Bullet Journaling for the New Year: Virtual Workshop with Felix Ford

Drawing on Felix’s popular Knitsonik Bullet Journaling class, this class focuses on listing the good things that happened; lavishing love on the parts that were hard; and paying kind attention to our daily lives. It’s about carving out time for reflection and self care in the busy lead up to the holidays, and laying the groundwork for an intentional start to 2025.

Details  

Date: Friday, December 6, 2024

Time: Noon-2:00 p.m. Eastern time

Location: Zoom. This is a virtual event.

Due to the size of the Zoom group, participant mics will be muted, but the chat will be open. We will monitor the chat for questions, and Felix will answer as many as time permits.

Can’t make it to the live Zoom session? Everyone who enrolls will receive a link to the recording of the talk to watch at leisure.

Want a preview of what to expect? Check out our Zoom with Felix earlier this year.

The Class  

You’ll use as much or as little stationery as you like (see supplies list below) to outline the highs, lows, and notable moments of your 2024 in any style that brings you joy and with no pressure to include everything or be perfect.

We’ll go through each month, writing out the headlines of what happened, and remembering events as brief notes. You can review your year with or without illustration, as you prefer.

We’ll focus on:

• What we did and who was there
• Highs and lows
• Anything we want to track: craft projects made, books read, etc.
• Things we’re grateful for
• Acknowledging the difficult parts
• Realizations/things we learned/main takeaways

Felix will provide prompts throughout and demonstrate her own year-end review process. Follow along and journal with her in real time, or just watch and make notes for doing the process later, in your own time.

This is a great opportunity to try out lots of stationery in a low-stakes setting. This workshop is just for you and an opportunity to play, so it doesn’t matter how it turns out, as long as the process brings you joy.

Preparations  

It takes a bit of time to go through your year! Before the workshop, you might want to look back through your photos from 2024, or your journal or planner (if you keep one) and make some brief notes so you’re not spending the whole class digging around in your phone and books looking for “what DID I do in January?!” Bullet points are fine.

For important memories, consider printing a few representative photos to cut out and stick in your year end review.

Consider—especially if you had an extra difficult year—investing in gold stars, certificate seals, or any other visual aids that you experience as affirming and kind to yourself.

Supplies List

Essential:

Several sheets of paper or a few blank pages in your bullet journal or other notepad of choice. Order the MDK Bullet Journal here, if you like.

A biro, fountain pen or other preferred writing implement.

One or two highlighter pens or light-colored felt tip pens for making colored headings for each of the months (just makes it easier to see what’s what).

If you care about highlighter lines being straight, bring a ruler.

Optional: 

You can also bring and use any other stationery supplies that make you happy (especially anything you’re hoarding and not using because it feels too special). For example:

Rubber stamps and ink pads, stickers, washi tape.

Ephemera (ticket stubs, photos, receipts or other paper tokens that remind you of special events) and a glue stick.

Felt tip pens.

Inks, watercolors or watercolor pencils—anything you’d like to use.

Our Workshop Leader

Felicity (Felix) Ford is an artist who believes that creativity and social change go hand in hand. As KNITSONIK, she’s been working with knitting and sound since 2005, when she joined a knitting circle in Oxford, England, while studying for her MA and PhD in sound art. Her sound works include a podcast series about disability; a PhD exploring the underappreciated sounds of domestic space; and commissions for TATE Modern, The Dickens Museum, and The Wellcome Library. Felix now writes knitting books celebrating the everyday in stranded colorwork, and teaches workshops that empower her fellow knitters around creative self-expression.