random musings

My unfussy, imperfect yet totally cute planner layouts. I've come a long way! Sunny,bright and summery I love this kate spade inspired spread. It's my favourite so far. Mason jars! Just love the colours here.

So clearly I am into the Planning habit pretty deep. Since investigating it on you tube some months ago I have quickly and willingly fallen down the rabbit hole and joined the planner craze. Of course being frugal I printed my planner from The Handmade Home , and I have mostly been creating my own planner stickers from printables or designs I create using images found online.  This has proved to be a fun and absorbing creative outlet for me and I totally enjoy the process, including watching YouTube planner videos and gaining inspiration for new spreads. One of the things I'm happy I did early on was invest in some wonderful tools that help me create stickers and decorate my planner. I would strongly advise any one who wants to start what I call "homemade planning", and indeed any paper craft, to invest in at least some of these tools, as they go a long way towards making tasks easier and allowing your creativity to shine:- 1. Paper scissors and an Exacto knife - absol...

New planner spread. Coming soon...tools I use to help decorate my homemade planner.

Hey all, I'm back again. I just find it amazing that I'm still into the whole Planning craze and I have to say I'm really loving it. Every night I watch several planner related videos (one's playing right now) and I have started collecting craft equipment.Right now I have an order at Amazon for a cutting mat, a sticker machine, some square and circle punches and stickers!  Of course my Planner is the one I printed myself from The Handmade Home , so it's not fancy at all like the Erin Condrens, Happy Planners et al out in the plannerverse. That's fine with me since I'm only just exploring how I like to plan.  I print my own full boxes, washi tape and functional stickers using images off the net. That way I can customise them to the size and layout of my homemade planner. Until my sticker machine arrives, I use a glue stick to attach everything. So far it has been working out great, and I'm really getting to learn my planning style. Apart from helping ...

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 o...

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 ...