Planner Week in Review: Glam Pink Princess

Planning has really become my current creative outlet.  I've been into Erin Condren planners for a few years now but have finally reached planner peace with the Erin Condren Horizontal Neutral.  I've tried all three setups, the vertical layout, horizontal layout, and hourly layout.  The horizontal layout just works for me.  I would love to share my spreads each week, for the week before, to show everything fully completed and filled out, with much more detail than is shown in Instagram.

This last week, February 27th through March 5th, is a super girly planner week.  I got this kit from The Glam Planner on etsy and immediately used it.  It's a pink princess theme with accents of black in the dragons, crown, and castle.  It does have accents of red, a color that doesn't thrill me in the slightest, but pink definitely is the overwhelming force in this spread.

I stopped posting my filled out spreads on instagram for privacy reasons, but this way works much better.  This week wasn't too eventful, but we did travel up to Chicago over the weekend for the hubby's birthday.  We got to spend time with his family on Saturday and had a fun pizza party at this brother's. 

I like to think of each day in four sections, just like the vertical layout without the separation.  The left column is usually reserved for work and one really important thing going on in the day.  The second column is reserved for my to-do list.  I've really been drawn to simple checklists instead of the checklist boxes.  The third section is for appointments or other semi-big things going on during the day and the fourth section has the full boxes.

Clearly I like a good mix of white space although I've found that too much white space also bothers me....because that makes some kind of weird sense.  I'll usually fill out too much white space with decorate stickers if the day hasn't been too eventful.

Overall I really like the look of this spread.  I can't predict if I'll like the week until the end when everything is filled out.  Glam Planner kits are historically some of my favorite spreads, although she does seem to use alot of red in her stickers, especially in the monthly mystery kits. 

What was your planner theme for last week?  Did you like how it turned out?

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A Brand New Beginning

Birthdays are about beginnings, so they say.  It's relevant, I promise.  This year has been one of big changes for me.  Some good, some bad, but the major realization happened the other day, as my husband stood in the living room and I was upset and frustrated.  He said the truest thing I had ever heard, but never realized.  "You are a non-traditional person," he said.  In my 30 years on this Earth, not once had I ever stopped to realize it.  Since then, that phrase remains a daily reminder for me.  It means different things...that I need to stop and accept myself for who I am, that I need to be positive in my life instead of negative, and to stop giving in to what I think I should be doing and instead doing things that I want to do.  I'm living my life for me now, so I'm going to pursue things that I want to do. 

This weekend we celebrated my wise husband's birthday, even though it isn't until next week.  We visited his family in Chicago and had a low-key party on Saturday night.  As we ventured home I shut my eyes and just started thinking.  I want to be positive and creative in my life and one thing that I've truly missed is writing.  I used to blog at Paint Those Piggies, a nail polish review blog.  I loved it but outgrew polish in a way.  I still like it, I just don't want to swatch 20 polishes at a time anymore.  I laid in the car and thought about what my new niche could be.  And then I remembered....I'm non-traditional, so I'm going to write about what I want.

So here's to new beginnings, new interests, and a new positive outlook.  Things won't always be perfect (see Happy Birthbay above), but that's what makes it interesting.