Aaaand we are BACK!

The Search for the Perfect Filofax Continues!⭐️

In case you missed it, the latest ‘episode’ on this series can be found here.

Soooo picking up where I left, I now present you….

✨Filofax Swap 5 – A Classy Attempt starring Almond Slimline Amazona✨

Very classy isn’t it? 🤩💁🏻‍♀️

I admit it –  I pet it, opened/closed, and played with it a lot! I mean way too much. And at work! 😁

One of the days I literally had to “put it away” like an addicting candy box just so I could stop poking it and concentrate on getting stuff done. 😏

Although I had a great time touching and sniffing at it….

I managed to get even further into my planner fail while we were hanging together! 😳

So, let’s talk about it!
{when a relationship doesn’t work, you need to talk about it, ya? 😃}

As you can see, for a slimline it was holding quite a lot:

But it didn’t really hold what I needed.
I could fit tabs for blog, notes and possibility – as you can see below:

Then in the next row I managed to add 5 more tabs.

First one for journaling ✍{the smiley face} for when I am not home and don’t have my gorgeous Baroque with me. Second one  ✅{the check mark} for to-do lists, third one 🌀{circle} for health stuff…

🎥📚🎶 Fourth for movies, books and music {again when I am away from my Baroque – so I usually transfer the pages or the notes when I get home} and fifth for shopping lists. 🛒

When I was using Chamomile it was a pain in the butt to be transferring over the weekly sheets as I run out of them so quickly.

Obviously the slimeline made it worse. The whole process became more frequent and more annoying by the minute. {Obviously. Such tiny rings! 🤨} Adding to the fact that I wasn’t even liking my layout AND my never ending need of COLOR around me, I ended up with this:

Writing by hand on the top of the page the current week and writing to-dos!

Not practical to plan ahead at all. Although I liked the color paper and kept on that “system” till…well a short while.

For daily thoughts and more detailed to-dos I would do exactly the same, a blank colored page.

And to find them I used a tab with an arrow:

Pretty much telling myself “RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!” 😆

and for the month a grid:

Now, besides the fact that I can’t put a month’s worth of weekly pages inside the organizer, there are three more draw backs to it:

✨1. A Pocket Sleeve!

The left pocket is one of those loose ones {not sure how it is called}, so every time I opened/closed it, the sticky notes from the flyleaf would rub on that pocket and bend the corners.

Really annoying!

Here is the pocket:

To solve that I had to flip the front flyleaf backwards so the sticky notes wouldn’t get damaged.

Like this:

It is not handy, I tell ya.

✨2. The leather!

The leather scratches very easily. 😑

There is a scratch from the zipped plastic envelope on the leather! I guess this leather is just too delicate.

I carry the plastic envelope in the back of it all as I use the stuff in there just once in a while {receipts, stamps, etc}. But, it made some marks on that sensitive Amazona leather:

The pic is not showing it well, but it is very noticeable in person! Really! Not that I am picky or anything…. 😀

So once I realized this was happening I folded and tucked in a paper in the back pocket so it would sit in between the zipper and the leather like this:

Not pretty, huh?

Well, moving on.

✨3. The Filofax curse: Pen Loop!

When I got this organizer, the pen loop was just like new, super flat against the cover.
I almost never put pens in the pen loops because I know they don’t fit but for some reason I decided to experiment on that one. I SO REGRET DOING IT! 🤦🏻‍♀️

First, as you can see just like Chamomile, once the pen is placed, it falls right on top of the tabs:

So to close it, I need to pull it to the side and then release the elastic:

It works, and somehow the pen finds its way around the tabs:

I used like that for a while but it got old as every single time I opened the organizer, the pen was stuck in a few tabs and I had to pull it out again.

I then decided to go back to no-pen in the pen loop and what happens?

The darn thing stretched out and now the organizer won’t close all the way even without the pen! 😫

I hate that I did that to my planner! 😩

How annoying is that?

Oh! And that reminded me of another thing.

✨4. Having “Closure”

Ya know, I never really like the way clasp closures look. And by that I mean all Filofax clasp closures.
So  I have been always obviously drawn to Slimlines and Dominos as they look like simple notebooks.

Shocking news is that now I SO MISSED a clasp closure on this one!
I now have a total respect for that little leathered-button thingy.

Without it EVERYTHING got INSIDE my Filofax!

Really, everything!
I always put the organizers with the “open” side facing up as random papers that are not stored on pockets or the plastic envelope may fall off if I put it the opening facing down. In this case because there was nothing holding the whole organizer together EVERYTHING I carelessly tossed inside my purse  would fall inside of it! 😑Pens, coins, other random papers and the worse ….. keys! I almost flipped when I saw my keys bending all my pages INSIDE my Filofax. 😖

I now love clasp closure! 😃

On a side note, just so I don’t offend my Slimline feelings, I need to say that this organizer is totally ✨GORGEOUS!✨ the color, the texture… I really struggled taking my hands off it!
Only for keeping my life together, that beauty wasn’t of much help! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well, sweets….are you still there? Thank you for reading it all the way!

Keep your fingers crossed that my next update will be a much more organized one! Because that’s what this is all about, right? 🤩

✨✨✨✨Keep tuned for Filofax Swap 6 – Never giving up! ✨✨✨✨

Smooches to you all! ❤