My Favorite Things: 2021

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Keep It Together // February 2021

This year is already flying. Help!

Hello All! It's time for Keep It Together! :) Woohoo!

I am excited to post today with Lauren at Shooting Stars Mag and Rebecca Jo from Knit by God's Hand for our Keep It Together linkup!

If you're new here, this is our linkup for all things planners, memory keeping, and journalling. Please feel free to join us on the third Thursday of the month with any posts that fall into those categories! :)

Planning & Goals:

DIY Planner - RIP to my beautiful DIY planner. Scalawag (our pirate cat) knocked over an entire 24 oz glass of water onto many of my items I keep around.

And the planner was a sad casualty. I will likely do something with it... but for now... I am defaulting to the moon phase planner that I purchased, but arrived a little bit late to start the year with.

Moon Planner

Here are some glimpses into my moon planner. I got it from Nikki Strange in the UK. I always love her designs, so I was super excited to see that she made a planner as well. I also bought her cosmic flow book... which I have not dove into yet.

The planner has all of the normal planner basics that you would expect, but also has information about moon phases in general and some planning information to start your year. It also includes dates of the full moons and new moons.

Each month you will get a new moon intention setting page, and a full moon reflection page, as well as other prompts to reflect on as the moon phases go along. I like that this also focuses on which house the moon is in each month.

So far, it's been interesting and works for my "new normal" planning. I'd like to get more into it as we go.

Will keep away from the cat. *sigh*

Memory Keeping:

I am not doing a ton of scrapbooking yet this year, but I did make two gift albums for my MIL and SIL for Christmas, and I can't wait to share them with you here next month! :)

I am having issues with my phone storage and uploading photos and videos to youtube and my computer, so hopefully I can get this all up in March! :)

Up Next:

More work in my planner, more research on planning by the moon, and hopefully some scrapbooking in there! I really need to take some time to re-organize my supplies!! So that probably comes first!

What are you guys up to?

HOPE THAT YOU ARE ALL STAYING WARM AND WELL!

XO,

Alexandra

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Keep It Together // January 2021

WOW! It has been a long time. Happy 2021, Friends!

December I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted for this space, and blogging. I haven't been much of a blogger in a while, but I think I am going to try to bring it back, both reading and posting. And see how it goes. So, hello! I missed you all! (thank goodness for Instagram in-between!)

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Hello All! It's time for Keep It Together! :) Woohoo!

I am excited to post today with Lauren at Shooting Stars Mag and Rebecca Jo from Knit by God's Hand for our Keep It Together linkup!

Planning & Goals:

Setting Goals & Wonder Manifesto

This year I did the "wonder manifesto" reflection that I did last year, again. I found it so helpful in determining what I wanted the year to be and feel like, and it legitimately helped me make decisions all year long last year. I'm excited to keep up with that again this year, and will share some photos of it soon!

Planning by the Moon:

You might remember that I recently started planning by the moon.

(the general idea): I have also been trying setting intentions with the new moon. You basically decide what you'd like to accomplish and focus on within the next month, and set those things as your intentions. The goal would be to revisit them on the full moon, and see which ones are in progress, and which need to be re-shaped or let go of. Then on the next new moon you review the process and reflect, choosing new (or the same) intentions. I have only been doing it for a few months, but I think it has been generally interesting and useful. I'm excited to dive into it a bit more.

I am continuing to do that this year and have purchased a few books to learn more about it, and also a journal and "planner" which I am just using to plan moon-wise.

DIY Planner:

Lastly, I decided that I had SO many old planners, and scrapbooking supplies, that I could not justify buying a new planner... and I couldn't pick one that I liked. SO, I am making my own this year. I am using a notebook that I picked up at Target last year and a bunch of scraps and scrapbooking supplies to make a planner/bullet journal situation. So far it's been pretty easy and fun. I am enjoying the creative outlet!