And just like that, summer has arrived! This season is my least favorite, simply because I can’t stand the hot weather and the lack of fresh air. I become the most uninspired and unmotivated in this time of the year, which also affects my bullet journal pages, as I don’t really know what themes to choose for these three months.

However, as I got to spend more time in the countryside, I got to see how beautiful summer really is, away from the dusty and stuffy cities. It’s got the most gorgeous sunsets, the chilly twilights with a pleasant breeze, all the colorful wildflowers, and of course, the huge variety of fruits and berries. Also, summer gives us all a feeling of lightness and freedom, which, I reckon, is subconsciously connected with having summer holidays during school and university for many years.

June is my favorite summer month, because the weather’s not as hot, it’s got lots of rainstorms and many beautiful flowers, like daisies, roses, dandelions and lavender. I think I’d have liked this season much better, if all months were like June.

For this month’s bullet journal layout I decided to be a little more specific and chose Studio Ghibli theme, as it was my main inspiration for this past month. Studio Ghibli films all have the most amazing picturesque scenes of nature in its full bloom, so it seems like the perfect decision for this month.

The main color scheme is green. I love the header part with the flowers in one side, it turned out really pretty. The rest is mostly connected with Hayao Miyazaki’s films. I’ve got stickers of Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke all around the page.

This layout turned out quite magical. I usually like more minimalistic and simple designs for my pages with fewer tones. And even though this one turned out a little too colorful and “all over the place”, I still like it, because there’s a single theme that unites everything.

Also, since I got many more stickers that I couldn’t use in the journal pages, I decided to capture them in the photos anyway. And, of course, I got to add the little Totoro plushie to my photoshoot.

Since it’s also the beginning of a new season, I’ll add quotes not only about June, but also summer. I already sense that most of them will be from L.M. Montgomery and Ray Bradbury, because these two always managed to capture the beauty of this season the best.

• “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” (Maud Hart Lovelace)
• “Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.” (Ray Bradbury)
• “You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.” (L.M. Montgomery)
• “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” (Pablo Neruda)
• “And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine.” (Ray Bradbury)
• “It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.” (Henry David Thoreau)
• “Anne had the golden summer of her life as far as freedom and frolic went. She walked, rowed, berried, and dreamed to her heart’s content” (L.M. Montgomery)
• “The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.” (J.K. Rowling)
• “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” (John Steinbeck)
• “She drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of the poplars.” (L.M. Montgomery)