 So this is a little video I decided to put together after some posting I did on the documented life's Facebook page. If you're not part of the documented life, think about it. Look them up on Facebook or go to their art to the 5th website. It's a really great year-long journaling documenting your life program. It's very affordable, full of great ideas anyway. So go look them up. I'll try to remember to put a link in the description below. I'm working out of a binder this year and if you've watched my videos in years past, then you know that I usually do something called, that I call the year of my life journal. And while I follow documented life and have been for, since they started it, I wasn't really doing anything with it. This year I decided to not only follow it again, but to actually do something with it. So I thought that I would combine documented life and some of their ideas and their prompts in with my idea of documenting my year of my life. So my journal is not about documenting every single day, every single week, every single thing that happens in the month. But the important things that happen throughout the year. But I wanted to do a little more in that incorporated a little bit of the calendar things that they do in documented life and some of their prompts and things. So that's what I'm going to do this year. And this is the binder I'm working out of. They're doing, there isn't a binder this year. I thought that was a brilliant idea. So I switched it up. I usually use a small delusions journal, but I'm going to use a binder this year. And actually I think it's going to be three or four binders. My guess is, because this one's already getting full. It's only January 21st. So anyway, so this is my binder that I'm using. And this is just a recollections binder I got at Michaels. It has pockets in the front and back so I can stick extra bits and pieces in the binder to carry with me, which is important and we'll get to why that's important in a minute. And then I made dividers out of some of my artwork. I printed my own tags and made up my own form on my computer. I've been filling it up with positive affirmation quotes and I've got my calendar here with different people's birthdays and different important events on it, not everything, but just different important events. I'm not setting out to document everything I do in a week and all of that stuff. So this is what I'm doing and this binder, hopefully I will have enough room in here and I'm going to do January, February, and March in here, hopefully. We'll see. I got a couple extra of these binders because I might need them, I don't know. All right. But I also wanted to be able to just take this with me on the go and when I'm traveling, this always comes with me, it has in the past and I take a larger travel art bag, either my little mini suitcase or my Harbour Canvas Harbor Freight bag. Sometimes I just want to take this and a little packet of something with me. Maybe we're just going away from the weekend and I don't want to take the whole big travel bag with me. Maybe I just want to take the binder and enough stuff to work in it a little bit while we're away that weekend. So I thought I have this travel wallet and I thought, why couldn't I fill it up with a minimum amount of supplies and whether I'm just carrying this to the sofa in the family room to work on it or I'm taking it with me on the weekend, I can take my binder and my bag and I'm good. So this is a travel wallet called Better Together Wallet. I got it on Amazon. Again, I'll try to remember to post the link. It has a pocket on the outside which I stuck a whole punch in it and you don't have to bring that but I figured if I came across an interesting postcard or something I wanted to punch holes in it and stick it in the journal in the binder then I've got one. There's a pocket on the outside which I have put some tape runner and also this was a travel bottle of lotion that I cleaned out and it's now full of glue so I've got some glue and some tape runner. Sometimes I want to put heavier pieces of paper in my book and then you need the tape runner doesn't really hold and you need some glue and then on the inside I probably have too much paper because I always bring too many bits of paper. So I have my minimum important pens, a black and white paint pen and a couple of pens to write with. I will be trying to see if I can add in some of these because I like to use these in the book this year. These are one of my new favorite things. They're Bible High Gliders by AcuGel Highlighter. They're meant for Bible journaling which I don't do but I love them. The colors are pretty pigmented. They're easy to use. They look like a gel crayon. They come in six fabulous colors and they look equally great on white paper and the craft cardstock so I love them. So I'm going to be seeing about getting them. I have no idea if I can even just do that if it will still zip. Oh I guess it will. So yes I'll be putting those in there or getting a set of these to put in here. I may have to thin out some of the paper but we'll see. And in this pocket I actually have this is just a little scrap from a designer chocolate bar. My daughter actually got me for Christmas and I put the front label from the chocolate bar in my journal but I have this back piece and I just I don't know there's something about it I don't want to throw away and that I want to use it on a tag or something else in the journal later on so I've saved it. I'm not sure why I've saved it but I have this little mini gift bag or library pocket and I cut a piece of clear plastic packaging and I put some washi tape on it to use in the journal and that's another reason to have the liquid glue because washi tape generally speaking is a low-tack tape so it doesn't stick super well without using a little bit of glue. I missed a highlighter. I have these are clear plastic pockets that are self adhesive so I can peel off the backing and I can stick them in there anywhere. This is a glassine bag full of stickers and labels some that are my artwork and that I've designed that I sell in my Etsy shop like these here on top and some that I've been gifted in Happy Mail like that one. I also have some of these are some more pockets with tags in them and I've got some other like store-bought some little glassine bags I can stick in there some store-bought stickers some store-bought tags and that sort of thing that I can use in there and really it's a good selection of stuff and right now it's set up with you know some Valentine's Day things in there because you know February is coming up soon. Over here I've got some journaling cards my obviously my journal is all about the quotes I'm really loving putting the positive affirmation quotes in here and these are a bunch of different kind of journaling cards there's some little mini Heidi swap little folders here I think these are Heidi swap they could be Project Life I don't really actually remember and I've only got two of them left but I thought they might be fun something that was fun to put in and then some documenting some Project Life cards with positive affirmation quotes and things on them that I like some big ones and then some little ones these are little journaling cards and little you know pre-made little die cuts and things they've got some stitching on them and they've got good quotes and stuff on them and these are these on top these are Project Life and some smaller cards and then I've got some store bought stickers these are mostly these are quotes and I can just zip it up and I can bring it with me wherever I'm taking my binder and I can go and I'm good so there you have it so you know if you've got some a travel wallet or something like that hanging around that you're not using for actually for traveling maybe you can repurpose it for this alright that's it for today go look up the documented life I think you'll really like it and have a great day don't forget to do something nice for yourself yeah because you deserve it you know you do alright I'll see you later bye