Those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile know that I love organization. Along those lines, you might even remember that in spite of my adoration for electronic gadgets (particularly my iPhone), I actually prefer using a paper planner to organize my schedule and document the happenings in my life. (I wrote about it here, if you’re interested in reading more!)
The planner I’ve been using since January of this year is a Personal-size Filofax, and I love it. I use it as both planner and wallet, and carry it with me wherever I go. While I was in Victoria I picked up a package of Filofax refills for 2015 (thankfully they have a store that carries such things, unlike Windsor!), and between now and January will be poking away at getting the pages set up for the new year.
One of the features I’d added to my current planner was colourful sticky tabs as month indexes. They were functional, but rather big and clunky, so for my 2015 refills I decided to find something a bit more suitable. In my search I stumbled across some lovely printable month index tabs on Pinterest, which turned out to be EXACTLY what I wanted! I shrunk them down to 1/4 size, printed them on a sheet of light card stock, and cut them out by hand before applying them to the pages of my planner refills.
Perfect!
100 Happy Days – Day 43
So basically this post is a long and convoluted way of telling you that today’s happiness is brought to you by my fancy schmancy new homemade month index tabs. Happy because I found something so perfect for my needs, happy because I happened to have a random piece of card stock on hand that I’d salvaged from something else, happy because I didn’t mess up on the cutting and application of the tabs, and happy because talented people generously make their creative and useful work available to the rest of us!
Sometimes it really doesn’t take much to make me happy. Today was one of those days. 🙂
→ The 100 Happy Days web site
→ My 100 Happy Days posts
What made you happy today?
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Twitter: BatteredHope
October 25, 2014
OH MY GOODNESS girl – that is brilliant. I have so many gadgets and two desktops, laptop, tablet and phone and I STILL prefer my handwritten planning tools. I made a great blogging chart which saves me tons of time — now I will have to look into your ideas.
THANK YOU
Twitter: alphabetsalad
October 25, 2014
You’re welcome! If I find or develop any more planner inspiration I’ll be sure to share it 🙂
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Twitter: siphosith
October 25, 2014
You are not alone in using hand written planners, I do the same. However you are so creative, I like you knew planner, I wonder if I can copy it.
Thanks for the share.
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
October 25, 2014
Copy away! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… 100 Happy Days – Day 43
Twitter: SensualSierra
October 25, 2014
I’m the same! I have my calendar in my cell, I write on my calendar and I write on a piece of paper lol!
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
October 25, 2014
Love it!
Laurel Regan recently posted… 100 Happy Days – Day 43
Twitter: ConvoMePodcast
October 25, 2014
I must say that I’m just so impressed that you’re on Day 43 of the 100 Happy Days project… Congratulations! I’ve started and stalled but I really want to make it through at least once… 🙂
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
October 26, 2014
Thank you very much, and best of luck to you in getting through all 100!
Laurel Regan recently posted… 100 Happy Days – Day 43
Twitter: Wordwrights, Ink
October 26, 2014
People are so creative and talented. And It’s my job to appreciate and benefit! Everyone is happy! 🙂
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
October 26, 2014
Win-win! 😉
Laurel Regan recently posted… 100 Happy Days – Day 43
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