Hello everyone!Ā ā„
First of all Iād like to thank you so much for all the love youāve showed to my January setup! You guys are the best!
Since itās theĀ World Whale DayĀ on theĀ 16th of February, I thought it would be very appropriate to go for a whale theme this monthĀ š³. The World Whale Day is a way to celebrate these extraordinary and very intelligent creatures as well as to raise awareness on the continuing need to protect them. There is a very inspiring video onĀ Tedx Talks, on which Peggy Oki talks about how she founded the Origami Whales Project in order to raise awareness about commercial whaling in Japan, Norway and Iceland. I would highly recommend for you to watch it.
So, letās see how Iāve setup my Dingbats* notebook for February.
The first page is, as always, myĀ cover pageĀ for the month. I decided to add a little whale that looks really cute. Lately Iām enjoying adding little phrases or words next to my drawings. Itās my way to give the drawing more character and also to pass a message through it. So, since itās February I thought it would be very appropriate for the little whale to ask: āWhale you be my Valentine?ā. I also like to play with the words and instead of āwillā I wrote āwhaleā.
All through the setup I kept the colour palette very minimal and I used only blue, grey and black with a few touches of pink. As always you can see all theĀ suppliesĀ Iāve used at the end of this post.
The next page is myĀ monthly spread. I went back to my normal one-page grid that I find very easy to use. The size of each box is 4x5 squares. To keep up with the theme, I added the tale of a whale and used my Tombow markers as watercolours to get the shading right.
Ā Moving on, this month I decided to use someĀ individual trackers. I got inspired by the lovelyĀ AmandaRachLeeĀ on YouTube and added 6 boxes for the things I want to track this month. In January I started working out again more consistently, and Iām also on a very healthy diet. Therefore, itās important for me to track things like: workout, healthy eating and my water consumption. Iām also planning to start aĀ PatreonĀ account and to add lots of new stickers on myĀ Etsy Shop, so I wanted to track how many days I work on each one.
Of course I had to add another cute whale at the bottom of the page that is there to remind me to ādream bigā.
Lastly, but not least, comes myĀ weekly spread. I used one of the very first layouts that I liked to use 3 years ago in my bullet journal and that is still one of my favourites. On the left page there are 2 sections for each day of the week where I plan miscellaneous events and tasks for my work. On the right page, I added a to-do list for all the things I want to remind myself to do in those 7 days. Of course you can add any other section you want on that page, like meal planning, weather, weekly tracker etc. I love the little whale at the bottom of the page and I think he loves me tooĀ šš³
So, this is my February setup with the whale theme. I hope that you liked it and that youāve found it helpful and inspiring.
Iām wishing you all an amazing month, full of planning and organisation.
Christina x
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