April is the month when spring comes to its full bloom. One day you wake and see that the world is covered with cherry blossoms, and everything mundane transforms into a wonderland.

My April bullet journal theme is always about cherry blossoms, but usually I opted for light pink and white colors. This year I decided to add some more green to the page. And it kinda feels like the continuation of March page, but with more versatile in colors.

Another thing that connects these two months are the light academia and “Pride and Prejudice” details. I wanted to use this sticker for March, but decided to keep it for the next month, and it looks perfect with the whole theme.

And of course, the cherry blossoms themselves. I have a few stickers of these gentle flowers on the right side, as well as some of its petals flying in the upper corner above the header. I was thinking about getting some real flowers and adding them to the page, but wasn’t patient enough to go and get them before starting my journaling.

In the lower right corner I wanted to write a short poem with my letter stamps to make it more romantic, as this season is, but didn’t have enough space, so I just wrote a beautiful short caption.

The quotes for this month’s post will involve not only sayings about April, but also cherry blossoms and spring in general, as I found quite a lot of beautiful ones:

• “APRIL this year, not otherwise
  Than April of a year ago
  Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
  Dazzling mud and dingy snow;
  Hepaticas that pleased you so
  Are here again, and butterflies” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• “There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you” (Murasaki Shikibu)
• “Marilla, walking home one late April evening, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest” (L.M. Montgomery)
• “April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air” (Anton Chekhov)
• “What a strange thing!
  to be alive
  beneath cherry blossoms” (Kobayashi Issa)
• “April is the cruelest month, breeding
  lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  memory and desire, stirring
  dull roots with spring rain” (T.S. Eliot)
• “Spring had come once more to Green Gables-the beautiful, capricious Canadian spring, lingering along through April and may in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth” (L.M. Montgomery)
• “Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal” (Erik Pevernagie)
• “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything” (William Shakespeare)
• “It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think?” (L.M. Montgomery)
• “But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm” (William Cowper)