Happy Aloha Friday! I'm super excited for today's post :) I've had so many requests for a peek into my A5 Original Filofax and how I use it with my Personal Domino. And after a couple of months of continued use, I'm finally ready to introduce her... WARNING: This is a photo-heavy post, so if you're not ready to stay for a while I would suggest "pinning" or bookmarking my blog ;) What I love most about Filofaxes is the quality... and the quality of my Original A5 is amazing! I seriously couldn't stop smelling the smooth beautiful leather. I also love all of the fun colors and styles available! When I saw this hot pink fluorescent planner online, I had to have it! I'm so incredibly thankful for a hubby who totally gets me. He purchased this baby off my wishlist as a 14 year anniversary gift! Love him! I have to say that being able to see it, and feel it, and smell it in person is truly a dream come true. My planner wouldn't really be me without some personalization and customization. For me, one of the greatest joys of owning a Filofax is being able to make it my own. In this post, you will see how I transformed the inside of my A5 Original... Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Introduction This is the view I see every time I open my planner. Using the fluorescent pink cover as inspiration, I filled my A5 with bright pops of color and fun elements. My Original makes me happy. It inspires me and motivates me to use it! I actually get things done!! Isn't that the reason why we buy these things anyway? If your planner isn't doing that for you, I think a change is in order. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Front Pocket At the moment, I'm not using the pen loops for anything. I just have a decade old photobooth pic of my boo and I tucked into the center strap and secured with a Daiso magnetic clip. In the credit card slots I have a washi-wrapped card, and a business card to my favorite little online shop Paper Addict. [Check out my girl Cathy V.'s blog too! She's very inspiring.] Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Front Pocket Holds Stickers Inside the front pocket of my planner I have a stack of kawaii diary/calendar stickers. I purchased these online from amazon and cool pencil case. The heart and star sheets were gifted to me by a friend and are also really great for Filofaxing. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | The Dashboard This Paper Addict chevron dashboard, gifted to me by Cathy V., has been personalized with some neon label stickers from Target's dollar bins. I layered the cassette tape with a small neon Avery label sticker and some glitter Recollections number stickers to mark the year. Following the flyleaf, I chose a bright and fun glittery butterfly design. It peeks through the clear dashboard beautifully. I also added a super cute Korilakkuma paper clip [from cool pencil case] to the front, guaranteed to bring a smile to my face every time I see it. Just a little introduction to the cuteness that follows... Filofax: Inside My A5 | An Eclectic Mix of Handmade Dividers Those plain and boring dividers that came with my Filo had to go! Using them as a template, I traced each one onto a fun mix of double-sided papers from my stash. I chose a variety of designs from different collections and labeled each one with a Dymo label. I decorated them with Project Life filler cards, cool paper clips, washi tape, and one with a Hello Kitty cutout. I still have a few more left to play around with! They really are blank canvases waiting for your creative touch. MY SECTIONS Calendar Blog Projects Household Notes Stuff And here they are... CALENDAR Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Year Calendar I have all of my calendar and diary pages here, starting with the year calendar insert from Filofax. I mark off each month with those neon star stickers that I keep in the front pocket. An i-clip holds my calendar pages together for easy reference. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Color Key I pretty much use the same color-coding system that I do in my Personal Domino, with a few minor adjustments. It makes things so much easier, especially when you're working in two different books. I made a "key" using a mailing tag and my favorite pens. I added subjects that I wanted to focus on, and wrote each one in a specific color. I don't have the need for my "key" anymore, so I attached it to a clip at the front of my Calendar section. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | MO2P Inserts Next comes my monthly calendar pages. I'm using No. 2101-2013 MO2P inserts by Paige Paigen. I really enjoy the layout of these inserts. The little column on the left is especially handy! With my color-coding system in mind, I use these pages to jot down quick little notes about certain things. Some of them will then be added to my diary pages in more detail. Filofax: Inside My A5 | WO1P Inserts Last in the section are my WO1P diary inserts. Here I'm using No. 2015-2013 by Paige Paigen. The main reason I wanted an A5 is because my Personal FF was getting too crowded with all of the details I like to keep track of, especially my diary pages. It took me a while to get used to having my week on a single page. I didn't think I'd have enough room for everything. But now that I've been using them for a while, space doesn't appear to be a problem, even on my busiest weeks! I have another Paper Addict dashboard [which I customized] sitting right between my weeks. It's a great place for important notes. At the end of each week, I post my recent completed pages here on my blog. You can find all of my layouts here. Did you miss my last Filofax post? Check out Week 46. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Customizing My Planner BLOG Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider This is the section where I do all of my blog planning. It holds ideas, inspiration, and lists. Before the end of the year, I'm hoping to find a good set of "Blog Planner" printables to include here. But until then, what I have now is just fine. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Target Notepads Into Inserts I've been collecting and hoarding a stash of Target's dollar note/task pads for over a year! I always pick them up whenever I find new designs. Although I couldn't use them until now because they were too big for my SMASH* books and Personal Filofax, I knew there had to be a good reason why I stocked up on 'em! With just a handy hole puncher, they fit PERFECTLY into my A5 :D I use them in the next few sections of my planner... Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | "Blog" Section I'm using the other side of my "Blog" divider as a dashboard. I added a colorful label and attached a large neon notepad. This is a great place for ideas and other things I want to keep track of. I also included sheets of paper from the fun notepads I found at Target. I love the way the different sizes of paper look... I do my blog planning using a large "tablet" notepad that I picked up for $.97 from Walmart. I separate my notes with pretty paperclips, and add extra details with stickies. PROJECTS Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider This is the section that I go to for inspiration. It holds projects and ideas from all aspects of my life. Anything that I'm currently working on is here on paper. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | "Projects" Section Again I used the other side of my divider as a dashboard, and added a Martha Stewart label to the top. You can see a couple of sticky notes there with some current project info. Next, I have another Paper Addict flyleaf, to which I added some large neon post-its and a sticky grid pad by Avery. I keep a handmade magnetic clip [gifted to my by a friend] here in case I need it. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Notepads as Notepaper Inserts In this section I have more fun notepaper from my collection of paper pads. I include lists, task paper, and notepaper here. HOUSEHOLD Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider I use this section to keep track of my family's stuff. Financial details, chore lists, meal planning, household notes, etc. Not the "funnest" subject in my planner, so I made sure to add lots of personal touches and pieces of motivation and inspiration. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Art Here I used my double-sided divider as a dashboard. I added some washi for decoration and a Martha Stewart label. Important sticky notes go here, so whenever I open this section of my planner they are easily visible and not forgotten. Next I have a colorful zentangle art piece that I created. It's very fitting for this section of my planner! I mounted it on black cardstock, punched holes, and decorated it with inspirational words and reinforcement stickers. It makes me smile just looking at it and brightens any stressful day I'm having :) Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Elements I'm using the back side of my art piece as another dashboard. More inspirational words and reinforcement stickers decorate it. I added a couple of cheerful sticky notes to write "The Details." Following that is a handmade string-tie envelope [that I customized to 4x6 size to fit in my A5]. You can find the DIY here. I use it to hold important pieces of ephemera like receipts, tags, cards, etc. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Notepads Turned Filofax Inserts In this section I have more notepaper from my stack of notepads. The ones I have here are perfect for "household" use, like the weekly meal planner and to do list. I also included some pretty paper for my shopping lists and personal notes. NOTES Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider This section I have for general note taking. It has all of the Filofax notepaper that came with my A5, along with some sheets from my personal collection. Long and detailed notes that aren't about any specific subjects go here. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Kawaii Pen Loop I also keep my clear Filofax dashboard in this section. To it, I added a couple of cute sticky notepads and attached my Korilakkuma pen loop from cool pencil case. It has an adorable Hello Kitty pen that a friend RAK'D me. STUFF Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Handmade Divider I won't be going into too much detail about this section. It holds random papers and inserts that came with my Filofax, like my registration number, weights & measurements, notable dates, temperature guide, etc. THE EXTRAS Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Zipper Pouch Inside the large zipper pouch that came with my A5, I keep a variety of Martha Stewart, Daiso, and other Avery label stickers. It isn't even full... that handy pouch can hold quite a bit! Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Customized Notepad Sure... the notepad that comes with The Original A5 is great to have. But I made mine pretty too! See how I customized my Filofax notepad here. It's the perfect way to add a personal touch to your planner! Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Charms One of the easiest ways to personalize your Filofax is with charms. I think of them like jewelry, changing 'em out depending on my mood. They're so much fun and a simple way to showcase your style! I have a hand painted "rainbow" charm that my Aunt got me in Hawaii when I was a child, along with a Hawaiian Hello Kitty that I picked up from Sanrio years ago. I also have a set of Hawaiian charms that a friend made me. Filofax: Inside My A5 Original | Sneak Peek at "Holidays" Section With it being the holiday season, I included a special section in my A5 Original for my Holiday Planner. Next week, I'll being showing you what's inside and how I use it. So stay tuned! [NOW LIVE: My 2013 Holiday Planner] Well that's all I have for you today! I hope you enjoyed my Filofax post :) I apologize for the lengthy article... I figured I would do something different with this one and knock it out all in one post. If you haven't yet, check out my Personal Domino [2 Parts], which is a companion to this planner. Don't forget about my weekly layouts! You can find all of them here. If you're looking for more planner inspiration, feel free to browse my "Filofax Addict" pinboard on Pinterest. You can stay updated on my recent posts, projects, and photos by following me on instagram, or by "liking" my fan page on Facebook. So why not head over there now and show some love... Are you obsessed with planners and organizing your life? A fellow Filofax addict? Any thoughts, questions, or comments about this post? I'd love to hear them! Your feedback is always welcome and much appreciated! Mahalo for stopping by!

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This post has been a looooooong time coming. First up, I don’t know exactly how I got lost in my obsession for planners, and everything planner related. However, I do know that it started in October when I was in Japan. I guess being overseas gives you time to think about things, and I was thinking about things I needed to do when I got home. This led to thinking about how to plan said things, which lead to thinking how I don’t like using my iPhone calendar anymore as I am sick of reminders constantly going off and I never do what they reminding me of. I was at the point where I was ready to start planning my life properly. I was already in the process of moving away from using my iPhone calendar and going back to an old school paper and pen diary to plan my personal life and blog posts. However, it was heavy to carry around, and I still wasn’t using it properly. So all this thinking led to research, which led to learning about how people plan, which led to the wide, wide world of Filofax love and decoration, which led to writing a post about planning to plan. So now it’s finally time to move forward from the planning to the actual doing. After frantically looking for a planner in Japan to no avail, I ordered a Filofax A5 Calipso organiser in purple on Amazon. After watching many YouTube videos, reading blog posts, and looking at Filofax communities, I’ve finally started to set my planner up. Here’s how I’ve set it up Planner pockets My Filofax has six card sleeves and a pouch at the front, and a zipped pouch at the back. The only section I use is the pouch at the front, which holds my calendar legend (shown in the image below and discussed in detail later) and bills. I don’t think I’ll use the other sections as I don’t want to add too much bulk to my planner. Dashboard This is the first thing you see when you open my planner. It’s something that I saw a lot of when I was doing research on how to set my planner up. I don’t intend on using any of the items on my dashboard, they’re basically there to pretty my planner up. Categories At this stage I have five categories or areas that I’ll be using my planner for. Each category is identified by decorative scrapbook paper, which I cut to size and have inserted into an A5 plastic sleeve. Below are the categories that I have. I already have the feeling that some will be replaced with something else, which I’ll work out once I start using my planner properly. Calendar Blog OLW Lists Expenses Calendar The inserts are from Kikki K and are a month to a page and a week to two pages. I use the month page to plot out blog posts, and the weekly pages to show what’s happening each day. I colour code each area that needs to be put on my weekly pages, the legend detailing the colours is stored in the pouch at the front of my planner, and can be seen on the image of the dashboard. My area’s colour codes are: Peach – blog Blue – personal Green – garden Yellow – meals planned for dinner Orange – grocery shopping Birthday washi – birthdays Purple – health and work When I put something on my weekly pages I use washi tape in the corresponding colour instead of writing them in pen. As I’m always rescheduling things it’s much neater to move things around when they’re on washi tape, as opposed to crossing it out if they’re written in pen. There is the occasional thing that I may write in pen, but this doesn’t happen often. Blog I will use this section to write down any blog post ideas that I have, or to store any magazine inspiration that I find. OLW OLW stands for one little word, which is how I set goals for my year. If you’d like to learn more about this please click here. This year my one little word is focus. I intend to use this section to write down my focus goals, and write down anything focus orientated that will keep me inspired. I have already made an insert with my focus goals on it, which will always be in my current weekly page. You can view this in the image below. Lists I’m crazy for lists, so this section will definitely stay. At the moment I have the following lists: Garden House To buy Sunday Day trips Favourite restaurants Restaurants to try Each list has items on it that need doing. For example, some of the things on my garden list include plant herbs, work on shed path, and mulch side of house. Eventually everything on each of list will be transferred to my weekly calendar and ticked off the list. New things will be added to each list as they come up. Expenses This year one of my one little word goals is to focus on being financially responsible. I’m hoping to track my expenses in this section to allow me to do this. Decoration A big part of the Filofax community is planner decoration, which is not only fun, but also keeps you motivated to actually use your planner. I’m hoping to get better at this, and will be posting each month on what I have done for that month in terms of decoration. I’ll also show weekly photos of this on my Instagram account. If you’d like to learn more about how to use a planner please visit my Filofax Planner Love Pinterest page In the meantime, I’d love to hear how you plan out your days. Thank you Lisa for your guest post, we really appreciate people sharing posts like this on Philofaxy. Be sure to visit Lisa's blog The Creative Canvass

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It's three weeks of me being back to work after a year of maternity leave - need I say more?! :-) I planned weeks ago to make this blogpost, and even promised to some of you to do it, so... let's go to work without any further delay! Just to remind you where we stayed at last time: there was a christmas present which shook my ground, and it came in the shape of an Apple Green Personal Piccadilly. Can you imagine what are the odds that someone who knows absolutely nothing about Filofaxes (apart from seeing me clearly having trouble with my self-control around them) gives you a brand new Piccadilly in 2011 (I gather they were sold between 1998 - 2001)?! Only one person in the world is capable of that. My mum. :-) I have read about the Piccadilly before and frankly couldn't imagine its addictive powers. Well, now I have tested them myself and to put it short and simply: after the Malden and the Amazona and many binders in between as well, this one is without a doubt my favourite. I can't exactly tell you why. It's hidden somewhere in the mixture of the pockets layout, its vibrant colour and great soft padded surface, I guess. It's like coming home to a soft, worn, comfortable couch. There's just the chemistry that wasn't there with the previous ones! :-) Hm, but let the pictures do the talking! It lays perfectly flat out of the box and its brilliant colour was just calling for a brand new decoration... you could see me searching through decorative paper like never before and then actually making new dividers for it - now that must be love! :-) I couldn't imagine any other pen to go with it than the trusty old Bic Orange, I think it just completes the uber comfortable look and feel of the organiser! The other part of this re-decoration was my new DIY post-it accessory. The set up didn't change much though, as it was working great for me as it already was: Diary, Me (with various Lists that are marked with small top tabs each, Journal and my Finance section with the punched envelope for receipts and odd banknotes that I hide from myself), Info (Adresses, Bus Schedules, Passwords, Doctor's numbers ect.) and my little one's tab with all her important info. The only new tab was given to my Projects... now that the work began again, haha... I hope you liked it so far, and now off to the second today's topic, the to-dos system, which is my new improvement in the use of my Filofax. I always use week on two pages; not just because I have countless numbers of them, arriving with each new Filofax, but also because I find them as the best compromise between the available space and still bearable bulk of the organiser. The nature of my work is quite predictable appointment-wise, so I use the daily space mostly for my to-dos. I use different colour pens, but solely to pretty things up, I colour-code my writing only occasionally, I don't have the time or the nerve to pick the appropriate colour when on the go! Therefore I use another coding method to orientate myself quickly: I divide a day's space mentally into 4 quarters, and the quarters mean: left upper one = priority stuff, usually work or doctor's related left lower one = to-dos related to household and family right upper one = my pleasure activities, yay, I often write here the type of tea that I drink that day (very important journalling info, lol!) and right lower one = events and things of that day that I want to remember, i.e. my baby's milestones... or simply the arrival of my new Filofax Compact - ooops, but that's another post! ;-) While I have my to-dos on day's space, it is easy to check them up later; but then there are some to-dos and reminders that I want to keep in sight every time and I had to invent a hack for it. The basic idea was to write them on a post-it and move them from week to week, but I didn't like the post-it covering my days, so finally I came up with the solution: I put a transparent flyleaf in between the week's sheets and used it as a dashboard for my post-its. Ray with his incredible inventions was most helpful here, giving me the idea of diy transparent flyleaves.So this is how my dashboard looks like in action: Hopefully, any of this will be useful to you, too... and please, do share any comments and ideas!!! So here I am Filofax-wise so far; loving the binder and satisfied with the system. But. But! Of course there has to be a "but" now. And it has to do with both the binder and the system. Firstly, as I said, I love this Piccadilly like no other model so far and am already on the quest of buying all the existent Piccadillys in the world to make sure I never again remain without one. The problem with this current one is because it gets scratched sooooooo easily! After only a month and a half, the marks of use are clearly seen, and as my little one is especially drawn to it (now at least one gene of mine she's gotten...), its future is quite predictable. I guess it has to do with the binder's age and maybe dryness that, ironically, obviously even Nivea cannot fix completely. The other problem that surfaces constantly is the thickness of the binder. I love the idea of one life - one binder, but mine is as thick as a telephone book now! And since I don't use it just at home as I used to, lugging it around along with other necessities is quite a work to do. Therefore I have a few open challenges again: 1. I'll probably put my Piccadilly to rest for a while now, so I don't ruin it too much too soon. Hardly, because I cannot imagine any other binder replacing it, but it'll be necessary, I guess. But on the other hand, I did have the idea to change the binder with the change of seasons last year, so the new challenge would be - which binder to use for the nearing spring? :-) 2. I am considering a compact size binder, especially with the forecasts of the new Filofax range being a bit more compact - oriented. But will it really suit me? Ahhh, the never ending adrenalin in the land of Filofax... ;-)

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