The Happy Notes are cute, affordable notebooks with dot grid pages. The one I chose had yellow dot grid pages, which gave me the idea of doing a citrus theme spread with a pink, orange, green and yellow color scheme….
Bullet journaling on black paper with white & gold pens
After a white pen was included in a pack of pilot pens I received, and I bought some planner stencils, I wanted to try a spread on black paper that used the two! Before the Pen After trying various pens on…
Bullet journaling in the Rhodia Goalbook
After pen testing 8 different dot grid notebooks, the Rhodia Goalbook fared the best with the least amount of ghosting and bleed through so it was next on my list of bujo notebooks to try! Before the Pen See my…
Travel planning in a bullet journal
Since I was trying bullet journal weekly spreads for a month, I also opted to try it for lists, blog post planning, monthly planning and travel planning! Travel planning in a bullet journal Instead of using structured planning pages (printables),…
Minimalist black and white weekly spread in the Moleskine Weekly Planner
After discovering the Moleskine weekly planner while in Rome I was keen to try it out as soon as I got back! Related: My Favorite Stationery Shops in Rome! Before the Pen This planner has my all time favorite layout –…
Tombow Brush Pen Testing in 8 Different Bullet Journals
The Tombow brush pens (affiliate link) are ideal for adding a little creative flair to your bullet journal. While experimenting using a bullet journal for the month, one of the first things I did was pen testing. Since most of…
Minimalist planner decorating and color coding using pencils
I like to use a mixture of my own printables and planners made by others. This week, I opted for a printable I’d made – I wanted a spread that suited my exact planning needs for the week and knew…
Simple Weekly Spread Using the American Crafts Horizontal Weekly Planner
Most horizontal weekly planners don’t include sidebars in the weekly spread. One exception to this is the American Crafts Planner so I was keen to try it out! Before the Pen The American Crafts Planner has a simple 2 page weekly…
12 Planner Layout Ideas for Monthly Habit Tracking in Your Bullet Journal
Monthly habit trackers are one of my must have printables for planning – so useful! It can get a bit boring doing the same thing each month so I like to mix it up, here are some of the different…
Bored with your planner? 25 ways to mix it up
So you’ve been using your planner for a while and it’s getting, well, a little boring. Your spreads look basically the same week to week, you tend to use the same colors and types of stickers and planning has become…
Using blank pages: 50 useful lists to add to your planner
I love making lists! I gravitate towards planners that focus on lists as I find lists are the easiest way to organize all my ideas. If you’re a fellow list maker, have some blank pages of a notebook to fill,…
Planning the week using stamps (MAMBI, Carpe Diem & Creative Devotion) (Week 44 of the 52 Planners in 52 Weeks Challenge)
I’d wanted to try planner stamping for a while combined with wanting to try a 4 page weekly spread (which seems to be impossible to find in planners). So this week I combined the two to do a bullet journal…