Planners – How I Personalise with DIY Pages

As I've spoken about in my previous post my organiser holds everything I need to remember and more. But the issue I've always had is that most planner templates/printables are not set up for what I wanted.  I decided the only thing to do was create my own.

I started with buying the binder [many years ago] and every now and then I create new divider tabs for it. 
 As the names of my tabs have to change at times I laminate the dividers and use a label maker to print them out.  This allows me to simply peel off the old label and stick on the new one :-)

I've tried searching online for specific templates but not been able to find any, so I decided I would sit down and design my own. This turned out to be super easy and great fun. It meant I could use backgrounds such as wrapping paper, scrapbook paper, free designs I found online [and loved], etc. Then I would use a graphics program on my computer to scan and edit all the images together and create the templates I needed.

This is a link to my password log which was one of the first I created.
http://shop.wrightstationery.com/sd_product/password-log/
[I use an A5 binder so any freebies on my website are usually geared up to fit that - although you can purchase other sizes and pages on there as well.]

Projects - From FunFax to FiloFax - Keeping the Wright Family Organised

Keeping track of 2 kids and working full-time can be quite challenging sometimes. Especially if, like me, you have a mind like sieve. (Seriously I'd forget my own birthday if it wasn't on the calendar!) To help me remember all their important dates as well as my own, I use what I like to call a two-step exposure method.

Step One: In our entrance hallway we have our 'Wright Family Command Centre' where we write-up all of our dates for the WEEK ahead (I found it looked too messy and was difficult to take in when we tried doing it for the full month ahead).

We now have a place to write up other things to remember on the big board.

When we would get home in the evening we kind of got into the habit of sitting our mail on the radiator in the hall, but most of the time stuff got knocked down the back or on the floor. So now it goes into the wire basket on the wall for us to sort.

The kids chore charts are on clipboards, so giving them each a slot to put them into made sense.

There's also a slot for all forms (usually from the kids clubs or school) or letters that require our attention.

The bottom shelf of the wire rack is where we keep the kids stickers for their chore charts as well as all the whiteboard markers and pens we might need.

Step Two: The idea that you can add your own pages in simply by cutting them to size and punching holes in them and put them in your organiser, always got me super excited (I was a strange kid, but I know for a fact I was not alone).

But now I'm [a little more] grown up, I use a proper binder organiser.

In this I write all the reminders for the family for the whole year. This includes the kids clubs, school events, birthday's of everyone in the family (we have a lot of nieces and nephews) and any other events we know about in advance. As I've never been on that telepathy course (they're always saying I really should in work) that allows me to know every event to happen throughout the whole year e.g. dental appointments, doctors appointments, etc. I simply just add these in when I can so I don't forget them.

This system won't work for everyone, but it seems to work for us. Perhaps you can take some ideas from it and make it work with your family.

Hello everyone!

Well it's finally here, I've been driving people crazy talking about writing a blog for more than a year and now it's actually happening! So I'm super excited.
 

Currently I'm working on some new templates for my planner. I'm very into colourful cartoon owls, so I'm running with that theme just now.

Hopefully I'll have a couple of freebies to share with you soon :-)