Creative Journal/Planner

I have shared with you how I am keeping my personal journal, with my "Fauxbonichi".
I have shared with you how I am keeping my home planner, with my "Day-Timer planner"
So today I thought I would share with you how I am keeping my Creative journal.
I used this same book last year, but it kind of took a backseat in my creative planning.
But when I look back to what I did do in here, I knew I wanted to add this to my planning set up for 2015.
If you take a good look, you can see I added tabs to the top for 2014 and also for 2015.

I used the 2015 Creative Calendar from Scrapbook & Cards Today.
I love this planner, as I had one last year as well.
Now how to combine both the calendar/planner pages into my planner.
I did this last year as well. If you want a closer look in how I did this, just click on the link here "My Creative Journal Altered".

Like I mentioned above, I just love the Scrapbook & Cards Today  planner and wanted to add it to my Creative planner.
Not only do I love the calendar, but I also love the blocks on the back of the pages…but I won't be showing that today, teehee.
Today I am showing you how I tweaked the Goals page up to suit my needs.

I wanted a page to record my Creative Goals for this year.
This page was perfect…well almost perfect ;)
The heading on the banners didn't suit my creative planning needs, so I had to alter them.

The prompts were:
Personal Goals
Things to do
Places to go

I was just going to use my label maker with the white tape to cover up the words.
Turns out, I used up the last of my white label tape on my other planners this weekend, teehee.
I went to my paper scraps file and found a pretty close match to the banners.

I then used my clear tape in my label maker and typed out my prompts.

They are:

Creative Goals

Monthly Challenges

New Techniques

I then started to fill in my Creative goals for 2015!!

I have been working in my planners and working on my goals in detail this weekend.
I have also worked on some time management, to better achieve these goals this year.
I will be sharing what and how I have been working towards them this week :)

Did you make goals this year?
If you did, did you organize your goals to make them more manageable so you can succeed with them?

I hope you all had a very Creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)

Happy Mail

I received some happy mail yesterday!!!
Now I know why so many people internet shop, its so fun to get happy mail.
I ordered these at the Crop & Create event.

I am so so excited to get my planners organized and ready for the new year.
This planner (which I had last year) is going to be dedicated to my creative ideas, challenges and and deadlines :)

I won a couple of e-cards from a challenge and as a winning.
Here is one of the reasons internet shopping isn't for me.
If I don't know what I want, I don't like shopping through photos.
Plus I have to click on supply categories and then the manufacturer….if you know me I really don't care about the brands.
Then I find something that I get excited about only to see it isn't in stock.
And lastly the most important of them all…I am a touchy person.
Yes I am a hugger as well, lol.

I wanted to finally use my e-cards before year end.
But one e-card didn't work, and the other e-card I needed to ask a question about shipping.
I left an email at both stores…no reply.
So I phoned both stores, no answer.
I did finally get replies from both stores…days later.
And they were both friendly and one of them went above what I expected.
But unless I am looking for something specific, internet shopping isn't for me.

Do you on-line shop?
What are the pros and cons for you?

I hope you all had a Creative Wednesday :)

Tracy :)