Utilizing Stickers and Post Its

Hello Fleekers!

How have you been?  I know it has been a while.  Honestly this has been an emotional crazy week for me.  Moving and changing jobs.  Just a cra cra life right now.  

To everyone American or not Happy National Donut Day!  Make sure you eat one to celebrate!

So. You ready to get started for our discussion today?

I have been looking at a lot and I mean A LOT of Erin Condrine pages and decorations.  I have tried to find Fauxdori page decorations where they use the "Erin Condrine" stickers.  But I haven't found a whole lot.  May be I am not looking in the right place?  If you have any suggestions lesuggestions please let me know!!!

I have been officially bitten by the Etsy sticker shop bug.  I really need to budget my money on this but they are just so darn cute!  I wish I could buy a sheet from every single store out there!!

We are going to dive a little deeper to see how I am utilizing these stickers and even some smaller posty notes.

Here is a day lay out in my Fauxdori with the diyfish day on two page insertsinserts, of which I am LOVING.

There are some days where I have a lot I need to get done and my anxiety acts up.  I feel overwhelmed and am not sure how I am going to get stuff done.  This might sound weird but that is where it is at.

So to help me cope with the anxiety of making sure I get things done that I need to I have white sticky notes that I write a time table on.  Such as below.  This is not in stone.  I can change if needed. But when I have a project that I HAVE to get done and I am just worried on when I can get it done I make a time plan just as a guide line.  This has worked wonders for me. 

Next is some smaller sticky notes.  I have started using these to make little notes such as orders that I make, I use them for subject headers for notes.  I have also decided to keep track of my daily spending on them as well.

I have been loving these canceled and to do list stickers from KGPlanners on Etsy.  

I got a small sticky note set from the project life isle at Hobby Lobby.  I have been trying to utilize these.  

I got the Errands tab sticker from EllabellaPrintables again on Etsy.

So there ya go.  Just a little sommsomm on sticky notes and things.  

Thanks for stopping by!  I would love to see how you utilize your stickers and sticky notes!

Happy Fleeking!!

Whereever May Went...There It Be

Hello Fleekers!

How have you been?  Good I hope!  I know it's been a little bit since I have posted.  No excuse.

Where the heck did May go?  I'm still trying to figure that out.  I just can't believe it's gone.

This month I used the DIYfish 2.1 version for Midori.  I think I'm really liking it.  I still want to tweak it a bit.  Not sure how yet, but I know I will always be tweaking and trying to figure out what works best for me.

I really like DIFFish's idea of all of the views together folded out.  That way I can see my month week and day together.

Here is the month notes page.  I have decided on how I want to use it.  I started using the top left half as a timeline for my parents new house being built.  The bottom half was for jobs I was applying for.

I wasn't sure on what I wanted to use the check boxes for.  There is just so much space that I am not sure what to do with it.  June I will be tying out different things to see if I can come up with something that will stick.

Here is the weekly Chart.  I was going to use it for my daily to dos.  But that just wasn't working.  We will see what I am now trying a bit later.

Here are the daily pages.  I am trying out different lay outs as again there is a lot of space to write.  On these two pages I used Washi tape to divide my sections.  

I also used a sticky note for smaller lists.  I did some doodling and used stickers.

Here are some more days.  The lay out changed again.  Journaling at the top.  To do lists on the bottom..  Times on the right hand side.  I also started using the check boxes as forwarded tasks from the previous day.  That didn't stick very long.

This is my first week view.  I was going to journal here but that was moved to daily as mentioned above.

Here is what my new weekly chart looks like.  I put my goals here.  Purple is spiritual/church, pink general to do, red:physical, black is job related.  Under the red line is my water and soda intake.

Here are some of my most recent day decor and lay outs.  I started using the check boxes asy dailyi got some of my decorating  inspiration from Carie from Dispatches from the Frat House .

I use the check boxes for daily habits.  I also used he top left box to write my meals.  I changed that up the last couple days but I think I am going to go back to that.

This week I started using page flags to seperate to do sections.  I got this idea from a gal on Instagram.  

So there you have it.  May.  Where ever it went there it is.  Lol.

Hope y'all have a great weekend!  

Happy Fleeking!

Situation Series #4 Functional Rant

Hello Fleekers!

How has your week been?  Good I hope.  You excited for a long weekend?!

So.  I have been looking at a lot of planners on Pinterest  and IG.  I am really trying to make my planner work for me.  Which so far I am really enjoying my Fauxdori.

I see so many great organized planners and I so want mine to look like that.  I am loving the diyfish inserts.  However there is just so much room and so much about the life mapping system that I am not understanding.  I think overall I am trying to make it more complicated then it should be.

How often do we do that with our planners?  While we have great intentions and want to make our planners look pretty do we forget the true purpose of them?  To make them simple and functional?  Of course we should enjoy them and have our time with them such as decorating.  But I know for me at least I have been a bit frustrated lately because mine doesn't look as amazingly organized as some of y'alls.

But then I got thinking, which is part of why I started this series, that my planner needs to work for me.  What may work for someone else may not work for me and visa versa which is perfectly OK.

With that being said, I still am finding what works for me.  As mentioned above I love the DIyFish inserts and I think they are the lay outs I will stick with for a while.  I just want to try and find a way that is functional and yet not too critical of my pages.  Do you know what I mean?

The point is to worth with what you have.  I have been trying to fill my pages with tons of to does.  I feel bad for not having millions of things to fill my planner out.  However, I saw a video on YouTube (I honestly don't remember which one) and she used check mark strips for the days she knew she had something.  Other then that she decorated the page to her liking.  (She was using an Erin Condrine planner.) I thought that was awesome.  I need to focus more on that and not be ashamed of not using my planner like the next person.  They do what works for them.

I hope this makes sense and I am sorry for the lack of pictures and being more on a soap box.

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Have a great Memorial Day weekend!   Thank you to those who have served in the United States Military!  

Happy Fleeking!