it some attention, but also not make anything too complex. And so we have this cute, collaged blue and pink bullet journal theme full of patterns!

Check out the plan with me video above, or read on for photos and links!

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June cover spread - scrapbook paper and washi tape

I don’t often set up a full double-page spread for a cover page - in fact sometimes I don’t do a cover page at all! But with a handful of pages leftover at the end of this journal - not quite enough for another month but enough to want to use them - I thought it was worth taking up a bit more space than usual.

The two washi tapes that look like elaborate tiles were the entire inspiration for this theme - I chose my papers and pens based on those. I grabbed them in a set from Wish a while ago - you can see the full Wish haul here! I also used my upper case letter stamps for the “winter” part of the quote, and my Phomemo M02 mini thermal bluetooth printer with semi-transparent sticker paper for the June header, which I coloured in with a paint pen. Never used a thermal printer with your bullet journal? Keen to find out how it works? I have a whole post about mine here!

And no, I promise I haven’t lost track of the seasons. June is the beginning of winter here in Australia, as well as other southern hemisphere countries like Brazil, New Zealand and South Africa! Sometimes it gets a bit frustrating when all the content you’re seeing is for the other half of the world in the opposite season to you, so all my southern hemispherians - I understand, and I’ve got you!

Linear calendar and gratitude log, goal setting & currently section

I saw a couple of these calendars on Instagram recently and it inspired me to give it a try! This was how I set up my calendars when I first started my first bullet journal, and it felt a bit like coming home.

On the facing page I’ve got sections for a quite grateful moment each day, some goals for the month, and a list of all the things I’m into through the month.

The cherry blossom paper at the bottom of the calendar page is actually origami paper! I picked it up at Daiso Australia a few years ago, but I’ve seen it there recently too so you can still get it! Origami paper is one of my favourite ways to get papers for my journal. They often have great colours or patterns, and they’re nice and thin for folding, so they won’t bulk up your pages!

I’m also using three markers for this setup - two Tombow dual brush pens in 761 (carnation - the brighter pink) and 800 (baby pink - the barely-there soft pink) as well as a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist brush pen in ice blue (which is from the pastel set). The blue paint pen I used for the heading over my printed sticker, both here and on the cover, is from this set from Paper Kooka, as are the hydrangea stickers.

June Musings - because “brain dump” sounds ugly

I can’t help it, I’m a Libra. The words “brain dump” just don’t sound nice, they don’t look nice, and I refuse to welcome them into my journal. In May I set up a “May Musings” page, and I wasn’t sure if I’d end up using it or not. Turns out, I loved it and have expanded it across two pages for June! Keep an eye on my Instagram if you’d like to see how I use this section, I post some after-the-pen reels and photos there.

Spending Tracker & Phone & Sleep Log

Let’s be honest, I don’t look back over these pages after the month is done. Their magic is in the use of them! Sure, my Fitbit tracks my sleep, and I can just look up my bank statements to see my spending, but the physical act of writing this data down is what makes it powerful. If I’m tempted to order food for delivery, but I know I’ll have to own up to it in my journal, then I know I really shouldn’t. Also last year’s total spent on food delivery was ridiculous, and I’m trying to undercut it by a lot this year!

Along the same lines, if I’ve been going to bed late too often, or using my phone way more than I’m comfortable with, I’m much more aware of it when I see it charted on a graph like this, and then I’m much more likely to make a change that will get me back on track. It helps to stop me spiralling before I even realise that I’m spiralling!

Tracker Spread - Habits & Mood

Now that I’ve worked out this Phomemo printed habit tracker system I don’t think I’ll stop using it anytime soon! Printing and sticking mini-calendars is so much easier than drawing them all out by hand. I used a Canva calendar template for the basis of this one - I picked the simplest one with the least colour I could find. I swapped out the day of the week initials for another font, masked out a few boxes so it would perfectly match the days in June, then printed eight of them for my page. I only tracked six habits in May, and I haven’t decided yet what my extra two will be but I know I’ll work it out.

The mood tracker this time will be illustrative - I’ll be drawing one of four little plant doodles for each day corresponding to my mood, rather than colouring something in a colour that I assign to a mood. I’m looking forward to having a colourful garden on my page at the end of June!

How many ways can I decorate the same weekly spread?

Almost every month since May 2021 I’ve used the same weekly spread, or a slight variation on it. It just works SO well for me - small spaces for each day of the week on the left page, lots of space for a rolling to-do list on the right page, and some decoration around it. This month is no different.

But what you didn’t see…

Real talk: I had a completely different theme in mind for June 2022. There were going to be jewel tones and planets and space ships, and I got two spreads in and I just wasn’t happy with it. Since I share my journal so publicly, I wasn’t comfortable sharing a set up that I felt wasn’t up to my usual standards, so I started again. On that, I just wanted to mention:

There are no rules for your journal. If you aren’t happy with a spread, or a theme, or a part of a page, you can absolutely glue those pages together and pretend they never happened, or paste something over a mistake, or scrap several pages altogether and start again. You can also choose to carry on and just live with the imperfection for a month - and if I wasn’t sharing my journal, that’s absolutely what I would have done. I’ve set up months I wasn’t happy with before, and in use they honestly didn’t bother me that much. You have to do what feels right for you, but I thought it was worth mentioning - if you’re a beginner bullet journaler and you get frustrated with your stuff, just know that those of us who have been at it for years don’t always love their stuff either! Don’t be so hard on yourself!

June Bullet Journal Plan With Me: Pink and Blue Bujo