2014 Personal Planner sorted

Hello Bloglanders

I hope you are having a Wonderful Wednesday!! I didn't make a typo - I did sort out my 2014 planner this week.  My system works like this:  I use the cheapest A6 refill available. It fits into a "binder" (no brand, no name!) that I've had for more than 20 years!!! Yes, I got it from my very first boss and it still works perfectly. I like to have a page a day - enough to get everything in but still not too big for my bag.

End November I normally buy the refill and then put it in binder rings until the old one comes out on 1 January, gets decorated covers and is filed away in my "diary basket". I keep the basket on a shelf in my living room because I do check back.

And meet my 2014 decorate planner:

I started out with an idea from one of Wilna Furstenberg's art classes but mine turned out so differently that I don't even think she would want to be credited. Anyway, thanks Wilna for the inspiration! 

And the family:

Here you can see the past 3:

And while everything was out, I decided to decorate this year's planner a wee bit:

I normally don't do this but the Monday Challenge on the SimonSaysStamps is "Up in the Clouds" and I just didn't want to miss out on the fun.  So, I  decorated my page with die cut clouds (up in the clouds), houses, stickers, paper and washi . It was FUN!! 

As you can see on the right, I still use the menu planner from Monika Wright. Perfect size and more than enough space to do my planning. Hop over and download your own, free copy.

That's it, I've got lots more to do and will be back to share my crafting fun right here on Play as U GO. Thanks for looking at my blog today. Have a great day and remember to try something new.

Sunday Summery Week 28

Good Sunday to you all

Last week I started to show the small things that I've done as they normally do not get counted or blogged about. So, without further ado, here is last week's batch:

I joined Wynand on a trip to the West Coast and had 3 wonderful days at the beach house:

We don't have Internet and email there (and I forgot my camera at home) so I had to rely on my iPhone to do the necessary. My pictures are not perfect but they are good enough to be printed 4x3 for my PL album.

I kept busy with some painting and even finished a layout and a Multimedia page. One of the butterflies even hopped onto my diary:

From my diary page you can also see that I had an appointment with the jeweller - to commission fiancee #1's wedding ring and an engagement ring for son #2. YES!!!! We will be having another wedding!! Wernich had a week's vacation from university and it was wonderful to have him home. It meant more cooking, cleaning and helping out as he is working on his final master's degree thesis and is sitting in front of his computer 24/7.

I had a little friend over for cake, coffee and crafting. In the end we had cake at a new coffee shop in town:

And afterwards we did some painting at HQ Hamman. And this is Alexa's effort:

She painted on canvas and I did mine on watercolor paper. The butterfly die cut came from Wilna Fursterberg's shop as well as the original idea (sort of). I will post my version later this week when I've added my photos.

Back to wedding #1. I'm working on 100 cream napkins. No easy way out here - I'm adding artwork with some iron-on flocked vinyl. It looks beautiful - like black velvet printed on heavy cream cotton. 5 Down - 95 to go:

You see - doesn't look like much but once you start counting, it's a LOT. Thanks for looking at week 28 with me. 

PS. Remember to try something new this week!!