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Planner Peace in Paradise: A Year in Review

A very interesting journey began for me in April.  I started a bullet journal in a composition book pictured in the bottom left corner.  By August I was ready for the real thing and moved into the A5 size Pentalic Sketch dot grid.  In November I expanded and changed to add an A4 Pentalic sketch dot grid.  The evolution has been substantial......


I had lots of supplies and I thought I had arrived at planner peace after 5 months...who was I kidding?


This is where I am in a homemade 40 cent planner/padfolio turned rogue traveler's notebook.  Its too big.  I want something smaller, a pocket size with wallet insert, perhaps......


Now to decide where to get it.  So far I have looked at Galen Leather, Sunday Leather Craft and Chic Sparrow.  They are all beautiful and I am having a very tough time pulling the trigger and making an order.

For the rest of the year I have had 2....the A4 I walk around with that contains my day to day, weeklies and wallet and the A5 I am using for collections and other long term goals and spreads.

It is so much fun to embrace my inner child with coloring and play.....stay tuned as we l.e.a.p. into 2018.

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