My Personal Domino

BEWARE: PHOTO HEAVY POST!!! I also apologise for the quality of the photos. There were taken on my Blackberry Playbook in not very good light. I can take better ones in more detail if required! You can click on each photo to see it larger.

So having posted about my pocket Filofax I have been asked to show how I use my Personal one along side it. I did promise to do this ages ago....sorry!

So I currently use a Domino which is a great basic Filofax at a really good price. I bought mine in WHS for about £18 I think. The things I like the best about this Filofax is that it lies flat the minute you get it out of the box, the elastic that wraps round it keeps any extra loose pages in place and the fact that it's a cheap binder means that I'm not too 'precious' about it. I will be transferring everything to my Malden soon but am so worried about it getting chucked in my bag and battered that I am a bit nervous about using it! So far all I have done is taken it out of the box, sniffed and stroked it and then put it away again! And I wonder why my family worry about me......

Anyway, I am here to talk about my Domino not my Malden (that will be another post). I use this Personal sized filo every day. It has my main diary in it which I need at work and if I'm not at work it tends to stay on my desk. You can see it open on the first page in this photo. There is a clear plastic wallet which has a photo of my three beautiful teens and my mum. The card pockets on the left have business cards, library card, school dates and a couple of souvenier cards. Nothing majorly important. The main pocket holds my CRB certificate that I need with me always at work as well as spare labels and a few notes I will need this month.

Turning the plastic pocket over you will find some more photos, my daughter and I and my OH and I. Then the wonderful Post It note holder. As soon as the yellow ones run out I will replace them with some fancier ones.

Onto the first lot of stickers. These ones are from Paperchase. Then there is the Filofax registration page (in case of loss) and 3 pages of credit card holders which contain rarely used loyalty cards and business cards. Then there is the world map....I have never referred to it but like it being there!

So onto the most important bit....the diary.
I am currently using a week on two pages. Definitely my favourite format. I put spare paper in the middle of the week along with the Today. The spare piece of paper houses my To Do list. I use the bic 4 colour pen and although I am not strict with the colours it seems to be that I use blue for work, green for Zumba work, pink for social and purple for anything else!

I made a series of monthly tabs so I can find the month easily. Downloaded and printed off a month planner from the fabulous philofaxy website and that way I have a very brief overview of the month ahead.

The next photo is a close up of some pocketed dividers I have made using double sided paper which you will see more of as we go along. The first one is 'To Do'....I tend to put my more long term To Do's rather than daily ones which go in my diary.

Here is the back of the 'Money' divider. You can see the pocket at the back of it.

Here we have the back of another divider in my 'Work' section. I have made various sized 'jotpads' out of coloured index cards which I use throughout and keep spares in the back. I often slip on into my diary if I have some important notes about something happening that week.

So the dividers in order are: To Do, Money, Zumba, Tempest, Craft and Contacts. My craft tab has ideas of things I want to make, wish lists, blogs that I want to look at and notes of things I want to look at online that I note down when reading mags. Under the To Do section are some extra tabs at the top that I have made using a tab punch. They are only temporary for the moment so are hand written. They are Recipes, Xmas List and another in the craft section for Stampin Up (which is company I buy from). They are punched out using the same paper as my dividers and stuck on with double sided tape.

At the end of my inserts are the extra index cards, a clear pocket with stickers and special notes I want to keep.

Then a ziplock envelope with stamps in. Tucked in the back pocket are my worksheets for work.


So that's it really. I am playing with using a week on one page diary with a page of notes opposite for my To Do list. I'm not liking it much though. There just isn't enough room and so all my writing is too close together and therefore too hard to see at a glance. I think in 2012 I will go back to week on two pages.


So there you have it, my current set up. It will change next month very slightly no doubt though when I move into my Malden. I will post again I expect! lol

Thanks for reading!
Sallyx

My Pocket Filofax

So for those of you who follow this blog from my crafting days...I'm sorry, this may be a bit confusing for you! I have decided to blog now and again but it won't be dedicated to craft any more, although hopefully there will be the odd crafty post as I am just starting to make stuff again.

I have been asked by a few of my fellow Filofax addicts if I would do a post about the set up of both my pocket and personal Filofaxes so am here starting with the pocket one which I use as a purse and LOVE!!!

It is a very old black Kensington of the softest floppiest (is that a word?) leather ever. It will soon be replaced by my new pocket Malden (but that is another post!!). I bought this one on ebay for the grand total of 99p along with loads of inserts. I was then lucky enough to win a job lot of inserts and a punch to go with it...can't remember how much but it would have been at minimal cost :)

So here we go......get ready for a hundred billion photos. (I am prone to exaggeration, had you noticed?).

Click on the photo to enlarge it. All photos were taken on my Blackberry Playbook so not the greatest quality, sorry!

This first photo is as you open the purse/filo. You will see on the left are my most used day to day cards and in the pocket money off vouchers. Then there is a clear pocket that I have slipped a piece of double sided scrapbook paper in to 'pretty it up'. Also in that pocket is my Superdrug loyalty card which doubles as a mirror and on the outside of the pocket I have stuck some mini post it notes with double sided tape.

So turning over the plastic pocket you will see on the back the other side of the scrapbook paper with another card in and some cupcake post it notes. On the right is a credit card holder that holds 4 cards (my details are covered up by the pink post its....they are not usually there!)

Then we have some Filofax stickers and some of the gorgeous kraft paper from Paperchase (who stock some great Filofax compatible inserts). I use the notepaper to write my shopping lists, keeping them with my money means I never forget to take them!

The next section is my Year Planner which folds out horizontally. This is NOT my diary. My main diary is in my Personal filo which I will blog about next (if you want! Let me know in the comments section). So on my year planner I just note the days I am working (am or pm or both), my partner's shifts, my Zumba classes and anything else that means I'm not available. That way if I have to book an appointment I know if I'm free. All the details are in my diary.


Next is a section that I haven't photographed.It is a week on two pages diary. I just keep a month at a time in this Filofax and I use it to write our daily meals on. That way if I am out shopping and stuck for an idea for dinner I can refer back. I don't carry more pages as I don't want it to be bulkier. If I am trying to lose weight I also use this section as a food diary. I mark the week with the clear ruler.

Then there are a few sheets of coloured plain and lined paper for notes and random thoughts (I have many!). These get transferred into my personal if they are of any importance.

You may have noticed that although there are some dividers in there I am not really using them. I plan to make some (which I love doing and will show you how to make some with pockets soon).

So the next two photos show where my cash is stored. I will miss the huge coin section when I transfer to the Malden.



Here is the back clear pocket and some telephone number pages.


Last but not least the back of the clear pocket with my fuel receipts in. Also tucked in the back pocket is my lottery ticket.


Let me know if you have any questions, I hope this has been of some use to you and maybe inspired you to use a Filofax as a purse!

Thanks for reading.

Sally x

Here I am!

Hello!

Not sure where I'm going with this but thought I'd give it a go and see what happens...something I tend to do in life anyway!!

Can't decide whether I should start a new blog or not but as I'd like to reconnect with all my cyber (and real life) friends I'll keep his one for a while.

So life has changed a bit since I last blogged. I no longer craft although I am dying to get scrapping again, it just takes so much time which as always is limited. I will definitely do some more soon though....watch this space!

New things in my life are that I have gone back to my dancing roots and am now a qualified Zumba Fitness instructor, I have renewed my Filofax addiction (will end up blogging more about that I'm sure!) and i am blogging this from my new toy.....can you guess what it is?

So what shall I blog about? Anyone got any links to blog challenges/prompts? May be worth a try?

Oh and the clue to what I am blogging from is at the top of this post ;)

Shall I?

So I am seriously thinking about blogging again. It won't be craft related (well I don't think so anyway!), it will just be about day to day things that take my interest. I would love to start reviewing products too .... let's see where it goes!

So is there anyone out there reading this???

Busy!!

What a busy week I've had. Lots of birthday celebrations at home, there is only a year and 9 days between Victoria and Mathew so this is always a busy time of year for us. Not only have we been partying at home I've also been doing the challenges and classes at Stamp With Us and for the first time ever I have actually done all of the projects on the day they were set! (I'm impressing myself here!!). I will be uploading the projects over the next few days (I've been so busy creating them often til 1.30am that I've not got round to blogging them!).

This card is for their blog challenge, this week it was a sketch which I have actually mirrored. You can find the sketch HERE.

I have used Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Night of Navy. Best Yet and Baroque Motif stamp sets and the FREE and totally lush ribbon which you can get for free by placing an order with me in August for £45 or more. Don't forget it's only available this month and isn't in our current catalogue. Email me at: sallyjh40@gmail.com for more details.

Hope you like the card, check back (subscribe or become a follower) this week for some more projects and BLOG CANDY!

Another card

On Monday Monica came to play :) We had a lovely time catching up and she brought back my love of crafting so I have to say a huge THANK YOU to her!!!

My newest set of stamps (Bloomin' with Beauty) had never seen ink (in fact it hadn't even been mounted) so that was the one I decided to use. Monica is an expert at watercolouring and I'm RUBBISH so she gave me a few tips and this is what I produced!


It's not the best but I am quite pleased. I used So Saffron ink to stamp the flower on the So Saffron cardstock and I love how it looks. Mon had brought the cardstock and a tiny bit of ribbon and it was amazing that the three of us (Victoria was crafting with us) came up with a completely different card.

I am joining in with some classes at Stamp With Us during the next couple of weeks so watch this space....I will be uploading lots of new projects!

I mentioned in my last post about the FREE ribbon with your August orders. What I forgot to mention is that I have some FREE mini catalogues waiting for new homes. If you would like to receive a FREE mini catalogue and FREE Techniques Book send me your address to sallyjh40@gmail.com and I will pop them in the post to you. I love getting things for FREE!! :)

Thanks for all your lovely comments, it's great to be back!

Well what can I say.......?

I guess sorry just isn't good enough! I had NO IDEA what a huge task moving house would be. It wasn't the actual move (although that was pretty mega) but all the bits that came after..... being a new build I had to put up all the curtain poles and light fittings as well as all the rest that goes with settling into a new home. I'm a dab hand with the drill now...anyone need a shelf putting up?? haha

So FINALLY I am able to start crafting again and pick up all my beautiful stamps, inks and pretty papers to play with. I'm a bit rusty though so will be taking part in challenges and scouting around for inspiration to help me get going again.

I have LOADS to tell you.... August is a great month at Stampin' Up! The offer this month is if you spend £45 or over with me you will receive 2 reels of the most beautiful ribbon in So Saffron and Certainly Celery. The ribbon isn't in the catalogue so this is the only way to get it. I will put the details in my sidebar on the right for you to see.

So my first card is one I made for my son's 12th birthday. I have to confess I wasn't 100% happy with it, I'm definitely rusty! I used the recipe on Stamp With Us just to give me a nudge in the right direction.
and a close up of the punch out:
Everything used is from Stampin' Up!

I may even be back tomorrow with another card!!