Welcome back to another Plan with Me edition. This time we our making my September Monthly Spread pretty. <3
This month I am using a Darice Sticker book (the Garden Royalty edition), along with some September Wacky Holiday Stickers from The Alex Studio, little chibi princesses from JuJuAllOver, some Target Dollar Spot items, & some items from my shop.
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Good afternoon, cupcakes! Welcome to another week in my A5 PaperChase! I hope you guys all had an amazing weekend. We are ringing in fall here (finally!) in South Jersey; been a bit nippy & no need for AC or fans..... lots of windows open & I lalalalove it!
This weeks theme is a Doctor Who theme in honor of the season 9 premiere thats happening this SATURDAY (Whovians rejoice!). Here's a quick run down of the sticker shops, as well as their links:
I have created a short video for you guys on how to uncoil your Erin Condren Life Planner..... or any other spiral bond planner so that you can place it into your favorite A5 Ring-Style planner (like my teal A5 Paper Chase seen in the video). I hope you find this helpful!
Leave me comments down below if you have any other planner or beauty questions that you need tips on!
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In this weeks Plan with Me we are celebrating my husbands 8 years in the Navy! I can't believe it has been 8 years... & the Navy sure has taken us on a wild ride that's for sure! More to the point, here is this weeks Plan with Me.
This weeks layout consists of stickers from the following shops:
Good morning cupcakes! Yesterday I posted this weeks Plan with Me & they are MINIONSSSSSSS!! With the minions movie launching TODAY!! I wanted to dedicated my whole week to these adorable little guys. Because, lets be honest, if you saw this weeks #ManiMonday you can totally tell I am really a 5 year old. Hahaha.
For the stickers this week, I used the following shops:
Welcome, cupcakes, to my first ever Shop Spotlight! I am so excited to provide this service to you loverlies to get not-so-well-known companies names out there. Most products I am featuring are all with products I bought with my own money (unless otherwise stated). Todays company is a sticker shop (go figure!) on Etsy called Sponsored by Coffee. First, can we just start by how amazingly cute her name is?! I support anyone who is fueled with the same amount of love for coffee as I am! But I know you didnt hop all the way over here from your side of the interwebz to hear my prattle on about my love affair with coffee (which, ironically I didnt start liking until somewhat recently; read: within the last 2-3 years).
So the packaging in itself screams sophistication... & girly! Black & white stripes, gold, & pink. Now, Im not sure if the envelopes are always pink or not; but my original order & my replacement (we will get into that later) were both the same yummy shade of pink. Yes, pink is apparently yummy. & while we are on the topic of shipping: I ordered late one night (it was either a Friday or Saturday) & the next morning I was getting a notification about my order being ready to ship! Definitely a plus in my book. However, after the notification that it shipped, all updates stopped because SBC does not offer tracking. This is definitely something I hope Connie offers in the future, even as an add on. Upon opening the envelope I was greeted by more pink (& I totally forgot to take a picture, Im sorry -.- ) but this time in the form of a lighter cellophane bag holding my precious stickers hostage.
Tada! My wonderful, super colorful order! The order also came with a white/cream & gold foil thank you card as well as a little pack that she likes to call her "Freebies, Oopsies, & Try Mes". They were wrapped in a white, silky type of paper (parchment, maybe?) & the sticker was - you guessed it! - pink! I am assuming each freebie set is different, so if you want to see what I got, look at the picture above... on the far right are 3 little single pieces. Its those. (:
Everything arrived on glossy paper, which I have never had before (not even in my own shop... yet!). They feel so weird! Hahah. I did, however test out some writing on them in my planner for this week & I used both a ball point pen & an ink type pen (not a ball point, not a gel... its hard to describe, its a Korean pen). No smearing & took the colors like a champ! Everything arrived in beautiful condition except for my important stickers. ):
Not entirely sure what happened but they look like they had gotten wet. ): I immediately contact Connie on Instagram (her IG is: OfficialSponsoredbyCoffee -- follow herrrr! ) Instantly she apologized & offered to send me a new one free of charge. I even offered to send back the damaged ones (because with big box companies you have to return the damaged products for anything to happen... ie: my Erin Condren disaster). Connie insisted that I keep the booboo & she would just mail me a new one. & sure enough, a few days after contacting her a new sheet was in my hands - Good as new!
The customer service of SBC is superb! I honestly recommend this shop to anyone looking to start their planning journey.
Do any of you have any etsy shops you recommend? I would love to hear about them. Any that I should stay away from?
I am so sorry for the ridiculously late posting of this Plan with Me! The holiday weeks are always hectic & I was feeling a little under the weather. I hope everyone had a safe & happy holiday & hope you enjoyed this edition of my Plan with Me.
I have never been one to decorate my monthly spread but I felt compelled to decorate for the month of July! I like the way this turned out, & I hope you do too!
I am happy to say that I am the proud owner of the elusive Erin Condren Rose Gold 2016 Life Planner... in vertical. I first got my EC April 23rd, 2015 & you can see the general inside look in my unboxing video that I filmed back then:
This year, Erin has launched some changes to their vertical planners as well as introducing the horizontal planner (which I do not have but you can look at Kayla of Microscope Beauty video here -- let her know I sent yah!). She also completely revamped the look of the vertical planners to accommodate fans requests (which is totally awesome of her to listen to her customers!)
So, prepare for some heavily loaded, picture talking ^__^
When you first open the planner, the rose gold planner has a gorgeous sheet of velum over the cover page & the velum has beautiful rose gold foiling/embossing. It is absolutely gorgeous, all the small details. Changing the cover page to a white, simple cover page versus the black with confetti all over it looks more professional & stream line than with the old version. & the pages following have changed too (as seen above).
After the beginning pages, you get into the calender section! Well.. the start of each month, I should say.
Erin has even changed the way the Year at a Glance looks on both versions (the 2016 planner is on the left). She has also added a monthly goal sheet as the next set of pages after the Year at a Glance in the Rose Gold 2016 planner.. I am not sure if the other 2016 planners will have these goal sheets but this is such a good idea.
Top: 2016 Rose Gold Bottom: 2015 Life Planner
The cover sheets/dividers for the months have changed too. I love how they have a note sheet before each divider for monthly notes as well as sayings on every divider. Such a neat little touch.
Left: 2015 Life Planner Calender Right: 2016 Rose Gold Calender
Erin has also changed the way the Calenders are done too. On the older style Life Planners, at the top of the right calender page was always a quote, in 2016 they have removed this quote giving you room for whatever you want to put there. They have also changed the calender side bar - but not by much. In the 2015 edition, it said NOTES & in the 2016 edition it now says GOALS & has cute little bubbles around it (that I know some people find annoying in the weekly layouts).
Weekly View 2016 Rose Gold Planner
This is perhaps the biggest change in the ECLP line - they have removed the morning, day, & night headers, removed the monthly view, the words at the bottom, those decorative bubbles, & got rid of the section header that says Weekly Goals & Notes on the side bar. I know a lot of people are happy about this change.. I am unaffected because I covered everything with stickers from my shop anyway. They also adjusted the color scheme for 2016 too. I can take or leave the color change - it doesnt bother me one way or the other.
In the back of every ECLP are stickers & a heavy cardstock laminated pocket with their perpetual calender (which is a little booklet with a page for each month & dated lines to write down important yearly dates - anniversaries, birthdays, etc) In comparison to last year, they made the colors brighter - yet muted?? - & more professional looking than in the prior planners. The preprinted stickers have changed in colors & can we just take a moment to admire this cute like VOTE! sticker?? I am not sure how the vote sticker is going to work in the international orders since it looks like an American flag.
The extra goodies that come in the new planners is totally awesome! They come with referral cards - yah know, for if youre on the go & someone compliments your planner. That is such a neat idea considering not everyone is going to remember their referral code if someone wants it & if its a stranger, I doubt strangers are going to give you their email address so you can email them the referral link. Smart thinking, EC. They also included a sample sheet of their Do it All Dots which are cute but I think I will be sticking with using my favorite Etsy shops for these little guys. They also included a sample of the coil clip (the little plastic sticky thing that you can attach extras into your planner with). This is great for the project I plan on doing with all the kids VBS gear.
& now for the reason why this post is called The Metal Dilemma. I ordered the Rose Gold edition because I am in lalalalove with anything rose gold & even though my current EC lasts until the first week of January 2016 I ordered, I had to jump the gun & purchase this planner because Erin made the announcement that these bad boys were going away the very weekend I was ordering. Of course, I order & then a few days later they announce theyll be around until September... welp... crap.
So I waited... ooooh... maybe 2 weeks or so for this elusive planner to reach my grubby little paws. The box was a gorgeous damask pink & white & just everything I hoped it would be! Until I opened it. Sort of. When I opened it, I saw the usual tissue wrapping & product packaging which made me happy to see. Then I cast my eyes upon my one-of-a-kind TARDIS INTERCHANGABLE COVER that I custom designed & ordered & my beautiful Rose Gold planner. Upon inspection, I had noticed that the coating on the coil had all ready begun to tarnish & come off the coil! Slightly annoyed & upset (because I wouldnt even be using this planner for another six months!), I have contacted customer service & await a response. I really hope they can tell me what to do to fix this problem. If I had all ready used this planner & handled it enough for the coil to start tarnishing I wouldnt be so miffed but I handled this for maybe 5 minutes just for product photos.
Did anyone else order the Rose Gold planner & have issues? Other than this little snapfu, I have never had problems with EC before & totally still recommend them. If you havent ordered before, be sure to use the link below, sign up, & receive a $10 off coupon to use off your first purchase.
I would love to hear about your purchase with ECLP!
*I am not affiliated with Erin Condren. Every sign up through this link also gets me a $10 credit. ECLP offers this referral code to every customer that signs up so you too can start earning referral credits.
Wow! Can you guys believe we are all ready in the second to last week in June! We are almost half way through the year! That is so crazy. The stickers this week are from the following shops:
& in case you didnt know, for my relaunch there is a 20% off coupon with no minimum purchase. Use code LOFRELAUNCH on your purchase between now & Saturday, 20 June. Happy planning!
If you have been following me closely on Instagram, you know that I was hosting a giveaway over the weekend to earn 1 set of every page flag that was going to be available during the grand reopening. All followers had to do was follow my Instagram ( @loveoffilo ), repost the giveaway picture with the hashtag #LOFRelaunch, & guess just how many sheets were in the stack.
So the giveaway ended Monday at noon EST & I announced the winner today which is Instagramer @JazzyJewelCustoms ♥ Congratulations again, Jazzy, for the amazing guess of 60 pages - the exact number of pages there were!
Do not fret if you didnt get a chance to enter, until Saturday June 20th, use the code LOFRELAUNCH to receive 20% off any size purchase from my Etsy Shop. If you are interested in any custom stickers, be sure to DM me on Instagram ( @LoveofFilo ) or message me directly on Etsy.
Helloooo cupcakes! If you have been following me around on Instagram & Youtube (& the blog!) I have moved! What that entailed was putting my Etsy shop on vacation for a little while. & it is now almost time to relaunch! So in the mean time while I am busting tail to get new sticker designs, well, designed, printed, & cut, make sure you are following & paying close attention to my Instagram account @LoveofFilo for sneak peeks & a special coupon code as well as various flash sales & a giveaway going on the first week of the relaunch. Dont forget to favorite my shop as well & sign up to get the email alerting you of when we officially open - right down to the minute!
It is looking like the projected relaunch is going to be Monday, 15 June 2015 at about noon EST. Hope to see everyone there!
Welcome back to another Plan with Me blog post. I will be resuming normal Plan with Me recordings this coming Sunday since I have a brand new tripod & can film when everyone is asleep. It is a total win-win. So for the time being, this is my Plan with Me blog post.
You are currently looking at this current week; 8-14 June 2015. The washi tape at the bottom came from Hobby Lobby, the kawaii filming, editing, & upload, target bullseye, blue grocery cart, & kawaii blue credit card stickers came from Sweet Kawaii Designs on Etsy; the moving boxes, postal envelope (at the top on Tuesday), & the dark blue heart are from JuJu All Over on Etsy; & the pink clipboard, yellow scallop to-do header, yellow fork & knife circle, blue heart envelope, & yellow half box are all from KGPlanneron Etsy. The rest of the stickers are from my Etsy shop & will be available at the relaunch on Monday, June 15! Be sure to follow me on Instagram & check my planner videos for a secret coupon code.
Here is the first half of the week before any filling in with things that ACTUALLY happened. Just things that I need to get done, notes, etc. My weeks arent going to be as cramped as usual since it is the summer & I am still settling in at home. My main concern until things get settled is getting my room situation figured out (my grandma is moving out of my parents home because doing the steps every day hurts her)... which we have no idea when that will be but should be soon! & I also need to figure out the schooling situation with my kiddos.
& this is the second half of the week... fairly empty on the personal side & my main priority towards the end of the week is pumping out videos & getting back on track with posting. Sounds like a good idea, but lets see how far that actually goes. hahaha. I love how these kawaii stickers look in my planner & highly recommend the planner shops I mentioned above. Shipping was super fast & the quality is amazing. The pen I used to write on these was a cheapy black gel pen from Target... I just cant believe how well it stayed without smudging!
The planner Im using is the 2014-2015 Erin Condren Life Planner; they did just release their 2015-2016 planner but I still have 6 months left on this one before I decide if I should order next years. So far, I am loving this planner & probably will order the newer one but we will see. You can get in on the ECLP bandwagon & receive a $10 off coupon code by using my referral link below (be sure to sign up first then check your email!):
Let me know if you order anything from EC & what your thoughts are on it. I am also taking ideas & blog/video idea requests so make sure to leave them below!
