My Week #40

Week #40, a lovely pastel rainbow week!

 The supplies I used this week: Garden Studies Lables & Stickers (french bulldog sticker!), anthropologie; mint triangle washi tape, freckled fawn; pastel stripes washi tape, typo; small notepad, kikki.k.

 This week I was busy doing errands and lots of random things to get ready for our guests. I was pretty productive, but still didn't get a few things done that were really important. Wah wah :( but, it's a new week now! 

Okay, so how was your week? I hope it was amazing! xx

My Week #37

Week #37 in my Kikki-K large time planner.

I have to apologize for being a worse-than-mediocre blogger for the past few weeks. It has been a slightly trying time around here, but I'm coming out on the other side.

In the spirit of staying positive, I present to you the highlights of my week:

• I had sushi this week. Twice.
• Farmers market trip with my mom.
• I rode on a see-saw. Yes, really.
• Staying up all night reading. This time it was The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.
• Coffee date with one of my oldest friends.
• Way too much Project Life & book haulage. 
• Generous IG friends and penpals.

& here's a selection of instagram photos this week, for your viewing pleasure~

Clockwise from left: (1) letter from Rin (2) thrift store book haul (3) reading on my iPad (4) farm fresh strawberries 

And now what you really  wanted to know more about: my Filofax week! I fear that my other two Filofaxes, both personals, aren't getting enough love since I moved into the A5 Kikki-K planner.  It's not that I don't love the portability of Personals, I do, but the A5 seems so luxuriously large and spacious. Plus I love my setup and the inserts I've chosen to use in there. It's almost too perfect.

Used this week~ cloud sticker handmade by Shelly at Prim & Parchment, gold stripe washi tape by Freckled Fawn, Anchor sticker gifted to me, Kikki-K everyday gel pen. 

... that's seriously it!

 Oh, and this is not an uplifting/encouraging quote like usual, but it's sooo relevant to my life~ 

There you have it. Another week done. Wishing happy days to all of you!

My Filofax Week # 36

This week was nice and productive. 

First of all I wanted to mention that my giveaway has now closed.

The winner was @sassysally12 on Instagram!

Now onto week #36 here in my Kikki-K planner! 

Starting the week off with a holiday is always nice. Though I actually had to work on labor day - ironic to say the least. I didn't mind. 

I used my new Freckled Fawn multi-colored airmail washi (love!) to reinforce the pages. It made me so happy just looking at it. In addition, I used a Kikki-K cloud post-it to denote Monday's holiday, and a Mara-Mi chevron post-it to write down the giveaway winner's address.

I have been moving away from pastels in my planner for the past two weeks. Just exploring...

This week I started reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - an interesting read. I hope to get it finished by next week, as I have  a stack of books waiting to be read. Here's to another fabulously organized and pretty week. 

I'll leave you with this pretty piece of inspiration from Julia Child. Art is by the lovely FoodLovesWritingShop.

My Filofax Week #35

Another week in my Kikki.K large time planner!

Disclaimer: my pictures will be a little off  in this post - because our weather has been dreadful - cloudy but hot & humid. Wow. This week passed so quickly!  It was a pretty low-key week here, but I'm learning to enjoy those. Another month is coming to a close, and I'm excited to see what September brings. 

Mara-Mi kraft paper notepad + neon stickers = insta-fun!

I went with a neon-ish theme this week, just because it made me oh-so happy!

My favorite bits of the week were the heart sticky notes and the little "don't forget" note.

One of my friends from the Netherlands helped me purchase a lot of lovely bright items from a store called HEMA. The shaped sticky notes, binder inserts, printed sticky notes, and both washi tapes seen here are from there. These bits are just so bright and cheery!

Other items used: Pilot FriXion pen, black ink, jetpens.com; Pilot Hi Tec C Coleto, sweet mode, jetpens.com; Avery neon color-coding dots, amazon.com; kraft paper notepad, Mara-Mi, Marshalls.

I hope you had a happy week. I'll leave you with one of my all-time favorite quotes, by J.R.R. Tolkien:

From rain to shine

Don't forget, my giveaway is open for a few more days & Happy (almost) September!

My Filofax week #34

I had quite the strange week this week. It was supposed to be the first week back to college, but I ended up taking the semester off because of things beyond my control. Interesting, to say the least. 

It turned out to be a great week (after Wednesday was over) and I did a lot of lovely crafty things like starting project life and writing many letters. 

Products loved this week: magnetic typewriter pagemarker, HEMA, gifted to me; left side blue sticky notes, Michaels, $1.50 for 25 sheets; "Not all those who wander are lost" sticker, Kikki.K, $19.95 for a book; Pink dot washi tape, Target; A7 notepaper, Kikki.K, 4.95 for a notepad; Light blue mini sticky note, Girl of All Work, gifted. 

Left side of the spread

And the right side.

Here's a fun little view of 2 of my top tabs, both by Martha Stewart and embellished with Kikki K stickers.

This week's inspiration: Live in the moment.

Psst... Have you entered my giveaway? 

my week aug 12-18

Summer is coming to a close and the Fall 2013 semester is beginning. Hard to believe, but it's true. This was the first full week I used my A5 Kikki.K large time planner.  I have to say, I'm completely in awe of how large the rings are! I had it set up very simply - with the inserts that I had, the thing wasn't even half full.  As for the content, school hadn't started yet and I had a few errands to do here and there, as well as lots of fun things to work on involving this blog. Anyway, I kept it really simple on decorations this week - no stickers to speak of - and stuck more to writing. (By the way, this week may look very familiar if you've already seen this post. I promise it's different. Keep reading!) 

Here's a picture of some very photogenic stationery - the Kikki K large time planner, A7 notebook, and of course, the queen of all yummyness, Martha Stewart x Avery tabs. I used these a lot this week as setting up my planner takes many, many sections. See more on that in a later blog post. 

This week's details:  Blue journal card, Project Life Blush edition core kit, $29.99, twopeasinabucket.com; Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto multi-pen (3 barrels- I used the color "baby pink" 0.4mm above.) Sweet Mode, $2.50 for body, $2.20 for each ink cartridge, jetpens.com; Uni StyleFit multi-pen (5 barrels- I only used the color black 0.5mm above.) Black dot (currently out of stock), $4.75 for body, $1.65 for each ink cartridge, jetpens.com; Kikki.K A7 notepad in Celebrate Today- Stripe, $4.95, kikki-k.com; Bicycle paper clip and pink triangle washi tape pictured in first photo, gifted to me by xoylee; grey thin washi tape, $7.99 for rainbow pack, Michaels stores; Heart & cloud washi tape, currently out of stock, twopeasinabucket.com.

I'm very happy with how my week turned out, aesthetically. It's hard to say if the coming weeks will be so pretty with school starting. Very soon I'll upload a post about my A5 binder setup, but first I have to do a few little tweaks to make it perfect. I'll leave you with these words of encouragement for the week ahead:

via blinksoflife.tumblr.com

Do you find that your weeks are prettier when there's less to do? Or do your pages thrive on productivity?

Thanks for reading, and cheers to a new week!

moving in (& adjusting to) my A5 Kikki.K planner

Hello lovelies,

As many of you might realize, I've recently become obsessed with Kikki.K. I bought a new A5 Time Planner from their website about a week ago. When it arrived I was ecstatic. Just look at it! It's so lush. 

 Of course I had to show you all my recent layouts inside it - because I love it so! The only "problem" - if you can call it that - is the size. I adore how big the rings are and how much room I have to write as opposed to my Personal Filofax Finsbury(s), but it is a bit large to carry around on a daily basis. Instead of an everyday planner, I'll most likely use this one as a school notebook (complete with class schedules, space for notes, and a diary dedicated to my college courses. But more on that later!) I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Have you splurged on anything new lately? Do you know what setup you'll be using for 2014? 

xo, Kait.