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state of the bujo

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this entry is image-heavy, apologies for those with screen readers! I’ve done my best to alt-text the images!

retrospring is shutting down on 1 March 2025, sad times. sadge the good news is there’s some replacements springing up here and there… vwv I’ve already begun migrating to melospring and changed my footer to reflect that. I’ll still be on retrospring until it’s taken offline next year, but melospring is where I’ll be from now on.

I kind of fell off the habit of bullet journaling recently; it’s a little difficult to maintain bc I’m still deciding how I want to track my days, so I’m a little sporadic about maintaining it, but I’m trying to get back into it. What better time to pick it back up than bujo day (8/8)?

lately, my daily logs are looking pretty minimal and a big change from how they began.

two days spread over two pages in a B6 size notebook with grid paper. The days are written in with pink highlighter. The top section has the date, day of the week, and weather pictured, and is divided from the rest of the day's entry by flower washi tape. There is a main area with notes written, a small area to the right with goals written, a large water-drop shape with each line filled indicating 8 ounces of water (it spans 8 lines), and has a food diary at the bottom of each page for that day.
how it started.

as a disabled person, an entire page for each day feels a little wasteful, since I don’t really do enough to take up a whole page (which isn’t really true, but I’m not in the habit of filling it out every day and that does feel wasteful). I have a bad habit of getting very focused on whatever thing I am working on and forgetting to eat, and keeping a food diary helped me make sure I was eating enough every day, same with the water drop stencil; I was using it to track my water intake (each row is one water bottle’s worth).

four days spread over two pages in a B6 size notebook with grid paper. The entries are divided with ribbon-decorated washi tape and a squiggly purple line drawn with highlighter. Pictured in the middle is a Jinhao 82 pen in rose pink.
where we are now.

Speaking of bujo: I’ve been buying some new inks, and even received one for my birthday~!

in the foreground are two inks, a bottle of Sailor Ink Studio 130 on the left, and a small scientific sample bottle filled with a mixture of two inks on the right, the liquids are pink (left) and deep purple (right). in the background, atop a closed watercolor palette are five inks arranged neatly, on the left side are two matching bottles, one with pink ink and one with a deep teal. In the middle, a larger bottle filled with a deep blue-black color. To the right are two matching bottles, one on the left is a bright cherry pink, and the one on the right has a more muddy reddish peach color. In the far background is a pink textile with strawberries decorating it, and cherry blossom photo stickers and sparkle brushes have been used to digitally enhance the image.
from left to right, back row to front row: Memory branded Chinese ink in ‘hyacinth orchid,’ and ‘jade dew,’ PenBBS ink in ‘Chongqing City Blue’, Collection Traced inks in ‘sakura dream’ and ‘peach fog,’ Sailor ink studio in ‘130,’ and a bottled mixture of Chongqing City Blue and memory hyacinth orchid.

image of the same B6 grid notebook with a blank entry begun, a washi tape with an alternating pattern of flowers and diamond-shapes (like the card suit) iis taped across the top of the page. In the foreground is a piece of white cardstock with ink samples on it. The first is a pink sample that says 'This is the pink' and has a squiggle drawn next to it. On the second line is a teal ink sample saying 'The teal ♡', and on the third line spanning three lines itself is a sample saying 'and the 'black' (it's actually dark purple)'
writing sample of the first few inks I purchased, top to bottom: memory hyacinth orchid & jade dew, PenBBS Chongqing City Blue.

a small spiral-bound notebook with pinkish red lines printed on it displays three ink samples. The first reads 'Jinhai 82 Sakura Dreams M' and is written in a pale pink color. The second reads 'Jinhao 82F Peach Fog' and is written in a slightly darker shade of pinkish peach. The third line reads 'Platinum Little Meteor F' and has a └ character drawn beneath it pointing to text that reads 'Sailor 130.'
samples of the pink inks I got for my birthday, top to bottom: collection traced sakura dreams & peach fog, sailor ink studio 130.

A very zoomed in photo of a date entry from the same grid notebook as before that has written across the top in purple highlighter: 'MON JUL.' Beneath that is a sample of some purple custom mixed ink reading 'OK but that SHADING THO!,' the word THO is underlined. The ink displays a quality called shading, where thinner areas of lines appear lighter in color, and thicker lines appear darker, usually toward the bottom of letter formations, like the ink is pooling slightly in those areas. The text is still legible.
writing sample of the ink I mixed by hand, a blend of PenBBS Chongqing City Blue and memory hyacinth orchid.

I would like to get one more dark colored reddish ink for mixing some of the lighter pinks and deepening them without altering the color too much, I’ve been looking at a bottle of memory ‘acacia’ ink, since I really like the shading of these inks, and they’re pretty cheap on aliexpress (~$8 for 18ml); which reminds me: I have a bottle of memory ‘philodendron,’ a lovely lake blue color headed my way, along with two more platinum little meteors (the other two sanrio special edition collabo’s I want, a blue one for cinnamoroll, and a purple for hello kitty - these do not come with converters in case you were looking at them!) xD

Atop a lavender and pink mousemat, four pens are visible, arranged into horizontal lines. The topmost pen is a rose pink, nearly opaque, with gold accent Jinhao 82. Beneath that pen is a Jinhao 82 in sparkly peacock blue with gold accents that is extremely translucent. Beneath that pen is the same model as the top two, but in translucent sparkly rose red. At the bottom of the lineup sits a larger pen, a Platinum Little Meteor sparkly pink-bodied translucent pen that has white lettering and a small image of the Sanrio character My Melody, a rabbit with a flower on her hood, which covers her ears. A sparkly filter has been applied to the image.
my current pen collection, from top to bottom: Three Jinhao 82s, a M nib in rose pink, and two F nibs in transparent peacock blue and transparent rose red, and a Platinum Little Meteor Sanrio special edition in My Melody pink.

yes, I realize this is probably more pens than any one person needs, but I am still very much learning & playing around with inks and the pens I’ve ordered are all gorgeous, so I feel okay splurging a little and spoiling myself. aww

speaking of which, people have asked to see my stationery stash, so here’s a photo of my stationery drawer currently (there’s more than this, but it’s put away in my crafting room until I use these up vwv) (as you can see it’s mostly stickers, followed by washi, with a spot for my bujo and regular journal (under the sumikko gurashi sticker booklets)

pretty much everything here I’ve gathered from aliexpress, with the exception of the glue stick, which my husband grabbed from a local crafting store. (thanks husband!) xD

An open drawer revealing a wealth of stationery inside. We can see upside-down bright blue lids that have been repurposed to hold various items. On the leftmost side are spools of small stickers on huge rolls like tape. within that box sits a smaller purple box with loose stickers and a few sticker books inside. To the right of that is a pink box with no lid housing many rolls of washi tapes in various pastel colors with shiny gold lamé accents and a translucent peach-pink clip like one might use to hold open a notebook. to the right of that are the same pens from the above image loose within the drawer, and to the right of those are a large square notebook with a green cover and two smaller A6-sized sumikko gurashi (san-x character) sticker books. behind those we can see about ⅓ of two other repurposed boxes in the background. The leftmost one has a few washi tapes in it, a small pair of cat paw-shaped scissors, and a glue stick. The one to the right of it has another clip and six dispensers of decorative tape in it. A sparkly filter has been used on the image.
my stationery drawer in my desk

The same drawer from a side angle, we can see more details of some of the stickers, and also the bottom edge of the desk, a mousemat atop it, and a translucent pink wrist rest. Visible from this angle amore clearly are the designs on some of the washi tape: strawberries, cute cat illustrations, clouds, stars, bubbles, gingham, bubble tea, stars, and hearts. We can also see more detail of the sticker rolls: bunnies, bears, heart and angel motifs, bakery motifs with bread, aprons, cooking utensils, and the like. there are also rolls of stickers with words and kaomoji on them, and two rolls of sparkly holographic stickers with various snacks & drinks, and another with animals and crepes. The decorative tapes in dispensers, we can see one has hearts on it and is housed in a pink shell. Also, there is a pink cloud-shaped washi tape with gold stars visible from this angle more clearly.
a closer look: rolls of stickers, a box of washi, deco tapes, pens, and more!

published: 2024.08.09
by mana

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