My 2020 Bullet Journal

I was going to do my December recap today, but I decided I'm not ready to do that or the 2020 recap post I had planned for Thursday, so today I'm giving you a look through my 2020 bullet journal instead. My December recap will be pushed back to Thursday and my 2020/2021 post to Monday (hopefully).

This is my fourth year bullet journaling and I am really happy with the way it looks this year. I think I'm finally starting to hit my stride. I didn't have any themes that I looked back on and thought "bleh" about, which is a first. There are some I might have been able to do better, but I still love this year's bujo. I'll stop rambling now and jump right in.

I started off with all my goal and planning pages for 2020. Who knew things would change so much in one year? This is the area where I felt like I didn't use it as much as I would have liked. A lot of spreads aren't filled out or only half used.

For example, this year in pictures spread which I gave up on after March happened

My January theme was gold, art deco, Roaring 20s theme inspired by ones I saw some of my favorite bullet journalers do. I love this theme, even if it smudged in a few places because gel pens take forever to dry.

February didn't have a specific theme, I just wanted to use my pink Tombow markers, so this is what I came up with.

Ah, March. The month the world went up in flames. In spite of that, I like this theme too. It's a green shamrock theme. I especially like the lettering style I used.

I think April might be my most creative and favorite month of 2020. (In my bujo. Not in real life.) I copied this book cover page from Pinterest and made all these creative weekly layouts and spreads using books.

Just look how fun this is!

I also made this bored spread for the middle of lockdown. It did help.

One of my reading goals was to re-read the whole set of Middle Earth books, so I made this spread to track it. I'm only on The Two Towers, as you can see, but this spread helped a lot and was fun to make.

Another of my favorite months. I did a Star Wars theme! It was so fun to do all these doodles and graphics.

I also made this fun collage and tried watercolor in my journal

June had a strawberry theme. I do think if I did this theme again I would make the strawberry leaves lighter, because I didn't like how dark they are.

In July I played around with colored pencil in my bullet journal. I'd never tried them before and it gave the whole thing a different look. Would I use them again? Probably.

I also made this stress relief spread for after I went back to work and was having a hard time. Even if the lettering looks creepy.

For August I did another movie theme, this time a Teen Beach Movie/1950s inspired one. I had a lot of fun playing around with lettering and bright 1950s colors.

A birthday spread I made!

September had a jewel theme. I found a great Pinterest infographic on how to draw gems, which is why this looks so good.

After all the doodling of the previous months, I wanted something super simple for October. I went with a mostly black and white Halloween inspired theme. There are cute little ghosts and bats on everything. I even used stickers! And stamps!

I also tried out the Alistair Method weekly spread, which worked great

November I still felt like something kind of simple, so I did this abstract sort of theme. I made blobs of color and drew doodles and used washi tape. It was fun.

My NaNoWriMo wordcount and rewards spread.

And now we come to December. I decided to do a cookie theme. I used a nice warm brown to make the cookies and a white gel pen to "ice" them. It is super relaxing to draw them.

That brings us to the end of 2020. I hope you enjoyed taking a look into my bujo. This year might have been hard, but looking back through it helps remind me it wasn't all bad.

Did you keep a bullet journal this year? Which of these themes is your favorite? Tell me in the comments!

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