My Raskog Filofax Cart/ Planner Organization Set Up

Today I'm sharing how I organize all my planner supplies.  Here is a picture of my beloved Raskog Kitchen Cart that I purchased from my local IKEA.  It comes in three colors: turquoise, beige and dark grey but since it came in my favorite color I had to get mine in turquoise.  This lovely cart retails for about $49.95.

In my top section, I like to keep all my notepads, post-its,  and sticky flags.  To make it a little more organized I purchased a few Antonius Baskets ($3.99 each) at Ikea as well which fit perfectly in the cart.

In my middle section, I have all my Becky Higgins Project Life cards, a few 6X6 scrapbook pads, my Rapesco punch, my DYMO labeler and a few small hole punches.

And in my bottom section, I keep my stash of washi tapes, my collection of date stamp rollers, and another small container for odds and ends.

I absolutely love that I can wheel this cart over to my craft desk when I'm planning/decorating in my planner.  Seriously...I plan on buy a few more of these carts to help keep my things tidy around the house and I'll probably get one for my office at work too.  Now where do I keep all my ink pads and pen hoard? Well I found a three drawer organizer made by Sterilite at my local Target that happens to match the cart color pretty closely.  I keep that on top of my desk so I have access to all my goodies within arms reach.

So now its your turn? How do you organize all your planner goodies? 

Early Birthday Mini Haul

TECHNICALLY my birthday is not until next week...however, today is payday so I decided to do some early birthday spoiling of myself...nothing too crazy but I did find some pretty awesome things...

First, I stopped at Michaels and found a bunch of washi because you can never, ever, ever have too much washi:

 

My favorite is the last one on the right...not just because it is adorable but also because it was on clearance so I had to grab it. I also picked up some more Memento inks and a few calligraphy pens to practice with. 

 

Next I stopped off at Target since I had to return some stuff for the hubs and I picked up this cute little mini highlighter set from Yoobi. I haven't tested them out but they are so cute and mini and for $4.99, why not...

 

And then my last stop was at TJ Maxx where I found this makeup organizer sitting on the clearance rack for only $3.99.  My passport holder that I normally use for all my planner supplies is pretty shabby looking and its pink which I am not a big fan of...so when I saw this makeup bag in my favorite color and for a steal, I figured I would try it out...I also bought myself a cute little romper for summer...also from the clearance section because this girl loves her bargains...

The Uni Style Fit pens I ordered from jetpens.com since I have been seeing all the raves about them everywhere so I decided to try them.  I'm not madly in love with these pens and I think I'm still leaning towards my Hi-Tec-C coleto...they write fine but there's just something I love a little bit more about my coleto...

And that's pretty much it

Well Hello... Again...

Um yeah, so I officially SUCK at blogging...since I did like five posts in 2013 and then dropped off the face of the bloggerworld...and I took it a step further and took a hiatus from paper planning..*GASP* yes I know...it was awful...I thought I could be a total hipster and live on my macbook and ipad mini and my cell phone for all my planning/organizational needs...but I eventually came to my senses and found my way back to my medium mint green kikki.k planner...oh how I missed her...so I've figured out that I can't go strictly digital...and I also can't go purely paper...so I've settled on a happy compromise where I use my ipad mini to quickly note my dates and appointments, which I then transfer when I have the time to my paper planner....and then for my daily journal/devotional I've been trying out this Hobonichi (well in my case its a Fauxbonichi because I'm too cheap to buy an authentic Hobo)...so later you'll probably see me post about my new Hobonichi-style journal since its the latest hotness for me...

A lot has happened from the last time I blogged...because that's what happens when you don't blog for almost a year...since my last post, I have taken up running...training for a 10K in October...I've lost all the baby weight and am smaller than I was when I first started dating the hubby...for my 30th birthday I decided to get something for myself...which I haven't decided whether or not I'll blog about..so we will see...kids are bigger and smarter than ever...I went back to school for my Master's...and that's pretty much all that I can think of right now...so here's to hoping it doesn't take me another year to post my next blog...

Project Life = FABULOUS

So I have been seeing the Becky Higgins Project Life kits everywhere and haven't really paid any attention to it...until I got a birthday gift from my sister-in-law with a mini kit...and so yesterday I decided to play with this little box of goodies and WOW..I love it! And the best part is that it's super easy, super fast, and simple.   I don't have much crafting time at the end of the day after working, working out, making dinner, putting the kiddies to bed...so by the time that's done I'm either exhausted or only have an hour or so before the baby wakes up again...but with PL I can see myself busting out tons of pages in no time...and now I know what to do with all my leftover paper scraps and make my own custom PL cards!

And to top off my latest addiction I spent last night looking up PL kits and cannot wait to get my hands on all the new CHA Summer releases from Amy Tangerine, Dear Lizzy, Maggie Holmes, Crate Paper, etc.  so much good stuff coming out!

Confessions of a paper hoarder

Stopped by my local Michaels today on my lunch break and came across these two new 12X12 paper stacks:

 

Got both on sale for $11.99 each (regularly $19.99) but I had a giftcard so I used that...The top one is the Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Collection and the bottom is called Vintage Collector Stack by DCWV.  And I have to say that I love love love both these collections..they fit my style so well..feminine without being over the top frou frou girly pink..lots of my favorite color Aqua/Teal in both collections..

The Maggie Holmes collection is stunning and includes lots of vellum..while the Vintage Collector is just filled with quirky cute images of vintage camers, hot air balloons, clouds, etc.  Planning on using these collections to make custom dividers for a few new Filofax planners I have coming soon...Probably going to use the Vintage Collector for a Brown Finsbury I'm expecting and the Maggie Holmes papers for my Raspberry Finsbury...I'll also want to make a lot of mini albums using inspiration from this YT video from mrstlc1:



I'll do another post showing my dividers in my Filofax'es (is that even a word?) and I'll also try to do a new YT video on my new setups me newest additions to my FF collection...

Collective Haul: Hobby Lobby, WalMart, Target, and Tokyo Lifestyle

So I'm a little relieved that I didn't sign up for "No Buy July" because I found some pretty awesome goodies this past week which means more RAKs going out to people soon :)...here's what I got:

TARGET HAUL (all from the $1 bin)

WALMART  AND TOKYO LIFESTYLE HAUL

HOBBY LOBBY HAUL

YouTube Video of My Saffiano Set-Up

Here is my first go at making a YouTube video....kinda fun but I had to keep reshooting it a bunch of times and its really shaky because I'm using my Droid to record...anyways..hope you enjoy!