It's me again Mei and welcome to a new journaling video. I decided to talk in this video so that   I can show you my process and how I journal  about my personal life here in Tokyo so this   notebook is from Notebook Therapy you can use my discount code in the description to get 10 % off your purchase. This year I got married  and my husband started living with me here in   Tokyo and that's why I decided to have this  notebook to keep all of our memories here I   am going to give you a flip through of all of my  finished spreads at the end of the year that'll   be a separate video. Today I want to show you how I journal about my personal life and experiences   here in Tokyo. So today's spread will be about  last weekend when we went and visited Tokyo Tower. I usually start with a stamp to mark the date. I recently got this at the stationery shop near   the train station and you guys it was only for  two dollars and I was so happy when I got it.   I like it because I can write the date here the  days and the weather as well as the temperature. This is now my new favorite date stamp and  I'm thinking about putting it right here.  I'm gonna use this brown ink pad. It's good and we'll just stamp it here Okay. While waiting for the ink to dry I printed these  photos using my Fujifilm Instax Mini play. I got   this as a gift from my husband three years ago when we were still living in Manila. Here are   the photos that I printed. The first one was a  photo of us just hanging out in the park with   Tokyo Tower in the background. This is a photo of me that my husband took while we were at the park. And the last picture isn't really that clear  because it was shot at night but this is a shadow   of me and my husband sitting on a bench by a temple and we have Tokyo Tower here in the   background. We were sitting on the bench eating taiyaki. Taiyaki is a Japanese pancake shaped   like a fish and we had two of them. The flavor  that my husband got was red bean and I got the   custard flavored filling.

We are going to use  these as ephemera for today's journal video I also   cut these pieces from the packaging of the taiyaki that we ate. So if you're coming to Japan I highly   recommend you guys eating this lovely dessert. It's one of my favorite Japanese food. Now that   the stamp is dry, it's safe to write the details. I am using my Pentel energel in the color brown. So this is what it looks like filled out now  let's go to the next step. So I often get asked   about how to journal on a budget if you don't have money to buy stationery. I'm lucky because I get to   work with a lot of brands who send me stationery but if you want to save up on stationery supply   I highly recommend using magazines as your  resource. This is a Uniqlo magazine you can   grab this for free at any Uniqlo stores. I like  the aesthetic of Uniqlo magazines as well as   the typography that they use inside. For this  video let's just browse and see what we can use so I think I'm gonna use this one  and cut out the words today and in. Maybe we can have a title that says today in Tokyo so we just have to be really careful not  to cut out the part that we need so I still want   to keep the most of the magazine intact for  future use so let's just cut this small bit. You might be wondering why I suddenly decide to talk in my video. This is very much inspired by   Helen of Coffee Monsters Co. I love her and her channel and I decided that it would be a good   way to connect with you guys more, especially  on a more personal level if I talk sometimes   from time to time in my videos. Let me know what you think and if you like it but so far I feel   comfortable doing this in future videos so  I would really love to know what you think. Perhaps get one image from the magazine Oh I really like this one we can put it  beside the Polaroid of us eating taiyaki. I think I'll just do the word Tokyo in calligraphy. So I like to use a separate piece of paper to glue   stuff so that it won't be messy.

I'm using this  glue that I got from stationery pal so I'll just do a calligraphy of the word  Tokyo here using my brush pen from Pentel For this space here I want  to put this cut out from   the packaging of the taiyaki that we ate that day. With the date stamp I just want to put one small   dot washi tape. You can get this dot  washi tape from the washi tape shop. Maybe the brown one will look  better and it complements the stamp. Okay now I want to layer all of the  elements that I want to put on the page.  First I just don't want to put the Polaroids  directly on the page because they won't stand   out in the white background. As I layer these  pieces, I would like to take the time to thank   the sponsor of today's video which is Domestika. Domestica is an online creative Community where   you can take courses to explore your creativity. So the course that I recently took with Domestika   is called Creative Bullet Journaling  for productivity. If you're looking to   get started on bullet journaling and learning  how to set up spreads, I highly recommend that   course. Domestika also very generously gave us a discount code where you can get 10 off their   courses if you use the link and the code in the  description below. Thinking about my spread now   and the taiyaki packages that I have I am  thinking that they don't go well with the   theme and I don't want to get rid of them so I'm going to hide them behind this cute teddy bear notepad and put them here. So I'm just going  to glue the edges of this and then hide the   taiyaki here like a mini envelope within the  page. For that I'll use this Kokuyo tape glue   and just glue the edges. I have to remind myself not to glue the top part and then put it here. So this way we can hide this  packaging and not throw them away.   Here oh okay that's better and then  here I can just put a simple note okay that says pull me I know that I have a taiyaki sticker here  somewhere so let's just find that.

This is how I usually store my stickers. I also have this. We can use this later. This is from Stationery Pal and it would be perfect for later since it has Tokyo Tower. and maybe this is well okay I know that I have one here because I  really like okay we found. It's here! Okay I really like how it turned out and I'm  happy that I didn't have to get rid of   the lovely packaging of the taiyaki.  So there might not be enough space for   three Polaroids on the spread so I'm just  going to hide this Polaroid here as well. So we'll use this cute memo pad here  for this to go with the Polaroid. Yeah so I want the picture to be within  the bread so I'll just cut this out Great. To match this cute memo pad that I put  here I am going to use these two memo pad sheets   to go with the photo that we took at the park. So these two sheets came from this memo pad   that I bought here in Tokyo. So it's like  a collection of cute teddy bear memo pads   I just wanted to show you that. I feel very  grateful that I get to live in a place that has   the best stationery in the world. It's one of  the reasons why I love living here in Japan So this is what it looks like it's really  really cute but it's looking very dull on the side   so I want to put some stickers there. I want  to put the sticker of Tokyo Tower over here Well the name of the park that we were in is called Shiba Koen so I'll just use this Shiba sticker and then put a green leaf at the top. Yeah so this is what that section looks like  now. So this space that we have here will be   for writing. Before that I want to use my  Zebra Mildliner to create some horizontal   lines to write on. I'm very bad at this  and usually they appear very crooked   so I'm gonna try to follow the lines this time. like I'm very bad at keeping things straight  um something personal about me is that I am   completely deaf on my left ear so I have the  worst balance and alignment. I cannot walk straight   and people also have to always stand or  sit on my right side so that I can hear them yeah that was wiggly   so it's something that I have lived with  for years now I got it since I was a baby   and for me it's just something that makes me me  if that makes sense but yeah if you ever see why   the lines are wiggly it's probably because of that  for this part I'm going to use my Zebra Saris Mark On so I'm done with the written  part of the journal now   what's left is this blank space here.

I'm not  exactly sure what to do with it yet let's see   if there's something that we can use from this  washi tape that I got from the washi tape shop oh I think I know now this would be perfect so now that I put this here I'm very  tempted to move the Tokyo Tower   sticker over here so that you know  the couple has something to look at   so we'll do that now so we'll just move it  here. That's better and on this side let's   just replace it with this sticker from this  washi tape again from the washi tape shop so it doesn't look so plain. There  is a temple right beside the park   that we went to so let's just  add this sticker here as well. so this is what it looks like now we're almost  done I just want to add some tiny stickers. I   got this at a local store here in Tokyo and we'll  just use this tiny paper to make a line over here   so I'll just cut this in half. I'm gonna use this knife to cut this. You can get the sticker sheet from my shop  I'm also on Patreon if you want to receive   stationary goodies delivered straight to your  mailbox every month. Thank you very much for   your support but really just you hanging out and  watching my videos is more than enough for me All right I think that this  is a good place to stop   that's it I am done with the video for  today this is quite a new format so I'd   like to really know what you think in the  comments down below and I will see you guys   in our next journaling session thank you very  much for watching and staying to the end bye.