Summer Break! Finally! ☀️🌴🍹😎
Besides some beautiful sunny days t now it is time to get back on track on my blog!
I left a few updates hanging in there.
First, without any specific order {just because} let’s go back to the lovely curvy Teal Baroque Personal Filofax:
Can you recognize it by the cover only? 🤩 Sometimes I try to recognize Filofaxes before reading the reviews/ posts. {Geeking out a bit here. 😄}
So this one was meant to be my “Happiness Project” binder based on Gretchen Rubin’s book. I ended up not finishing her book. Too many showed up at the same time and I got distracted. HA! 😀
♥️ It then became a “me” binder, which fits in perfectly!
I took a gazillion of pics of that beauty {as I usually do} but I will try to overload less this time. 😁
✨Below is the very first tab. It makes me smile every time I see that beautiful “watercolor-like” flower and the quote that goes with it. 🌷
That is the main section of the whole binder. I don’t have any calendar on that Filofax but this is the juicy part of it that I always go back to – the journaling pages!
They are all pink although maybe I should had gone with the fashion green one:
My plan was to decorate inside each one of the tabs, but I couldn’t find any quotes that I like to fill in all of them. So just the first two are personalized so far.
✨Moving on, next tab is called “notes” {I forgot to take a pic – there is a pretty flower as well} and is very related to the journaling part – highlights of the “big findings about life/ me”. Also in pink pages.
All the other Filofax tabs are not really in use. One of them will be for sure a fold out “vision board” that I am hoping to get around over the summer.
✨The next fun part are the top tabs.
You may guess that I pulled out the inspiration from GalaDarling’s Filofax post 😎
Here goes from left to right:
- Note-to-self: like “don’t use turtle neck shirts ever – it makes you feel suffocated and puts you in a bad mood.”
- Ideas & random thoughts: pretty straight forward, huh?
- Movies: yeah, that circle thingy is my attempt to draw those old fashion movie tapes
- Music: Another straight forward one. I write down my faves or some suggestions to not miss. {Btw, have you heard Coralie Clement’s La Mer Opale? It is sooooo cute! First time I heard it I was in a stationary vintage shop digging in some old (from ’96!) Filofax inserts. I had to ask who was the singer and write down on my Filofax for future reference! ♥}
- Books: loooong list to go over
- Quotes: as they are everywhere when you least expect!
- Websites: mostly blogs to go back to and dig some more. I honestly don’t use that tab much as I usually just email myself the link. {I don’t bookmark stuff either. I always forget where they are.}
Now, the very extremely fun part!
Before I discovered Filofaxes I had three separate boxes with cut-out magazine inspirations:
- Outfits
- House deco
- Gardening tips
Sooooo as you may imagine, I now have all them combined inside my lovely ‘Me-Baroque’ binder.
There are the tabs:
- Outfits:
My “tan-shoe” quest
- House Deco:
Some “to-die-for” deco that I will implement at some point. 😀
- Gardening Tips:
Not good at gardening. I need all the tips I can find. Really.
And finally the last section is mostly left overs from other Personal set ups that I just didn’t have the courage to toss out. 😀
Those pages were my “very first” Filofax planning when I got the pink Domino so I kind of feel attached to them.
There are a few tabs I made myself, with some planning even for the planners! I wrote half a sheet for each organizer I was planning on getting so I knew {at least I *thought* I knew} how to set them up. Most of the ideas I tried back-and-forth. A few of them didn’t work and a few of them are still in use.
The blog section moved to another Personal.
At the very back I added an old Franklin Covey plastic envelop for things I don’t know where to put – like those coffee shop reward cards that I may or may not use again.
My last pic {I promise! 😁} is just “because”. The curly part of the Baroque is oh-so beautiful!
Overall I LOVE this ‘Me-Baroque’ binder. 💞
It is very soft, absurdly flexible and gorgeous on the inside. {of course! Baroques 😍}
The draw back {for those of you determined to get one 😏} is that all it’s beauty, makes it feel sooo delicate to use.
I took it out of the house ONCE and almost didn’t survive! 😁 {Hence I almost didn’t survive, the Filofax was totally fine and having fun actually! teehee}
I was so nervous that it would scratch, mark, or anything that at the end it went right back on my desk at home and *** it has been living happily there since then. ♥️ ****
…the end…
I’ll see ya again next time! ☺️
Many Smooches,
Thank you!
I love it! I’m a big Baroque fan as you know. I especially love your “illustrated” tabs, so cute!
Love! And don’t apologize for the photos, I want to see more! 🙂
@Nancy You welcomed! Thanks for stopping by!@doris98 Thanks! I am very glad that are some Baroque enthusiasts out there!@Kristin you are so nice. I won’t stop my pic overload then! 😉
I love it! Especially the little drawings on your tabs and the magazine collages, might have to try those myself. And Baroques are my favourite. Managed to get hold of a black personal one recently and I know what you mean when you say it feels delicate. Still jealous of your green one.
Love love love it~!
That curvy curvaceous leather is beautiful! And the green has an aged copperesque look that I love. But most of all thanks for the Coralie Clements suggestion. She is now listed in my filofax awaiting time and energy to websearch and find. Thanks!
@lancashirecat I recently saw a pink Baroque on Ebay. Sooo tempting but you know…..the dilemma…I don’t really NEED another one! 😀 I bravely resisted!@Sandra Thank Yooou!@Angel Jem That is great you liked my suggestion! Did you have a chance to listen to it yet? let me know what you think! 🙂
Fab tabs – so cute!!!
Thanks! 🙂
LOoooooove your tabs 🙂
Thaaaaank You! 🙂
You have some many filofaxes, but what planner are you using right now? Show us!
ah! Need to do a post about that. I am using a combo – Filofax, Notebooks and wall calendar. 🙂
I love how creative and organised you are! Perfect combo! 😉 xxx ps- mega envy over ur gorgeous barroque!
The baroque is just …. something, isn’t it? 😀
I love this idea! I really would love to create something like this for myself! Thank you for all your inspiration!
yay! Get on it, Cherie! 🙂
Honey,
You have done a great job as usual with your setup 🙂
I don’t have a ME binder or journal or planner since I can’t seem to be able to keep up with one for long enough. At the end of the month there is always blank days that I know that I had to have something on because I read a book or something but I just don’t feel like writing that down… and it’s gotten worst in the last 2 months.
My only happy thing has been my Book Blog that has content every weekend. Could be anytime from Friday to Monday (during the weekend) that I upload something there and I’m proud of it 😛
I have to take some pictures of my A5 Fussion though… It has a great setup for my Book recording and Novel writing stuff… Hmmm good idea *goes to write a draft about that idea*
Keep doing what you do Sweety and don’t change, unless it’s for the better 😀
oh my gawd, you are too cute Elizabeth! 😀
You keep rolling as well! That’s when magic happens. ♥
I loved this post [I love all your posts] and I like all the pics you have and don´t stop using a lot of pics!! This idea is great for my new me-planner I´m about to get! thank you so much! Keep it up!!
Yay Ivonne! So glad it inspired you and that you like my overloaded-with-pictures blog posts. haha 😀