Planner deco

I keep trying to get my life in order,  and have had diaries and planners before,  but never found them interesting to use and ended up ignoring them and throwing them out after half a year.  I then saw Belinda selene's video on her Erin Condren planner and how she used stationary to make keeping organised a lot more fun and creative. This encouraged me to finally get myself a planner and keep track of things,  especially with the wedding trip to Mexico coming up; my mum isn't coming to organise things for me this time (sadly).
Many people who do artsy planners tend to use filofax diaries (#plannernerds on Instagram and have a look) but I don't like how formal they look.  Originally I wanted a Molang bunny organiser but I found something just as cute and from within the UK so I didn't have to wait a fortnight to receive it from Korea. The price was pretty much  the same,  so I chose this spring pink bunny Piyo diary.

The diary has a year page with a grid format, monthly grid overviews and daily boxes sectioned into weeks.  There is also scrap note pages and lined note pages.  Throughout the entire planner there are adorable little illustrations. One of the things I love most about this planner is that the illustrations are labelled with sweet little bits of engrish,  which in my opinion always makes things more lovable.
This is the gist of how I've been decorating the monthly and weekly overviews -  days where you don't have much on or that are spare from the start and end of the month can be filled with  stickers and pictures. I've also dotted relevant emoji stickers throughout the grids. Sticky notes add interesting layers for extra notes that you may not have space for.

At the beginning of each month,  there is also a spare page where I tape other important notes. 

In the front of the sleeve is where I keep my stamps and receipts so that I can keep track of what I'm spending (or wasting...)  my money on,  which is good if,  like me,  you're trying and failing to budget for something.  Spare sticky notes can be stuck to the front liner page.  In the back,  I've glued in a pocket,  which is from the line of products made to coordinate with Smash Book series.  This is where I keep all my stickers,  as well as in the back sleeve.  I also keep other big notes in the pocket,  such as my packing list for holiday,  so I have everything I need to plan things on the go. 

I use the cool aztec paperclips to mark the date,  month and the notes page,  because although you do get monthly tab markers with the diary,  it's easier to notice a paperclip than the tiny tab. 

My friend also uses a planner religiously and thought that this method or organising was super cute,  so I threw her together this little planning kickstarter kit.  I made a few washi tape samples by wrapping lengths of different tapes around pieces of sticker card so they peel off easily. I also put some emoji stickers on sticker paper to use and included some handmade stickers (made with printed pictures,  clear seal book covering and postage labels) different sticky notes and paperclips. All of this is put in a small box which is then decorated with a label, a strip of patterned paper,  a sticker and some ribbon. 

My mum is bringing me back some new stationary from the states so I should have some nice decor in the future! 

Another time x