tuesday 📖

hi everyone, i hope you're all doing okay 🙇🏻‍♀️

here with a (hopefully) fun little update today- a printable sheet of trackers and labels, and the exciting news that the first batch of little grey books has arrived. i was hoping to take some better photos for you and maybe list them today, but it's 30°c in the attic so it's unbearably warm (even momentarily) and the light is incredibly strange 🥲 ideally i don't want to end up with a batch of books covered in weird sweaty fingerprints, so i'll aim to take some photos throughout the week, and hopefully list them at the weekend for you instead.

this first batch of booklets is the combined planner/commonplace books, so contain the monthly log/key, one calendar month, a tracking page (the one i was using for sleep), a monthly review/overview page, 5 weekly spreads, and 30 commonplace pages with a blank title page at the start. for the first ~official~ batch, i made the guidelines a little lighter (they were solid black), which i think makes them look a little neater! i dropped the opacity by 50%, so they're a soft grey but still easily identifiable/navigable. 

i'll be working on the digital files for the rest of this week, so hopefully i can make those available at the same time- as always, thank you for your patience. 

these are my final designs for the printable archive labels/trackers (and other miscellaneous bits)! i think i might have gotten a bit carried away, but they were fun to work on and i like them a lot. i've pulled them all together onto an a4 page, so you should just be able to print it as it is. when cutting, i use the cm guide on the ruler to create a little border around each image, and there's enough room for that. i've also included an option with a transparent background for anyone who might want to use them digitally 🙇🏻‍♀️ you should be able to pull them out with the lasso/selection tool.

i'd like to work on some more printable bits for notebooks, so if you have any requests, please let me know! these feel very close to the kind of work that i want to be making, somehow, so i'll explore a little more in the coming weeks.

i've been printing these ones on some lightly textured 100gsm paper, which gives it a lovely feel and appearance, just in case anyone wanted an idea for something that isn't plain printer paper! this is the paper i used. this image also shows the labels printed at true size- straight from the a4 sheet. small enough for small books, but just about big enough to write on!

apart from that, i just wondered if anyone is waiting specifically for the separate (physical) notebooks- individual planners and commonplace? im just trying to judge the demand- increasingly difficult recently with everything split over so many platforms (and so many of them falling apart lol)! please lmk in the comments. it's always good to know that i have you guys covered, at least 🫡

i think that's everything i needed to talk about today- i hope you enjoy the little printable bits! i'll start tagging these on patreon with "freebies" so they'll be easier to find and add to in future. these bits will be added to my shop in time, but i'll keep them available for free here.

take care and speak soon, friends x