Beyond the Lines: Exploring the World of Notebooks & Journals With a Cuppa

 

Hello friends!

 Happy November!

 How do you like my new cuppa?

This came with a set of three other cups and they all have a different designs on them. 

I received the set from a wonderful friend. 

Can't wait to share each one with you every week.

Linking up with  Tea Stands For Tuesday hosted by the lovely Elizabeth.

Also linking up to The Good The Random The Fun hosted by Tamar.

THE GOOD

I have a few notebooks, journals and planners that I wanted to share with you. I bought a red Clever Fox Weekly planner from Amazon and I use this for appointments and to-do lists. It's a great planner. I really enjoy using this weekly. It sculpts my thoughts and brain around what I need to do and what I need to accomplish in the week and month.

Vision Board for 2026 

 I used Pinterest to print out some images

I also used some stickers.

This is how the weekly layout is in the Clever Fox Weekly Planner

I have a red Leuchtturm1917 and I use it for a Creative Journal. This lovely journal was gifted to me. In this journal I love to capture memories in creative ways like drawing, making collages, cut and pasting, adding photos, embellishments, making lists, writing poems and journal entries.

 I just had to add pom-poms to the journal.

 Leuchtturm1917 is by far my favourite notebook out there. 

I love the quality of the notebook.

I have a Junky Junk journal, It's an Oxford Composition Notebook and in it I put all paper and scraps that I like. The messier the better! I will be be sharing a flip through of my Junky Junk Journal when I finish it. 

I have a pocket size Leuchtturm1917 softcover that I use as a commonplace book. 

"Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and other professional references. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century." -wikipedia

So far I have documented quotes from books, bible quotes and classical music that I love. 

I love a commonplace book. Yes of course I decorated the cover! 

I have a Leuchtturm1917 five year planner called "Some Lines A Day" which I write a few lines of what happened in my day and I write it before bed. I love this planner because each day it allows me to see what I was doing the year before on the exact date. Very amazing planner and I will continue to use it because I love it so much. 

*Feel free to use my code: MARIA for 20% off your purchase from Leuchtturm1917

I also have a Traveler's Notebook. I bought an affordable one off of Amazon.

This is great to take with me when I am out of the house. 

This is my Moleskine notebook which I use as a monthly calendar, daily thoughts and to-do lists plus food and recipes and creative junk pages too. I am not a fan of this book. I will be using this up because when I start something I must finish it. 

Do you have a favourite notebook? 

Let me know which notebooks you like and enjoy.

 I would love to know. 

I also have two more notebooks, one to write stories and poetry and another notebook that sits by the couch area just incase I have an idea and want to jot it down quickly. 

You can never have enough notebooks, journals, sketchbooks or planners! :) 

THE RANDOM

I have a new About Me Page.

 Check it out if you like to read a little about me. 

Here is the set of four mugs. 

Which one is your favourite?

Thank you all for visiting my blog. I appreciate you so much.

THE FUN

Check out my New Vlog if you like.

I was thinking of making a journal vlog where I can share all my journals with you. 

Let me know if this is something that would interest you. 

Thank you and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Thank you,

Maria

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Art and Journal Planning

Happy Halloween! 

Happy Friday my spooktacular friends. 

I am so sad that it is the end of October. 

So sad that all the trees will have no leaves anymore. 

A compilation of October in a mini video.

But I am very grateful for each moment. 

October truly was an incredible month.

Lots of Art, Tea and Journaling!

I would like to Link this post up with Nicole's Friday Face Off & Art For Fun Friday 

hosted by Gillena.

Thank you both for hosting lovely parties. 

I kindly received a Leuchtturm1917 Notebook. 

Thank you so much to Leuchtturm1917.

I painted the trees and the colours that I see around me.

Brrrr It's cold outside

I haven't started the Portrait Challenge yet.

 I will probably use a photo of when I was younger and start working on it next week. 

I did enjoy making this little portrait of how cold it is in the mornings. 

Another watercolour tree with lots of autumnal colours. 

I bought this sticker book off of Amazon and I love it. 

I have no idea how I can use this besides in my journal. Any Ideas?

Making cards? 

A flip through of the sticker book.

Finishing up my old Leuchtturm1917 before I get into the new one gifted to me for November.

Hubby's Photo from work

 Toronto

This Morning

Halloween 2025

Hubby's Photo From the 37th Floor

I hope you all have a wonderful and spooktacular Halloween!

Thank you all for your lovely comments!

Thank you Leuchtturm1917 for the new Cherry Coloured Notebook

I love it! *Feel free to use my code: MARIA for 20% off on their website. 

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 Thank you and Happy Halloween!

Previous Posts

Bewitched In Spooktacular Adventure

Tuesday Tea and A Farewell to October

Bewitched in Spooktacular Adventures

 Happy Thursday!

Linking up today's post with Little Things Thursday and Thursday Art & Dinner Date. 

How is everyone doing? This week I was able to do some artwork and journaling. My back is getting better but still hurts and my left arm from Lymphedema hurts this week. It's a constant battle as I get older. I am okay and grateful for each day.

Lately I've been enjoying walks in Autumn leaves

I've enjoyed Pizza from Pizzaiolo

I've been enjoying and finding comfort in fragrances like this.

Enjoyed making an Autumn wallpaper on Canva and love eating dumpling soup.

I've been enjoying making vlogs but I do find many challenges with vlogging and editing.

But I love to look back on memories.

It's a creative challenge and I want to get better at it. 

Reflecting back to when I went to the ROM

A Spooctacular visit!

This is a little part of the "Saints, Sinners Lovers and Fools"  Exhibit

"The Southern Netherlands — better known today as Flanders — was home to revolutionary artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Hans Memling, and others. These extraordinary painters found new ways to depict reality, portray humanity, and tell stories that created parallels to their world then - and to our world today.

This large-scale exhibition, featuring over 80 stunning art works and objects — medieval, Renaissance, and baroque paintings, sculptures and more — offers a doorway into the Southern Netherlands of 1400 to 1700, a dynamic environment where new artistic genres and styles were created and flourished. The exhibition's unique presentation introduces the visitor, through these rare, extraordinary artworks, to stories of enterprising townspeople, prosperous cities, and an ever-developing society." -  ROM

I hope you all have a spooctacular Thursday and a wonderful Halloween!

Some digital collages made in Shuffles

Thank you!

Tuesday Tea & A Farewell Poem to October

Linking up with Tea For Tuesday 

Hosted by the lovely Elizabeth.  Bluebird and Elizabeth's Blog

This is not the poem

I pulled my back last night

Don't ask how 

Ok 

I will tell you

Just getting into my PJ's 

yup that's all it took

Now I'm sitting and can't move from the couch

Thank goodness I have some help today.

Yesterday I tried this tea and It's in my favourite mug

I love the Nutcracker story and this mug is from Indigo

it has the characters all over it

I have a green version of this mug as well but it's in boxes from our move

We haven't unboxed everything

The tea is Organic Green Tea Matcha with toasted rice 

I really love the flavour of the toasted rice.

My Sweet October

October,

Colours of red, orange, yellow, brown

Leaves are falling all around and the air is cool

Fireplace in the air

Sounds of Autumn everywhere

Leaves falling like rain to the ground

The sun is bright 

The sky so blue contrasting with the warm colours of the leaves

oh how I will miss your beauty!

My sweet October.

-Maria Medeiros

Thank you for each moment

I am grateful for each day

MINI COMPILATION OF PHOTOS

Have a wonderful day and a lovely rest of the week my friends!

Thank you from my heart!

Maria