The Disorganized Planner

I’m a functional planner. I love adding stickers and washi and using different color pens and pencils, but at the end of the day I rely on my planner to keep my life straight. I don’t worry about fancy lettering, or matchy-matchy stickers. I want to smile when I open my planner, not see all the things that are not lined up right, or the colors are not quite the same, or what have you. I’m also not one for the cutesy phrases – give me profanity or give me nothing. This is my planner layout before the writing. Here I’m using the InkJoy ball point pens to draw the outlines from a Reflections stencil. I color them in with colored pencils, to make it more interesting. Before the pen... #plannerlove #handmade #fauxdori A post shared by April (@aprildss) on Sep 25, 2017 at 6:41am PDT The black boxes on the right are for meal planning dinners. And here is what my planner looks like now that I’ve spent some time filling it in. I add to it throughout the week because I can’t be

Welcome! I’m April and I’m a disorganized working parent. It’s difficult to keep everything in my busy life on track – from household chores, marriage, children, tasks at work, pets, and extended family relationships. Add a touch of as-yet-diagnosed ADHD and I get the feeling that I’m always forgetting something. And sometimes I am. And that thing is important. Like Parent-Teacher conference, or my wedding anniversary. Yes, these are both things that I have forgotten. Through a lot of hard work recently I have been trying to find things that work for me to keep everything straight. Now that I’m on track I’d like to share the rest of my journey with you. I use a half-letter size booklet planner of my own design that I bind into booklets and keep in a leather faux-dori that I made. I thought about going to one of the standard sizes that are available commercially, but I really don’t want to have to trim my paper down. I’m too much of a perfectionist about paper crafting – I hate when m