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So I wasn't sure how it would go, trying to make my own planner using the printable pages at  The Handmade Home  , but I gave it my best try and to my surprise the results came out better than I could have expected. In my previous post I talked about how I did the layout of the planner by printing the following pages from the site: One set of :- A cover page A my info page Year at a glance page Contacts page A set for each month of :- * Divider 2016 month at a glance page Weekly pages for four weeks of the month Goals page ** I printed just the pages I wanted and felt would be useful to me, but they include some other popular pages on the site. I then played around with different ideas for binding before settling on a simple solution using a hole punch and some cute gold clips. And that was it! Et voila, I have my Planner! I must say it looks every bit as good as an Erin Condren LP to me, and the process of creating it was so satisfying. I hope now to use it often,

Ok so let’s take a look at Planners. If I say the words Erin Condren or Happy Planner most people in the planner community will start to get excited, and could probably chatter on for hours about their favourite planner, why they like it, how they decorate, stickers...and on and on. Apparently, getting organised is a big thing these days, and it's not as simple as finding a good journal and writing down to do lists (perish the thought). Until recently, I hadn't realised that Planning, in elaborate stylised planners, using stickers and something called washi tape and all sorts of paraphernalia otherwise, had attained sophisticated levels of devotion. And here I thought typing up a to-do list in Word at the beginning of the day made me so together. So anyway, I started looking into Planners and wondering if I should use one to get my life more organised. Lord knows I'm not good at organising, and I often marvel at how I manage to get important things done on time in the