5 Reasons to Bullet Journal + A Peek At My July Spreads

I love bullet journaling.

A crucial step in my plan to taking over the world is helping everyone start a bullet journal. Okay, not really…but for real, I love them a lot. 😉 They’re creative, they’re helpful, they’re so fun, and I bet the world would be a happier place if there were more bullet journals in it.

Today I’m going to be sharing 5 major benefits of bullet journaling (in hopes of convincing you all to start one) as well as sharing a quick peek (!!) into my July 2018 bullet journal spreads. Let’s get right into it!

My {Long Awaited} Bookshelf Tour 2018

My bookshelf tour is finally here!!

After wanting to do this post for months, I finally got around to it. I can’t wait to share my bookshelf with you all today!

Like most bookworms, you could say I’m a little obsessed with my bookshelf. It’s my child, after all. I organize it frequently, get worried when it’s reaching over-capacity, and make sure only the best books make their way onto its shelves. 😉

Room Tour 2017

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Purely Olivia. 🙂

If you have been a reader of my blog since Writer’s Digest, then you may remember my first room tour. In that post, I showed the difference between my room before and after I redecorated it. Today I’ll be going more in depth, not to mention that I’ve changed a few things since then.

Let’s get started!

How to Make a Reading Nook

Reading nooks are easy to make, fun to use, and necessary for survival. 🙂 A few months ago my friend Anna and I created one in my closet, and I love it! Today’s post is going to be a tutorial of how to make a reading nook and, at the end, photographs of mine. Let’s get started!

Here is a list of everything you need to make a successful nook. 😉 Feel free to add or subtract items as you please!

My Bookshelf Tour 2017!

Hello everybody! 🙂

I have been wanting to do an updated bookshelf tour for a while now, and I’m so excited to finally be typing it out. I did a bookshelf tour back on Writer’s Digest, but since then my bookshelf has been cleaned out, reorganized, and reorganized some more!

For each shelf, I’ll be giving a brief synopsis of the overall shelf, then giving my favorite book or books, the most special book to me, and an interesting fact about either the shelf as a whole or one of the books on that shelf.

Ways to Start the New Year Right

Hi everyone! 😀

It’s been January for 16 days, but if you still haven’t woken up and realized it’s 2017, this post is for you. In January, you can plan and think ahead for the eleven months stretching out in front of us. I’m an organized person who likes to think ahead- so today I’ve compiled 5 days to start your 2017 right!

Ways to Organize Your Bookshelf//Ideas for Decluttering Your Bookshelf

Recently, I decided to reorganize my bookshelf. Which, if your bookshelf looks like mine, is a pretty difficult task! 😉

I haven’t started yet, but I’ve been brainstorming some different ways I might want to organize it and decided to share with you so you can use them too, if you want. I’ll also be sharing ideas for bookshelf clean-outs (those are hard for bookworms).

Simple Ways to Declutter Your Desk

My desk. Oh, my desk.

I’ve never been good at keeping it organized. I find myself doing a major desk cleanout every couple of months. Each time, I scold myself and decide that it’ll be the last time. I’ll do better from now on. It never is.

Still, there’s something about a clean desk. It makes me feel energized, inspired, and ready for anything that comes my way. Come at me, writer’s block! (Actually, please don’t.) I just feel so happy and fresh when my desk is clean and organized.

It’s especially helpful now, because I don’t know about you, but I’m back to school. That means homework, which means I’ll need an available desk!