Simple 2024 Calendar

iHello everyone! As we reach the end of 2023, I wanted to share a simple little calendar project I am working on. This year, my husband and I found that it works really well for us to have a written calendar that we use to plan things out for the whole year and then to keep track of the current month on a larger whiteboard near our door. However, we did discover that having a traditional planner that also has space to plan each week is a bit of a waste for us as we only ended up using the larger month view.

I absolutely love the idea of a bullet journal and think its so fun to watch people spend so much time on them, but I simply don't have the patience for that myself. I wanted to try to make a pretty monthly calendar system for next year that dipped a toe into the world of bullet-journaling but wasn't quite so intense.

To start off, I found a downloadable calendar template from Etsy. You could also find free images online that you could print, but I liked the style of these calendars and how they were perfectly scaled to fit on an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper. Here is an example of what one month looks like!

I wanted to spice up the top of each page a little so I used an embossing label maker to make labels for the days of the week.

I then thought it would be fun to make a rainbow throughout the year so I picked 12 colors of 8 1/2 by 11 cardstock.

I trimmed the edges of each calendar page and then stuck them down to the cardstock.

I then took a Sharpie that matched the color of the paper and used it to outline the days of the month. I also went ahead and marked down any holiday that I wanted to keep track of as these calendars were completely blank. The nice thing about having a blank calendar to work with is that you can pick and choose which holidays you want to mark off.

I then used some stickers from a book I have shown a few times on the blog to add some style to the pages. Here is an example of the style of stickers I used.

I haven't made it all the way through the year yet, but here are what the first 4 months of the year look like!

I know this was a simple blog but I hope it helps you all see how easy it is to make yourself some pretty calendars. If you are like me and like the idea of bullet-journaling, but know that its a bit much for you, I feel like this is a nice little project that allows some customization while also not being so unstructured as bullet-journaling. To store this, I will be sliding the sheets into page protectors. I went for that as opposed to trying to bind them together into a book as I liked being able to see a bunch of them at once for planning purposes.

Let me know if you have ever tried something like this in the comments below!

 - Rebecca

​P.S. Today's photo on the homepage is from Pexels user Anete Lusina:
www.pexels.com/photo/crop-woman-writing-in-calendar-5239916/​