Hey hey, it’s MJ,

            I cannot believe we are here at the end of the year. (I am writing this in mid-October because I am trying to prep posts that I can when I am feeling the blog post energy so here we are.) I am hoping that as we close out the year that the rest of it has been great, or at least as good as it can be. 

            I finished my 2021 Bullet Journal in June, there is no lie there, it was done in June because I try and get as much as I can done over school breaks because I don’t want to do it after work. I really don’t. If my math and my calendar is right, today is the day after Christmas, happy day after Christmas. If it’s not, keep in mind I am writing this post two months in advance. 

            My 2021 BuJo was another experimental year, though I think that all of my BuJo’s are experimental at least with theming and style. I got my base pages down pat last year and my 2022 BuJo will be roughly the same because the style I am using now makes sense to my energy and I am so happy I finally found that. 

            If you want to check out the rest of my BuJo updates from this year you totally can. I have done three other parts so you can just click on the part number and it should take you right to it, part 1, part 2, and part 3. 

            This year’s theme was Disney and all of these are fun ones, October was Nightmare before Christmas, November was The Princess and The Frog, and December was Muppets Christmas Carol because why not? 

            Next year is Marvel and I hope by this time I have figured out how I am going to do that and hopefully have at least January and February finished. (When this post comes out I will be just getting done dogsitting for my parents neighbors so I will have a lot of time on my hands.) 

            Alright, into the actual content of this post, the last three months of 2021 even though at this moment I am still in month one of this post. 

October: Nightmare Before Christmas

Cover: I was torn between a few ideas on what to do for this one and there are not all that many great pictures of the tree doors to the other holiday lands in the movie. I found some pictures and did my best trying to make them look good. I loved the holiday doors in the film because I kind of want to see what’s behind each one. We only see Halloween and Christmas so I would love to see what’s behind the rest of the doors in the forest. 

Mood Tracker: I have drawn Jack on top of the hill before, it was a painting which was gift for my best friend so doing it again was a lot of fun. I wanted my mood tracker to be a pumpkin patch and this was the easiest way to do it even though the hill is in the cemetery, imagine that this is the other side. I don’t know? This was the only idea that came to my brain for this one, so I ran with it. (As I am writing this my downstairs neighbor is knocking on his bedroom window, which he does every morning to let his partner know that he’s home. It’s annoying and I deal with it every morning.)

Last Page: I love Zero, he’s my favorite character from the entire movie and I have an ornament with him and his grave so this was my natural choice for the last day of the month. He’s so fun and adorable and I couldn’t have a Nightmare Before Christmas themed month without him. 

November: The Princess and The Frog

Cover: One of my favorite scenes in the movie is the lily pad dance scene and I wanted to recreate it as best I could here. It was not easy; this cover easily took me three hours to finish because of all the detail and it doesn’t even feel like I used all that much detail. The other side is Ray and Louis because they are a really great comedy duo and I wanted them together on their own page and that still goes with the rest of the theme. 

Mood Tracker: I have no idea if the street signs looked like this in the movie, I honestly didn’t even look, I tried to recreate them like I saw them when I was in New Orleans in 2017 for a wedding. I love mardi gras, my high school grad party theme was mardi gras so here we are a little over a decade later and I have beads in my bullet journal. I wanted to have some beads that were already colorful and I know a lot of strands are one color, I did this because it benefits my theming. It was a lot of fun to do this one and is probably one of my favorite mood trackers of the year. 

Last Page: Dr. Facilier is a great villain, greed and crazy are a terrible combination. I love the scene where he gets taken to the other side and I would love to see the cemeteries in New Orleans, we didn’t leave Bourbon St. which is fine but I wanted to see more of the history of the city, not the bars and gift shops. Another time. I wanted to have the spirits from the other side in this as well because it just seemed fitting. 

December: Muppets Christmas Carol

Cover: This one was difficult, I tried my best, but I don’t think that this is my best work, and that is totally okay. I tried and that’s all that matters. I wanted to feature the ghosts because they are such a big part of the story. Also, everyone should know by now that I am not great at drawing people and that extends to Muppets as well. 

Mood Tracker: This one is just more Christmas themed than Muppets themed. I wanted a wreath and I was going to do one a few years ago and didn’t so here is a wreath because it seemed like it would fit with the theme and would be cute. It was. 

Last Page: I love the bunny even though he’s in the movie for about four seconds singing, he’s still my favorite but he looks kind of terrifying here because there were not a lot of perspective shots of him that I could find online. I also didn’t put a quote on the page until…well I haven’t done it yet. It will get done this weekend because I think that a quote would help make this page not look so strange. At the moment, to me, it looks really strange. (Spoiler alert: I never got around to it, oops, my bad.)

So, there we have it, another year of Bullet Journaling finished and that’s super weird and super exciting. You can check out all my comparison posts, yearly covers, monthly covers, book cases, mood trackers, and habit trackers. (One of those might be out of order, it’s fine.) In the new year I will reveal my favorite pages from the year so look forward to that. Because there were for sure pages that I didn’t show anyone this year and I plan on revealing at least a few of them for my fave pages of 2021. 

            I hope everyone is having a great holiday season and is ready for the new year in just a few days. Until we see each other in the new year I hope that everyone stays safe, happy, and healthy! 

            -MJ