Its all about the planning!

I didn't sew a lot to post but I did get new Etsy things posted up, sooo I guess I did sew!  = D

I added some new notebook with covers and little key chain pouches.

 Clicky on the Etsy store over there to check them all out!!

I wanted to share a planner that Katrianna over at PrettyChaotic sent to me to review that she has put together and its a great , PRETTY and functional planner! I myself am , like, obsessed with planners, notebooks, anything like that. So I very excited to get to review this one! Thank you Katrianna!

It follows a August 2012 - July 2013 Academic format. I printed a few pages out and it looks great! Its pretty simple to put together as well. Print and cut in half to make a 5.5" x 8.5" half size planner. You could punch you holes and put in a binder or take it to your local office supply store to have it bounded. When I made a bounded planner a couple of years ago my local store only charged one cent a page! plus the wire or plastic binding.
Here are a few pages to see for yourself.. Isn't the cover page pretty!!

 There are the monthly pages with lots of room to write your appointments...

 Pages for lists...

 More lists pages!!! (I love the check off boxes myself)

 There are weekly pages with a space for each person to keep reminders. Here she shows how it's filled...

She has some more images on her page at Prettychaotic if you want to view more. 

(Katrianna gave me permission to use these photos)

She has it marked down to $10 right now to print !! Regular $15. 

I think this planner would be a great family and blog planner !! Go check it out!

Well, I was going to participate  in the Sewmamasew give away day but things are just to hectic here and I did not get anything together to give away = ( 

But I will enter a few !!! That's always fun!!! 

So, last post I said something about exciting news for me.. I think its safe to tell a little bit ..I was just nervous about talking about it before it was official for us. 

This is going to be the view of our NEW front yard!!

See that house waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up there in the front, its the house I live in now. The tree line on the right of the picture is the driveway from the road. 

 Then just left of that is another part of the new front yard.. our little pond. We decided to build a full basement with rooms on top. I think I'm more excited of my new sewing room that will take up 1/4 the of the basement! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

We will let my oldest son, Zoey's daddy , rent the house we are in now. I TOTALLY CAN NOT WAIT! 

But the guy we thought was going to dig it out did not show up to go over the layout nor did he call back for 3 days!!!! So, now we are in search of another contractor.. UGHHHHHHH! People doesn't want money or what???!!! 

And plus we have to wait for my neice to move a house trailer off that sitting back behind where I took the photos. She is in the process of that .. yay! 

So,, anyways that was my exciting news. lol

Hope you all have a good weekend! 

My Planner

I don't remember ever , EVER using so many notes and reminders to myself in all my life!! In the last two years I have to write everything !! down or it will slip my mind completely. I always use to keep everything I had to do stored in my pea brain , but nope not anymore.. I have a notebook for my car I hang up on the vent for all the stops I have to make..My computer screen is bordered with tiny posty notes..and I have a big dry erase board on my refrigerator.  I think I remember hehehe, no pun there, that reading about as you grow older your brain cells die off. I'm IN BIG TROUBLE!! I had very few to start with!!!eeeks

But anyways I have always loved office supplies!!! planners, paper products and pens, post it notes,, etc. I'm so glad my sister works at the Staples warehouse!!!
Last year I made my own planner instead of buying the expensive refills.. one year I actually just bought a notebook and wrote it page by page, it got boring.. or someone would grab the notebook and use it for their own liking.

I made my own pages this year. I used a few different one's from blogs this past year. I like the half size planner the best. And I like to refill and move the pages if I wanted to. Staples has the half size binders and they are very durable.
Here are the pages I made..

 I was wondering if anyone would like a copy of these pages to use?? I print them out two on one full page then flip the page and print two of the second page , then I cut the middles. Make sense? I can email the pages to you if you like!! I  made these using Photoscape!!! The lines look like stitches, you can't see it well here. And don't look at the mistake I made , I punched holes on the wrong sides.. oh dear.

 See my last year pages?? I have the pocket dividers in the back and tabs inside as well.

I add a memo clip on the top of this weeks page. This is a page from last year I had been using. You can view about that one HERE from my blog. There are links to download those too if wanted from Sofiasworld.

You can still have a chance to win my planner I made!!! well the cover for the planner I made.. but it comes with a store bought planner!  Go RIGHT HERE!!! for my give away!!
Parting words.. my son was driving home from work a few mornings ago and he was looking out at a field of wild turkeys. I cringe when I see those birds! Word of experience here!! haha..but one decided they had to comment suicide flying right into his windshield! SPLAT. yep he was mad. 250$ worth of damage to his windshield.
I guess that turkey was wanting to go out of style instead of in the oven!

Give away!!! NOW CLOSED

This give away is closed!


Ok I got it finished!! I have a nice little give away gift for one lucky person that follows my blog =)
My blog birthday (one year anniversary) is Nov. 4th. When I started this I just wanted to record my craft projects. I never knew how blogging worked and saw you could follow others and put comments on and everything! I totally go addicted! I follow over 150 blogs.. Lost count after that...
I never intended to have people follow me but its nice to see people interested in what I make!! and jabber on about......
I thought I would give away a nice present for one person and I wish I could make one for everyone that follows! I probably will get a tutorial up for those that would want one?? For this!!

 I made a 2012 planner cover with planner included. I used the Little Apple's fabric line for the whole thing.

 I added pockets on the inside flaps, I wanted to get the trees up farther so you could see the little squirrels and turtles but didn't work out after I put the pockets on , my bad.

 I made a bookmark because those are always handy to have!!

 The planner I purchased at the Dollar Store, it just has the main stuff, weekly pages, and monthly pages, with a notes page. Also has address sections and information pages like conversion charts on the back.

I was going to put a pen pocket on the outside..and forgot.. I got all excited about the bookmark !!! But you can put one inside one of the pockets or it will fit tight on the velcro  closure tab when closed.
This is a standard little planner so any will do to trade them out if wanted or for new one the next years..
So here we go,, of course you have to be a follower! Because I made this for you!!
You can follow me by email or RSS or Google or whatever else there is to follow from, just let me know how you follow .  Thank you!
Just one comment please and if you comment anonymously please add a name for goodness sakes!! And email ! But of course if I know ya then that won't be hard to track ya down..
I will also throw a pen or pencil of your liking into the pot. I have many to choose from!! I will let the winner know what types I have.

This will stay open through  Monday Oct 31st. and announce winner the 3rd of Nov. =)
Its open to anyone , international as well. And new followers!

Ok,, another Zoey sighting!!

 We did the Spiderman tattoo bandages. If you notice on my arm, she was practicing real inking.
Thank you everyone for reading my blog!!