Category: Home Organisation

Home Organisation

Sunny & Bright Crafts

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For me June and the other summer months brings lots of Birthdays and family celebrations.   Colourful brights will be my inspirations for gift wrapping.

Birthday

Brown kraft paper is always great to have on hand.  Online stores Amazon, Ebay and Hobby Craft have 3m rolls for as little as £3.30.  Some string, balloons and a gift tag and you have a wonderful wrapped parcel.

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Who doesn’t love a pom pom?  With a little bit more of free time on my hands over the last few months (I am sure you understand!) I have started knitting again and with that I have lots of little ends of wool in different colour.

Pinterest have some great videos on how to make pom poms, many a happy night to be had by creating mixed sizes and using the Pom Poms on top of you presents.

Pom Pom

Pom Pom Making

If you have any colourful wrapping ideas, let me know and happy wrapping.

Nikki x

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Planner Time

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Sunday well spent

I love this quote because to me it’s about starting the week off with a clear, organised, peaceful mind.  What helps me with this is using a planner.

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The amount of planners on the market is huge and some are so pretty with great motivational quotes, inspiring suggestions and have lots of creativity aspects.

My favourite brand so far is Create 365 The Happy Planner.  Last year I had the small version (Just Be Happy in picture above) but this year I went BIG!  I have one for my personal planning – blogging, holidays, house plans etc and then I have one for work.

I went with American Crafts Heidi Swapp Large Memory Planner with Gold Foil Stripes.  Its faux leather, with 12 month tabs, each tab is different with pretty floral designs, quotes etc and the handy thing is its has clear pockets at the front of every month.  For anyone who needs to keep receipts for accounting purposes this is a god send!

Work Planner

American Crafts Planner from Amazon            

                                                    

Its is delivered from America so takes a little bit longer than the normal Amazon shipping but it’s very functional.  It comes in other designs and including postage comes in around £20.

There are lots of add ons you can purchase also but for this planner, because I use it for work I keep it professional and quite simple.

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Now the real fun begins with my personal planner.

Last year I purchased a 365 Create Happy Planner for the 1st time and I loved it.  They are beautifully made and come with lots of stickers, bookmarks and there are lots of additional add ons you can purchase.

This year I went online searching for another planner and liked the look of the boxes which contain your planner, stickers, bookmarks and pen all together rather than buying separately.  However the only one I really liked the design of (as there is a lot of different designs) was from America (again!) and would take 1 month to arrive!!!  Could I wait that long?

The answer is yes and I am so pleased I did….look what arrived today

Home Planner

And when I open it all these goodies were inside

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The planner is the larger size (magazine size) but I love that for the house.  It has a handy envelope flap at the front for magazine slips, recipes that kind of thing and gorgeous colourful monthly dividers some floral and some with motivational quotes.  It also has a monthly sheet were you can write down what you are currently reading, watching, cooking, crafting etc.

The sweetest part is each month who can write what you are thankful for.

Planner Page

If you want to view the different version available ( I think this style is sold out) have a look on Amazon although there are other independent sellers in the UK.

365 Create Happy Planner from Amazon

You now know what I will be filling my time with this weekend, lots of writing, being creative with stickers and planning for the weeks ahead.

Happy planning everyone

Nikki x

 

Home Organisation

Its time to get organised…again

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So when January comes around I always feel the need to get organised.

Pinterest often provides me with inspiration, looking at all the organisaiton tips and pictures of fabulous organised homes.  Last year I set myself a target of getting some aspects of our home sorted and one of the big items I wanted to do was sort all my Christmas wrap, cards, birthday cards, wrapping paper, boxes and stationery supplies.

So I took inspiration from Pinterest and set up my own wrapping station – very american I know but its fantastic and what a pleasure it was to do all the Christmas present wrapping this year.

So this year I have set myself a goal of sorting 2 aspects of our home each month.

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  1. My Wardrobe – I actually do this every season so this is a good one to get me strarted.
  2. Make Up Drawer – As much as I love keeping an eye out for new products and testing them I do have a hard time in either throwing them away, passing them on to someone else or donating.  This will be a wonderful achievement.

I did it!  My wardrobe is done.  I sorted, purged, donated, cleaned, foldedand generally give everything a good tidy (I do love a bit of colour coded organisation).

That’s one off the list.

Wardrobe

Why dont you join me and get sorted in 2018?

If you need some more inspiration I can highly recommend a wonderful book called ‘The Complete Book of Home Organization’ by Toni Hammersley.

Toni has a blog called ‘A Bowl Full of Lemons’ which I love. Its full of great useful tips, lots of printables and its full of encouragement to tackle those sorting tasks. Check it out, you will want to subscribe just after one read!

Bowl Full of Lemons Blog

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The book is an extension of the blog and website. Its filled with beautiful images and lots of handy tips from small projects to bigger tasks its a great read and I have found it so useful to dip in and out of through the year.

I am feeling very accomplished, next task is my make up drawer, so I will keep you all posted on how it get on.

Leave me a comment on what you hope to start with, how you are getting on and of course some before and after photos would be great.