AUGUST BULLET JOURNAL PLAN WITH ME 2022 _ summer & travel spreads

I am very excited for August to be happening because I'm going to be out of the country for a majority of the month. I'm heading to Portugal for three weeks, and yes, I am taking you all along with me for the fun. So if you don't want to miss out on any of that content, make sure you've hit subscribe and the notification bell. And you'll notice that this month's spreads are very much inspired by my destination. So get ready. A big thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. The all-in-one platform I use to run my site, caitlindasilva.com. More on them in a bit. I do my classic spreads in this one, as well as some more travel-fied ones because I'm bringing my journal with me. However, they are definitely adaptable to summer goodness, general summer goodness, whether you're traveling or not, and I'll walk you through some of those changes I'd recommend making with the voiceover. I hope you guys enjoy, and let's get into it. Since I will be spending a decent chunk of my August in Portugal, I figured it'd be fitting to ensure that my bullet journal reflects that. So you'll notice throughout this video me writing a decent amount of the headings in Portuguese. I've used Portuguese in my planner before during months when I want to practice the language a bit more, but I think this is such a fun way to highlight a country you're visiting or want to visit in your planner. I then went in with my Sharpie Estrel pen to outline the calendar and habit trackers. I'm still very much so loving my white casing Estrel pen. It'll be linked below along with links to everything you see me use in today's video. The calendar is a smaller grid style calendar with space at the bottom for me to highlight any major dates. I don't really anticipate using my bullet journal as heavily for planning in August because there's going to be a lot of casual days this month, but I'll probably highlight any travel days here and there. The habit I'm most looking forward to working on in August is, believe it or not, exercising. The last time I was in Portugal, I wasn't as deep into my movement journey as I have been this past year, so I think doing workouts in a new scenery will be fun. I also plan to do a lot of walking around my grandparents' town where there are beautiful views everywhere to feast my eyes on, so it should be a much different experience than walking around the streets of Toronto. Although I love walking around the streets of Toronto. On the bottom right page, I pasted in an image I found off of Pinterest of a building in Portugal. Throughout this video, I pasted in quite a few Portugal photos from Pinterest, so I'll try linking them down below in case you want to pin them or use them in your own spreads. In this particular photo, I adore the tiling that's happening on the building. I think one of my favorite parts about Portuguese buildings, whether it's their exterior or interior, is their use of tile and color. This section next to the photo is the future home of a list of destinations I want to visit while I'm away. It's not a super large area because, as I've mentioned, this is intended to be more of a laid-back visit, so I won't be doing as many super touristy things like my last time there in 2018. Not to interrupt the planning goodness, but we need to have a quick little chat about Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that has made starting, designing, and updating a blog of my own so easy that I've been able to call myself a blogger for over two years! Starting a blog of your own can be a great starting point for your online journey. Squarespace helps make starting as pain-free as possible by offering a plethora of stunning templates to choose from that can help make your website look clean and professional. You then are free to customize things even further by changing each template's fonts, colors, page layouts, and more. When I decided I wanted to create a spot on my site to highlight some of my favorite products, it took me minutes to create a new page that got me excited to fill in. Curious to give Squarespace a try for yourself? I don't blame you. You can check out squarespace.com today for a free trial and use the URL squarespace.com slash caitlinscorner to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain when you're ready to launch. For this next spread, I'm starting off by pasting in some mini photos. My original idea was going to make them look like mini Polaroids, but then I instead decided to add a playful drop shadow to them both. The reason I was inclined to go with a Polaroid doodle look was because these two pages are going to be a space for me to record some memories throughout the month. Just like how you'd look at photos you took on a trip, I want this area to be a great visual reminder whenever I look back on it. So each day during the month of August, I'm going to challenge myself to write down a highlight from the day so that it doesn't get lost in my brain. Whether you're going on a trip or not, this format for a spread is so fun and keeps you looking for those bright moments as you're navigating your day. The layout itself is pretty simple for this because you essentially just need to write down the numbers 1-31 vertically down the page so each day has a designated line for record keeping. I still had some space left on the bottom right page so instead of pasting in more photos, I decided to keep the self-reflection vibes going on this page by creating a rectangle This will most likely be something I fill in towards the end of the month and again is just another way to slow down time a bit. I feel like when we're moving from one day to the next without a pause, the days seem to blend together so those small moments of thinking back on my day, my week, or my month can be really helpful in grounding me. This next spread is probably the most travel-focused spread in this plan with me and although mine is catered towards my flight details, this same concept would be cute for recording details on Airbnb rentals or any day trips you might be doing this month. On the top left page, I am making a designated spot to record the basic details of my flights between Toronto and Portugal, there's a spot for me to record the time of each flight, and the flight number. I find this will be more of a just-for-the-memories kind of thing because a lot more details will be on my phone, if I'm being honest with you. Below that, I pasted in another photo, this one I believe is from Lisbon, the clouds in the photo really were inspiring me and since I also associate clouds with planes, it only felt right to sprinkle in some cloud doodles throughout these two pages. On the bottom left page is a spot for me to just add some quick reminders to look at before heading to the airport. On the right page, as you can already see, I penned in a rectangle for me to use as a things to do list in Portugal, but this can obviously be used as a summer themed activities list. I used those same cloud doodles from the left page to fill in the white space on the header and I purposely made sure one of those clouds started on the top of the left page to keep the two pages feeling really connected together. I also brought back some of that same blush pink from the left page to the title of the things to do page, which also helps connect the two together. I just think the pop of pink works really well here. To ensure I had plenty of room to brainstorm and record ideas, the rectangle on the right got divided into two columns. Lots of space for to-do items. There is something so comforting about creating a weekly layout. Each one I do always comes out different, sometimes in big ways and other times in small details, but each is grounded in the fact that there are always seven slots for seven days of planning. For this weekly spread, I wanted to take a step away from the ruler and really lean into hand-drawn lines. The photo of the ocean on the top right page was a major inspiration for this. Nature is the most wonderful example of perfect imperfections, so it felt wrong to use a ruler for the headings or dividers that separate each day of the week. This spread just created a little bit of imperfection messiness. Each day of the week was given a slightly wonky rectangle for me to record the title and each rectangle eventually got a drop shadow behind it to make it pop out. For as long as I've been bullet journaling, you'd think I'd have gotten sick of drop shadows by now, but I rarely ever regret adding one to a spread. It's a finishing detail that works nearly every time. Another thing I love to do when adding photos to my spread is to use my pen to add some doodles on top of the images. Whether it be a completely new doodle like the sun on the first page or wavy lines following the structure of the image, those doodle add-ins take a generic photo and give it some of my own style and personality. Each day of the week was written in Portuguese starting with Monday, aka Segunda-Feira, and then going through the rest of the days of the week. The real cherry on top moment for this layout was adding the blush pink to the drop shadow. This color has probably been one of my most used colors in my bullet journal. It's just the perfect shade of pink. I clearly can't get enough of it. Favorite spread by far this month was definitely the travel details, things to do spread. It's just visually so pleasing. I'm so proud of myself when it just clicks together like that, and that one just did it for me. But as always, I'm curious to know which was your favorite. Let me know in the comment section down below, as well as if or if you have already been anywhere this summer, any travel destinations, tell that to me in the comments as well. I'm curious to know where you guys are heading to or have been this summer. Thank you again to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. Don't forget to click that link in the description box below to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. There's a lot of exciting videos coming in the near future. I'm pumped. I hope you are too. And don't forget, if you haven't already, subscribe, notification bell. You don't want to miss all the fun. And on that note, I will see you all very soon with a new video, and until then, bye guys. The packing panic is just slightly starting to settle in. I've got a lot to do before I get on that plane. Should probably stop procrastinating on ending this video and get on with some of that to-do list. Just a thought, perhaps something to consider.