My current planner set up

Hello planner addicts...

If your new to my blog and would like to look around there is a tab at top with an INDEX and you can start looking at all my old posts. 

I'm back into ring planners ... yay! 

I was doing bullet journaling for over a year I think its been. I have really enjoyed bullet journaling but since seeing the diyfish inserts I got really excited and went back to a ring planner. 

I am so in love with the diyfish inserts. Diyfish is on Etsy and she sells different types of printable inserts. I have been using them start of July and I can't see myself using anything else. The only problem is that they are not cheap and you have to print them yourself. 

I'm using the v2.2 do2p inserts.  

Anyways here is my current planner set up...

Planner I am currently using:  Websters pages light pink 

Dashboard - (from my pretty week on etsy)

I use a sticky note to put important info on. 

Pocket with planner stickers in 

Year calendar (from www.wendaful.com)

I use a star sticker to check off the month

3 year calendar (from Diyfish) 

Pocket with colour dot stickers 

Dashboard - I use a sticky note for reminders 

Pocket (from my pretty week on etsy)

- I put my sticky notes inside

YEARLY TAB 

Yearly inserts from Diyfish 

Pre planning insert

Birthdays and special events 

Memory keeping - log of what happened daily

Baby milestones

Spent tracker

Clean/organise/declutter 

Year calendar from Ali Phillips from Crafty Ali

Mood tracker 

MONTHLY TAB

Monthly colour code for calendar - 

Monthly insert from Diyfish - 

Monthly chart tracker 

Calendar 

Schedule 

To buy list 

Monthly tasks 

Budget plan of the month 

Budget plan colour code - 

Household - blue

Food - green

Car - yellow

Misc - pink

Take aways - orange 

Housechore calendar 

My partners work hours calendar 

WEEKLY TAB 

Diyfish weekly inserts 

Weekly update

To dos 

Schedule 

Spent 

My partners work hours 

Braindump

Orders 

Meal planner 

Weekly chart tracker 

DAILY TAB 

Diyfish daily inserts 

Journal 

To dos 

Schedule

Braindump

TO DOs TAB

Things to do around the house 

Projects to do 

Moving house to dos 

INFO TAB

Weekly review and update list 

Master grocery list 

MONEY TAB 

To buy 

Wishlist

Orders

Budget plan 

Groceries list 

Gift ideas

Vouchers / receipts

KIDS TAB 

School info 

Photos to take

Journal 

Activities 

Ideas

Learn

Development / milestones 

LISTS TAB 

Blog posts 

Recipes

Habits 

TRANSFER TAB

Journal 

Book 

BRAINDUMP TAB 

So thats my current planner set up at the moment. 

Thank you for taking the time to read.

xoxo

Current Planners & Journals

Hello all you lovely planner addicts!

Sorry its been so long doing yet another blog post. My boys and being 8 months pregnant is keeping me very busy at the moment.

I've made a lot of changes to my planners and journals lately. As always I'm forever looking for new hobbies so changing things is nothing new to me. I suppose I get bored easily with them.

In this blog post I'm only going to be listing current planners/journals/notebooks I'm using. Meaning I wont be posting what they are like inside. I will do different posts on this. Then will link them later on as I do the actual blog post. Hope that makes sense.

Here is a list of all the current planners/journals/notebooks I'm using at the moment...

1. GTD method - Getting things done

Inside: Paperchase spiral notebook

2.  Home planner

Inside: A5 Kikki K watermelon planner

3. Photo memory keeping - weekly collages

Inside: A5 Heidi Swapp memory planner

4. Quotes

Inside: A6 notebook

5.  Diary

Inside: Kikki K large cute diary

6. Carry around planner

Inside: A6 Charlie brown (Peanuts) Moleskine notebook

7. Baby planner/journal

Inside: Baby passion Moleskine notebook

8. Daily journal / Thoughts journal

Inside: Websters pages travellers notebook in walnut colour

9. My paintings

Inside: Extra large Moleskine notebook

10. Pregnancy Journal

11. My life in a book - fill out book

(My book on amazon)

12. Bucket list

Inside: A6 leuchtturm 1917

13. My everyday planner

Inside: Websters pages personal size planner in light pink

14. Budget planner

Inside: Personal size Websters pages planner in blue

15. Scrapbook - storage for my kids drawings, paintings, birthday cards, letters, information etc...

Inside: A4 binder

Supplies I use:

Create 365 carry case

A5 binder planner stickers

A4 display file journal stickers

Smiggle pouch

Vintage tin clipart

Stickers - Show & Tell

Happy Holidays!

Sorry I've been absent from my blog. It's so busy around Christmas time, trying to get things done. We got the Christmas tree (Santa's tree, my son likes to call it lol) late this year, normally have it up before 1st December but put it up last week. Also with all the things going on we forgot to get the kids chocolate advert calendars and then realised by the 5th but all out of stock everywhere we went. Upset about it as we get them every year. Instead we used the chocolate from the tree, each day they have one :)

Hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas holidays so far!

Here is my long overdue stickers show and tell post.

These are the stickers I brought few weeks back and love them, so wanted to share them with you.

I brought these pretty dot stickers for my calendar and maybe use them to write dates on them.

Stickers are from Cosmic Stickers

I wanted to buy all the stickers from this shop! Just beautiful stickers here.

I brought some tab stickers, which are floral :)

I really love the weather stickers.

The beer stickers are for when my partner goes out to pub to play pool with his brother. So I like to track that as when he spends money, I get money he spent lol (we share money here! :) )

These stickers are from keena prints

These lovely stickers are from Karen pringle @ The Plump Planner

Calendar stickers and weather stickers from Plan With Jade

Lovely stickers from Pemberley Prints

GTD - Planner weekly review

So the week has ended and now its time to start 'weekly review' in your planner...

GTD style!

Firstly, questions to ask yourself:

Did you get things done on your to do list?

Any goals completed? or any closer to your goals?

Did you spend your time wisely? What did you do?

Have you learnt anything from the week?

Create an INBOX and OUTBOX:

Inbox - any mail that comes in that needs to be dealt with (I include penpal letters) / or even things that just needs to be sorted out in general

Outbox - things going out / to be posted / taken back to the shop etc...

TO DO:

• Empty your head - I write things down in my A6 brain dump notebook
• Empty INBOX or add dates to your calendar
• Clean up emails/paper notes
• Organise them by priority
• If it takes five minutes - DO IT NOW!
• Calendar update - schedule things that you need to get done for the next week
• Write down things you need to get done in general

Create a weekly review checklist:

1. Mark off completed actions
2. Review action lists
3. review calendar data
4. review upcoming on calendar
5. review waiting for list
6. Review project list
7. Review other checklists you may have
8. Review someday/maybe lists
9. Review goals
10. Review ideas

Use the Trigger list to remind you of things that you may have forgotten

Getting things done trigger list

Here is an interesting video: GTD video

Thanks for visiting my blog xoxo

Brain dump monthly inserts & Brain dump trigger list [FREE]

 

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to write todays blog post :)

Some of you may heard of the book 'Getting things done' by David Allen. (How to achieve stress - free productivity).
I have not read it all yet but I was very impressed by the 'Trigger list'.

Anyways I have created A5 monthly inserts with my own type of the 'Trigger list'.

So its a brain dump system that helps you to get things out of your mind, and written down.


I created a Brain dump trigger list - which has what to focus on (its like to remind your brain)

To Do [Focus list]

• Call/text/email
• Watch/read
• Letters/paperwork
• To cook/recipe
• To clean/organise
• To pick up/to send
• Projects
• Kids activity
• To sort out
• To research

Household [Focus list]

• Clean
• Organise
• Sort out
• Decorate
• Repair
• Paint
• Finance/Bills
• Buy
• Technology
• De clutter

Ideas [Focus list]

• Blog
• Book
• Organising
• Planner
• Journal
• Crafts/DIY
• Beauty/skin care
• Home

Upcoming events [Focus list]

• Special events
• Birthdays
• Anniversaries
• Weddings
• Holidays
• Social events

This is what I wanted on my brain dump trigger list but you can have anything. I might want to add or take off things to update it.

The Brain dump sections list

• To do
• Projects/hobbies
• Buy/order/wish list
• Explore/research/look up
• Ideas
• Household
• Learn
• Places to go
• Reminders
• Upcoming events
• Create/file/print
• Waiting for

This is how the inserts work -

Code column
Which is a colour code system -
Personal - Yellow
Home - Pink
Work - Orange
Partner (Mark) - Green
Kids - Blue
Family - Purple

Focus column
Use the brain dump trigger list for what the focus is, if needed.

Done
Tick - Completed
Cross - Not done
Arrow - Moved to the next month
Line - Started

I'm hoping this makes sense. Seemed hard to explain but in my head its so clear lol.

If you are interested in these inserts please email me @ lifeasweknowit2400@gmail.com

Information you need to know:

• They are A5 size only (sorry)
• You print them off yourself and punch holes in them
• It is a pdf file
• If you would like me to change the colour of the headings please let me know

Any problems email me.

Thank you for reading :)
xoxo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

A5 Weekly Inserts for my ARC Planner

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, life got busy :)

I do have a list of things I want to post about, but for now I'm posting about my A5 weekly inserts for my ARC planner.

A5 Weekly inserts I've created for my ARC planner

Weekly meals insert

I recently brought a ARC adjustable hole punch and the discs from Staples. Oh my gosh I was so excited to start setting up my new planner with it. I heard so many wonderful things about the ARC system, and had to try it out for myself.

I finally set it up yesterday, it still needs a lot of work done to it (monthly inserts, tabs, dividers, front cover, other inserts). So I won't be posting any photos of the whole planner as yet, until its finish.

I created my own weekly inserts on Excel yesterday. I've never used Excel to create inserts before.
It took me 5 hours to complete. My partner kept saying to me "are you done yet?", as he wanted to use the laptop. Anyways I was happy with the (oh gosh can't think of the word lol, with the.....) inserts.

I made the weekly inserts into size A5 for my ARC planner. I just eye balled it (is that even a word lol sorry guys, don't know where my normal words are today). So I didn't set it to A5, I just eye balled it (lol). I printed it off like 23 times to see if it was the right size for my A5 planner. In the end I got there and it fitted my planner. (Yay! Jumping on the bed like a kid.)

(My 3 year old son actually turned the printer off at one stage when it was printing half way through. I thought he broke the printer lol, but gladly he never :) )

So I then used my paper cutter to cut the sides (oh I had to cut all the way round on every page, because of eye balling it lol).

Once pages were cut, I used my ARC hole punch (yay) and put them into the discs.

I was amazed how easily they fitted into the discs, and it was really nice to see the end when all the pages were in the discs. So the planner looked chunky at the end.

So I am very happy with the ARC system and will make tons of different planners/journals out of my ARC hole punch and discs.

Only thing I would say about it, is that you will need good quality paper. If the paper is really thin the pages might get bit ruined.

[LOL sorry about the real bad words I'm using today, I have just woke up an hour ago.]

Anyways moving on...

I posted the photos of my weekly inserts on Facebook (different groups), making the inserts free for them and that I would email it over to them. I had tons of people email me that were interested in the inserts. 

So... I would like to share my A5 weekly inserts with all of you. Please read below:

For some stupid reason I cannot get a link to send to everyone, and I cannot send you over the excel file for you to edit yourself  (if anyone knows how to do this please let me know).
Anyways I can email you a PDF file but you WON'T be able to edit it yourself, I CAN edit it for you (remember WORDS only, NOT the lines).
So if you email me what you want changed (the words), I CAN EDIT IT FOR YOU and then send it as a PDF file for you.

Hope that made sense.

Please be patient and please understand that it takes a while to email everyone back.

Please don't pass it off as your own.

Thank you everyone!!

MY EMAIL ADDRESS: lifeasweknowit2400@gmail.com

So what you need to do if interested in the weekly inserts:
1. Email me what words you would like changed. (words only, not the lines)
2. You can change the colour of the title backgrounds, email me what colour
3. Once emailed me - please wait while I edit the document for you
4. I'll send you over the PDF file of your edited document
5. Enjoy!


Few things to remember:
1. Its A5 size only (sorry guys)
2. I can only edit words only (not mess around with the lines)
3. I can change the colour of the title backgrounds
4. You have to print it off yourself

Any problems just email me.

Thank you everyone!!

My Daily carry around planner

Just wanted to share with you my new daily planner. I will be carrying around this slim planner in my bag. The brand is Busy B, and you can find it on their website http://busyb.co.uk/ or on amazon.

Things I love about this dairy:

• Slim - easy to fit in bag
• Band around - lose notes won't fall out
• Pen loop - Nice to carry a pen around with you at all times
• Weekly diary with note section every week
• Contact section
• Personal section
• Important numbers you might need
• Calendar 2015 and 2016
• The pattern on the dairy at the front

Things I don't like about this diary:

• the paper is thin so some pens will bleed through

Other than that though, I love this dairy so much.

On the note section every week, I'm going to write my to do list, shopping lists and reminders.

 

Sorry if the photos aren't that great, it was on my partners phone as my phone is broke at the moment and my camera needed charging.

365 Days - Take A Photo A Day!

I mentioned in my blog post 'The Happy Book' Project!, that I would do a 365 photo a day list. This list is not in any order, so you can just pick ones from the list that you would like to use. This list is just ideas, you do not have to use them. Also this is separate to 'The Happy Book' project. The Happy Book is where you stick one thing in your choice of notebook everyday. This list is ideas if you wanted to do a photo a day book or if you wanted to use them in your Happy Book.

So however you want to use the list is up to you.

'365 Days - Take A Photo A Day!' LIST...

1. Family
2. Partner
3. Children
4. Pet
5. Mum
6. Dad
7. Yourself
8. Emotion of the day
9. The area you live
10. Your happy place
11. A cup you use a lot of
12. Something yellow
13. The time now
14. Something with strips
15. A road you go down a lot
16. A busy place
17. Your planner
18.The sky
19. Floor view
20. Your planned day
21. A plate you like to use
22. Something blue
23. Happiness
24. A window
25. Your bed room
26. Food you enjoy
27. A book you enjoy
28. Love
29. Water
30. A piece of cake
31. Shopping
32. Tidy
33. Your lunch
34. A door
35. Outfit of the day
36. Something orange
37. Whats on TV
38. Something with polka dots
39. Something pretty
40. Your journal
41. Your breakfast
42. Where you walking to
43. Bubbles
44. A movie you love to watch
45. Nature
46. Your hair
47. Something cute
48. Relax time
49. Leaves
50. Something white
51. The clouds
52. Shoes
53. Piece of jewellery
54. Close up
55. Chocolate
56. Flowers
57. A smile
58. Your favourite object
59. Your favourite child hood toy
60. Wrapper
61. Favourite brand of anything
62. The weather
63. The smell of something you love
64. Cleaning products you always use
65. A vase
66. Favourite shop
67. Tea pot
68. A nice car
69. A kitchen object that helps you make things easy
70. Favourite colour
71. Something green
72. Your living room
73. Favourite bath product
74. Book marker
75. Something your grateful for
76. Heart shape
77. An interesting person
78. Painted nails
79. Bows
80. Something red
81. Your kitchen
82. Lips
83. Perfect house
84. Sweets/candy
85. Someone that makes you happy
86. Your dinner
87. Something floral
88. Your bath room
89. Something pink
90. Butterflies
91. Peace
92. Rings
93. Paper clips
94. Something special to you
95. Your phone
96. Website you love
97. Your garden
98. Sunrise
99. Horses
100. The sea
101. Ice cream sundae
102. View from your sofa/chair
103. A bird flying
104. Something purple
105. Your bed room
106. Something tasty
107. Something that cheers you up
108. Star shape
109. Bumble bees
110. Joy
111. Circles
112. Sunset
113. Forest
114. Dancing
115. Photo booth photography
116. friends
117. A work of art
118. A castle
119. An amazing view
120. Baby
121. A farm
122. A crowd
123. Piece of history
124. A kiss
125. Cocktail
126. A spider on its web
127. Simple things
128. Rainbow
129. Something you want
130. Petals
131. Candles
132. Baby animal
133. Fireworks
134. Something brown
135. Someone that makes you laugh
136. A big tree
137. Fields
138. The view out your window
139. Wood
140. Post box
141. Cartoon you used to love
142. Rose bush
143. Owls
144. Something you cut up
145. Life in general
146. Night time
147. Day time
148. Something that lives in the sea
149. A photo frame
150. Something black
151. Rain
152. Something you can make
153. Something that lives on the farm
154. Coins
155. Can't live without...
156. Groceries
157. The countryside
158. Cosy socks
159. Something you believe in
160. Something that melts
161. Something that lives at the zoo
162. Your style
163. A table full of stuff
164. Something shiny
165. Eyes
166. Pens
167. Your daily routine
168. A quote you love
169. Somewhere you sit often
170. A picture on the wall
171. News
172. All your planners
173. Addicted to...
174. Tea, sugar, coffee pots/jars
175. Organised
176. Your goals
177. Things you would take on a desert
178. Big buildings
179. Your pjs
180. Weekly routine
181. Glitter
182. Clutter
183. Wearing today
184. The city
185. Something that is colourful
186. Doodles
187. Cleaning routine
188. Things you would take to work/school
189. Something grey
190. Something that your good at
191. Your handwriting
192. Monthly routine
193. A postcard
194. Buttons
195. List of things
196. Morning
197. Bed time
198. Something you brought
199. Slippers
200. Magazine
201. Something you do everyday
202. A sign
203. Something warm
204. Something cold
205. To do list
206. Something that is good for its price
207. Something that lives in the grass
208. Whats in your bag?
209. All your notebooks/journals
210. Sewing box
211. A recipe you love
212. A bridge
213. Pretty words
214. Something that has inspired you
215. A bird house
216. Row of shops
217. A hobby you love
218. You in the mirror
219. Every day needs
220. Blog you read a lot
221. What you collect
222. Patterns
223. Item from the past
224. View from above
225. Stationary
226. Home
227. Something you ate
228. A lamp
229. Numbers
230. A funny face
231. The stars
232. One item you would take if you were in a fire
233. Scribbles
234. What you buy the most of
235. A happy face
236. Group photo
237. Where you went today
238. A jar
239. Something you live by
240. The park
241. Where you keep your biscuits
242. Whats in your drawer
243. Calendar
244. Inspiring movie
245. Milk you use
246. Something handmade
247. A fence
248. Your daily bag
249. Purse.wallet
250. Skin products you use
251. The beach
252. Bath area
253. Tea bags you use
254. Something you drank
255. A reminder
256. Where you keep your planner stuff
257. A random object
258. Something funny
259. Straws
260. The season
261. Smoothie/Juice
262. Your wardrobe
263. Baked home made bread
264. A romantic place
265. A gadget you love
266. A gift you love
267. A hobby you plan to do
268. Lyrics from your favourite song
269. Something fluffy
270. An idea
271. Bed area
272. Holiday
273. Something sour
274. Something you have achieved
275. A house hold chore you enjoy
276. An act of kindness
277. A vegetable patch
278. Most expensive item you have brought
279. Someone your close with
280. Pudding/Dessert
281. Something that interests you
282. Decorating ideas/Inspiration
283. Hair cut/coloured
284. Spa day
285. Something you want to learn
286. Something sweet
287. Album cover
288. A day on the calendar that means something to you
289. Something soft
290. Social network you use
291. Lazy day
292. Dinner that someone else has cooked
293. An article that made you smile
294. Lucky charms
295. Bowl of fruit
296. Food shopping
297. Work out/exercise
298. Healthy food
299. A plane
300. Doing something for charity
301. Party
302. Something you have won
303. Paint
304. Family tree
305. Parcel
306. A box of goodies
307. Something that makes you feel good
308. favourite things
309. Traveling somewhere
310. Bucket list
311. Inspiration/mood board
312. Colourful hair
313. Sport you like
314. Day trip
315. Habits
316. Lessons you've learnt
317. Entertainment
318. A boat
319. The perfect menu
320. Disney movie you love
321. Hot drink
322. A game you like to play
323. Salt and pepper
324. Wild
325. Guilty pleasures
326. A train
327. comfort
328. Fish swimming
329. A reptile
330. Something beautiful
331. Tiles
332. Jumper you like to wear
333. Hands
334. Special event
335. Keepsake box
336. Keys
337. An insect
338. Colour that suits you
339. Something life changing
340.  A story to tell
341. Shapes
342. Baking
343. Your computer/laptop
344. Posing picture
345. Something on spoons
346. Wish list
347. Something you want in the shop
348. Packet of crisps
349. Inside your cupboards
350. A lake
351. Child hood teddy
352. A basket full of stuff
353. Stickers/stamps
354. Take away
355. A moment to remember
356. Costume
357. A snack you eat a lot of
358. Public holiday
359. Bowl of something
360. Meal out
361. Cooking
362. A phone app you love
363. Favourite animal
364. Things you would take on a island
365. Your own choice