Long time - no see!

Hi everyone! Do you remember me? I used to blog a bit here but I totally got out of swing of things and I had to let this blog rest a bit. But now I´m planning to get back again, blogging about all kind of things. It might be in English or it will be in Swedish or maybe both...

My paper project life has been put on the back burner for a while but thanks to a Swedish PL Facebook group I´m getting back again. There´s nothing like some good challenges and support!

This last week I´ve completed two weeks - 12 and 13:

After I´d done week 12 I felt it was ok but a bit boring and I started thinking about what I really wanna have on my pages. So I´ve been pinning a lot of ideas and sketches for inspiration. One single thing - and not a major one - is that for week 13 I rounded all my cards and it already felt better. I also gonna doodle a bit more around the edges and add some stamping to some of the filler cards. Looking at week 13 I can see that I´m gonna go back and do that with the one with the big 4 on it.

Another thing is that I´m gonna be better with adding embellishments to my pages - it makes them feel more alive. 

This past weekend I edited over 130 photos for my PL album and sent them for development. When I get them I´ll be at week 29! So there´s still a long way to go but I´m getting there slowly. I´ve decided to let this take some time so I´ll be happy with the way it looks.

I also got myself a Happy Planner/Create 365:

 Some of the pages inside:

I bought this online and hadn´t seen it before in paper format and I was so happy when it arrived. So totally my colors and patterns! Love it! I´ve been starting to fill it up and I´m planning to use it at home like a journal:

Here´s the beginning of last week:

...and on Sunday:

The lovely Alice in Wonderland stickers are a freebie from Victoria Thatcher and she has loads of wonderful free stuff you can use!

Aaah, it feels good to be blogging again and I will be back again in a day or two!

Take care!/xoxo Carina

My planner in December

No one could hardly missed the big craze about planners these days - unless you´ve been living under a rock that is! I´m totally amazed how the paper industry keeps coming up with new plans to get us caught in their web in different ways. A couple of years ago no one hardly knew anything about Project Life/Pocket Scrapbooking but what a thing it is these days. 

I guess planners and decorating them is the new IT thing and the market is exploding of stuff for just this.

Well. Let me start with saying that decorating your planner isn´t a new thing - I´ve done that to some extent way back - like in the school days and that wasn´t yesterday.  But the way people showing up theirs today - it´s like mini scrapbooking books! I won´t go that far but I can´t resist decorating mine too since I like things looking pretty!

Things get a lot easier too when you get CT stuff play around with. Just look at this wonderful December Planner collection from Mari Koegelenberg and Mommyish:

So for December I decided to go all in and I´ve been decorating like crazy:

I printed my planner pages on regular paper on a laser printer. That way I know it won´t smudge when I´m writing. The divider pages and all the little elements have been printed on thicker paper and I reinforced the edges on the dividers with some washi tapes. I´ve also decorated with a lovely stamp set from My Favorite Things called Jingled All The Way (which apparently is out of stock everywhere). I haven´t decided yet if I´m gonna add some color to my Santas or not....

I really LOVED going all crazy in my beloved Filofax A5 planner and I can totally get it why people do it. I just hope I left enough space to do my planning on!

Happy Days!/Carina

Planner Happy!!!

In my blog post yesterday I showed you my new planner that I´m really looking forward to play with - the gorgeous Filofax in nude. Since I haven´t got it yet I decided to make my job planner a little more pretty using some awesome new planner stuff from Mari Koegelenberg:

If you click HERE you get to her store where there´s even more!

The only problem with my work planner is that it has a spiral binding so I had to use washi tape to adhere the pages to my planner but I think it worked out pretty good. I used the backside on every added page for keeping lists:

This looks so much prettier now don´t you think! It´s so much more FUN to open the planner now! 

I also made a front and a back page for my planner using the same stuff:

Since I´m a little late for posting this I urge to go shopping these lovelies NOW since these and a whole other fab stuff ARE ON SALE ending tomorrow Monday 31 Aug! The ones I´m showing are only $1 EACH!

Have a wonderful evening!/Carina