Merry meet everyone, So I have decided to talk to you all about my fitness journey and my diet. Back in April I decided to join slimming world. Now I have had good days and bad days but thats just life at the end of the day. I have been aiming to lose weight since January this year after my Doctors appointment which I spoke about in a past post. I joined slimming world at the end of April to start on the 1st of May 2020. By June I had already lost over a stone of weight which is amazing. I wont speak about how much I have lost so far as I want to do another post at the end of September as a progress point. Anyway back in June I decided to get myself a happy planner fitness edition. This meant that I could track my weeks and what I am eating ect and see what worked that week and what didn't. I have also been doing monthly challenges to encourage me to get out there and do the fitness I set out to do. I have also become a lover of yoga which I have been doing for awhile which again I will probably do a update post to let you know how that has helped me. I thought I should do this post because I found it really helpful to track everything I wanted to keep an eye on. This meant that I could go back and see what I started at and what I will finish at, at the end of the year. I know my diet and fitness journey will take longer than a year and because of that I will see if I can get another fitness planner next year. I love being able to go back and see how far I have come. I never thought I would be able to stay on a diet and get to my active self ever again. I use to be very active when I was younger but life happened and my mental health caused me to put a lot of weight on and for that for me created a big wall between me and my active self. I am still not at that place were I could go to a gym yet but I will get there and I will be better for it. I still have my witches planner for my daily life ect. I still do all my planner love bits but I never thought I would have a fitness planner just to track my journey. I got inspired by a youtuber and it really have helped me become more active within my journey which has helped a lot. So I have decided I will be doing a post like this every now and then to keep you guys updated and also inspired. It doesn't take much to change your lifestyle and slimming world has helped me a lot. I will be posting every week on my stories on my instagram account @paganvibesonly if you want to see what I am doing and how I am tracking everything. I do hope this has inspired you and that you enjoyed this post. I will see you all in the next one and please stay safe everyone x Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, So I have planned that today's post will be all about different witchy journals you could be doing daily to still stay connected to the witchy path. As you may already know about me I do love my journaling and I feel like it helps me keep notes down and keep track of how I am getting on with my studies in the magical sense. I also love how I can connect to my witchy side while doing very normal daily routines while in work which I will get more into later on. I bet you all have loads of notebooks that you have either brought or been gifted and haven't used yet and why is that? I have so many note books that I personally haven't touched yet and thats going to change. I have decided to start doing some more witchy journaling to keep track of some amazing aspects and I think you should too. I will be sharing with you all different types and ways you could be using theses empty notebooks for your witchy needs and also some others that you may want to try too. Divination Journal: So I have started a journal for my one card a day pulls. I do this to connect with my cards each day and to find new ways to read into the cards. I have found this has helped me out really well for my card readings and also keeping up with my posts on my instagram which I post theses every morning once I have done them. I also find it fun being creative using my washi tapes and stickers to make each page very special and it also helps me get in the right set of mind for the rest of the day. Its super fun and its a great way you can go back and see how you started with your card readings too. Dream Journal: Now I did have a dream journal myself but I have slipped slightly the last couple of months because of the lock down that went down and also other aspects of my life. I really enjoyed doing the sleep journal though because your dreams can mean anything but also could be trying to tell you something you need to remember or learn. I really love doing theses and I have planned to start my journal up again so hopefully we will all know what our dreams are saying soon. For this one I would say keep your journal next to your bed and when you wake up jot down any key words, or colours or anything that came from your dream and then look into the meanings behind them once your more awake. This will help you not forget anything you may want to remember. Garden Journal: Now I don't have a garden journal because I don't have a garden but for this I have a herb journal instead. If you have a garden then keep a journal of all your growing herbs and what you want to do with them. Different uses and magical workings that may connect with each herb ect. For me I make a note of each herb I own in my collection and some information about each herb. I have found this fun to do because I have been very creative with my pages and its like a way to escape the world around us for a little while. I would recommend starting one of theses kinds of journals if you are a kitchen or green witch. Witchy cookbook: Now for me my witchy cookbook is my normal cook book because I like mixing cooking with my magic. Its what kitchen witchery is all about and I love keeping a note of what worked and what didn't. This will also be passed down to future generations in my family once I have completed my cook book because I love the idea of sharing what I have found worked or not with others. This is a really good way to keep track of your cooking recipes that have worked also and mixing both daily and witchy together while making pasta. Planners: Now I have been using the witches planner all year and has really worked out great for me. I feel connected to my witchy side every day while marking my boring work side. It helps me balance out both sides of me and makes me feel more balanced each day. I find it fun mixing both the witchy side and normal side in a planner because it helps me keep track of everything from the moon phases to sabbats and also when I should be doing my readings and when I should be working on my altar. I do use a lot of stickers in my planners which you can see on my instagram account as I do share my weekly spreads on there and I get my stickers from crafty planning because she has so many witchy stickers that has really helped me keep track of everything. Its really fun and another way to get your creative side out. Book of shadows: As witches we do like keep track of everything and a good way to use your note books is making a book of shadows. It doesn't have to be pretty or neat it can just be a way for you to jot down notes and what worked or didn't for yourself. I do this a lot and then transfer the information across to my main book of shadows later on. I find this a great way to not forget anything and then you don't have to worry if you spill anything on it either. I hope I have given you some really good ideas for some witchy journals because its a great way to stay connected and also to ground yourself when you feel a little lost. I love working in journals and I hope you find working in journals as fun and relaxing as I do. As always you can follow me on instagram @paganvibesonly like I said before I do post a lot about my journals and other witchy aspects of my life so come join in on the fun. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will see you all in the next one. Stay safe and blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, So today I will be talking about my Beltane celebration plan. In my witches planner you get this insert for each sabbat and I just love working within this layout to plan what I want to do. As always this sabbat will be a little different as others as we are in a lock down which means I am limited to what I can get at the moment. Lucky for me I have a good stock of most of the things I will be using but that being said I wont be able to do my meal plan I wanted to do because its very hard to get any food as it is. I did plan on buying for altar clothes from the shop I brought the last couple because I need more summer and bright colours as the ones I have at the moment are for winter really. But the shop is closed because of the lock down so again I am having to use what I have which isn't a problem I can use the blue altar cloth I own as its the lightest. The down side is that It looks like I haven't changed my altar because it been on now for four months I think. But hey ho it can't be helped. Anyway with the insert I have used in my planner you can see that theres a ritual plan section at the top. I have used this to plan what I would like to do that day. As we are in lock down I have to be mindful that my boyfriend is also locked in with me so I can't really do everything I want to do because I like doing it when I am alone. But I can have my altar done up and have my candles burning. While hes in another room I can also do my blessing for the sabbat too. I also plan on doing a cleansing shower with bath salts that I plan on mixing together. I then would love to work in my book of shadows for a couple of hours in the afternoon and may be cleanse all my crystals that I have too. The second section is my altar ideas which I am limited to do now but I plan on having yellow and white candles on my altar. I don't have any red taper candles left which is why I am using yellow instead. I also plan on getting some fresh flowers but again this is down to if I can get any at the moment as I am unsure if super markets are stocking them with it not being essential items. I plan on having my glass display box in the middle of the altar with my pendulum and small crystal ball in with my pentagram bell on top of that with my two black cats on either side. Then my taper candle holders will be on either side of the box and I will work out from there with bits for my altar. I haven't really finished planning my altar out because I have to now change some bits up but thats just more fun for me when doing it. The last section in the insert is all notes about the sabbat that I will find handy while doing my altar like the colours that I can use for the sabbat and the crystals I can include in my altar. Theres also incense and oils I can use through out the day thats connected with the sabbat which I find helpful. As always I will share a image of my updated sabbat altar on my instragram account @paganvibesonly if you wish to see what I do or just to keep updated then follow me to keep updated. For now thats my sabbat planned. I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be and stay safe. PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Today I will be talking to you all about my Ostara plan for the following sabbat. As you may know Ostara is not that far away and with my witches planner it comes with sabbat plan inserts which I personally love to bits. So the first sabbat I did with theses inserts was Imbolc which I did say I was going to post but it came to the point where I wasn't going to fit it in with the rest of the posts I had already planned. So this time I made a point to plan this type of post so I could show you how amazing this insert is and also what I did to use it and plan. So First of all I used a hobonichi kit from CraftyPlanning called fruity florals. I really love this kit because not only did I already have this in my collection (I have many planner kits) But I also felt it fit the sabbat really well. The link to the kit I have used is here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/686463264/hobonichi-weeks-kitfruity?ref=shop_home_active_5&sca=1 If you want to save 15% off on your order from CraftyPlanning you can use my code: cpsbethany. So the first box in the insert is all about ritual plan and what you want to do to celebrate the sabbat, or thats how I use it anyway. So as you can see I have made six bullet points of ideas and things I would like to do to celebrate the sabbat if I am not in work, or if I am then to do it a day near the sabbat. These bullet points include: - Have some hot cross buns for breakfast. This is because it is the hot cross bun season and its connected to Ostara which is a great way to connect to it yourself. I will also be planning on having my morning cup of tea with honey as honey is a food connected to the sabbat too. - Bless the garden patch in front of my flat. Now I don't have a garden because I live in a flat but theres this beautiful garden patch in front of my big window where there will be plants I can bless and show mother earth my thanks. - Wear the colours green, blue or pink. Now theses are the colours of the sabbat which means if you just wear the colours it would bring you closer to the sabbat and you can do this without anyone knowing too if your in the closet. -Do some witchy spring cleaning. Now spring cleaning is such a great thing around this time of year and knowing this I thought it would be a great time to do some witchy spring cleaning myself and to sort out my herbs ect. - Do my Ostara blessing. Now every year I do a blessing for this sabbat which is personal to me so I wont get into much detail but it always based on thanking the mother earth for coming back to us. - Fertility spell. Now this one is very personal to me so I wont go into more detail or to say whom it is for but this time of year is perfect for theses kinds of spell work. The next two boxes in the insert is all about the altar and then other notes you wish to jot down. So my plan for my altar is to have my Ostara plaque that I got from Freya's cauldron on the wall behind my altar. I will be using my blue altar cloth unless I get a chance to buy a green one before hand then it will be green. I want fresh spring flowers on my altar to represent the new growth of spring and I will be having my crystals that connect with the sabbat such as my rose quartz and amethyst clusters which I have in my collection. I will also be burning lemon grass incense through out the day and the colour of candles I will have on my altar will be yellow, green and pink which are colours of this sabbat. In my notes section is all about other crystals I can use, the oils that I may want to anoint my candles with and the foods I can plan my meals with that day that connect with the sabbat. This is only a plan for what I would like to do for the Ostara sabbat and things may change depending on when I put it all together but this is normally what I do anyway. I hope you have all planned your sabbat and have things all sorted for the following weeks to come. If you wish to see my Ostara altar you should follow me on instagram @PaganVibesOnly to keep updated on all things me and blog. I am always there connecting to people so why haven't you followed yet? I hope this has inspired you for your own sabbat celebrations and I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, So today is a post thats slightly different to most. I will be talking to you about my witches planner and how I use daily. So first what is the witches planner. Now theres a small company that created the witches planner for witches like us. They have created this beautiful A5 binder style planner with amazing inserts. I haven't taken any images of the inserts as I have already worked in them, and dont want to share too much of my normal daily life. I will be sharing more of my planner though in future posts because this year is for me to be more organised and also be more creative and not let work take over like I do a lot. The type of inserts you get is the daily two days per sheet, you also get on theses daily sheets the moon face, the date and day ect. You also get a full page of each sabbat planning. So I have played around with this months sabbat which I may share later this month even though its late you will get some idea what I am talking about. You also get a herbs and crystal grid like insert which you can buy extra on their website. I use theses to track the herbs I have in my collection and their magical uses. I thought this would be handy as I always have my planner to hand so I may as well use it to keep track of uses that I needed quickly. Same with the crystals. I haven't gotten to the crystal pages yet because it takes time and the amount of crystals I have in my collection it may take more than just an hour :') You also get inserts for notes, tarot spreads, rituals, spells and of course a double page of moon phases for 2020. There is also the wheel of the year double page and the moon faces double page which I haven't used yet because I am unsure what to do with it. There is also the about me double page where you can keep all you important magical information such as your zodiac signs, favourite magical tools, when you started your magical path and things you wish to learn that year. There is also a page for your divination information and your deities. Which again I haven't used yet because I am unsure what to do in theses pages as of yet. Basically this planner is jam packed with great inserts for your daily working and magical life. Its also a great way to stick information in before your book of shadows if your on the go and unsure if you will remember it. Personally the reason why I got this planner was to keep track of my magical life while my daily life took over. I wanted to have a nice balance of both sides of me and this was a great way to do that. As you can see I have already personalised my planner to fit my needs and will continue to do so when more bits come in the post. As always I use my planner stickers on my daily inserts ect from craftyplanning on etsy, her shop is amazing and her stickers are just what you need to make your planner your own. I use her stickers all the time for mine and her witchy stickers are amazing. I would highly recommend you go check her shop out. If you use my code: cpsbethany you will get 15% off your order :) For now I will leave this post here and will continue to plan future blog posts this afternoon. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will be doing more posts like this in the future. I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone,
Today's post is another planner addiction haul haha. This is just two orders from two different stores. I have got other orders coming which I will share with you all in the future once they have came. The first order is another order from craftyplanning on etsy. Her shop is amazing and jam packed with amazing kits and sets for your planner. My planner is going to look amazing once all my stickers come. I got the hobonichi kits because they are the perfect size stickers for my Filofax planner and works really well within the layout I use. The three kits I brought of hers were the watercolour witchcraft kit with dots, the fruity florals with dots and the galaxy kit with dots. I also brought myself a oops bag of hers which comes with 10 large sheets of stickers that she wouldn't sell full price because they either came out the wrong colour, printed wrong or was cut out wrong. I always find theses bags really useful and well worth the money. I also got a load of samples from her store and from other stores as a thank you for shopping with her within that sale. Its well worth it and with the 30% off her store you couldn't go wrong. This sale was back in august so the offer isn't there anymore. The second order was from the store called legallyplanning. She is also on etsy and has a load of amazing stickers. She also does foiled stickers which is why I brought from her store. I wanted to grab a couple cute foiled stickers that I could use in my set ups. In this order I brought a Halloween hobonichi monthly kit, A wicked delight mini kit and an autumn leaves hobonichi monthly kit. I also got a full sheet of buy cat treats stickers to keep track on when I buy my kitties treats. Finally the foiled stickers I brought where the plan, camera icons and pay day foiled stickers. I really love her foiled stickers so much I have actually put another order in for a couple other sheets. I also got a load of samples from other stores and from her own store which was well worth buying in the sale for. Overall these two orders were well worth the wait and also I got theses on my birthday week so it made it extra special. Check out theses two amazing stores and I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone, Today's post is slightly different than normal because its another planner like post. I stated in the last planner post that I brought myself some witchy planner stickers to funk my planner up and also to help me keep track on what is needed but without it being boring. This is from my first order. Now I have ordered more since than as they have had a sale ect. So there will be a bigger haul coming and I will wait until they are all here before doing another post but I wanted to share with you all theses fab stickers. If your a planner addict like me and love being very organised then you should check this shop out on etsy because she does so many really funky planner stickers and she has a whole section on witchy stickers. So as you can see I brought myself a load of witchy stickers which more are on the way. Theses will last me ages which is great because I will be stocked up for ages. I got myself a sheet of tarot spread stickers, a sheet of update book of shadows stickers, a sheet of birthday tracker stickers and a sheet of cute magical moons. I also got a sheet of crystal balls saying mystic as fuck and a sheet of potion bottles because they are amazing. I got a bigger sheet of deco witchy stickers which I plan to use in my planner and my book of shadows because they are fabulous. I then got a load of free samples which I think is just too cute. I have already used a load of theses stickers as I have been planning my next couple of weeks ahead so I have more time to focus on what needs to be done in my free time, with work being really busy lately. With each order you get a free sample of stickers and on theses stickers there is a little teddy bear that you keep and put on a loyalty card and if you get 10 of theses stickers you get £10 of free credit to use in her store which is fabulous. I have already got myself her Halloween box that I will be doing a post about in October when that arrives and I have already got her yule advert calendar for this christmas which I will do posts about when that comes too. I love my planner because its a space I can be creative in but also be very work related as at the moment I dont get much free time to do my creative stuff like I use to which is a shame but work is a priority at the moment. I hope you enjoy theses random planner posts and I will see you all in the next post. Also check her shop out on etsy if your a planner lover like myself. Her name is craftyplanning and shes amazing. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone :) Today is a little different that normal posts because it's not really witchy related. Now I have been in love with planners for as long as I can remember. I have always had some sort of planner on the go either a filo-fax or just a normal desk diary to keep track of my blog posts and plans for the future ect. On top of that I have a little planner on my phone as well which tells me when I am in work and when I am free which is handy to have on me. Now I have noticed that planners can be as creative or as boring as you want. For me this speaks volumes! I have gotten myself a new filo-fax style planner because its completely adjustable. I can move pages when and were ever I want, which is why I love the filo-fax planners so much. The down side is the inserts are soo boring! For me personally I need something fun and colourful to make my boring week in work full of life and joy. So I have been looking about for some funky inserts that I can use and adjust to what I need it for. Now as you can see from the image above I have found this style of planner weeks. Now Its handy to have a printer and the 6 hole puncher because I can print inserts out for myself instead of going all over the world looking for inserts I want in my planner. I have noticed that rymans office supply store in the uk are selling out the memory planner inserts ect which I have also stocked up on them as they are really handy to have. I have got their weekly inserts which is a different style to what I am using which I plan to use from the new year because its a whole year in this pack. I will most likely go back and stock up on all the inserts as they are getting rid of them for £1. I will do this on my next day off as its handy to have. If they don't have any left then its not the end of the world but I will be a little disappointed. Anyway back to the fun of planners. Now you should know I am very creative. I may be a pagan witch but I have a creative bone too. I have a load of washi tape which I use a lot for my planner as you can see from above. I think this makes the pages pop and also makes it look more fun. There is also stickers and different coloured pens to use to make your week colour coded and stand out when needed. For me personally I use the same colour codes as I use on my phone planner so it all goes along with each other and I know what each colour means. For green its blog related. So posts that I have planned to post that week and also blog planning. Orange is work related so all work days will be written in orange and will be at the top of each page as they are important to know. Red is important reminders that I need to know. Then other colours are what I have done that day, home tasks ect. I will be doing a big planner sticker haul soon as well as I have a load of funky witchy planner stickers to help me keep track on what I want to do from tarot readings to sorting my altar out. I will also go into more detail about how I mix my witchy life with my daily life and how I keep the balance alive. I hope you will enjoy my planner series. This will not be a weekly thing but may be a monthly or even a fortnightly thing. It all depends if there is anything interesting to share or say haha. Theses posts will be posted on friday because thats a fun day to have. I will see you all in the next post :) Blessed be x MissDoomie x |
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