Hello guys! I know it's been a while since I made a blog post. Anyway, as you all know, we are to celebrate another nutrition month this coming July 2018. To those of you who are keeping tabs on the talking points and theme in hopes of winning various contests, read on.


The theme for this year's nutrition month celebration is "Ugaliing Magtanim, Sapat na nutrisyon aanihin."

This means that for this year, we have to focus on agriculture, crops, fruits, vegetables, and green things in our posters. It's also nice to include farmers and families who are planting together in order to provide the community with nutritious foods.

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy yet of this year's talking points. Before I draw a poster, I see to it that I have read the talking points released by the NNC to further understand what the theme really means.

For more information and updates on the talking points, please visit the official website and Facebook page of the National Nutrition Council (NNC).

I hope I can create a new poster to share with you guys. In the meantime, you can check out my previous posters, and see if they can give you some ideas, by clicking the images below:




Thank you for reading and I hope you learned something. Feel free to share your suggestions and questions in the comments section below.

Instagram is a great source of inspiration. I can scroll through the feeds for hours and not get bored. But of course, that's not productive at all.

And then there's also weheartit. I am not sure if you guys have heard of it but it's mostly girly stuff posted in there. For a girl who's looking for inspiration in fitness, arts, DIYs, photography, love, and career, weheartit is a great website to browse. It has "collection" feature that allows you to make an album out of all the things you "hearted," kind of like a board on Pinterest.

A photo posted by Lavennz Ooi (@penpapersoul) on Aug 26, 2016 at 6:08am PDT

She's using a dotted journal. I have also had a DIY dotted journal (I made my own because I cannot find a dotted journal anywhere!) but although it's nice enough, my handwriting sucks in it. I just can't make my writing straight and clean. It's nice for making doodles, though, like the roadmap I made for 2016. I decided that I need to use a grid journal so that I can practice my handwriting.

I cannot find a grid journal decent enough for my liking. The ones I found were ridiculously overpriced and didn't look pretty at all.

So, again, I made my own. My new motto is:


Sounds nice, doesn't it? I've always wanted to do things on my own. It makes me feel better about myself. Anyway, if you're interested in making your own, here's how I made my DIY grid journal.

I had fun making the journal itself. The journal has enough pages to cover the "Ber" months starting from September to December. It's light and I can easily carry it wherever I go.

September 3, 2016 daily spread featuring my note to myself: Channel your inspired mood to something creative in order to make good use of it. We wouldn't want an inspired mood to go wasted, would we? Considering it's getting rarer and rarer for me to such mood nowadays.

In the upper bar, I have three columns for the date, (day's) weather and (my) mood, and priorities. My mood often dictates my day and I have the Note to Self section to stop my mood from ruining the day.

1. Note to Self
2. Foods
3. Notes.

My handwriting isn't perfect and I'm struggling to make my letters as straight as I can make them. The grid really helps in achieving such.

For the Foods eaten section, I write the foods I eat every

• Breakfast
• Snacks
• Lunch
• Snacks
• Supper

It's a nice practice to keep track of the food I eat. I'm not on diet or anything as of the moment but it makes me conscious of the foods I eat -- which is a good thing.

The Notes section is for things I want to remember, rants, monologues, diary entry, reminders, or just about anything I want to write that doesn't fit with any of the other sections.

The parallel time ladder inspired by Lavennz Ooi of Penpapersoul.

I like this particular layout because it's very flexible. It's a time-bound layout which can also cater to what a to-do layout offers. I can play around with arrows, be reminded of my to-do list while still keeping track of the time.

For more inspiration, you can find more images of my planner and journals in my Instagram and Weheartit accounts. :)

Top row: Red one is for long notes that are worth remembering. Le Petit Prince is like a diary and reflection notebook. I also write wonderful personal happenings in it. Where To Next is a travel planner I haven't started using yet. No worries because it's dateless. I don't have the money and time to use it yet.

Middle row: Languo traveler's notebook is for my artsy stuffs. I like it so much because it's handy and is so cute! Dream Do Defy is a work planner and financial planner. Prince's handmade Bullet Journal is the bullet journal I made when I couldn't find a dotted journal anywhere. I haven't maximized its use yet but it's where I drew my 2016 road map.

Bottom row: Bible diary for my daily dose of the Holy Gospel.

There you go. I decided to use a road map in the metaphorical sense. Life is a road. There are tons of stopovers, you'll be stuck in traffic, might get involved in an accident, run out of gas to keep going, be tempted to take a shortcut, or meet a dead end and have to go back again.

I guess thinking too much is slightly better than not thinking at all. (Excuses...?)