oh, hello. i’m an artist & paper geek.
I began painting as a hobby again during the pandemic after a decade-long break. Creating is my passion and it has helped immensely with my anxiety, along with my love of planning and organizing, I’ll be sharing my creative passions with you on my blog.
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Using ChatGP to Refine my Daily Planning Routine
I mentioned in my previous post that I would share what adjustments Chat GP recommended for me when I asked it to refine my planning routines. I have been reviewing my daily planning routine over the past few weeks in…
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Reviewing my Ideal Week with the help of a robot
I’m currently reviewing my planner system and routines and have been researching how others spend their time, how to create the ideal week and things to consider when planning my week, month and year. I decided to turn to the…
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Using Milanote to Brainstorm my Setup
In my previous blog post, “Mid Year Planner Check-In,” I shared that I’ve been experiencing a planner funk, and I’m still trying to overcome it. Recently, I came across Milanote, thanks to this fantastic video by Rachelle in Theory, and…
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Mid-Year Planner Check-in
I tried something different with a new weekly insert and a different planner, and my mind didn’t handle the change well.
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Improving my Weekly Planning System
I’ve been brainstorming ways to improve my weekly views so I get more out of them. Currently I’m using a simple grid divided into 8 and I’m using a bullet journal style of planning. I designed this insert on Canva…
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Christmas Movies free printable
Who’s excited that it’s now December?! I want to cram in as many holiday movies as possible so I made this free printable Christmas movies list for you all! You can download it via my Google freebies folder here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10C4x2FdWAcg7Nx3rViAaSVk7M91qGI6j…
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Memory Keeping research for 2023
I decided a few months ago that I would like to start memory keeping again. My initial idea was to keep a journal but this has always fizzled out after about a month in past years, I wanted something that…
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Planner Refresh Series | 05 Home + Money Section
Today I’m reviewing my home section in my planner which I am combining with my money section. I’m keeping the homebody dashboard from My Minimal Planner and cleaning list from The Planner Spot in my planner as deco and reference…
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Planner Refresh Series | 04 Calendars
In the 4th episode of my planner refresh series I’m reviewing my Plans section which consists of all of the calendars that make up my planning system. The first insert I have in this section is important dates which is…
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Oops…
Clearly I’m not very good at this blogging game… all of my planner refresh blog posts were casually sitting in my drafts folder waiting for me to hit publish! They’re now published and ready to read but apologies that they…
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Planner Refresh Series | 01 Planning Routines
With a new year comes new challenges, opportunities and life changes, so reviewing our planning systems at the end of each year makes sense; it’s not that dis-similar to decluttering our homes, setting resolutions and spring cleaning our spaces -…
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Fly agaric mushroom
Welcome to a new week! I painted this fly agaric mushroom 🍄 yesterday inspired by the tutorial by Lou Davis on YouTube. I really enjoyed painting this one and tried out my new Faber Castell polychromos pencils to add detail…
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Planner Refresh Series | 03 Inbox/GTD System + Free Printable GTD Flow Chart
In one of my previous videos I mentioned how I’d like to incorporate the Getting Things Done method but I have been struggling to put it into practice. In my routines section I had made a GTD section which held…
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Planner Refresh Series | 02 Routine/Recurring Tasks
I created a system this year to keep track of tasks that need doing several times a year, but not every month. Using a simple insert gave me insight as to when I last completed certain tasks and jobs around…
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Wildflowers: gouache on black paper
This weekend I completed a project I’d had in my head for a few weeks and it turned out better than I thought I would, so I thought I’d share it here. I painted some wild flowers in gouache on…
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