 Okay, hi guys, so this is my latest binder for the last three months for my year of my life 2016 journal that I'm keeping. I've done it a little differently every year, and this year I'm using a binder inspired of course by the ladies over at the Documented Life. I can only get two or three months in each binder, so depending on where I've gone and how much I've documented and how much stuff I've stuck in here. This has June, July, and August in it, and I just finished the last page spread here. I've been doing these doodle books every month this year. I started actually in I think November of last year, and I decided a few months back that I would start putting these clear pockets into the journals. In the month the doodle book is from somewhere, and that I would store the little doodle books in this journal, so I just put August in here and a couple of other things and some paint pen, and I think it's hopefully dry enough to close, and now we're going to set up September, and I'll show you how I've been doing that. Put that over there right now. So this is a new binder. They come like this. These are recollections binders from Michaels. This is the modern journal. I think that's what it's called. And I picked this one because I like the saying on the front, and the saying says nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. I love that. So the first thing I always do is go in and take, it comes with these inserts, and I always take them all out. The next thing I do is slice open the clear plastic cover enough that I can get to the elastic band to use it, and I want to put the labels on the spine. I've been labeling the spine, so we have to sort of bend it back a little bit on itself to get the cover off. I need to get my label maker out. I think we're going to have to change the tape. Maybe. Let's see. Oh no, I got the right one in there. So we're going to put, let me see, what did I do last time? I just looked at it just two seconds ago. Okay. So I think, so we're going to do September and October in one journal, and November and December in another one for a couple of reasons. Number one, we're going into the holiday season. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of stuff to stick in the journals, but I also cannot fit four months in one journal. There's just no way. So it makes more sense to split it up two and two, and I do have actually two more of these journals, so these binders. So we're going to do September and October in here. So turn it on, and first we'll do a year label. If I remember how, woohoo, cut these apart. So then we'll stick these on the spine, and I'm going to put the year on the top. Then we're going to take plastic cover again back, and I'm going to slice it just right up to the point where the elastic is, so that it will stay on the binder, and yet I can still use it to protect the cover of the journal. So then we will put this back in, take this label off of the backside. Of course it did not come off cleanly, just because I'm on camera. Otherwise it come off fine. Okay, there we go. Then what we can do is we can take this elastic and put the plastic underneath it. That's done. Now what we want to do is put our sections in. Now I have, I always prepare lots of pages ahead of times, and sometimes if there's lots of stuff going on in a month, or I have stuck a lot of stuff in, then I have to take pages out. So I have some things prepared ahead of time, and that I don't have to worry about too much. I've got some little bits and pieces. It's just kind of my spare bits and pieces section. Some of these have whole punches in them already. So we're going to get out. I have calendars. So I'm going to put the calendars in, and I have a bunch of odds and ends that people have sent me, some from Happy Mail, and I think I want to use some of that. And I have homemade divider tabs, and I have more sheets where I can make more divider tabs. But I have two that I want to use, so let's use them. So the first thing we're going to do is print another couple of labels. I should have done that before I erased September, because we're going to put the month on here on the tab. I've been doing this all year. I just don't normally film it. I will need to go grab my binder punch. I have this thing for binder and planner punches. I love them, and there is a mini binder punch put out by Staples that perfectly fits this little binder. So I'm going to put this on here, and then I'm going to just fold the little corners down, and then I like to put a couple of pages in the front, and on the pages I take the printed pages that came with the binders, and I add some stickers with my artwork on it, maybe an inspirational word here and there, some washi tape. So we're going to put a couple of those in. Then I like to take another little, this is just some of my artwork printed on cardstock, and then another page. I like to put one or two large tags in. I have these large tags. I actually printed the days of the week on it thinking I would do something else with them, and I didn't. I end up just using it really as a background texture to the rest of what's going on in my journal. So this is the Staples punch, this particular one I got on clearance. I've since purchased another one as a backup. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to center the holes, some little clear plastic, put tickets or something in, and they don't quite fit. So let's repunch them, shall we? Then we're going to put in September, and I'm going to put another page in, I have to decorate it, it has nothing on it. Oh well, wait, I have these, hold on, hold the phone, why don't you? I've got all of these, see these already have some stuff on them, so let's use these, so I'll put that in there. Then I'm going to put this next one, we've got to put our label on it, October, then we want to put a couple of pages, and then how about some artwork? I have some little pieces, I think I'm going to want to stick these in here somewhere that were gifted to me. We'll get the basic pages in here first, yep see there's another piece of artwork, tag, tag, tag. So there's no rhyme or reason to it, just stick things in here. You can be anal about it like I am, you know, and want to make sure everything's like in the same order, or you can just randomly stick things in, which is probably the more fun way to do it. October, put this in, okay, now I do want to stick these in here, so we are going to open up some sections, and I'm going to put this here, I'm going to take these flash cards that were sent to me, and I don't remember who sent them to me, but they're really cool, put some of those in, two more of those, October we'll put the third one, we'll put this, it's like a menu kind of a thing, what is this? It's like a price sheet, but it's covered with like resin or something, and these might all be from Jerry Bellini, because I do think she sent me some resin paper, and that might be who this is from, I'm not positive it might be from, maybe y'all recognize the paper and it's from you, put something in the messages below and I thank you, yeah I like that, okay, so we've got clear pockets in, so we can put these back in my basket for the next time we have to do this, I have these and these, put some of this back in the basket, I've got some little random bits and pieces of paper, I've got these stickers again that one of y'all sent me, and I don't remember who, I know I had some pages back here with nothing on them, so let's use some of these, shall we? Don't think about it too much, just stick them down, don't analyze the crud out of it, that one's all used up, okay, like that, I want to put some words on some of these pages, they don't all have words on them, where are my word stickers, they're around here somewhere, I do think I'm running out of words, I'm gonna have to print them again pretty soon, I just ripped my sheet of words, it's stuck here in the bottom of the, it's stuck, that can't be good, okay there we go, it's got it, alright, so that's gonna have to come off of there, now I'm gonna have to stick something else on there, see, I'm not gonna edit this stuff out where I made the mistake, so I'm gonna leave it in, oh here's a good word, so I'm not analyzing it too much, I am just pulling off the words off of my sheet that called to me in the moment, I do have this, these words pre-formatted to fit on this Avery sticker sheet, number 18667, already pre-formatted and for sale in my Etsy shop, so the link is in the description below, I have to figure out what to do with these, how to store them, maybe put them in a glycine bag, because that's all like, that's all wacky now, alright, to fix the one artwork piece that we, that I messed up, that we messed up, we didn't mess it up, you guys didn't have anything to do with that I did, I'm gonna take this other sticker sheet, which is again, this is for my Etsy shop, and I'm gonna pull off this round label, I'm looking for a word, found two words that I like, so we're gonna put this one on here, journal, again, and now I have the, another one of these little sketchbooks that is gonna be for September, so this is all set up and I have a couple of these plastic pockets that I can stick the book in, I also have a bigger pocket, these are nice to just have tucked inside of here, I can also use them to put on a page to tuck tickets and things in, those are from Amazon, so this is all ready to go, now on the little booklet I do like to start off the month by putting a sticker something on the front that says September, so let's get out my ginormous sticker storage binder, let's pull something out, sometimes I pull out like I have a bunch of old scrapbooking stickers from when my daughter was a kid and I will pull out like a tigger or maybe a butterfly, I'm actually thinking maybe a butterfly this month, colors that book, it's pink, give me of those, I've got some planner stickers that honestly I don't use much, you know what here's a tinkerbell, one of you all sent me this, let's put tinkerbell on the front, I mean the front's already cute and all but still need one to stick on the edge or something to write September on, I even have some vintage gummed labels which are really cool, you know these might, this might be nice to have this darkly look for a change and with a white gel pen, I really should have my glasses on to do this, I can put this monster away, so here we go, we are all ready for tomorrow which is September 1st, I've got my journal ready, I've got my doodle, daily doodle book ready, I'm all ready to go, how about you, all right that's it for today, don't forget to go out and have a great day, do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, maybe do something for somebody else too because they probably deserve it too, all right that's it guys, see you later, bye!