journaling has been a passion of mine since i was a kid! but being a kid with undiagnosed adhd, i never actually finished one. i had tons of notebooks all with a few entries in them, and then i'd get bored or forget to write in them.

in my first year of college, though, i had to take an "intro to college" class, and one of my projects was on organization. when i started looking into that topic, i found out about bullet journaling. around that same time, i also started getting into japanese stationery - notebooks, washi tape, cute stickers, etc.

bullet journaling worked for me for a while, but i eventually found it to be too rigid to really be what i wanted out of journaling. i discovered the hobonichi techo through instagram and saw the amazing spreads people would make, and i jumped on that immediately.

unfortunately, often because of mental illness, i would miss a day or a week of entries and feel terrible about those blank pages.

since then, i've used tons of other notebooks, like the hobonichi day free and the midori md grid. it's taken a few years, but i feel like i've finally settled into a journaling routine that works for me! this page is to show off my notebooks and supplies, and to share resources as well!

enjoy!