Gold Color Crush

Gold! You are gold! Sorry, I couldn't resist a little Spandau Ballet there; I've been humming it all morning!

My new planner has arrived just in time for Christmas and it couldn't be more beautiful. I've wanted one of these for ages, but every time I tried it was out of stock.

Now that it's here, I couldn't resist decorating it and adding a festive theme. I even decorated weeks that have already been just so I can make the most of it. 

I've even bought some Hema tapes with Christmas themes to match my next few weeks. I added Christmas stickers and paperclips from Paperchase. 

I love these little countdown stickers, aren't they sweet! I can't wait for the next two weeks, especially now I have this bad boy! 

Week Sixteen

I'm a little bit late posting this weeks pages, I was trying to wait for my HEMA goodies to arrive, but they were only dispatched yesterday. Whoops!

I've gone for co-ordinating themes this week and kept decoration to a minimum as I keep needing to add things to my week this week.

The tape I've used is from ikea and comes as a set of four. In order to fit everything in, I've used frixion rollerballs this week in complementary colours.

I've been making paperclips today so sruggled to choose between them whilst decorating this week, although I've opted for pink to match my theme. I love those little ice pops, they're perfect for a summery week. 

I also added a journalling card with my ikea paperclips to match this week. It's been a bit of a hard week with a few setbacks, so I decided to have a cheerful reminder that really things aren't always as bad as they feel.

Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I hope you have a great week! 

Week Eight

I've been a little bit behind this week after a cheeky weekend away, but here's my week in both my Tweed and my Personal planners. 

I opted for a springy fresh look this week using pinks, blues and greens with lots of birds and bunnies.

I've been making paperclips again to compliment my week opting for blue and silver, alongside the green bunny. I'm pretty addicted to making paperclips at the moment... It's amazing I haven't managed to glue anything to myself yet! 

My personal size is springy too, although I had a bit of a trauma this week as I'd discovered my beloved lamy bleeds through the filofax pages so some of my decoration has been used to hide the unsightly blotches. Lesson learnt there.

I love these bird tabs which came from Amazon so I couldn't resist including them. How cute is that peacock? 

I went for white and green paperclips to carry on the spring vibe. I'm really happy with these but can't wait to get some coloured paperclips so I can make some more.

More Dividers

As always I've been enjoying some craft time this weekend, making dividers for my tweed and some cute paperclips. The dividers match my dashboard and add to the girly feel of my planner. 

I still had a little difficulty with the laminator, although these came out better than the Roald Dahl ones. My favourite one is the green one. 

They look fab in my planner too. I think these might be my favourite thing in my planner yet.

I also took some time to make some pretty paperclips this weekend with some flowers I got from the pound shop. 

I really liked the colours in the selection, they're really pretty and they look really sweet in my personal size too. 

And here's a wider selection of my newly decorated paperclips:

Week Six

February has come around quicker than I thought; we're already on week six! I've decorated two lots of pages this week, one for my tweed and one my floral burst. I opted for different themes in each planner.

My tweed has an under the sea theme using my paperchase sticky notes and a variety of blue tape.

I couldn't resist adding a little fishy paperclips to complete the week. These came from the poundshop.

My Floral Burst, however has a pink girly week complete with flowers. It was a little bit of a shock to the system as I'm used to a much larger planning space but I think my page looks ok nevertheless. 

I even added one of the cheeky flower paperclips I made this weekend. I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out, they work really well with this planner. 

A Few Goodies

So a quick trip out resulted in a few new goodies today. As you know I love a good flag and couldn't resist these. They've got handy tags 'to do', 'study' and 'get this'. The pegs were fabulously quirky and as they were all in a three for two offer I got some people shaped paperclips whilst I was at it. They seemed just the right amount of quirky to go with everything else I'd picked up,

In addition to clips and pegs I couldn't resist this little sweetie. She's a iwako rubber and we've named her Hetty. For such a small eraser she's pretty pricey but to be perfectly honest, she's so cute I probably won't use her anyway.

So it would seem my little stash of Filofax supplies is really building up, it's probably a good thing there are only 3 and a half weeks left until Christmas now! I'm starting to get really excited!

Spoilt? Moi?

Now I may or may not have been a spoilt little starlet today as Mr S treated me whilst we were out shopping today. A quick trip to good old reliable Paperchase and I had some much coveted additions to my ever growing stack of supplies. Their Christmas range was just too irresistible and as such I've got some lush new bits for my bag, although perhaps that had soon better be box?

I absolutely fell in love with these vintage themed stickers. I particularly like the deer and the postboxes. They slightly remind me of Cath Kidston, I think particularly as some of the images are similar to the illustrations in my Christmas planner.

The paperclip love continues with these reindeer shaped beauties. Their quirkiness is fantastic and the range of colours means they could go with any colour scheme which is also a bonus. I like them so much I suspect I shall be using them even in August.

Continuing with my recent love of food with faces, how could I resist these brussell sprouts? The fact that they have faces pretty much made my week. I've even threatened to find a sprout shaped decoration to put on our tree this year. That suggestion however, went down like a lead balloon.

These festive little guys made me smile, especially the penguin. We all need to smile sometimes and these seem like a pretty good excuse if you ask me. I'm looking forward to sticking these all over my planner before I randomly stick them all over the fridge or something... hurry up Christmas!

Shhh!!

Soooooooo,,, I may have been a very naughty little starlet today! I nipped into town and spotted at a few bits and pieces that will be great little additions to my stationery collection. By a few, I of course mean I bought probably more than I needed but there were so many cute bits how could I resist?

I got some fantastic bits from the good old pound shop. I've got a real thing for paper clips at the moment so I jumped at the opportunity to stock up on some cute shaped ones. I particularly like the fish shaped ones.

I couldn't resist adding to the washi tape stash and picked up some fab ones from The Works and Wilkinsons. Now I've just got to find somewhere to keep them all, At the moment they're still in their packets in a big bag currently known as the filofax supplies.

I also picked up these sweet little pads from the pound store. I couldn't choose between the two so I got both as they will go quite nicely with most themes, plus I just love a good list so special paper for it is always a bonus!

I also stocked up on stickers as I've been threatening to stick them everywhere in my impatience. Although I got some cute tatty teddy ones in the pound shop I also picked up these as they're basic and versatile. In addition to that they were really easy on the pocket at 50p a packet. What's not to love about that?

One thing is for sure, Christmas needs to hurry up and get here so I can get my organiser and get decorating, otherwise Mr S is going to need to get me a work room for Christmas rather than just a filofax! Not that I would complain about having a whole work room instead of just a work space of course.

Tesco

Now Tesco would not be one of my usual haunts for stationary items, I often find the choice quite generic but I was not disappointed today. I got this lovely little haul which I'm itching to use.

As I've mentioned several times already I love a good flag post-it so couldn't resist the arrows and they were really easy on the pocket too costing only about 80p. Double win! I thought the speech bubbles would be nice with the stickers I got from Paperchase the other day so of course they went into the bag too.

I couldn't resist these either. The ponies have slightly creepy faces but they're scratch and sniff not to mention loads of fun. I thought the bugs were the best though, some of them have moving eyes which caused much entertainment thus making them a necessity.

Now paperclips are something I seldom use, I just don't find them very appealing but having spent ample time on Pinterest and Etsy over the last few days that concept has quickly begun to change and I find myself drooling over more and more paperclips in funky shapes. Cat ones are next on my wish list! (of course) but I loved these too. Now I've just got to remember they're not too lovely to use!

Some Stash Treats

Oooo... found some great treats stashed away in my room today and I do love a treat! I promised you I love post-its and I unearthed a great selection today. As well as my trusty flags, I found pencil shaped notes... this makes me so happy! Plus schedule post-its and some lined notes. The arrows are paperclips... aren't they fab?

Some other delights included a whole bunch of index cards I didn't know I had. Good thing too, these are great for to do lists and little reminders and will be nice and easy to punch to put in my file. The fact that they're coloured? Total bonus!

Now another thing I can never have too much of is glue sticks. I get through them like I eat them (although I assure you I don't) so imagine my delight when I discovered I'd got a multi pack of coloured glues... today really was a good day.

I'm loving the colourful finds in today's rummaging, you can't go wrong with colour. I'm such a happy girl today!