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Showing posts from May, 2015

Let's Talk About Planner Pens

Whether you're a novice planner, or consider yourself a master of the planning universe... you will run into questions about pens.  Facebook groups are full of people asking for help with their pen choices.  I'm going to break down my hits & misses for you today so you have a reference to planner…

MAY 2015 | Plan With Me

Here's my video of my May month on two pages decoration.  I uploaded it last week, but didn't get a blog post up for it.  I plan on doing a video WHEN I decorate my pages, then also at the end of the month showing my pages for the month all filled in.  We all know how full the pages get!  There's a big …

week 21 [planner decoration]

This week I used my new "Mary" cover from Limelife Planners!  They're introducing interchangeable covers soon!  You won't want to miss that.  They have the most amazing covers...  I found some super cute embellishments from JoAnn last week that were my inspiration for this layout. …

week 20 [planner decoration]

Hello!  Can you believe we're already in the middle of May?  Summer is almost here, school's almost out... This year is flying by!  This week I did a bright spring inspired layout for my Limelife Planner pages.   The majority of this week's items came from JoAnn&#…

week 18 & 19 [planner decoration]

I loved this week's pages so MUCH !  Shawna at Scrawny Girl Shop makes the most adorable stickers ever!  I've had this Cat Lady set for months & months.  They were just too cute to use... I finally did, and I could look at this spread all day long!  Ahah!  Seriously, they're just so damn cute.  You…

adorn your android [may 2015]

Welcome to this month's "Adorn Your Android"!  For May, I felt like a nice soft light pastel theme.  How CUTE is the icon I chose for the Etsy app?  Macarons because I sell macaron paper clips!  Get it??  Ahah!   Anyway... the entire theme was compiled with icons from cocoPPa.  As you know by no…

16 places to score the best planner stuff

Today I'm sharing with you my favorite places to find planner stuff!  Some times you have to be creative when searching for planner accessories.  Some things on this list are obvious, some are not.  I bet you'll find at least 1 or 2 places that you didn't think of! The Dollar Tree Target Micha…

diy paper bow pattern for paper clips

I've been promising to get this post to you guys for awhile now... HERE IT IS!  I've had several questions over the last year about my paper bow paper clips.  The one you see in this photo was actually a double sided, pre-cut, kit from JoAnn.  However, I have made LOTS of these on my own!  I have a ton o…