A5 2015 Faux Hobonichi printable

I've been pretty happy with my Kikki K diary insert this year but I wanted to have a go at a day per page.  I liked the idea of a Hobonichi but I'm committed to using my Filofax and Kikki K planners.

So I downloaded the source files from Philofaxy (how amazing is Philofaxy?) and had a go at recreating the layout, but kept it pretty simple.  It's been a while since I played with mail merge so it took me a fair bit of fiddling.

Anyway, just in case anyone else would like a copy, I'm sharing the original word file and the merged word and pdf files.

unmerged file - doc - you will need to get the source files I guess...

OMG - Google docs is taking forever!

I'm going to use drop box - click here to go to my folder - the password is hobonichi

Week 50

Start of the school holidays!

Using some Kikki K washi tape - I've never seen snow but it's so Christmassy to have show and snowmen isn't it?

I really want to draw more in my diary - I have some plans for next year I'm telling you!

Week 47

Long time no filofax post.  

That's not to say that I haven't been using my planner or decorating - well maybe not every week. I've just been busy busy busy!

I've got some secrets that I'm keeping - lets just say Minnie is part of one of them.

NaNoWriMo Filofax

- my photos include swear words -

I'm a glutton for punishment; I am thinking about signing on for NaNoWriMo.  It's basically writing 50,000 words in November.

My writing partner is also going to try so at least I'm not going to be alone.

What really helped me earlier this year was using my write-o-fax.  It keep me on track and all my notes in one place.  I figured that I should create a new one for my next draft.

Hello fluro pink Original.  This was actually my first Filofax - I bought it for too much money on eBay - lol.

So pink.

My front divider. Behind that is a November calendar so I can keep track of my word count.

I then have the diary section, using Filofax week to two pages.

I'm keeping my page with a homemade bookmark, I've taped a stack of sticky notes from Kikki K onto it so that once I've finished for the day I can write down what my focus is for the next day.

Character profiles are behind here.  I haven't done these yet.

I'll put info about NaNoWriMo behind this one. Nothing here yet.

Tip sheets and stuff.

Notes and research can go here.

Ohh pretty paper from Kiddy Qualia.

I'm pretty chuffed with my effort, meanwhile my daily filofax still hasn't got nice dividers.  I might look into finding some nice scrapbook paper while I am in Townsville.

Weekends are the best

Especially when it backs up to the holidays.  Extra lazy!

Did some crochet for my growing pile of face cloths that will become part of my Christmas presents.

I watched - am watching - Arrow episodes while eating - scoffing - Flakes.  Squish says no more chocolate for you.

Worked on my fluro pink Filofax, details to come.

Filofax travel

A few weeks ago I left home and travelled just under 2000km to visit Sydney. I've posted about it here. The map is from RACQ.com.au and shows you how far I went - sort of. We actually drove 170km to Longreach, then flew to Brisbane and then down to Sydney, it still took us about 12 hours.

I wanted to enter the Filofax 'How well traveled is your Filofax' competition that they are running at the moment, so I made sure to take a photo of my new silver Original in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

Back home in the outback, I of course needed to take a photo of a windmill and some dust, got a bit of fence in as well. Past the outskirts of town, we are surrounded by barren plains, and some smudges of hills in a cloudless sky.

My town, Winton, is actually pretty famous, it's were Waltzing Matilda was written and first performed, we have a museum about it.  We have the largest collection of Australian dinosaurs - and finding more.  We even have the world's biggest deckchair and one of the last open air theaters. We have some other nifty places too, as well as a biannual festival in September - this year is the off year. I feel pretty lucky to have lived here.

Kikki K - long overdue - haul

In case you haven't noticed, I love a bit of stationary.  Kikki K is a definite weakness.

I made two videos for this post - but apparently the universe doesn't want me to show anyone a flick threw of my new Kikki K Time Planner and Personal Planners.  It took me two days of rangling itunes and imovie and youtube and then when I finally got one uploaded it looked terrible!

I'm adding it here but let me warn you - it's pretty bad - I have no idea why it looks good on my ipad and iphone but so bad on youtube and frankly I don't care anymore.


Anywhooo...

I did take some side by side photos of both planners.  The Time Planner is on bottom in the photos.

My opinion:

I actually prefer the Time Planner because the diary and calendar section are dated. There are lot of note type paper in the Personal Planner that I just don't think I will use.

The set out of the actual planners are the pretty much the same - same pockets etc.  However, the black printed fabric lets the Personal Planner down, I would rather the leather. However I like the gold patten on the outside of the Time Planner rather then just the plain.

I'm not fussy either way about the elastic (Time Planner) or snap (Personal Planner) fastening - the elastic on my current Time Planner looks grubby though.

Week 34-35

Week 34

Lots of pretty!  Kikki K stickers and pink spotty washi tape from Swanston St Supplies on Etsy.

Week 35

Kikki K stickers of reindeer and washi tape from Chiyogami Designs on eBay.  Random star stickers as well.

FIlofax Metallic

So yes.

I bought it.

The Original Organiser Metallic.

I bought an A5 in silver.

Week 32

Easy decorating this week.  Ocean at the bottom, sky at the top, some blue washi in between.

Writing desk

I love my writing desk.  I have a few things on it that make me happy.  Today I'm showing you my little tin houses and my polished stones.

Sweet aren't they?

Next is my write-o-fax and my current note book.  I love the Smiggle keyring attached to the Filofax.

There we go - a quick little tour of my desk - more to come at a later date!

Week 30 & 31

Two cute weeks in a row!!!

Week 30

Week 31

Check that unicorn out!

Silver filofax

This my newest 'I want'.

I saw it on the American Filofax shop site, but the link doesn't work... yet

Week 27 & 28

Week 26

Washi tape and camera stickers.  I got the stickers from Kikki K and the tape from Swanston St.

Week 27

Nice and bright!  The flowers are sticky notes that I stuck down with double sided tape and I got them when I went to Melbourne.  The shop is called Handworks and has an online store which I haven't used... Yet.

The washi tapes came from Alice2012fiona etsy shop.

So what about this week?  Yeah - no decoration.  It's the first week back at work and I have been wipe out with a persistent cold.

Original flouro orange

I bought my husband a fluoro orange original filofax that he uses for work.

He's been unhappy with the default diary and so we had a look for a page per day diary.  He ended up printing one from philofaxy.

And then I had to cut and punch the pages.

There - all done!

Collage

I've been wanting to collage some lovely clippings from magazines for a while.

I'm pretty happy with my work.

I've punched holes in them and put them in my dark aqua original Filofax.   

I've even created a new divider to seperate them.

This is the back of the divider.  All of it was from magazine clippings.

Bonus - I had enough of this clipping to make a page marker!