 so what you're about to see is my little video I put together to show and how to show you all how I was going to go about finishing up the May section for my my my year 2017 journal I I just let it sit for a few weeks and I did it like half the month and then I just let it go so I thought there might be some of you others out there who are trying to document your year and you might have the same issue where life just gets in the way and you do collect your bits but then you never put them in and so that maybe you might want to see somebody else who does the same thing and how how I solve that problem so it's kind of a long video it's part of the my year 2017 Facebook group if you're not part of that group and you'd like to be the link is in the description below so check it out and here we go this is just a little bit of a bonus video but like I said it's kind of a long chatty one I decided to chat through it so to fast forward so if you you may like it you may not let me know in the in the comments if you have any questions let me know alright that's it I'll be back in a bit hey guys how are you today can you see the mess on my desk all right it is I'm such a bad example for you all it is June but I don't even know days it's Monday June 5th and I have yet to close out my year 2017 journal for May that's right I said May this is why my desk looks this way now maybe you're like me I wasn't gonna film this but then I thought hmm maybe you're like me and you you know documented part of the month or you got the month ready to document and you collected all you your bits but they just never went in there then what do you do then you just kind of feel like I just don't even want to even put them in stop don't think that way let's we're gonna put them in and I'm gonna show you my thinking behind what I've kept and what I've kept that I'm not gonna stick in there and why what I've kept that will go in there what I've kept that I knew when I kept it was just extra and something I was gonna do something else with alright so let's get going I'm gonna try to keep this short and sweet to no guarantee so okay so here is my travellers notebook that I've been using this this year and this is May and I this is as far as I got in here looks cute what I did looks great but you know I didn't do too much more so let's fix that shall we now I don't know about timelines on most of the things there is a couple of things I do know or have a timeline for my anniversary my daughter's graduation which are towards the middle or end of the month and then Mother's Day was in there but I don't remember what day that was was it the 21st I don't even know see I didn't even write it down doesn't matter all right so we're gonna start with the thing that I think happened towards the beginning of the month or at least before other things and that would be my cousin and his wife adopting a sweet little baby boy that was a lot of fun to celebrate that with them and I have a copy of the invitation that I want to somehow some way use in here and I think what I want to do is just something like that let's see there's a better place to put it yeah I think I'm gonna follow my instinct and I'm gonna stick it here I'm gonna just staple it in I like the industrial look of staples it's just oh except you have to have staples in there it's just something that I really enjoying at the moment and I like the industrial sort of messy look of them the imperfect to look so let's grab some and this is the Tim Holt's tiny attach for those that don't know you can get it at any of your stores that carry ranger products they usually have this and use a coupon so the little boy's name is Carlos he's adorable little boy and I'm so happy for my cousin and his wife that works I love it all right next let's take some of these which are from I had my first sponsored video paid for sponsored video that this at the end of May actually air June 1st but the process happened in May with graphic stock these are some of the stickers I made from some of their images so I am going to use some of them in my journal I really love some of the images that I was able to make into stickers and of course we'll write on here that was a lot of fun to celebrate them although I do have to say that it was down at near Gilroy, California and they picked a day that was almost 100 degrees it was really hot all right let's put those to the side and then we did here's our book club and this is celebrating the donation to the women's shelter that was a lot of fun to do here's another blank space and I am going to take some of these green tickets and are on my table this is one of these things that I would collect to use in my journal knowing I'm not going to use all of them and I'm going to put the rest of them in my stash of stuff so I'm going to tear off like three of them and these I'm going to keep and I'm going to go I have a little bin of tickets so these are going to go in the bin and this is going to go here I do these sticky tape double stick tape let's get some out and this it was a another charity event that we went to this last month called Hot Wheels for Kids it's a fundraising charity for foster care that my husband go to every year it is organized by one of my husband's Masonic brethren and it is a old car show and they had a bunch of beautiful cars and I of course took some pictures and I got this one of a old Chevy that's just of the hood kind of an artistic shot I might try to paint it someday although I won't do as good as some artists I know out there like Andrew Alexander Coupe she does a fabulous job of course I'll never be able to match hers but I may have to try it it's a really good shot so we're going to put that there then I have sort of a funny picture here of my coffee cup and my inhaler and allergy meds I made a joke about you know the breakfast of champions being that it's going to be one of those kind of months or seasons where I'm just taking loads of allergy medicine put that there on our anniversary my husband actually went out and I went out for Chinese food and we're in the midst of some home renovations so we wanted to not really spend a lot of money because we're sort of getting each other a new bathroom this year for all the holidays we're spending so much money it's just all the holidays but we and we also love Chinese food and this was in one of my fortune one of our fortune it was in my fortune cookie and can you read that it says you will soon miss witness a miracle it's all I thought that was great so I'm gonna actually stick that right on the calendar because I love that that was my phone sorry throw these away so now of course now let's stop and do some more journaling okay turn the page we've got some more space to work with we've got more stuff all right my daughter graduated college this month you guys was a big deal but I think we're gonna do we're gonna do Mother's Day first for Mother's Day they all asked me when I wanted and like I've already said didn't want to spend a lot of money but I did say I want us all to spend some time together I'd like to go to Santa Cruz I'd like to go to the art supply store and so I was able to do that I needed a few things I'd saved up and we just went walking around the area we love to go down there on the main street and there's a couple of used music stores there one of them had this really great card advertising some sort of concert but I mean I had to pick that up how do you not pick that up so we're gonna we're gonna tip that in I got a smashed penny at the boardwalk at one of the splash penny machine so we're gonna stick that in we had a really great lunch at this Italian delicatessen and the kids got me a dick like gift card and don't you love the way the kids signed it future son-in-law they're hilarious okay so for the penny let's do the penny first you can put these things in your journal you have to of course use appropriate glue it's a heavy metal thing e6000 of course would work extra heavy gel medium also works use what you have and I think it's easier for me to get to the gel medium so we're gonna do that here it is because we're gonna pretend that I do know where my e6000 is but I just can't reach it or something we're gonna just pretend that I don't I haven't misplaced it again so I'm gonna just take a blob of gel medium I'm a butter the back of the penny I've done this many times and then you just want to push it down you want some to little squeeze out around the edges it's gonna take a while to dry so when you're done you're gonna have to hold your journal open prop it open get some tape for that great art card because I want to get that in here really loving this month using the decorative masking tape I'm not sure why but I just like it there doesn't have to be a reason does there pretend I knew what I was doing you can help the gel medium along a little bit by heating it up but keep in mind that the penny is metal and it's gonna get hot too so please take precautions against burning yourself or lighten something on fire because I don't want to hear how did you hurt yourself man how did you burn yourself I lit myself on fire when I was our journey let's just not have that conversation okay all right so we're gonna take this menu now sometimes I'll take the whole menu and I will stick it in and put a pocket there sometimes I'll just cut it apart and I think in this case I'm gonna cut it apart and I'm gonna take the front of it and we are going to cut out the part with the address on it and the web the URL for their website that way if somebody says mom went or grandma or where was that deli and I would say well it I don't I can't I don't I can't tell them I don't remember because it's in the journal and I could always say go look in the journal because I don't remember but it's in there and you'd be surprised how many times I have that conversation with people it was a great little mom and pop Italian delicatessen down on the main drag and Santa Cruz and down the street from street light music and very busy place sorry for all the arms very very busy place so you know they had good food all right it's more tape on here I had a BLT with avocado it was delicious I flipped this over now for the gift receipt or gift card we are going to I think I'm gonna save the whole email and I'm gonna put it in here I'm gonna save the whole email I don't think I'm gonna actually I'm gonna take this and I'm gonna cut out I don't need that whole big piece of paper in there I just want the part where it says the gift card and I have the funny note from the kids that makes me smile I did pick up a newspaper while I was there at a food and drink magazine but I picked them up more to look through for my glue books than I did to actually put anything in here so I think I'm gonna put those aside in the pile of stuff that I want to do other things with let's do a little journaling again I put a couple more of those pretty stickers that I made in here is one of the ocean now we also gave blood and my daughter graduated so let's do the graduation first because the graduation happened and then the Saturday afterwards we gave blood and somewhere in there we went to the habit burger restaurant with my dad I think when we were when he was here visiting for the graduation and we were out running errands the Friday afterwards so I do want to put this in here and we all had the original char burger so this is how I would handle this menu I would cut out the name of the restaurant and I would cut out what we had char burger with cheese number one I'm going to cut out the website okay so let's trim this a little bit it's a little bit too big I don't need all that white space so we have our habit burger menu I've got a bunch of things from the graduation so which include the program which this is the one thing I'm not going to cut up I have a beautiful thank you note from my daughter which I'm going to leave I here's the envelope it came in I'm going to tuck it into the envelope and leave it hanging out like this and then I want to paste it in like that so we're going to put tape on the back it was the most beautiful thank you note for my daughter she's turned out to be just a beautiful young lady more very proud of her she did something her mother never did I never finished college so yay for her actually I'm gonna stick it here love that and I'm going to stick I think I want to put it here I'm gonna put this picture it's not a great picture but this is one I took of her actually walking across the stage so I'm gonna put there yeah that works this is napkin from the bar next door to the venue where the graduation was we all but we got there early because we dropped her off and then all the grown-ups went next door and we all had to drink while we were waiting so I had ginger ale everybody else had alcohol all right so I'm gonna separate my napkin I am going to tear it around the bar logo yep that'll work I need my matte medium that medium rush of some sort okay now I'm going to grab do I have any in here of course I'm gonna grab one of my clear pockets if I can remember where I stuck maybe yep all right my clear sticky pockets and I'm gonna put it down here and we're gonna fold fold the program so I do want to dry this it's gonna be too wet so let's give that a little dry I'll be back I got it in I got this dry I did a little bit of journaling we're gonna flip the page I did a little note here on the flap of the thank you note and her pictures inside there now we want to take the habit burger restaurant thing and I think I'm going to put it back here helps if I don't put it upside down don't you think all right and then the little clipping of what we ate and their web address sometimes my sticky tape gets the better of me sticky tape on the mat that's not one thing it's 10 other things right hopefully I can get that off and then I also gave blood so I'm going to put my blood donation stickers in here my husband and I both went in we go in with our group of Freemasons every few months and we like to do for charity in one way or the other one of those ways is blood donation I'm gonna take the blood donation pamphlet and I'm going to put it in another sticky pocket and stick it back here I have a few more bits and pieces but I don't need to I was gonna say save them this is the receipt to my daughter's graduation celebration dinner I'm actually gonna save that I'm gonna put it in the pocket with the program and this other stuff I picked up but I don't think I want to use it is there extra programs I don't remember why I got the bank thing I think I made a trip to the safety deposit box or something this last month was so remember memorable that I don't remember why but that's what I do I just collect stuff whether I think I'm going to use it or not and bring it home I'd rather have it then and toss it then not have it and kick myself so if you get behind never fear just take a minute take a deep breath and let yourself catch up you don't have to fill it up with notes you don't even have to fill it up with artwork just put your things in there that's all you need to do that's it for today everybody don't forget to check out the video description for links to both all of my Facebook groups including the my year group which is that what this journal is for as I said in the beginning of the video and if you would like to support my channel by shopping in my Etsy shop or send me an email or check out my website or you know any of that stuff send me happy now all the stuffs in the description so check it out don't forget to like share and subscribe and 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 oh hey guys so in the video you're going to see is kind of a little bit of a long one but it's one in which I spent some time closing up my May Journal at the time I'm filming this I'm very very aware that it's actually June 5th I am a little confused in the beginning of the video but yeah it's June 5th so anyway you know nobody's perfect and you know the month just got away from me so there you have it anyway I did finally get it done and it's really greatly done and I love the way it turned out and how some of our elements came out this month they look so great in here so I hope you enjoy it I don't have to show you all these oh that's just terrible