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I did have a great time decorating my planner this week with "Hocus Pocus" stickers from "Elise Prints". I love her stickers. The colors combinations are wonderful and the colors are very rich. I didn't have much going on this week so I filled in some of the space with quotes from the three different ladies from the movie. Pretty fun!
When I go on vacations I use my planner as a scrapbook. I think this is one of the brilliant things about these planners. I have never been able to get into scrapbooking, way too overwhelming for me. But this is the perfect size and I am already working with it on a daily basis so it is nothing to print out some pictures and add them to my week along with some of the things we did. This really makes me smile!
I got the BEST happy mail over the last couple of day I just have to share.
I have been looking for a deeper meaning to all the planner obsession I have had over the past year. Besides being creative, organizing my to-do's and having a lot of fun, how else can I use this as a tool to actively create an energize my life?
The beginning of the new month means an update on the goals. I really loved the goal setting spread I did last month. I didn't get them all done but I was looking at them often so they stayed at the front of my mind. This months layout is the same setup just a few different goals.
The goal for the week was to jump start our fall. Figure out the goals for the next few months and make a plan of action. Those goals are not only business related. We also want to take our happiness meters up a notch and figure out some fun things to do for the season. I would say that it was a successful week!
I made this really cute sticker book that "Rhomany's Realm" invented. It is made to go into a travelers style notebook. I find that it really works well just as it's own little book. Especially for the Korean/Japanese diary stickers. The sheets are slippery and this keeps them very contained. You can do this with any sticker sheets that are the same length and close to the same width.
Now you have a Travelers Notebook, you have some type of inserts and you are having fun figuring out the best way to use your wonderful notebook. There is still lots more fun to be had making your notebook your own. You can add pockets, dashboards, and loops for your pen. There are many very creative ideas out there to help make your notebook functional and fun at the same time.
This is where a lot of people get cross eyed and go into a frozen mode. It is impossible to make a decision. Why? Because you really don't know which is going to work for you until you start using it.
Last week was a pretty calm week. A good summer week. I did enjoy the watermelon theme a lot. I have need to use all of the summer stickers.
Anything you can fold around a group of folded papers could be considered a travelers notebook. The most common materials are leather, fabric, paper, felt, vinyl, plastic, and foam.
I have been circling around the travelers notebooks for some time now. Of all the planner systems this one seems the most mysterious. I have a couple of "fauxdori's" made of fabric, a cheaper version of the leather ones, so I can try them out and see if I can make the system work for me. I have been doing a lot of research and decided to make a series about the system and all my findings.
I was so disoriented the first few days I put Sunday's activities on Monday, I put my Monday flight home on Tuesday and it wasn't until I was filling in Wednesday that I figured that at. Talk about Fuzzy Brain! That is why the second half of the week was so low key. I had to get my feet back on the ground, literally!
I am obsessing with midori setups right now. I have two "fabric" dori's that I want to set up and use. I am not sure what to use them for but I love them so much. I have started a "Miracle Morning" routine and I can use one of them for that. It would be perfect. Not sure about the second one.
This week is was all about the Green and Purple. I had to dig into my deep stash, well none of my stash is over 6 months old, to find purple. I don't know why I don't have more of that colors. Washi is impossible to find in purple right now.
I have over 500 subscribers on my Instagram feed. I can't believe it. I am so grateful for this community and all that you have shared. I would never have thought of getting a planner and decorating with stickers and washi. I would never have thought of tweaking the planner to match what I wanted and not just use what was already there. I may never have had a planner again in my life. Thank goodness that is not the case.
I have over 500 subscribers on my Instagram feed! Although I am very excited about that, I really have the whole community to thank for my new passion. Besides Instagram there are those that are the Youtubers, all of the Facebook groups, The creative Etsy people and of course the wonderful Bloggers. You are all so giving with your experience and information.
It was a fun week this week. I got so much done on the blog and instagram which helped my numbers a lot. That is always inspiring. I am loving all that goes into this so much. I especially love the people I am getting to know and interact with.
