 Okay, hey guys. Welcome to another video. Alright, we are here for my year 2017 for the month of August. It's my week to teach, and as per usual, I'm going to start my week off by getting my August sections ready. To do that, I have to take June and July out of my traveler's notebook. So let's do that, and I'll give you a quick flip-through of June, of July, I mean. Maybe both of them. And then I'll get them in the binder cover, and then we'll be back. This is June, and then we'll be back with the August setup. So this is the June. Not only did I document, you know, the things that happened in my life during that month, places I went, people I saw, as I've done throughout the whole year, but I really am loving the way these signatures are looking. They're unique. They're interesting. This is the little book, extra bonus-like book, that I did for my niece and her girlfriend's wedding. Love the way it turned out, by the way. If you guys want to see a tutorial on doing these kind of C-themed doodles, let me know. Maybe we'll do it as a bonus. But so, so, so cute. And then this is the rest of the month. So this is going to go into the storage binder in with June, July. Had my mammogram. Results are clear. Woohoo! I got a little postcard and a note from Mr. Mike Deacon, so I saved that. My husband and I are doing 23andMe. That's going to be interesting. I don't know. And we went and saw the Book of Mormon. So I'm going to get these put into the storage binder, and then I'm going to get the August signature out and figure out what I want to do with it, and I'll be right back. Decorating another storage binder to hold July, August, and September. It's only got July in it right now. And, yeah, that was a lot of fun. And using up some just bits and pieces I have laying around that I've been meaning to use for a long time. I put August and September in my traveler's notebook. And these are how they were when I first created them with a little bit of decoration, but not too much. I don't want to start with a blank page, but at the same time I don't want to put too much because I want to leave it open to interpretation for that month as the year goes on. And I made all of these at the end of last year, 2016. There is a video for that. I keep getting asked about how I made these. There's a video for that. If you go back to the January videos or there's a getting started video link list or something like that, go back there. Alright, so this month for August our theme is hot and cold and there's a lot of ways you could take that. Let's talk about them for a minute so you could take it as a temperature thing. Is it hot right now where you are? Are you in summer like we are here in California or is it cold? Maybe you're in the middle of winter if you're like in somewhere like Australia. Is your life hot or cold? What do I mean by that? So are you just going through life like sort of frozen and cold and not really excited about anything? Or are you just really excited about life and living and the whole process? Are you hot or cold about your artwork? Are you familiar with painting using hot colors or cold colors? There's a lot of different ways you can interpret this prompt this month and I want you to think about them as the month goes on and use some of those in your journal. I have some ideas about how I want to use them in my journal for this month and as I film my videos for the week I will probably come up with more ideas. My process is very organic so I usually leave it fairly open for interpretation as the week goes on. So I'm going to decorate my August section and we'll see where I go with that. I need to put my book list in there. This one might be kind of big but I want to try to use it and I will be back when I get that done. Hey guys I am trying to film this before the tile guy gets here to start on my bathroom. Okay so I have already taken my book list for our monthly book review and I've it was printed on just plain computer paper so I've gone ahead and glued it and used some decorative washi tape sticker things that I had to attach it to a tag and I'm going to tape it in to my August section with some of this decorative masking tape. This is by Scotch brand I've been asked a kind of a lot recently where I get this at. I get it at usually staples but they also have it at Target by where they have the other masking tapes sometimes in the hardware department sometimes in the office supply department. I'm going to leave like about a sixteenth of an inch between the tag and the edge of the paper to give it you know room to fold and I'm going to tape it in and then I'm going to put another piece of tape here on the back side. I apologize for things beeping. So that's in. I am going to use some of my stickers to decorate my August section some more. I am going to go ahead and write down at least one day I know for August that's important to me. It's my birthday. So here on the right side of the dirt as my dad would say so it's all good. So I'm going to use a combination of some of these stickers that I have sticker sheets I'm going to try to use up and actually some new stickers that I just created out of journal pages and some background papers of mine and this sticker sheet download is available from my Etsy shop. It's formatted to print on these Avery sticker sheets but you could just print it on computer paper and then cut and paste them in. I printed it on the Avery sticker sheets so I'm going to do that and I'm going to fast forward through the process and I'll be right back. I'm going to do it as I'm doing it I'm going to keep the prompt hot and cold in my mind. For me August is the hottest month of the year generally where I live and always it's my birthday month is like the hottest time of the year it's just sucks but there you have it. So I'm going to keep the warm summer sun in my mind and use things that spark that in my imagination and remind me of warm summer months and use those colors and or symbols in my decorations in my month for August. So I'm going to speed forward through the process I'll be right back. Go ahead and decorate your pages or signature or book for the month whatever form of journaling you're doing whatever device you're using to document your year to to journal about your year. Go ahead and decorate your pages for August and we will be back in the next video with something special I think that for me says something about our prompt hot and cold something special I think for our pages that I thought of actually just last night. So I'll be back with that in the next video. We will have a book review of course this week and a couple of other things. We'll see what happens and have a great day. Don't forget to check out the video description if you're not part of the my year 2017 Facebook group and you'd like to be or my other Facebook group or you want to take a look at my website send me happy mail support my channel by putting something in the tip jar shopping in my Etsy shop any of those things they're all in the description so check out the video description don't forget to like share and subscribe the most important thing is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.