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Get to Know me | Booktube Newbie Tag
Hello friends! Well, I did it. I added a new video and answered the booktube newbie questions so that we could get to know each other a little better. I hope you enjoy it. I'll add all the relevant links below so you can check out other YouTubers / podcasts. Don't forget to hit subscribe or follow me on Youtube for NaNoWriMo. Much love Nadia Booktubers Mentioned: 🔖 Fictional Fates: https://www.youtube.com/c/fictionalfates 🔖 Christy Anne Jones: https://www.youtube.com/c/aileaux Relevant Links: Victoria Erickson IG:...
October Plan With Me Journal Spread
Hello Again, It's that time when you start to see pumpkins everywhere, so you can guess where my theme idea came from. This spread has a coverage, calendar page and a reference list for NaNoWriMo which you will be seeing more of during Preptober. If you don't know what I'm talking about click here and catch up with my last video. This video has minimal talking and relaxing background music. I hope you find a cosy place to pull out your own journal and join me. Materials: Please note there are Amazon affiliate links that follow:...
5 Surprising Journaling Tips and Thoughts | Ideas for Journaling Beginners & Quitters
What tips/ideas/advice would you share with someone just starting out with journals? Drop a comment and let me know 👇
Preptober 2022 – NaNoWriMo Vlog Episode 1.
Well, now isn't this exciting! Yes, yes, it's that time of year again, NaNoWriMo in da house...no I can't quite pull that off, can I? Now that we have gotten that out of the way, you can press play on the video below it summarises ALL I have to say in less than 8 minutes. Hurrah. If you're taking part this year, drop a comment below and share as much as you want about your project. If you're here for the quick links 👇 Join NaNoWriMo here: https://nanowrimo.org/ Announce your NaNoWriMo project here: ...
A Creative Journaling Experiment with Watercolour
Hello friends! It's been a while, so I thought I would jump back in with a video from my YouTube channel and share this really quick flip-through of a week-long storytelling experiment in my watercolour journal. I hope you enjoy it, and let me know if you would try this in your own journal. Warmly, Nadia
May 2021 Calendar Freebies
Can you believe we are getting ready for May already. I wanted to share a free May calendar printable so that all of you can just print and add it to your journals. If you use it please tag me in social @cottagenotebook, I'd love to see where they end up! I popped these on a transparent background so you have the option of printing as stickers and I included just the floral watercolour on it's own. Happy Planning Everyone. The password for my free Printables Area is NOTEB00K28 Square May Calendar A5 May...
The Gratitude Journal. Surprising Benefits, How to Start and How to Squeeze It into Your Day.
How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.-Louise Hay, Author It's a powerful quote, isn't it? There are sentences out there when you hear them hit you hard. This one from Louie Hay is one of those. They hit hard because there is a part of you that knows this to be true. They connect in a way that can sometimes be surprising to you. This is one of the reasons I started a Gratitude Journal and I've reaped the benefits of it for years now. For those of you who want to start or just...
Free Lunchbox Planner Printable
It's Saturday morning and instead of writing about my wonderful garden, I find myself planning out a months worth of meals. Lockdown has really had an effect on our eating habits as a family and I wanted to get back to my clean eating plan that I had in place before the world turned upside down. One of the problems is our kid's lunchboxes. To be more clear, what goes into my kid's lunchboxes. We can plan as many meals ahead as we like but if the lunchboxes aren't included as a separate entity in meal planning then our morning routine all just...
Free St. Patrick’s Day Planner Printable
It seems strange to me that as an Irish blogger that I've never made a St. Patrick's Day Printable. So here we are coming into the St. Patrick's Day weekend and here is one (okay, 6) motivational planner printables below. Just choose your size, download, print and add to your planner. Nope, no sign up form but if you want to you can add your email address below the post. As you can see I put my own motivational slant on it 😉. A6I create my own LuckDownload A4 I create my own LuckDownload Half Letter I create my own LuckDownload US Letter I...
Free Neutral Aesthetics Mood Board
As you can see the Notebook has gone through a lot of changes recently. It was time to finally emrace the neutral aesthetics that have note only filled my home but have been such an inspiration to me with everything that I've been creating recently. I wanted to say thank you for following along on this journey both on Instagram but also on the blog. So I thought I'd share my neutral aesthetic vision board with all of you so you can print it and add it to your planners and journals for some inspiration. I also wanted to add a quote as the...