Family Pictures 2015

I love taking family pictures and it is something I am going to try and do every year. It's fun looking back and see how we have grown. Of course the big change this year is that we are parents now! It feels like a role that we were always supposed to have. Anyway enjoy my cute family cause I sure love them!

XO
Caitlin

Filofax Appearances in Movies and TV Shows

I am really excited about this post. I got the idea from one of the planner Facebook groups that I am in. Everyone knows by now how much I love my planner. Before I was using an Erin Condren Life Planner but I recently switched over to a Filofax Malden. The reason I switched was my Erin Condren was just to big to fit into my diaper bag and the Malden has enough pockets that the planner acts as my wallet as well, so that way I have it on me all the time. I am loving the fact that I can customize it, and have discovered Danielle's inserts over at Sew Much Crafting which has made my life so much easier. Her inserts are affordable and she prints them herself and sends them to you already punched and ready to go.
Filofax has been around for ages and over the years there have been a few TV shows/ movies that the planners have made an appearance.

 

 The first one I love is from the movie 27 dresses. This is Jane's planner. She is obsessed with it, and leaves it in the back seat of the taxi cab she uses in the first 20 minutes of the movie. A guy finds her planner and  decides to schedule him self in. This would make me mad, as it does her and the rest of the movie is just cute. You should definitely watch it. On a side note I am dying to know what other things she stuffs in her planner.

 

Another planner appearance. See on Pam's desk over by Jim the green book? Well that is a filofax! You see it in a few episodes here and there but it makes me happy!

 

When researching for this post I shouldn't have been surprised that type A personality Leslie Knope would have a planner in Parks and Recreation. I mean she is so organized all the time and is always taking projects to the next level so a planner would have to be part of her daily life. See that red book her hand is resting on, yep another filofax! Looks like an A5 size.

 

This is a new show on Netflix I have started watching that is really cute. It's called Jane the Virgin. She is an avid planner and you see her Daytimer in quite a few scenes. She doesn't use a filofax but a day timer has the same qualities. 

 

This quote speaks to me! This is from a movie called New York Minute. I really want to see it since one of the twins (sorry I can't tell them apart) character is based off being organized and always has her planner "nerd book" with her.

 

This is the Lake House with Sandra Bullock. In this scene she is holding her red planner while checking the infamous mail box for a letter.

 

This is the movie Taking care of Business. It's based entirely off of this executive loosing his Filofax and trying to find it. 

 

Tina Fey in 30 rock carrying her planner on set. 

Now a few honorary mentions. I am not sure on these movies/ TV shows if the characters actually have a planner on them.

 

Anne Hathaway in the Devil Wears Prada.  Her desk seems like it would have some sort of calendar on it. I mean the whole movie is based around her being a secretary to a fashion magazine editor so she would have to be organized.

 

Regina's desk in Once Upon A Time. The Evil Queen and mayor of Storybook, Maine probably has a calendar on her desk that has all of her evil doings in it, I don't know but she seems pretty organized to me.

 

Jane's character in Thor is someone who would most likely have a calendar. She does carry around a moleskin type notebook through out the movie that hosts her research and Thor even retrieves it from Shield for her. 

Just a few mentions of planners in movies but I love it because most of these characters I can relate to. Do you know of any other scenes I didn't mention where they have a planner? Leave it in the comments below!

XO

Caitlin

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Updates

The month just gets away from you! It's crazy! Last week we had the cold go through our house. It started with Zack, then I got it and then the baby got it. She just had a runny nose (thank goodness) so it seems to be better now. Then this week my sister got married and we had a busy day with that. Anyway, life just happens and I don't keep up with my blog very much.
Claire is 3 months old now. She is the cutest baby around. She sleeps 10 hours at night (I know I'm so lucky!), she is such a champ at eating and is just a happy baby to be around. She is loved by so many people and it makes me so happy to have that for her.
Zack is the best dad around and is so cute with her, I never imagined he would be this good of a dad but he is and I got so lucky to have him. I will be posting more this week, in between going to two Thanksgiving dinners, and decorating our house for Christmas it will be a busy week but well worth it.
XO
Caitlin
 Follow my Instagram for lots of pictures of the baby, there is a link to it in the upper right hand corner of the blog.

Monthly Planner Round up

I wanted to give you guys a quick update on my planning system right now. I have been using my Erin Condren Life Planner (the new 2015-2016 one that I got in June to replace my hold 2014-2015 one) since August now and I have been loving it. I finally have figured out what planning style works best for me and I do a mix of both functional and decorative planning. Functional planning is when you use stickers to mark events that are happening throughout the week. For example, I use a clean house sticker on the days that I am cleaning my house. I use a party sticker to indicate when there are parties happening. I use a grocery bag sticker to mark when I go grocery shopping.. You get the point. Decorative planning is when you use scrapbook stickers/ fun stickers to decorate your planner. I love the Darice books from Michael's that you get for $1.00. I have a lot of them and its fun to use one book for the entire weeks spread. For Halloween I had to use the same Darice sticker book for 2 weekly spreads because I didn't get out to Michael's in time to pick up a new Halloween book. I have a lot of the Darice books for Thanksgiving though so I am excited to post my monthly planner round up next month. Anyway here is a snapshot of all my spreads in my planner since August. I will link all etsy shops that I purchase stickers from down below so you can go check them out. Leave any questions you have in the comments.

This is a dashboard I made with sticky notes I had on hand. They are almost all used up so when I have used them I will throw this dashboard away and create a new one. 

This dashboard is the one from Erin Condren and these sticky notes are really sticky. I use them for pre-planning my weeks which I will show you in another post. 

The first week in August I started using my planner again. 

The second week in August I went with a purple theme. I thought it went really well with the yellow color and I still do. I love marking Zack's traveling days with the airplane washi, its so cute.

This was the week Claire was born! She was born on Saturday August, 22 and I really had no idea she would come that day so I was just planning like a normal week. I even had a Dr's appointment the day before she came and I thought that I would at least go another week or two. 

The week after Claire came. As you can tell no planning happened whatsoever and I just enjoyed time with my sweet baby. 

Harry Potter week. If you don't know why I would decorate this week Harry Potter then we can't be friends. Just kidding. We can, just go read Harry Potter or watch the movie to find out. 

A fun fall inspired week, I mostly used fall colors and some fun fall stickers. 

This week I am embarrassed to put up here. Seriously it was terrible decorating on my part but it was melon days in Green River, Utah and so I tried to go with a pink and green theme but that didn't work out. 

A pretty minimal week as I was still trying to juggle my new role of being a stay at home mom. 

John and Ashlee's wedding week. John is my husbands brother and their wedding colors were blue purple so I decorated this week based off of that. It was fun mixing up the fall colors. 

Just another fall week, pretty simple but busy. 

This week I tried to do more decorating with scrapbook paper but I didn't really like how it turned out. I mean it was okay but I definitely prefer not to use the scrapbook paper. 

The week before Halloween. It was fun using these festive stickers. 

The week of Halloween. It was actually a really busy week for me but that's okay it was really fun. 

And the current week coming up. I just started this week today so at the end of November I will post the finished spread here, it is a woodland animals theme and they are just so cute I love it. It makes me want to open my planner up every day and use it. 

The notes pages in the back of my planner. I have a favorite meals list on the left and a meals to try on the write. These help me so much when I am meal planning so I know what to plan out for the week. 

books to read list

Daily Routine List

Morning and Evening routine list

and this is how I have my pen attached to my planner. I stick the pen holder on the keep it together folder so I can switch out my covers of the planner if I want to. The pen is a crown pen I bought off amazon and it writes really really well. 

Crown Pen: http://www.amazon.com/ONOR-Tech-Lovely-Design-Ballpoint-School/dp/B00KV78M7U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446512784&sr=8-1&keywords=crown+pen

Etsy Shops I love

Oh Hello Stationary: www.ohhelloco.com

Lillie Henry: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LillieHenry

Two Little Bees: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwoLilBeesCo

Marebearcrafts:https://www.etsy.com/shop/MareBearCrafts

One Orange Snowflake: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OneOrangeSnowflake

For $10.00 off your first Erin Condren order use this link to create an account. You get $10.00 and I do to, and if I get enough credits I will be doing a giveway for the new year. https://www.erincondren.com/referral/invite/caitlinholladay0127-8974

I love planning and as you can see have definitely fallen down the rabbit hole into this community. It has been really fun and something I have truly enjoyed. 

XO

Caitlin