 Hi guys, welcome to my year 2017 for September. I am first up out of the gate. Whoo We're gonna start off my week as usual with a share of the previous month and a set up of my pages for September and I'm gonna show you what I did for August. I really love the way the August pages turned out they are just chunky and yummy and fabulous and look at this we went out for ice cream and I saved the plastic spoon punched a hole in it like how fun is that right and yes, it made it chunky, but it just made it fabulous. We've got bits of washi tape and journaling and doodling and It's just really fabulous. I love the way it's turned out And then we have the back side here with pockets and bits and pieces so it's turned out really great I'm really happy with it. So now we're gonna focus on setting up for September I have some particular ideas about how I'm gonna do it and we're gonna discuss the prompt Let me gather a couple of things and I'll be right back Okay, so here is our next signature in my traveler's notebook that I made I get questions all the time about how I made these there is a video for that If you go to the my year 2017 Facebook group There is a getting started document and it has all of the teacher videos for what we were gonna do to get started Including how I made my signatures. So and it's probably if you're watching on YouTube It's probably here on YouTube somewhere. I don't remember what the name of it is though. So but if you're not part of the 2017 Facebook group, maybe you need to be and Go over there and join. It's the easiest way to get some of the free downloads and the links to the videos and all that stuff Okay, so as per usual We've been doing all year a book club. So I want to tip in a tag so I can put in my book club list and I printed this out just a minute ago while I was off camera So we're gonna cut this out Sort of semi well, hopefully I'm doing this without my reading glasses on so Let's see how well I do tape runner. I Don't I usually use tape runner or a glue stick sometimes I use matte medium or gel medium or Elmer's Something that take that requires drying time Not always though because usually I want to work in it pretty quickly Okay Feel like I've crumbs all over my table. You ever to have days like that. I think I need to clean my mat All right So now we're gonna tip this in with some washi tape Got a couple different kinds here, I think I'm gonna use this one This red one with sort of a gold Mandala design on it and I just ripped a piece of it so let's set that to the side We won't waste it So I'm gonna put it about Halfway on to that tag And then I'm going to Lay the tag next to the signature keeping about London. I want eighth of an inch sixteenth of an inch separation between the edge of the tag and the edge of the signature and Then we'll put another piece of tape If you are using washi tape or masking tape That's not super sticky Then you probably want to put some matte medium or other kind of glue underneath it use that little piece that I tore Now we have two I have we I have two birthdays in my family important birthdays in the month of September my daughter Rebecca and my husband Robert and so they're about a week apart one is on the 23rd and one is on the 29th So we are going to decorate. I have these little stickers from I Think they were from a wish. I actually really don't care for them too much Um They I got a refund on them. They didn't want them back Um, but I have them. I guess we'll use some of them There's a balloon one. I don't care for the graphics are kind of blurry and pixelated It's kind of the first time that I've really had an issue with something from them But they were great about it and gave me my money back Of course getting that backing off the stickers is a problem. There we go So we've got some balloons here I'm gonna put these on Rebecca's We want to put more balloons or a cake on Bob's birthday or maybe just a present Oh, or maybe a heart that says happy. I kind of like the balloons Of all the stickers. I really don't care for these. So it's a little hard to decide Because I really don't like the stickers too much. We could do a banner. Let's do a little banner I'm just trying to use them. I have them. I might send some of them out in happy mail So if you all would like some Make sure your name's on a rack list somewhere. I can't get the I can't get the paper off See this would be that was way harder than it needed to be Okay Yeah, I really don't like those. They're a pain in the neck those stickers Now they're all stuck to my mat All right, so I'm going to put a little notation on here And we've got our Tip in in so now we want to decorate so I'm going to go through a bunch of stuff I have I'm going to pull out some of my old maybe rub-ons or stickers Or something to decorate my pages to do something besides what's already on here and I'll be right back Oh, and we will discuss it prompt. I'll be right back. Okay So keeping our prompt for this month in mind I want to start to do a little bit of decorating in the september signature the prompt this month is It's all about you It's all about me Now I encourage you all every month whether the prompt is a simple one or a difficult one Take them outside the box think in a wider scope about them and Really do something wild and crazy whatever speaks to you about that prompt, you know for the prompt is circles and You want to draw a circle and then go outside of it and you know Go outside the borders and create a square I want you to take it outside of the box So for this one when I thought about the prompt when I read the prompt I thought about it more as a question Is it all about you or is it all about me? Right, that's what comes to my mind So with that in mind Do you go forward in life thinking that everything is all about you? Or do you go and Forward in life thinking that everything is all about others about me so You know, we're only human so we Humans tend to be selfish. So we do have our moments where we think everything's all about us But I try really hard to think of the other person and I am going to decorate my signature With that in mind and with the idea in mind that I want to go forward in life At least trying in part to think about others before myself. Yes. Okay, so I'm going to add some stickers and I have lots of word stickers and quote stickers In my two sticker binders I like this one. It really stands out to me this morning every day may not be good But there is good in every day. I love that and to me that just resonates with the prompt really really well Um Success just doesn't come and find you you have to go out and get it. I love that be present put your positive pants on It's cute. I like that. So I also have some This is also from uh wish Or aliexpress one of the two, but I've seen it on both These are some more little stickers and these are a little cactus plant stickers Um that I got recently. They're so cute. So I think I'm going to use some of those in my journal And I also got these bookmarks Which I got with the intention of using them in my journal and they're all like Botanical prints. So I'm going to go forward. I'm going to decorate my journal And I'll be right back pretty simple But I could I could keep going and add a lot more to it But then there won't be any room as the month goes along to do any journaling Which is not the point We need to be able to put some other stuff in there. I did try to Keep the quotes I put in here Ones that reminded me about Going forward doing things for others Of course as well as yourself. You have to take care of yourself, but Living in the moment making today count Really putting yourself forward to help out your family your friends your community And just being more giving and less selfish So that's it for right now I have Some more stuff coming this week. I think it's pretty exciting at least one special thing and If you're not a member of the my year 2017 facebook group, but you'd like to be You can look at the description below the video and the link is in there You can also find A link list to all the different places that you can find me on the internet including my amazon shop My book over my amazon shop my etsy shop my book over at amazon My website my happy mail address all of that stuff is in the description below or there's links to a list A link tree Of all the different places that you can find me on the internet So check it out. Don't forget to like share and subscribe share with your friends and join us in the my year 2017 facebook group and Yes, we're going to be doing this going forward for 2018. We've decided so Watch out for that because we'll be announcing that pretty soon. All right. That's it for today Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys