Hello and welcome to m February Bullet Journal post!

If you didn't see my last post for January, then check it out here.

So for this month, I'm just going to run through what my spreads looked like, and also any additions I have made for the beginning of March!

So this week was the week that I realised keeping up with how many hours sleep I'd had and what I'd eaten was getting a bit difficult. I also thought that my notes section was getting a bit useless because I could just write it in the day sections...

... so I scrapped the sleep/meal tracker all together, and replaced the notes section with a quote section, where I will write a quote that is relevant to that week.

So as you can see here, I worked a lot alongside uni so I put in a quote about being tired.

I wanted to switch up my weekly thoughts page and have some kind of structure, but for this week I was too busy to keep up with that idea!

This is the spread for this current week, I'm happy with everything in it, and I have marked it with a pink tab to show it is a new month! How is it March already?

Here is a better idea of my thoughts page, I blurred it out because it's personal haha. But I'm writing the day, and a quick overview of the day and my feelings.

So because it is March, I have done another monthly overview, and it's my birthday this month!!! I turn 21!

On the next page, I have a 3 Day Rule page. This means that is I see something I like, I will write it in here with the date, and then 3 days later I will come back to it and if I still want it, I'll buy it, if not then I won't. I'll put a tick or a cross as to whether I bought it or not.

I haven't done a spending spread because I didn't us it in February AT ALL, kinda annoyed that I wasted a page haha!

My final 2 pages so far look like this. On the left I have chores for the month, so things I want to get tidies up in my room! And on the right I have a self care tracker for the month. While I have the weekly tracker of things I want to do, these are the things I feel I should do in order to look after myself. Rather thsn have a green/red system like my weekly tracker, I am just going to mark the box if I've done it, or leave it blank if I haven't.

I hope you enjoyed this post, I really like doing these and hopefully I'll stay on track and have one monthly for you!

See you Monday!

Layla x

Hey there!

Today I wanted to share with you my bullet journal. As one of my goals for this year, I wanted to start bullet journaling, and I have somehow stuck to it!

I'm finding it really useful to have one as it makes it quite easy to organise my plans, as well as being a helpful took to write thoughts and such down into.

Obviously, this is just my journal, there are hundreds of ways you can style yours, I just thought I would share mine, and I might make these monthly posts.

I have a lined bullet journal, mainly because I could go out and buy it straight away and I was too impatient to wait for the shipping of a dotted one, but the lines don't really bother me to be honest.

So, let's get into it!

First of all, I have this sticker that I got from a Lamoda package years ago. I plan to fill this page with stickers, this was just a start.

I'm going to apologise now for what seems like a smudge on some of the pages, it's actually my camera lens, I need to get it cleaned!

But here we have my contents page. I number all of the pages I use so I can find them easily.

I then have a blank double spread to continue the contents page on.

On this page, I did my 2016 review. I wrote down each month in different colours, and then wrote the main events of those months, good or bad.

Throughout this post, I have blurred out any information I don't want to share.

Then I have my 2017 overview with all the dates and months, and also my goals foe 2017. Yes, that's right, I can't swim.

The next spread is Books To Read, and Deadlines. I actually need to write in my new deadline for my new module. I got the deadline idea from a pre-made diary that was in Paperchase and I thought it was really useful to have ti keep track.

Annoyingly, this page fell out, I need to tape it back in.

Then I have some blog ideas and YouTube ideas... If I ever start a YouTube.

Here is my Gift List and Wish List. The Gift List is ideas I have for presents for people. I often see things that i think are good ideas, and then when it comes to their birthday, I've forgotten, so I thought it was handy to make a note. On my Wish List, I have put "bigger" things on there that are more expensive, as opposed to "oh I really want that book".

Then I have a places to visit list, where I think I will also put ideas for days out. Next to that, I have this birthday wheel. I actually saw this on Pinterest, and I loved it!

I've then got a list of social media influencers who I really like, and also a Car Log. I wanted to keep a log so I can track how much I spend on my car (clue: a lot).

Now we come to my weekly spreads. I have each day, a habits tracker for the week, tasks, notes and my weekly shifts/pay.

At the start of each month, I'm putting a pink tab.

On each day, I have a section to track the amount of sleep I had that night, and a section to track whether I've eaten each meal that day.

My tracker consists of: Reading, Meditating (which as you will see, I'm useless at), Exercising, Taking a Photo and Blogging.

I want to take a photo everyday, and I only post 3 times a week, but I want to make sure that I am getting those posts up.

On the second week, I tried a Weekly Thoughts page, sort of like a brain dump. I also put an envelope there to keep things from the week, so in that week I went to see A Monster Calls with my best friend. I was also clearly very tired that week, my deadline was the following week.

I have tabbed these with orange tabs.

I messed up my tracker on this week haha But I really like this way of doing a weekly spread, it works well for me so I have kept it.

In my tasks section, I tick off completed task and either cross or leave the uncompleted ones. A specific key kind of confuses me, so I don't have one.

Here is a good example of how to fix a mistake.

I had written in the wrong days, and had started on Monday, not Sunday. So I used some white coloured washi tape and just stuck a couple of layers over and re-wrote it. Embrace the mistakes! While neat bullet journals are nice to look at, I don't think they are an accurate representation of life.

The next spread is a song I wrote down. This song is a favourite of mine, but also personal, so I left it out. I think I'm going to write in songs I like here and there, as I've always loved lyrics.

Now we have come to this week! Because we have started a new month, I have put down a pink tab.

I've blurred out Friday's post, so if you want to know what it is, then you should come back Friday and see ;D

Then I have a double spread of Goals For Feb and Spending Feb, just so I can keep track of what I want to do, and my money!

Then I have a page called 21. This is a future blog post idea that I want to plan out. I've decided that if I do anymore of these in future, they will be green tabs.

I then have an overview of the month to write in any key dates.

I decided this week that I wanted another Thoughts page. Again, in the envelope I have a cinema ticket, this time from T2 Trainspotting which I saw with my boyfriend.

I thought I would show you a blank weekly spread, in case you were interested. I don't do all of my weekly spreads a once, just in case I want to do a Thoughts page, or maybe something else.

Finally, on the very back page, I keep the tabs, and there is also a pocket but I haven't used that yet.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and that maybe it has given you ideas for your journal, or even an insight to what one is/can be like.

I think I'm going to make these monthly posts, and do an overview each month!

Thanks for reading

Layla x

Hi!

Today I am bringing you a really simple, but effective, DIY.

You'll need an old bottle (I really liked the shape of this one, and it has a proper cork in the top)

A string of fairy lights, battery powered would be more ideal. I got these from Primark last year, but they always have some in.

And you'll also need batteries if they are battery powered.

Start feeding the lights into the top of the bottle. Because these ones are copper wired, it was easier for me to bend and shape them as they stayed in place. However, I reckon a fuller string of fairy lights would look pretty cool too.

Switch the lights on and voila! I know this is so super easy, but I think it's a great idea and adds a very simple but different look to just regular fairy lights.

I keep mine on my cabinet alongside some other things and I think it looks really cute!

Thanks for reading!

Layla x

Hey there!

Last week, my boyfriend and I took a trip to Thorpe Park. We went last Tuesday, which as you may know if you're British, it was the hottest day of the year! And it showed.

We left really early, and I was perfectly fine in shorts, a tank and a very thin cardigan.

And it only got hotter.

When we first arrived, we were warned that it was going to be very busy because of the weather, but we'd driven the whole way there so it would have been a waste. We also had a two for one ticket, which made it a bit cheaper, but it also cost £6 for parking.

The first ride we went on was Colossus. And boy was I scared. I am one of those people who is petrified when I first get on a roller-coaster, and then once I get off I wanna go on again.

Colossus was pretty fast, it had a loop and a barrel roll at the end. It was definitely a loopy ride, but it wasn't very fast... well it was, but it seemed to take a while to get round. It's hard to explain.

Then we queued up for nemesis Inferno. Only I ended up getting heatstroke and had to leave the queue. I told my boyfriend to carry on waiting, as we'd waited for ages and I didn't want him to miss out. I went and sat in the shade and had some water and all was fine.

After we'd eaten, the queues had gotten HUGE. I'm talking an hour's wait time or more. And barely any queue had shade, which might have resulted in another heatstroke incident. We ended up going on the Rapids as they had a pretty short wait time, considering that there was lots of rings and you could fit in 8 people at a time.

Then we decided that it was getting pretty ridiculous, so we bought a fast track ticket for £6 each to go on Nemesis Inferno, as I was gutted I'd missed out.

Nemesis is a very cool ride. The track is on the outside of the car, so you're kinda hanging off in the seat? Very bad, and somewhat terrifying explanation, I know. But it means you don't really feel any of the drops or twists or turns, I didn't even scream once. If you've been to Alton Towers, I'd describe it as similar to Air.

Then we decided to check out Saw as Matt wanted to go on it (not for me). But the wait time was probably the longest, which was a huuuuge queue. So after that, we decided to leave and go to the hotel.

We stayed at a Premier Inn just 20 minutes from the park. We were so tired, we ended up napping for two hours as it had been a long day.

It was a very nice hotel, and they also cooked me vegetarian sausages in the morning which was super cool! 

Overall, I enjoyed Thorpe Park, the few rides we managed to get on. If we go again, we'll probably go on a drizzly day in term time so we don't end up getting caught up in a load of kids!

Thanks for reading!

Layla x

Hello!

Today I wanted to talk about becoming vegetarian, and share a few things about what I've been eating since I made the change.
Before I start, I want to point out that I am in no way saying that you MUST become vegetarian/vegan, nor am I condemning meat eaters, I ate meat for 20 years so I can't really say anything. I just want to talk about why I made the switch and my personal choice.

So, about 4 months ago now, I was eating a piece of steak, and halfway through my meal I began to feel sick. Not in a food poisoning type of way, but in a "I am eating a dead animal" kind of way. This wasn't the first time it had happened, but on that particular occasion, it really did affect me. I was just chewing and chewing and it was vile, I didn't want to swallow any of the steak. And then that was when I realised that it just wasn't for me. I felt disgusted that I was eating animals, and I didn't know how up until that point I had differentiated from eating a cow but not eating my pet dogs. They're all animals who can see, feel, live.

So that night, I sat down with my grandparents and told them my decision, and they fully supported it. A few of my friends did have a giggle, but I can't blame them. I ate meat for two meals a day, everyday, and I was going to go cold turkey (But not literally, Haha. No?).

It was actually a lot easier to make the change than I thought it would be. At first, it was hit and miss. I'm not really a huge fan of vegetables, which I get is my main food source as a veggie. But when they're combined, such as in vegetable lasagna, I don't mind them so much. But as the months have gone on, I have discovered more and more things that I like to eat!

Some of my favourite things are cheesy pasta, Linda McCartney sausages and sausage rolls (really, the sausage rolls are such a great snack!), vegetable lasagna, Quorn beef curry, Quorn beed chilli and eggs with waffles. A few other things I like to have as snacks are cheese toasties, super noodles (the bacon ones are veggie, guys!) I also love these fries that you can get from Makro, seriously good. Then there are also the typical, carrots, grapes, apples, bananas etc, but I thought that would be pretty obvious!

A lot more things are vegetarian than you would expect, for instance, beef and tomato pot noodles haha. But there are other things that aren't vegetarian that surprised me, such as Moams and Milky Bar Yoghurts.

At the moment, I'm still in a learning curve. I'm discovering what is veggie, what isn't, what I do and don't like. But every single day I'm getting a step further away from eating meat. Like I said before, this isn't a post to make you feel guilty if you do eat meat, it's a post to just share my journey, and the happy life change I have made.

Thanks for reading,

Layla x

Hello!

Last week, my boyfriend and I went to the National Motorcycle Museum, and I thought I would just share with you a few photos I took :)

Entry is £8.95 and you can find the website here: http://www.nationalmotorcyclemuseum.co.uk/

Thanks for reading!

Layla x