How will I use my A6 Hobonichi?

Ok, I've spent the past few days thinking and rethinking my setup. Or how I would use my A6 Hobonichi Planner. I've been lugging it around the house with me everyday - and the Mr is just perplexed as to why I would do that. How could a person not do that, especially when looking at how cute the Red Indian Rhino cover.

Look at it!! How can you not fall in love with it <3 <3 <3 Also, a portion of the proceeds are donated to Japanese animal rescue shelter Rencontrer Mignon, which doubles as an animal hospital and pet salon.

Anyway, I read the interview with Ms. Fujimura, Arts&Science employee (read: interview). The way she uses her planner appeals to me - and it's making me looking forward to the day when I can FINALLY start using my planner. I'll definitely split the page with the blue line and try and use it the way she does cause it appeals to me. I am not much of a person who is creative - I doodle every now and then, but that's about it. Recently, I've gotten myself watercolors have been playing with it. I am LOVING it.

My MTN will still be my planner wallet. It will have my weekly vertical inserts, a 013 lightweight insert, and my Essential leather wallet insert from Baum-Kuchen. I feel that I will use my A6 Hobonichi as my planner (work and etc) and my MTN as my personal wallet and journal.

We'll see. I can't wait for 2016 to come! <3

Different paths

Just because my path is different doesn't  mean I'm lost. 

Make Believe Tree

This is arguably the best variety of make-believe tree.

Doodle my Heart out

Even simple lines can convey an art. 

Hello 2016!

So, like most people in the planning community, the big question looms ahead – which planner to use for 2016. If you are like me – not sure, but kinda sure, but not really, cause there are so many options out there – then you are not the only one.

I have been using the Midori Travelers Notebook as my planner wallet – cause I do not want to be lugging around a planner AND a wallet, and it just seemed to make sense to combine those two functions together – for the past year plus plus. Got myself an Essential 2.0 Leather Wallet insert in black from Baum-Kuchen (they don’t carry the 2.0 or black leather anymore). This has been super helpful, as I can just grab and go with my planner wallet.

My Midori has three inserts – a 018 Midori vertical weekly with DIYFish monthly tip-ins, a 013 Lightweight insert and a grid insert from CovrKita on Etsy. I use the vertical to keep track of my appointments and personal to-dos, the lightweight insert as my Commonplace Notebook, and the grid insert as my BuJo – both work and personal. It has taken me a while to tweak my setup and I think – I can’t say it’s 100% – I’ve found planner peace for me. Either way, anytime I switch it up, it’s based on my current needs and I think planner peace just simply means what works for you and it may be for the next couple of months, or the next couple of weeks, cause as we all know, change is the only constant. To be able to say, Hooray, I have found planner peace, that would simply mean, good for you :)

One of the things being a planner addict, means that you want to have every single planner that is out there and you want to try every single one, cause I am tactile that way. I have more than enough of my share of planners and it has been an amazing journey and reflection – for myself – to see that ultimately, I would always come back to the original Midori. I have FoxyFixs, Chic Sparrows, CovrKita, in different sizes – personal (which majority of my collection seem to be), fieldnotes (which I don’t use cause the Mr said I go through it too fast and it’s too small for me), and regular sizes. As much as I love the personal sizes, I have to admit that to find available inserts are complicated – and the fact that I love the Tomoe River Paper also limits my choices. At the end of the day, I want my planners to work for my needs, not adjust my needs to the planners I have.

Saying that, for 2016, I have gotten myself the dated vertical weekly inserts, cause I’m ready to commit to a dated one from Midori, a weekly dated one for my passport MTN, and *drum roll please* my first Hobonichi. Since I love the Tomoe River Paper, I thought I might as well pull the trigger and go with this. I know that I would love this and it will be an interesting year ahead. I also got myself the Rhino Cover for my A6 Hobinichi Planner.

I am very excited for 2016 – 1) because of my planners, 2) i’ve started journaling daily and I would love to continue on with this, 3) the Tomoe River Paper is so exciting, 4) I think my Rhino Cover is the cutest <3

Can’t wait for 2016