60. Becoming a planner.

3/5/2016 4:59PM

In case you didn't know, one of my 2016 goals is to be more organised. Hence, I created my very own kind of planner. In January 2016, I began designing the planner book and printed it at ePubli. The design of the planner is hugely inspired by Dear Maison Diary. Having no prior knowledge of Adobe InDesign, I tried creating the weekly & monthly pages by using Microsoft Word. But the feature on Microsoft Word wasn't that satisfying so I watch several YouTube videos on how to use InDesign to make a magazine, book etc. So I did! Combining my never-improve Photoshop skills & basic InDesign skills, I had completed the design process of my planner. All photos in the planner are taken and edited with several apps by me. Here's a sneak peek of my 2016 planner.

Monthly page

Yearly Plan page

Weekly page

Contact page

Notes page

Last page

I put inspirational quotes and Quran verse at the bottom of every weekly page. I also have a bucket list page where I list down all things that I want to achieve this year which among them include be more organised, learn modern calligraphy and brush lettering, discover Wales, hired for a part-time job and much more. I don't have the exact photo of the finished product (I somehow lost the pictures and just don't feel like taking another picture of it)

Fast forward to the end of April 2016, I was tempted to buy a 'real' planner like the Filofax and Erin Condren Life Planner. After few days of research (hahaha), I decided to buy a personal planner from PaperChase. So, on the 30th of April, I went to PaperChase store to buy the planner. I spend quite a lot of money there when I actually planned to buy A PLANNER ONLY but ended up buying other stuffs.

Some stuff that I bought that day & the white book is the planner that I made

first attempt to decorate my 1st week of May

there's really nothing to fill because I have examination event, hence no event

Starter pack.

Recycling this beautiful box from T2Tea to store my washi tapes and stamps

Some stickers and you can see that I work on a messy table >.<

I created another Instagram account for "my road to become a #planneraddict." You can find me at Instagram under username @naybeegation