This isn't a very fun game. If there's a place this little book can slide to or a corner of a quilt it can vanish under, it's been there. (And I'm not even going to mention that this one is a replacement for the blank planner that I had all ready to go, the one that vanished the day before I was ready to start using it.)
It's not the prettiest layout and doesn't have the straightest lines, but it'll serve my purposes.
Looking back at my planner for 2016, it was much cuter. I was keeping notes and lists about more things. Last year's planner has lots of weeks where I didn't fill in anything at all. Remember how my year end totals were almost missing projects? That's how it happened.
The big important stuff is in there, but I want to do better this year. I want to keep better records and I want to have more fun while I'm doing it.
That's where I think Creative Journaling: A Guide to Over 100 Techniques and Ideas for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk, Mixed Media, and Travel Pages by Renee Day might come in. This is an amazing book!
The first section shows how to do lots of different planner layouts and trackers. I've seen tons of different trackers online, but these are simple and not so intimidating and there are a lot of ideas I hadn't seen anywhere else.
Other sections get into junk journaling and mixed media and travel journaling, all in a straight forward way.
I guess I needed someone to hold my hand and show me how to cut the ends of my washi tape to make it look cute and how to make a weekly layout with circles traced around canned goods instead of a special magic circle template. I needed something to spark my creativity and this book is definitely it.
Disclosure -- The publisher sent me an advance review copy. This post contains affiliate links.
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