I got my new BuJo

Hope you are all having a good week.

This post is a little bit overdue but I am still excited about the new journal that I got about 6 weeks ago.

I treated myself to the Leuchtturm 1917 which is one of the ones recommended by lots of other BuJo-ers and is a notebook with an index in the front and space to jot down all of the ideas afterwards.

I chose the dotted notebook as I felt that lines or squares could be too restrictive if I ever got into making my BuJo pretty but I knew that I would struggle writing without any direction so I couldn't cope with a blank notebook.

It's too pretty that I almost daren't start to write in it.

It has this little pouch in the back to add in anything that won't quite fit in the journal itself.

Being so brave as I am. I quickly came to decide that this was the easiest option for the first way to include the first thing in my new journal.

Only a couple of days earlier we had received this letter in the post...

Handwritten envelopes never come through our door so either someone has got my husbands birthday really badly wrong...or he's ordered something off the internet.

It was a lovely letter from the company that we are currently ordering our food boxes from. It has a photo of the guy who handwrite the letter inside as well holding our envelope before it went into the post.

Argh! The first mark in my new book - it had to be my name inside the front cover.

After this I bottled out again for a little while and started instead to stamp and colour onto some plain cream coloured paper that I could then decorate my pages with as I went along. Postponing the actual writing in the nice new book again I guess.

I started off by stamping a few little images that I thought I could use to decorate

 Coloured them in

 And eventually got up the courage to stick them into my book to form a part of my Key dates page for this year

Here is the page completed

I'm pretty pleased with the way that it turned out. Even though this was the first page that I did in my BuJo I think that this is still one of the best ones.

I'll update you again soon with some of the other things that I have been doing and with a few newer pages in my BuJo.