Hello my loves—today I’m flipping through my fully finished 2025 after-the-pen journal, and yes… she’s a chunky monkey. This is a real, lived-in memory keeping journal (no perfection, just life), and I’m showing you what it looks like when you actually use it all year. It’s an A5 Leuchtturm1917 dot grid, and I was able to fit basically the entire year in one book (I literally have maybe four pages left… plus some dog ears that are not the cute kind). I walk you through how I set it up month by month with a goals page, a mini calendar for main events, and my “currently” section (watching, listening, reading). You’ll see my sticker layering, PET tapes, and all the cozy little decorative elements I leaned on—especially eStarCase and Planner Press—plus the messy, honest journaling moments like hard work days, anxiety, big celebrations, and sweet memories with family (and Toa, obviously). I also share the systems I keep in the back (AM/PM routines, habits, lessons, and order tracking) and how I move the “evergreen” lists into a separate notebook so I don’t lose them when a journal is finished.