Control that Washi tape

I've tried various ways of organising my Washi tape and recently I tried again, after having researched how others tackled this problem. Here's one way of storing. I found that I wanted to keep taking the roll off the hangar so this way of storing would not do.

I settled on the cardboard roll way which is just a rolled up piece of thin card used as a tube to hold the different tapes.

This works a treat as I can easily take off the tape I need, not that I use the tape very often.

I really don't know why I bought some more from Lidl this morning. Yes I do - the spring flowers were calling to me. Roll on Spring and the warmer weather so I can use this tape to brighten up some pages.

Happy planning.

Do I decorate my Filofax?

Being more of a functional planner rather than a decorative one means my organiser looks rather boring. I have made a slight attempt to remedy this situation by adding a minimal autumnal look to my main planner. The ochre Malden lends itself really well to this season and I made a simple attempt at a fly leaf/dashboard and ring protector in seasonal colours.

On the back of the dashboard I stuck a cutting from a magazine. My place for stickers is on the facing page, marking off the months.

September is on its way and my monthly pages are just a list of dates with one line for writing. I'm rather wonky on this page!

A leafy notelet was stuck on my September divider and I may swap my black Pilot pen for an orange one. My goodness, I used Washi tape!

Notes are already in place about things to do in this month. The yellow note is from last year and my recurring monthly 'to dos' will eventually be written up in 'best'.

My dingle dangle is an ear-ring from my DD and is one which features a leaf which I thought was quite Autumnal. The feather isn't though!

Right, that's my decorating done for a while. Now back to the planning, organisation, lists, projects and Filofax hugging.

Happy planning

No Washi

I don't use Washi tape as part of my day to day planning but I do use it to disguise recycled Filofax pages or as and aid to making my own pages. Find them here and here. My latest buy was £1.28 for a pack of rainbow colours from Japan.

The box was rather squashed and it wasn't easy to get out each colour so I cut a side out and then stuck the other sides together with - wait for it - Washi!

Now I have a bright an colourful carrier and the tapes don't get lost.

Happy Planning.

Re-purposing old or out of date Calendar and Address Filofax pages

Firstly those multiplying diary pages. I recently bought a Filofax mini Finsbury which came with 2011 diary pages. I was about to relegate these to the scrap paper folder when I had a thought. I wonder when this yearly diary will come round again with the same days and dates. I compared it with my 2016 diary pages and was excited to note that the days and dates were exactly the same so I altered 2011 to 2016 with a black pen and now have an up to date diary in my mini. This made me think which other years were identical in days and dates so I looked it up on the great net and found this site.

Now that was funny, why wasn't 2011 exactly the same as 2016? The answer was that in between there are leap years. I was comparing the calendars in March when the days and dates lined up. If I compared them in January or February they wouldn't line up so my 2011 to 2016 calendars only match from March onwards. Not to worry, if I'd started in January I would have only had to alter 2 months of dates.

My easy answer for matching calendars is to just add 5 on to your old calendar year. The answer will give you a year that is compatible from March onwards or, if you want to be exact, go to the calendar matching site but here you could wait quite a while before your old calendar comes around again.

My easy answer is a compromise but would work if you are not too fussy.

eg.

1999 - 2004 - 2009 - 2013 - 2018

simple and no more throwing away old calendar pages.

Next those calendar pages or other pages of which you have no need. My answer to this is Washi tape. I'm not into decorating but if it saves wasting paper then I'm in. 

Below is a weekly page with the lettering just covered over in tape.

I made a To Do page using this method.

Here's an address page (These pages multiply like nobody's business.) 

which I've taped and white stickered over to make a Notes page.

There is hope for your old pages so give them a new lease of life and help avoid waste. Eventually these pages, once used and written over will either be archived or recycled in the compost or council paper waste.

Happy Planning

Wishy Washy

Old stop watch plastic containers just lend themselves to become ...

Washy holders for ...

Liddle Iddle decorative tape.

Even the packaging doesn't go to waste.

I covered the lettering with tape and ...

… made one of them into a note holder/page marker.

It's easily removable ready to be put on the next day. My page is decorated with one of the tapes as it's a celebration day today.

Can you see the page marker?

Let's celebrate February with my recycled month divider.

There's nothing wishy washy in this diary/planner.

Happy Planning.