Wednesday, February 24, 2016

My Planner


This year I joined the Documented Life Project 2016. It's where Arttothe5 sets up challenges each week for you to do to your "unplanner". I do more paper and scappin type of pages now, but maybe later I will do more "artsy" pages.  They also have a FB group page. People post all of their "work" and it's really neat to see all the creative things people do with their "unplanners"!  I started off with a 3 ring binder with dividers. I covered mine with Simple Stories "So Fancy" paper. I used Arttothe5 weekly & monthly view planner pages but made a few modifications for my own planner. I need to keep a detailed schedule at work, so I modified the weekly page. I imported the weekly planner page into microsoft power point and made a grid for daily hour-by-hour time slots. I drew black lines to mark off areas and to make the sections more defined. I needed a place at the bottom of my work day for night time stuff so I drew another black line. I LOVE powerpoint..I use it for journal, editing pictures and doing planner pages. The program is great because you can place items anywhere on the page. I also created three other journal pages for each month.."goals", "reflections" and "right now" pages. I saved them on my Google Drive so you can download them. It's SO fun to work on each weekly challenge and journal about my week! I've also noticed I sure do have a lot of styles..I"m so glad I can have a different style for each week :) Here is the link to the planner journal pages I created...                                                  


I added a little bit of paint, a gold arrow and cut my 
name out of my Sihouette in gold paper. 
Did I mention that I love gold? 

Here's an example of my "Refelctions" journal page.

In honor of The Walking Dead premier (I'm a big fan!)The weeks challenge
was "use shades of one color". I used brown..but it was
more fun to do TWD collage! 

2 comments:

  1. Love the gold! I haven't heard of this challenge group. I got back into keeping a paper planner last year and it helps me stay focused much better than just using Google Calendar.

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  2. So cool Melissa! Great use of PowerPoint and so cleaver too! I wish I was as organized as you! You inspire me!

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