And the search for the perfect planner continues...

Yes, I know it's the middle of 2012... and yes, I know that half the year is over and the world is supposedly coming to an end in December... so why would I be looking for a planner when the Underworld has set a date with me on December 21st? Because I'm obsessed with them!! Maybe I can help organize the torture schedule "down there". Hopefully the Mayan's were wrong and I can continue to live in "stationary" bliss ;) 


My obsession with planners and organizers is downright ridiculous... Every year (and sometime twice or thrice a year) I purchase one for the very same reason everyone else does... because I feel unorganized without it. 


Even though this is the digital era, I still LOVE the expression of the written word, the smell and feel of ink on paper, the ability to doodle, scratch out, filigree, decorate with different colors, itemize, check off, and savor the thoughtfulness of handwritten notes when everything else today relies on a keyboard... I did warn you I was obsessed :)


Alas, at least I had good intentions. Every year I purchased a planner with promises to put them in good use... but as the days/weeks went by, it slowly was forgotten and disappeared into the shelves of my brain (and the literal shelves in my room). 


From Franklin Covey, to DayRunner, to the little cheap, pretty ones, nothing quenched my thirst as I always find something lacking in each. Sometimes I wished I could take the best from each and create my own, perfect version of it...


The creative scrapbooker in me sees potential in everything... my pulse quickens and my heart skips a beat when I see pretty paper and wonder how it can be put to use... I always wanted my perfect planner to be pretty, yet functional, something that would motivate me to be organized. And so, in 2008, my quest gave rise to my first handmade planner :D

Complete with tabs for the months of the year–along with other categories I needed–to a handmade bookmark, personalized cover, and personalized insert pages, my search was finally at an end. 

Soon after, I made a journal for my best friend, taking in her thoughts about what she wanted in it... ample pages to write her poetry, sectioning off journaling and other doodle pages, but personalizing it to her tastes.

Even though I loved making my own planner, it was a tedious process and one I wasn't planning on repeating anytime soon. And so the years passed... and here I am back to being tired of my bought-planner and searching again for the perfect one...


But honestly, I thought, what better way to get what I want than to MAKE what I want? Would you want one that is so unique and personalized that you can be assured no other person has it but you, something that is hand made with love and care? After getting requests to design  planners for individuals, I think the time has come to push ahead and make it happen!


Stay tuned for my next post!! Till then, live, laugh and love :)