setting up my 2025 Hobonichi | notes, lists, accessories, story time

[@SeaweedKisses]

watch part 1 setup here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJraXnt7j8ajbac

[@melanieswritingplans]

Michelle, I've so loved being part of your community throughout the year! I don't comment fairly often, but I wanted to leave a message of gratitude for you and also for your other viewers as well. I'm also starting to enjoy the long-form videos more; I need those reminders to slow down and not rush through everything, especially the creative process. And with the story at the end of the video, I love how you saw that uncashed check as the Universe already paying you back for what you were going to spend on the order and the tip for the driver. You were meant to help her out, and you went above and beyond. You are a wonderful soul and I can't wait to see what's in store for your 2025!

[@caroline2233]

Michelle, when I first found your channel, I landed here because I was looking for a specific product, technique, or whatever. It took me some time to slow down and just enjoy the longer content. I don't want to get into too many details, but it has been a very stressful year. I'm a mental health counselor, but we all have stress. Taking the time to slow down and "hang out" with you has renewed my love of stationery, pens, fountain pens, etc. It has truly helped me feel calmer. What is also so liberating is your sharing of your journals and how you don't have "perfect" pages and how it's not really about that. I have found myself doing more and more creative journaling though I never would have called it that before. You really do a wonderful job of helping us remember that it's just for us. Thank you....

[@mrmrsboom7253]

I'm not crying! You're crying! Girl, you are filled with the HS. Thank you for sharing your beautiful story!

[@SeaweedKisses]

So glad you enjoyed the story, and that you're slowing down and appreciating the little things. That is very important! Part 3 coming soon. Thank you for being here 🥹🩷

[@ayishashasneen5853]

I am thankful that i found ur channel because u know how many out there make everything aesthetic but i love how you turn junk into something beautiful and it has helped me create a relation between me and my journal and the thing is i never really comment in any videos but i feel this is a safe space yk And my fav thing this year was learning that everybody will not be there forever and its better to let go and invest ur time and energy in the people who really love u

[@anjichurch4406]

see ...this is why I love you Michelle...you are a kind soul.

[@georgiabuckingham65]

I’m grateful I still have my 85 year old Mom and that I can still take care of her. My favorite thing in 2024 was to travel and share adventures with my adult children.

[@steph4774EN]

I'm grateful for creative people in the world who share their art, their voice, their vision and talents with so many so that we can appreciate the beauty of it. My favorite thing was today, we gave our 5 year old granddaughter a karaoke machine for Christmas and we had videos sent to us throughout the day of her enthralled with it and singing songs all day long. 🥰 And thank you for sharing your experience of listening to promptings to help another.

[@jss302]

I am thankful for being able to finally feel my health is important and I need to lose weight, since April 2024 I have lost 78 pounds ❤ One of my favorite things to do is sit down with my moleskine 18 month expanded daily soft cover and just design future pages with washi tape, ephemera, etc. It is extremely relaxing and also allows me to freely create anything. I am thankful for your long form videos as well.. I love your content ❤ thank you so much! 😊

[@TraycL]

I’m thankful for time with family and friends. My favorite thing this year is the planner community on KZbin where we share our love of planners, pens, inks, and accessories. ❤

[@Deb_BG]

Your kindness and generosity to the delivery woman brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful ❤

[@adamsc327]

Wow, I did not anticipate that ending. God bless you for your kind and generous spirit. I’m grateful that my husband has made it through another year with malignant melanoma 🙏. I’m grateful for you and the KZbin community where I’m learning a lot about journaling, fountain pens etc. Still trying to decide what my favorite thing was for 2024 - there were many.

[@debs77777]

I’m thankful for my son and my husband and for the time we have spent together this year together ❤ My favorite thing is having re-discovered my love for journaling so I can keep my memories ❤

[@mayralopez5173]

Thank you so much for your videos. When you were talking about gratitude, you said a frase that made my brain explode…. “Used it or lose it” suddenly I saw everything in a different way. I am the kind of person that holds to a lot of “things” cause I believe I’ll be using them later but never get to that point. Now when I declutter my stuff it will be easier to get rid of things I am sure I won’t be using. Now my moto will be “USE IT OR LOSE IT” always thinking wether the item will be useful for someone else (I will donate) or if its not wort the space because its not useful (I will recycle or toss away) Today I am thankful for you and your wonderful setup video 😊

[@rachelbarnett3299]

Not me over here crying 😢 😅 that story was so touching, thank you for sharing. Talk about the beauty of connectedness, in this amazing human experience. I am grateful for stumbling across your channel and having my love of journaling and planning come to life in a new and even better way I couldn’t have imagined. My favorite thing about this year has been rediscovering myself and finding things that truly bring life back into me. It’s something that’s been missing for so very very long. So sincerely, thank you.

[@angelle07]

I am grateful that my family is nearby and I have such a supportive system with them. I am thankful for all the people who share their ideas on youtube with journalling, with planning, or just design. Thank you for your videos. They are amazing

[@iliahi2054]

I'm grateful for my new home and my favorite thing is my kitty who comes onto the corner of my bed and purrs while I pet him at night. Thank you for your wonderful you tubes!

[@kristenhyden2497]

What a lovely story.❤ I am thankful for my daughter's good health and my 2 senior pups. My favorite thing is my TBR book stack.

[@darlenejones3354]

I’m thankful for my daughter and my favorite thing is my daily moleskine because it gives me a place to save my memories

[@nursewoo]

OMG, that was so sweet of you! That little voice served you well. I am thankful for my family and looking forward to planning all the things!

[@Jolynn777]

I'm thankful for stationary content creators! Also, my 6 grandchildren. I got a beautiful new Nahvalar fountain pen from my husband for Christmas. Your story was beautiful❤

[@LuluBelle_7]

Aww u are an angel for that couple & a good person, i believe that people do get some kind of special sign, thank you for sharing your experience, u are the first creator i started following when i learn about journaling. I started to love the stalogy squared ones, i am thankful that i found creators like u who inspire me of journaling, planning & this year i started drawing which i love doing now bc its calming & relaxing, thank u hun for always being yourself & sharing everything you do with us Merry Christmas 🎄🙏🏼

[@CydPiper]

Hi Michelle. Love this content ~ I am grateful for the family and friends that got me through the ups and downs in this past year and I hope to pay it forward to those that extended a hug when I was in need. I considered it a gesture of Love and Hope. One of my favorite things is having someone special to share my thoughts and feelings with when I'm feeling lonely at 66yo. Thank you Michelle for all you share with us. Much Love always 💕🌹🙏✍

[@clovebooksdiva]

What a great Christmas present to your viewers! Have been a longtime watcher and still enjoy all your videos. Merry Christmas!

[@christinerobinson9635]

I’m grateful for the enjoyment I get from my own journaling hobby, and for all the lovely content creators who share their excitement and ideas with all of us ❤. My most recent favorite is the TWISBI ECO in crème/rose gold that I got for Christmas, I love it!

[@HermosaJimenez]

I’m thankful for my families health ❤ My favorite thing this year was having my family visit from Mexico City for the 1st time. I am blessed with a husband and son. My job helps me provide. 😊

[@Katheriye]

Hi Michelle, you have inspired me to start keeping a gratitude journal. I want to look back and see all the gratitude I have experienced throughout the years. I would love to enter for a chance at the snail mail. I am grateful for my family. We just celebrated Christmas by donning red sweaters with my mom as Mrs. Claus as we pose around a Christmas tree and after that, we had dim sum at a family owned business. My favorite thing is coffee with oat milk. I have recently discovered that oat milk makes my coffee much smoother and silkier than regular milk.

[@karmenjohnson6078]

My favorite pens rn are the Energel Clena and the Uni Jetstream. I actually learned about them watching your channel. I am so thankful for you. You help me overcome the idea of things having to be perfect to get started. I still struggle, but your videos are so helpful. Thank God for this community and your stories. Thank you for sharing and creating. 🎄🎄 Also!! Ma’am! How your testimony moved my heart! Thank you for hearing and listening to that still, small voice! ❤ would love some happy mail.💌

[@cinsl3y914]

Thank you for sharing your planner and your story with us. ❤

[@stephanieh2863]

I just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. I love your creativity and sharing all the different ways to use your planners and journals.

[@longdaysjournal]

I am grateful for the incredible life I have been able to lead since retiring to Arizona and my favorite thing this year has been discovering this wonderful journaling community. I am on tenter hooks awaiting Part III of your 2025 HOBONICHI set up before finalizing mine! I’m only missing a set of dot markers to color code my activity tracker which I intend to layout in the same area you have designated. Just FYI, I use the Hobonichi freebie memo notebooks in their entirety by sliding the back cover into the back pocket of the clear HON cover particularly when I’m traveling, to jot down things-itineraries etc- that I later flesh out in the body of my journal.

[@angeliquecoppolino1433]

Thank you for all the tips! Omgosh your feel good story had me bawling! Its amazing how outside forces can influence us when we are in tune and open to them ❤

[@NikkiAmeling]

Im thankful for a lot of really great community experiences from community theatre and this youtube community. Im looking forward to exploring more of the fountain pen world that I discovered through you.

[@michellebethplans]

Oh my goodness, you're story was amazing to hear! I'm so grateful for my parents and the love and support they've shown me - my whole life, but especially the last few years. And, actually, one of my favorite things from 2024 is that I rediscovered my love and joy of reading. I've read 37 books this year. I set a goal of 12 at first, then upped it to 20. But I've surpassed even that!

[@kimberlycook5860]

I’m thankful for content creators like yourself who share their passion with others and provides wonderful content for us to view. I’m particularly satisfied right now with my new Esterbrook Estie winter white fountain pen! Love your stickers….hope to get some happy mail!

[@SeaweedKisses]

I appreciate that! Thank you! By the way, did you know you were one of the winners for the Galen Giveaway here?- kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6TdhnWbaZd7gZosi=IdnDUoTeViHqMOq3 🤗 Not sure if you got the YT notification. Feel free to message me on IG, or email, the mailing address, and your Cosmo Air notebook will be sent out...with the new stickers 🥰🩷

[@lights.memoir]

Your story really moved me ❤ When things like that happen, it is so amazing and wonderful 🥰 Thank you for sharing your story and also your planner set up! Im definitely grateful for my family and my job. Especially the flexibility that it provides. In order to help my family, I work an extra job. So im grateful that I have the ability and time to do that. When it comes to journaling, Im thankful for starting my insta account and starting to interact more on youtube because I am learning so much from other content creators. I get to share and enjoy journaling and planning hobbies with everyone. And everyone in this community is so great. i love it! When it comes to a specific product, im so grateful for my desk and having the space to journal. I also am grateful for all the beautiful A5 notebooks I get from tjmax and marshalls. Theyre so much fun to fill out!!

[@wholelottabetsy]

Thankful for my bed, fuzzy blankets, and soft pillows! My favorite thing this year has been my Pilot Dr. Grip multi pen!

[@rubynitta4]

Thank you, Michelle. I love your videos. Your connection feels like I'm out with a close friend. I'm grateful for a roof over our head and our family. My favorite thing this season is journaling before bed with washi, stickers and Pen & Gear colorful felt tip pens ❤ May you have a wonderful end of the year and beautiful new year.

[@robbourne1950]

What's up Michelle! @ 2:00 - The old me would have hoarded it as well. I have forced myself to just pull these stickers out and use them; dust these notebooks off and pour ink on em. This hoarding stationery thing is wild. 2:10 - It's wild that I do not like those bookmarks unless they have a charm on them; then I love them. I guess it's that feeling of them being substantial or something. I might pick up these charms, Michaels keeps bugging me with notifications for stuff.😋[dang 12:52 - your drink is now bugging me cause it does not look stirred. 😜, oh this brain of mine!] [15:45 - Crisis under control, we heard her stir and sip.😍] ..fast forwarding through the ball points🤕... 37:17 - Yes I get it "Stationery🥰" Nice job giving. Giving always feels so good doesn't it? 💜

[@martin7878]

Thank you for the heart warming video. The story about the tip touched my heart dearly. Thank you for being so generous!!! I’m grateful and very blessed to be able to help others when they are in need. Seeing a persons face and expression when they receive an unexpected gift… that is what makes me happy. One of my favorite things this year has been watching your videos. I always look forward to hearing your voice and watching all the tips you gift us. Thanks for taking the time to fill our heart with joy. ❤😊

[@slothmode08]

Your story made me cry. 😭 it’s truly amazing how you helped that couple. Thank you for doing that! I’m grateful for my health and my family. My favorite item is my Hobonichi A5! It’s a must have

[@LovealwaysSunny]

Your story you shared brought tears to my eyes! I am so thankful for my family and the wonderful YT community and some of my favorite things are my planners. With out them, life would be more chaotic then it already is.

[@suzistinydesk]

and we are thankful for you sharing longer videos to geek out with you..and the story you kept to then end...you are a person who is so kind and in tune with yer inner voice and act through yer heart. i love that about you, its what makes you magnetic to all the beauty and miracles of life

[@noblebutterfly47]

I'm thankful for spending time with my family and how some of them share the love of stationary with me. My favorite thing is my Hobonichi weeks! And I'll be using it again for 2025!

[@susanjensen9735]

Thank you for sharing with us…I loved hearing your gratitude story…talk about divine inspiration…you had it girl.

[@khatherinetait7364]

i have been following you since you had 200 subscribers. this is my fave content always. love love love it

[@anicame2]

That was such a beautiful act and story! Glad I keep tissue near!

[@jennifersullivan7909]

Aw, sweetheart, what an amazing story! Merry Christmas to you and yours, and I am grateful for you! I thoroughly enjoy your videos and all your tips and tricks. I have a couple of Moleskines now because of you. 🤣 The feeling when the Lord moves you and uses you for someone else is like no other. And like you said, you know that thought is not from yourself. It's from something higher and it's hard to explain. I've had the honor of having that happen twice in my life now. I understand the emotion it creates.

[@walkingexercise5375]

Thanks for all your wonderful videos and it is wonderful to you were able to be a blessing to someone!

[@granolina]

Im thankful for my family and their health and my favorite thing this year was my hobonichi 5year a5, great video, thanks!

[@sydneypreston9876]

I’m grateful for getting to spend the holidays with all of me and my fiancés family ❤ my favorite thing this year is all the traveling I got to do 😊

[@JoleeLovesIt]

Fun video! Had me tearing up! 😊😊

[@kavettahulse]

I loved your story. That was beautiful. I’m thankful for my job and that I am able to switch units to a less stressful area. 😊 my favorite thing this year was being able to take a couple trips with my family. Thanks so much for your generosity in the giveaway. Merry Christmas ❤

[@allyrod08]

Such a beautiful story!!

[@kristinedonahue5113]

I’m grateful for my customers helping my husband & I get back on our feet after the flood in our house & continued business that I received during the last year!

[@tortagialla]

Enjoying seeing how you setup your hobonichi and oh the story at the end, so wonderful and amazing! These are the things that really are amazing to note in life. Thanks for sharing! I'm thankful for this wonderful community and all the people who are so kind and open to making friends in this little hobby... it's wonderful to find like-minded folks! Wondering, can you also sell your stickers on kofi, etc? Thanks!

[@saturn_log]

I’m grateful to learn and study about new things everyday. I’m grateful to be able to buy notebooks and journaling stuff I like. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to be with my family and loved ones. I’m grateful to be surrounded by such a positive and supportive community here.🎀 my current two favourite things are my brown leather ring binder and pink ring binder🎀

[@m.m.3181]

Such a lovely story of the instacart blessing! I am thankful for a healthy pregnancy this year My favorite thing is my first born child who was delivered this month.

[@JustScribble]

Tomoegawa stopped making TRP several years ago and Sanzen has been making it since. Hobonichi switched in some planners for 2024 and lots of shops have been making planners and notebooks with Sanzen for a couple of years now without issues. But this year (2025 production) there’s been lots of inconsistencies in Sanzen. More in Hobonichi it seems but across both 47gsm and 52gsm.

[@kstari]

Wow, we get to be with you on Christmas and hear a beautiful story. That was God's voice and you followed through. I was definitely having to go get a tissue. I'm most thankful for my relationship with God and my favorite thing this year was learning to love myself and realizing I am enough.

[@babettedejong2975]

What a story! ❤

[@lits3212]

The story in the end. 🙏🥰

[@Janice54]

I am also entering my Brandon Sanderson era in 2025!!!

[@lits3212]

I’ve loved Precise V5 since adolescence. So far the black one works well for writing in my Hobonichi A6 One Piece Hon 2025 but the green one not so well. Neither work well when doodling if coloring in because you can see it on the other side.

[@ziggy2255]

Is the Yumi Kitty a sticker? I thpught it was a die cut as i cant see to get the back off to stick it? Im grateful for being blessed with a happy family life. My favourite thing this year was getting into a good solud journaling rhythm in my Hobonichi A6, shd using up some planner supplies like you! X

[@sydneypreston9876]

If you start with Sanderson start with Mistborn first! ❤😊

[@calmandcharming1599]

👋🏽Great video! 💚

[@Hecatesroom]

Yesss the skipping!!! I’ve got three of the Uni ball p short stocky ones and they all skip. It drives me nuts. If it were a $2 pen that would be one thing but they’re a bit pricey not to be perfect

[@s.annehancock730]

Wonderful video, thank you. May I ask, what is the name of the clear, plastic snap or Velcro closure you have on your weeks? Could you provide a link?

[@CaffeinatedMomster]

I’m pretty sure it’s just the hobonichi weeks cover with a Velcro dot added to the back

[@JackieXje]

Ooooh that was such a good sign from the universe and thank god you listened ❤❤❤ i had also tears in my eyes. I am thankful for the friendship journaling gave me. I met a few lady’s and now we become friends. So nice. 🌸🍀💗 lucky that the universe brings us together. Journalling together is more than stationery share. Second is that i gave a college a journal and some older stickers and washi etc. She started journaling and told me after a period of time, that was the best thing someone gave me. I am now so creative and lost my depression and feel more spark in life. Oh my gosh, i did then not know that was such a good idea. It was also a voice from universe who said, give here a journal. 😊🍀💐🌟💖 Have a happy 2025 and see you later. I and btw, i love love my twsbi eco cream rosegold also as the best buy of the year 2024🎉

[@sunnysideupjournals]

Hi Michelle, thanks for sharing your sweet story! ❤ Oh and ive been meaning to ask, any recommendations for your fav stationery stores in Seoul? I'm going in March!

[@NancysFanciesDesign]

Mistborn books are good!

[@AllTheArtsy]

its not a sticker, its just an artist info card

[@Eversew139]

My 2018 pen also cracked and I did a similar repair😂

[@robbourne1950]

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[@MichalBeldarrain]

Great video. I'm new to your channel and I love your vibe. Also, I can't tell the difference between the kislux replica bag here and it's close enough to the Amazon bag and it's cute, so that's good enough for me.

[@rachaellee5655]

🥹 Like many others have said already, your story brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I am so thankful to be surrounded with a supportive community of loved ones. And I’m so thankful for God and his great, unconditional love for us. Much love to you Michelle!

[@BlackPearlMinistries]

Want more chills? Look up 191 strongs comcordance. You heard and obeyed. ❤ I've chosen to stick with the pen and gear for the year. It really is practically perfect in every way. I am grateful for your testimony. New Favorite pen - pilot easy touch - a grocery store find. I was shocked. I was sure it eas gonna end up in the donate pile.😂