Since
this is the week of Halloween I am just kind of using a general
Halloween theme for my plan with me. I had purchased a bunch of the
Darice sticker books in different Halloween themes and hadn't really
used them very much so I decided to depend on them for the décor
this week. I have to say I am not really all that happy with the end
result but maybe by the end of the week I will like it more.
Also
since this is the last week for the October colors I wanted to use up
the extra stickers I had made this month. I hated to see them just
sitting there not being used. Mostly I had the full check boxes left
and I like how that part came together. I debated a lot about whether
I should make a couple of green ones to tie the green from some of
the stickers in better but in the end I didn't. I still am not sure
if it would have been better or not if I had.
I
did make some full box decorative boxes since I had used up most of
those and I like to use them. I got to use a few different designs
that had come in my batch of digital paper I had purchased as well as
I got to use some of my favorites again.
This
is my 4th week using the dinner tracker in my planner and
even though I never thought I would like it, I have to say I love it!
I use it mainly as a record of what we had for dinner and I only list
the main dish but I love to be able to look back and see when we ate
different things. I have also found I am using up the leftovers a lot
better because a quick glance at my planner reminds me of what we ate
so I can remember if I have leftovers to eat at lunch time. It will
also come in handy when my son starts in with his “you haven't
made____ in a long time” I can now say when we did have that.
I
am really enjoying the making of the stickers a lot for my planner.
I am slowly finding myself understanding my Cricut a lot better. I am
not to the point where I want to do any videos with it yet although,
I am going to do some card making videos using items I have cut on
it. I think the two main problems I am still having are my slow
internet speeds where I live and for some reason the Cricut and my
printer don't seem to communicate very well.
I
think as far as making the stickers goes though I am developing my
own style and I love putting together my weeks. It is just so much
fun to do.
Now
onto the deocor for this week. I am just not sure how I feel about
it. I love looking at all the cute stickers in the Darice sticker
books but I am just not sure how I like them in my planner. I did a
week in August and I liked it a lot better. Maybe it is just I don't
like the Halloween ones in my planner. One problem I ran into was
finding stickers that would even fit. All the ones I really liked
were way too big to go in the planner. Also the colored backgrounds
were a problem for me. Especially since several of the ones I ended
up using were on a turquoise background, they just don't fit in since
that color is no where else. But, I just didn't see what I wanted on
the other pages.
I
am going to really concentrate on making the sticker books work next
month. I have 4 of the Thanksgiving theme ones and I am going to use
one book per week. This time I am going to be making the rest of the
stickers to go with the backgrounds so I can see if it works better
that way. Also I think the backgrounds in those books work better for
the colors I am comfortable using.
Thank
you for reading my rambling blog post today, I think I should have
gotten more coffee this morning before I tried to write but I am
trying to get everything uploaded. Hopefully, you made it through the
post so you can look at these photos of my planner pages.
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