I’m not caught up completely yet, but progress is certainly being made. Finishing off my degree had put me behind enough, but the numerous unprecedented heatwaves this year held me back even more. Nevertheless, we continue!
August 2026 Title Page
When I was a youngin’ I liked to draw trees, sometimes they were even okay… I regained a little of that inspiration recently and took it upon myself to try drawing palm trees, a tree I can’t say I recall seeing up close myself.
I typically wait until I’ve finished drawing out the month’s spread before I tackle the title page, I like to wait until the theme brings the ideas to me.
August 2026 Calendar Page
I’ve really come to like this style of calendar, but I do worry it isn’t always too practical for myself. As I don’t often succeed in making much use of the page anyway, I’ll have to find another way to adjust it. But then I find myself having to decide between practicality and aesthetics.
August 2026 Habit Tracker / Mood Tracker
I drew these palm trees before my title page, I was left feeling unsatisfied with these trees. I had decided first that I wanted to try a palm tree mood tracker, and then I decided I wanted to really try drawing a palm tree! Which one is your favourite?
August 2026 Finance Tracker / Exercise Tracker
There was no real plan when it came to deciding this month’s colours, it was more of a whim. I couldn’t decide between a summery yellow, or a flourishing green, so I found myself a compromise.
I would like to design a new exercise tracker soon, one that motivates me and helps me better develop a structure or routine for my physical health. However, that’s been a tough one to do whilst just trying to keep myself afloat in the catch up…
August 2026 Daily Routine / Weekly Schedule
Speaking of routines and schedules, I did do a little experimenting this month with these two new pages. I have a lot of regular tasks and jobs to keep on top of and have been finding myself overwhelmed trying to keep track, so my thought process here, is that if I find a better way to schedule these things into my week, I can develop a new routine, making these things more habitual!
August 2026 Writing Log / Brain Dump
I’d like to think I could make better use of these pages again this month, but it is a challenge to remember to log it as I’m doing it sometimes, and then I have to figure out how long I spent on what… Basically another thing I need to learn to better track, but consistency is key!
August 2026 Weekly Spread
I couldn’t decide on a ‘decoration’ for the page, I also worried that with all the colours, it might be overrun the pages a bit if I added to much more in (I also just ran out of timeD:). I’m relatively happy with how my august spread turned out, I hope it can be of some inspiration to someone else too!^^
One of these days I’ll have structure, I promise!
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