If I'm being completely honest, I have a love/hate relationship with planners. I LOOOOOVE looking back through them and reliving precious memories! But I hate that I can't keep up with them lol. I've started and stopped "planning" twice before. Let's take a look!
The first time I started officially "planning" was back in January 2016 in a Heidi Swapp binder. You can watch a YouTube video flip through HERE. I lasted about 2.5 months and then I dunno what happened. Truthfully, I think I'd rather be using my time to make layouts and mini albums? But I love looking through my old planners! So there has to be a compromise.
My second attempt at planning was in March 2019 and I lasted 6 weeks. I purchased this beautiful Happy Planner and loved decorating it with pieces from my 30-page Paige Evans #StickerBook as well as bits & ephemera from my current collection at the time, Whimsical.
I started the first week in March and got through the second week of April.
Here's a look at the overview calendar of March - so bright, busy, and fun!
And then the four weeks of daily spreads in March:
Wow so many memories are conjured up looking through these!
Something that bothers me about these planners though is that Sunday is on the last day of the week instead of the first day. Are all their planners like this? It's not a huge deal, but I'm just very used to having Sunday be the start of the week.
We have the same feelings about planners. All the product is soooo cute and I love how they look all filled in with interesting tidbits, stickers and goodies. But it was a big time commitment and I couldn't do it in a timely manner. I kept one once, mostly just to decorate with spare products left over from projects. Well the first month, January, I picked a word for the year and it was encourage. I spread it across the page and thought, "oh fun, that's pretty". Then I realized the word rage was glaring up at me, LOL! I'd divided the word in a bad way, ha.
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