My mini move

Hey everyone.

With all of the drama with Filofax and their "issues" I began to have planner fail.
I won't entirely blame Filofax, but I began to wonder whether I should continue to support a company that functions the way it does.

So I began to experiment.
To cut a long story short (which may well be a blogpost in the future) I have decided to downsize, to, wait for it.............................Mini.

**Gasp**

Yes I am moving to my baby Filofax the Mini Lyndhurst. This is my baby for two reasons. One it's a mini of course, and two, its the first Filofax I bought.

So I thought I would give you a quick tour of the set up. It's not very detailed as I've only moved over completely this morning.

So here he is.








I have decided to stick with my little to do post it's dashboard at the front as they are very handy.








I'm using week to view at the moment. I may purchase a German cotton cream ruled for 2013 if I stick with it. I'm using little dot stickers for colour coding as I can't fit my multi pen in there. It should also help to find when people are doing things as well.




There isn't really much happening behind the tabs at the minute. Just the usual stuff I have in other Filofaxes.




I have two clear pockets at the back for holding random bits etc.




Then I have my little red riding hood zipped holder that has also featured in other Filofax set ups of mine. I use this for money.




I'm keeping notes in the back of this for the time being. This may change, and they may end up in the front pocket. In the back pocket I have some stickers for colour coding, and vouchers. I'm also using my Filofax pen.




So there we have a quick tour of my mini set up.

:)

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The search for the perfect zipped Filofax.

Hi everyone. I know I've been terrible for my lack of blogging lately. But I've been busy with uni deadlines and now I'm poorly.
Anyhow. Iv been on the search for the perfect zipped Filofax. I had Lyndy the personal lyndhurst. See here for Lyndy

Now I love Lyndy, he is such a soft leather he's just gorgeous. But he doesn't have an inside zip pocket for money. And as I use my Filofax for EVERYTHING, this wasn't working.
so I tried the personal Cuban zip in saddle brown.


This had an inside zip pocket.



But unfortunately I couldn't get along with him. He was to rigid, and I struggled to get money out from the pocket.
So I went back to Lyndy and kept an eye out for another one that would make me happy.
Then one day on eBay I saw this.



It was a Roxy organizer by Quiksilver. Now I love Roxy stuff so kept an eye on it.
£5.20 later (including £2.59 postage) she was mine.
On the left inside cover we have a clear horizontal pocket and two more above it, and a wide vertical pocket.


On the back cover there is a large zip compartment, an elasticated pen holder and a large vertical pocket behind the zipped compartment.





So the question is, have I found my perfect zipped Filofax???? Well it's not quite a Filofax per se. But it's close enough for me, and it's perfect. :)




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My new dividers for Lyndy the Lyndhurst.

Since I moved over to the personal lyndhurst I decided I needed to make him some new dividers.
I bought some paper from Staples today that I thought was fab.



These were the four sheets I was going to use.


As well as this one that I made last week.



I bought some index stickers from paperchase with owls on them. They are awesome.



This is the final result.









Aren't they sweet peeking over the top.

:)

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The move into Lyndy the lyndhurst. Part one

So I have made the decision to move into the personal Lyndhurst for three reasons.
1. I love it.
2. I read a blog last night about a zipped filofax.
3. I wanted to make a Christmas section to organise everything. I couldn't do this properly in a pocket.

So this is part 1, which looks at my Christmas section.

Page 1 is my Christmas present list. All the presents I buy or intend to buy go on this page.



Presents get written next to the name, then there are three boxes to cross off.


Bought, wrapped and dispatched.
Under that we have the photo frame section. I intend on buying close family members a photo frame and printing off a photo we had done of the girls as a present from them.



These are the boxes for bought and done to cross off.

Page 2 is my list of Christmas cards that I specifically buy for family. They can have a line through when bought (as I have bought some and forgot others). Then crossed off when written and when dispatched.


Underneath that I have a to do list with reminders of what I need to do with certain cards and when I've written them.

On page 3 I have my Christmas card list.


This will be to write down who I need to write cards for and cross off as I go along.

Page 4 is my shopping list.


This is for things I need to buy for Christmas. I.e turkey, crackers etc.
Page 5 is my list of presents for Lis and Esmé.



I often lose track of what I buy them do this is a good reminder.



This page has boxes to cross off when I have bought the present, and then when I have wrapped them.

Coming soon will be my lyndhurst set up part two. Hope you enjoyed my Christmas planning!!

:)

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My Lyndhurst eBay bargain

For many years I used a mini zipped Lyndhurst, and was wondering whether to try out a bigger size as the mini was to small to write all of my lecture in.
On Sunday night I was lucky enough to win a personal Lyndhurst for £10.50.
It was described as follows.









Well it arrived today in the post!!
It was wrapped in lovely pink paper.



And inside was a lovely little card.






I thought that was really sweet.

Inside were the blue and grey 1-6 inserts as seen in the eBay photo, to do sheets, lots of white ruled paper, lots of address sheets, and blue and grey A-Z dividers.
To my surprise the was also a Filofax personal hole punch and calculator.



There are obviously a few marks on the outside of the Filofax, but it was to be expected.
I am very pleased with my purchase and very tempted to try him out soon.

Thank you for reading.
:)


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