Stitch In Time

Planners

This year I am using a Hello Forever Planner in Graystone.  I like having a ring system that works with all A5 papers and that I can easily add things to.  I started out the year adding a page about my overall goals for the year, plus a quick view of my monthly goals.

I used the Cypress Grove Kit from Studio Calico on these pages.

In January I switched to the Roman Holiday kit from Studio Calico to make my weekly pages.  This year I've switched from using a horizontal design to vertical, and so far I'm really liking it.

I'm on the blog at Studio Calico today with a video showing how I put together this planner page.

I've started my February pages using the Confidant Planner kit from Studio Calico.  I love using these kits because every month they have new elements to play with, sometimes it's a new highlighter, or notepad, or stickers.  For someone who has had a lifetime love of paper supplies it's right up my alley.

I've also started adding some extra pages this year, like this garden planner page.  I will be adding some other pages like home improvement and finances as well.

I also still use my traveler's notebook as a planner sometimes.   It's easy to carry along with me.

So that's a quick look at what I'm doing this year.  Do you use a planner at all?

December Daily Day 26

I'm always so excited to start this project, and I'm always happy when I've completed it.

I made a day 26 page this year because we were traveling home so it still seemed to be part of the holidays.  I started by adding some extra 2x2 photos on the back of page 25. 

And I finished by adding in one last picture of the snow that I took as we were driving out of town.  We were woken up early on the 26th by my mom's neighbor calling us to warn us to get on the road because they were expecting a blizzard by the afternoon.  We packed in a hurry and ended up having a fairly smooth trip back home, but they did close the mountain pass after we drove through it due to the weather.   It feels great to wrap up this project and move on to the next.  Happy 2017!

December Daily Day 25

I'm glad to be finished with this project!  I started procrastinating finishing the last few pages, but I knew I needed to just push through and get them done.  I even made a day 26 which I will share tomorrow.

Christmas was filled with friends and family.  We had our traditional "monkey bread" breakfast, and friends stopping by in the afternoon.  We were still enjoying lots of snow... I'm always happy to have a White Christmas.

I'll share my final page tomorrow, and then it's on to new projects for 2017!

December Daily Day 24

Christmas Eve was a nice peaceful day.  We switched from doing a brunch to a dinner.  We worried a little that we wouldn't have enough space for 11 people for a sit down dinner but it ended up working out really well, and we got to visit more than normal.

We still had lots of snow.  My husband went out and took a picture at dusk and I enlarged it to 6x8 and used it as the focal point on these pages.  The picture perfectly reflected the nice, peaceful day we had.

 

December Daily Day 23

When we woke up on December 23 we had a 6 hour drive ahead of us and we hadn't even packed.  When I first woke up I got a cup of coffee, sat down at my computer and found an apology post it note from my son.  The gist of it was he had started to run the water for a shower the night before, and had somehow got wrapped up in a video game and forgot about the running water.  Not my favorite way to start a day of travel, but of course I had to save the note.

We got over the mountain pass without too many issues.  For the first time ever we saw a travel warning for migrating elk on the highway.  We got into town at 4:30, and went out to dinner that night.

It was snowing quite a bit at dinner, and we watched the snow falling outside while we visited.  The day started a little stressfully, but ended by spending fun time with the family.