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Erin Condren 2020 Academic & Monthly Planner – Review

Erin Condren 2020 Academic & Monthly Planner – Review

June 7, 2020

It’s no secret by now that planning on paper is a way of organizing and taking care of myself, my family, and the many different things I juggle. My life is very full – joyfully so! I often hear, “I don’t know how you do it all,” and my honest answer is often, “I don’t know either.” I just keep… Read More

Filed Under: Blogging, Planning Tagged With: content planner, Erin Condren, Erin Condren Academic Planner, Erin Condren Monthly Planner

Planning Your Creative Content With The Content Planner

Planning Your Creative Content With The Content Planner

September 5, 2019

Before I start this post, let me just say that I didn’t intend to be away from my blog for such a long time! It was a tremendously busy summer with a lot of travel and an exciting doctor’s appointment (in El Paso, TX) that I hope to share with you someday, and then all of a sudden it was… Read More

Filed Under: Blogging, Planning Tagged With: content planner, content planning, social media content, The Content Planner

Well hello! My name is Jennifer Mackintosh and I’ve been collecting wildflowers & marbles and sharing here about all the ordinary things that make life joyful since 2007. You’ll find a little bit of everything here – planning, organizing and decorating ideas, Charlotte Mason & Classical home education ideas, lots of books, our Catholic faith, and a peek at a few of the corners of our life. I’m so glad you’re here!

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Raise your hand if sticky notes are your love lang Raise your hand if sticky notes are your love language!! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️💗💗💗💗

Y’all! I love celebrating a new shop!! It means someone else has worked hard to make their dream come true! And when that shop creates sticky notes??? I’m all in! Meet Cymone - the creative shop owner behind @stickeysco - an exciting new shop with doors opening May 1, specializing in...STICKEY NOTES!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️ The mission of sticKeys is to inspire, create, and celebrate the ever-changing world around us! 

Cymone @stickeysco was so kind, and might have picked up on my love of sticky notes 🤓 and sent me a few to try and to share with you - thank you, Cymone!! There are more designs launching May 1!!! I love the layouts - they help functional planners and creative planners alike! Of course, I’ve been known to just throw a sticky note in my bag for the day’s plans!! The ultimate in minimal function! 

I did notice as I was writing on these stickey notes that several of my normally fast drying gel pens smudged a bit on the paper. My permanent pens worked fine, and felt tip pens didn’t smudge. Just wanted to give you a heads up! 

Go support an amazing, creative new shop and shop owner and give @stickeysco a follow! ❤️✅ She’s doing a giveaway on her Instagram page right now - go enter!

#stickey #stickeysco #stickynotes #planner #planneraddict #plannercommunity #plannerstickers
Functional perfection! ✨ Are you a functional p Functional perfection! ✨

Are you a functional planner?? 

Or is your planner a canvas for creativity??
Today is my first Monday back to school and work s Today is my first Monday back to school and work since Easter break! And it has definitely been a MONDAY!! 🙃 I pulled everything out to review, update, and plan forward to try to get my head back in the game!
⬇️
✅Reviewed Quarter 1 on paper - my goals in progress and completed, big projects we’ve got in the works, finances, homeschool. I’m a fan of reviews!!!! Shows me the ground I’ve covered, and where I need to go next!
✅Archived Quarter 1 - where did the first 3 months of 2021 go?!?!?!
✅Refilled and refreshed all inserts in my planners! Here’s why I love a planner system that flexes! I add what I need, take out what is no longer needed or useful, and use the best paper tools to leverage and streamline what’s coming!
✅Refreshed my goals - I’ve got that *one* goal that I just keeeeeeeeeeeep putting off. Sigh. Anyone else relate?? 🙋🏼‍♀️I need to have a conversation with myself about that one goal to see if it needs to stay on my goal list...or move on.
✅Updated Q2 finance goals based on a BIG project we are considering.
✅HOMESCHOOL: reviewed kids’ individual booklists, shelved completed books, reviewed end of semester plans. We’re in wrap up mode!!! 🎉 I also changed up my lesson planning to something more streamlined now that we’re wrapping up! Love simplicity! 📚 Tomorrow’s task: organize and refresh the homeschool bookshelves!! 😳
✅Started pulling Q2 tasks and goals forward!!

Hope y’all had a fantastic Monday and Easter! I’m off to chill some wine!! 🍷
The Holy Triduum - a time of repentance, and medit The Holy Triduum - a time of repentance, and meditation on Our Lord’s Passion, and the end of 40 days of Lent - begins for us, as Catholics, tomorrow. 

I made an intentional choice to be less present on Instagram for much of Lent - a choice which has really miffed Instagram’s algorithm🤣 - in order to be more present to God, grow my faith, serve my family and others nearby. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to serve wholeheartedly!

Though I’ve been quieter here, each of you have been in my prayers, and I joyfully look forward to returning Monday.

If I haven’t said it lately - I’m truly grateful for each of you, and for allowing my little feed to be part of your day (or at least those of you whom Instagram allows to see my feed now!)! 💙 I pray these little windows and peeks into my very ordinary and imperfect days are only ever a source of joy, peace, and beauty in a time when those are in short supply.

“Create a clean heart in me, O God.”
Sharing about my ✨new✨ love of ring bound plan Sharing about my ✨new✨ love of ring bound planners in my stories today as well as my setup of this planner (which is from a past @cloth_and_paper sub box) I linked a very similar planner which costs less than $10! 😱

Y’all know that I love planners that can be functional AND flexible! I love my disc bound planners, but I’m BRAND NEW to ring bound A5 planners! I know there’s a lot of ring bound experience here though - share why you love ring bound, and your favorite tips and tricks!! Pretty please so I can learn from you! 💗🎀
Sharing all about this STUNNING @notiqbrand Saffia Sharing all about this STUNNING @notiqbrand Saffiano Vegan Leather Agenda Folio in the color Bliss in my stories!! 

I love the feel and organization of this planner - it’s structured, but not super rigid or stiff, which makes the touch/hold so nice! It lays flat beautifully and is so functional...and gorgeous! Slide in your discbound, or an A5 notebook!! 

If you’re in the market for a planner cover, or an upgrade, check out @notiqbrand - so many planner and  products and colors to choose from! Be sure to shop through my friends @darianplans or @katiekplans to support them as affiliates!!💙

Thank you so much for sending this beautiful cover (in my favorite color) my way, dearest Vivian! 💙 And thank you for your example of leadership and beauty in this community!

#plannerfriendsmakethebestfriends #notiq #notiqbrand #notiqbliss
Anybody else having a 2-cups-of-coffee kinda day?? Anybody else having a 2-cups-of-coffee kinda day?? ☕️🙋🏼‍♀️
✨GIVEAWAY TIME!!✨ ***winners announced!*** Tha ✨GIVEAWAY TIME!!✨
***winners announced!***
Thank you all for participating!❤️

All of these new planners, sticker books, and more, just launched at @michaelsstores !!! Thank you so much, @craftsmithco , for sending these to me so I could share with ALL of you AND GIVE THEM AWAY TO YOU!!❤️

Check out my (temporary) Michael’s planners highlight for a walk thru!

All you really have to do is comment which one you’d like and be following me...but I gave you lots of options for extra entries!

Here’s how to enter:
✳️ You have to be following me!
✳️ Decide which planner you’d like and comment below with the name:
.....Home Planner
.....Recipe Planner
.....Mini To Do List Planner
.....Farmhouse Sticker Book
.....Everyday Basics Sticker Book
✳️ Comment as many times as you like!
✳️ Each comment is an entry! Example: you might want the Home Planner and the Farmhouse Sticker Book - comment twice to enter for both giveaways!
✳️ Tag a friend for an extra entry.
✳️ Share in stories for an extra entry.
✳️ I’m going to choose winners for all 5 prizes at random!
✳️ Winners will be chosen on Wednesday at 8:00
am CT. If you’re a winner I will tag you on the post and DM you - so check your messages! If I don’t hear from you within 24 hours, I will choose another winner!
✳️ Once winners have accepted I will close comments.
✳️ US entries only
✳️ This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram.
🎀 Good luck!!! I can’t wait to put these in your hands!

#recollectionsplanners #recollectionsplanner
would you like to see more? Catch up with Jen on Instagram

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Raise your hand if sticky notes are your love lang Raise your hand if sticky notes are your love language!! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️💗💗💗💗

Y’all! I love celebrating a new shop!! It means someone else has worked hard to make their dream come true! And when that shop creates sticky notes??? I’m all in! Meet Cymone - the creative shop owner behind @stickeysco - an exciting new shop with doors opening May 1, specializing in...STICKEY NOTES!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️ The mission of sticKeys is to inspire, create, and celebrate the ever-changing world around us! 

Cymone @stickeysco was so kind, and might have picked up on my love of sticky notes 🤓 and sent me a few to try and to share with you - thank you, Cymone!! There are more designs launching May 1!!! I love the layouts - they help functional planners and creative planners alike! Of course, I’ve been known to just throw a sticky note in my bag for the day’s plans!! The ultimate in minimal function! 

I did notice as I was writing on these stickey notes that several of my normally fast drying gel pens smudged a bit on the paper. My permanent pens worked fine, and felt tip pens didn’t smudge. Just wanted to give you a heads up! 

Go support an amazing, creative new shop and shop owner and give @stickeysco a follow! ❤️✅ She’s doing a giveaway on her Instagram page right now - go enter!

#stickey #stickeysco #stickynotes #planner #planneraddict #plannercommunity #plannerstickers
Functional perfection! ✨ Are you a functional p Functional perfection! ✨

Are you a functional planner?? 

Or is your planner a canvas for creativity??
Today is my first Monday back to school and work s Today is my first Monday back to school and work since Easter break! And it has definitely been a MONDAY!! 🙃 I pulled everything out to review, update, and plan forward to try to get my head back in the game!
⬇️
✅Reviewed Quarter 1 on paper - my goals in progress and completed, big projects we’ve got in the works, finances, homeschool. I’m a fan of reviews!!!! Shows me the ground I’ve covered, and where I need to go next!
✅Archived Quarter 1 - where did the first 3 months of 2021 go?!?!?!
✅Refilled and refreshed all inserts in my planners! Here’s why I love a planner system that flexes! I add what I need, take out what is no longer needed or useful, and use the best paper tools to leverage and streamline what’s coming!
✅Refreshed my goals - I’ve got that *one* goal that I just keeeeeeeeeeeep putting off. Sigh. Anyone else relate?? 🙋🏼‍♀️I need to have a conversation with myself about that one goal to see if it needs to stay on my goal list...or move on.
✅Updated Q2 finance goals based on a BIG project we are considering.
✅HOMESCHOOL: reviewed kids’ individual booklists, shelved completed books, reviewed end of semester plans. We’re in wrap up mode!!! 🎉 I also changed up my lesson planning to something more streamlined now that we’re wrapping up! Love simplicity! 📚 Tomorrow’s task: organize and refresh the homeschool bookshelves!! 😳
✅Started pulling Q2 tasks and goals forward!!

Hope y’all had a fantastic Monday and Easter! I’m off to chill some wine!! 🍷
The Holy Triduum - a time of repentance, and medit The Holy Triduum - a time of repentance, and meditation on Our Lord’s Passion, and the end of 40 days of Lent - begins for us, as Catholics, tomorrow. 

I made an intentional choice to be less present on Instagram for much of Lent - a choice which has really miffed Instagram’s algorithm🤣 - in order to be more present to God, grow my faith, serve my family and others nearby. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to serve wholeheartedly!

Though I’ve been quieter here, each of you have been in my prayers, and I joyfully look forward to returning Monday.

If I haven’t said it lately - I’m truly grateful for each of you, and for allowing my little feed to be part of your day (or at least those of you whom Instagram allows to see my feed now!)! 💙 I pray these little windows and peeks into my very ordinary and imperfect days are only ever a source of joy, peace, and beauty in a time when those are in short supply.

“Create a clean heart in me, O God.”
Sharing about my ✨new✨ love of ring bound plan Sharing about my ✨new✨ love of ring bound planners in my stories today as well as my setup of this planner (which is from a past @cloth_and_paper sub box) I linked a very similar planner which costs less than $10! 😱

Y’all know that I love planners that can be functional AND flexible! I love my disc bound planners, but I’m BRAND NEW to ring bound A5 planners! I know there’s a lot of ring bound experience here though - share why you love ring bound, and your favorite tips and tricks!! Pretty please so I can learn from you! 💗🎀
Sharing all about this STUNNING @notiqbrand Saffia Sharing all about this STUNNING @notiqbrand Saffiano Vegan Leather Agenda Folio in the color Bliss in my stories!! 

I love the feel and organization of this planner - it’s structured, but not super rigid or stiff, which makes the touch/hold so nice! It lays flat beautifully and is so functional...and gorgeous! Slide in your discbound, or an A5 notebook!! 

If you’re in the market for a planner cover, or an upgrade, check out @notiqbrand - so many planner and  products and colors to choose from! Be sure to shop through my friends @darianplans or @katiekplans to support them as affiliates!!💙

Thank you so much for sending this beautiful cover (in my favorite color) my way, dearest Vivian! 💙 And thank you for your example of leadership and beauty in this community!

#plannerfriendsmakethebestfriends #notiq #notiqbrand #notiqbliss
Anybody else having a 2-cups-of-coffee kinda day?? Anybody else having a 2-cups-of-coffee kinda day?? ☕️🙋🏼‍♀️
✨GIVEAWAY TIME!!✨ ***winners announced!*** Tha ✨GIVEAWAY TIME!!✨
***winners announced!***
Thank you all for participating!❤️

All of these new planners, sticker books, and more, just launched at @michaelsstores !!! Thank you so much, @craftsmithco , for sending these to me so I could share with ALL of you AND GIVE THEM AWAY TO YOU!!❤️

Check out my (temporary) Michael’s planners highlight for a walk thru!

All you really have to do is comment which one you’d like and be following me...but I gave you lots of options for extra entries!

Here’s how to enter:
✳️ You have to be following me!
✳️ Decide which planner you’d like and comment below with the name:
.....Home Planner
.....Recipe Planner
.....Mini To Do List Planner
.....Farmhouse Sticker Book
.....Everyday Basics Sticker Book
✳️ Comment as many times as you like!
✳️ Each comment is an entry! Example: you might want the Home Planner and the Farmhouse Sticker Book - comment twice to enter for both giveaways!
✳️ Tag a friend for an extra entry.
✳️ Share in stories for an extra entry.
✳️ I’m going to choose winners for all 5 prizes at random!
✳️ Winners will be chosen on Wednesday at 8:00
am CT. If you’re a winner I will tag you on the post and DM you - so check your messages! If I don’t hear from you within 24 hours, I will choose another winner!
✳️ Once winners have accepted I will close comments.
✳️ US entries only
✳️ This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram.
🎀 Good luck!!! I can’t wait to put these in your hands!

#recollectionsplanners #recollectionsplanner
would you like to see more? Catch up with Jen on Instagram

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