Weekly Spread ~ March 20 to 26, 2017

Hello friends,

It's Marie and yep we're starting another week! Can you believe that today is the first day of spring? I can't, the time has gone so fast. I don't know about your area, but here in New Jersey, USA; we did not get much snow this winter. A bummer as I love snow, however, that's how it goes. Soon we'll be seeing lush green grass and lots of pretty flowers popping up everywhere which is so awesome!

So this week's spread I chose a Disney kit The Aristocats and I'm sorry but I forget where I downloaded this, it is a freebie and once I find the blog I got this from, I'll be sure to post it for you.

It's a beautiful kit and it was a lot of fun using this kit. The first time I ever saw The Aristocats, was when I was 4 years old and visited my aunt in Philadelphia, PA (at that time I lived in Claysville PA). I loved this movie and as many of you know, I'm a HUGE cat lover!

So let's get to it!

So per usual, which is becoming part of my own style. I used a tan with white polka dot digital paper for my sidebar. Then used the cute quote box which says "Ladies Don't Start Fights, But The can Finish Them" Love it! Then I added in my med tracker from AHappyBlueTree, then my glitter tracker for something personal I'm working on, then my Meals box. I love tracking my dinners. Eventually, I'll be marking my breakfasts and lunches each day. Some days I don't eat breakfast or lunch due to my gastroparesis. But days that I do I want to mark it, I will be getting some cute stickers to mark it with. 

So each day I have my daily work checklist, I find this helps each day to check off these daily tasks. Although, I'm finding that I prefer the heart checklist flags, vs. the full boxes. So I'll be switching back to the heart checklist flags.

I'm also continuing to work on placing my basic stickers down on my weekly spreads throughout the year and each Monday I always mark a checklist that I've posted my weekly spread on FB groups, Instagram, and my blog.

On Tuesday, I noted that I have an Etsy order coming in and there are some more stickers on Etsy that I intend to get. Gosh, do I love sales! I'm still working on building up my basic icon sticker collection. For boxes, labels, etc. I use printable stickers and the majority of my kits are printable; however, there are some kits that I can get a la carte and those I'm going to get some full boxes and matching heart checklist flags and deco. So you'll be seeing a variety as the year progresses :)

Wednesday as promised I have a huge Etsy Haul and also a mini-Amazon haul that I'm going to be putting up on the blog. Lots of things coming ahead!

As the week progresses, on Thursday I have my daily cleaning. I intend to clean my bookshelf, my desk and I already organized my stickers, so I'll be cleaning my dresser instead. On Thursday, I used a cute paper due sticker for a review I have due to post on my Marie's Romantic Quill. I love reviewing books! Saturday it's back to planning and then Sunday I'm going to start keeping track of my weight again and also enjoy a nice day of reading! I have SO many books to read and many are for reviews but many are for pleasure too!

Oh also, you'll see this in the upcoming haul, but I got Glitter tape! eeek I'm So excited and I love it!! doesn't it look beautiful? Oh so sparkly!

Well I hope that everyone has an awesome week!

Happy Planning!
Marie

Weekly Spread ~ March 13 to 19 + Last Weeks Spread: March 6 - 12

Hi Friends,

I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, I was just down sick last week and didn't get the chance to blog about my weekly spread. I did, however, do a spread, so I will be showing that in a bit. First, let's get to this week's spread. I love St. Patrick's Day and what I love about it is beautiful lush greens and I love shamrocks! So both this week and last weeks spreads were St. Patrick's Day themed.

Here's the full spread in its entirety. I used a beautiful St. Patrick's Day kit from an Etsy shop known as Print Them All Studio and I'll link her shop below. She has printable kits for both Erin Condren and the Happy Planner. Her kits are amazing! I also have included several Dollar Tree St. Patrick's Day Stickers and I got some cute stickers from a new Etsy shop called A Happy Blue Tree. Their store is awesome and I'll be shopping again from them later this week. I'm working on starting a collection for my functional and icon stickers.   Yes, I love printable stickers, but I find for certain functional stickers and Icons, they aren't practical unless one has a cutting machine. 

Also, I'll be have some huge Etsy and Planner Hauls coming up over the next few days, so keep up with the blog and subscribe to be sure not to miss anything!

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So, this week I will be working a lot on my stickers, I'm going ahead and planning for the year and putting down the basics of my spreads, for example, the full boxes, washi, glitter headers etc. This is going to be a very busy year for me as I'm preparing to write and publish my debut novel and I'll be honest, there is SO much to learn about writing craft. So I've decided to take the time these coming months and basically start my own writing craft course and knuckle down and really master this in order to begin writing this fall. So it'll help me if I can prepare some of my spreads ahead of time and free up more time in my week to dedicate to my studying and writing.

So onward to last week's spread. I also used a St. Patrick's Day kit and this was a free downloadable from Cute Daisy, I'll link her site below as well.

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Originally I was planning to get involved with Camp NaNoWriMo in April; however, I've decided to hold off on that and that a go this coming July. Knowing me, I'll probably still give it a go if I can fit the writing time in and just wing it. Anyhow, I loved this kit and I especially love the Dollar Tree's St. Patrick's Day stickers, aren't they SO beautiful! 

Etsy Shops:

Print Them All Studio: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PrintThemAllStudio?ref=ss_profile

aHappyBlueTree: https://www.etsy.com/shop/aHappyBlueTree

Cute Daisy: www.cutedaisy.com


Well, thanks for stopping by friends and be sure to look for my Etsy and Planner Haul posts coming soon! Oh, my goodness did I get a lot of stuff! I'm so addicted to planning and planner materials, oh what fun! I hope all of you have a wonderful week and have a safe and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Love,
Marie

Weekly Spread ~ February 27 - March 5

Here is my weekly kit for February 27 - March 5th. I used a freebie I found on http://www.cutedaisy.com.  I loved this kit, it was so much fun to use. There really wasn't a lot of functional stickers for this kit; however, that's OK because I love glitter and since this kit had glitter in it, I pulled in a lot of my glitter functional stickers.  First I used a beautiful full mauve/deep pink glitter decorative page from https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheDigiRainbow. I absolutely love putting down full decorative paper now on my sidebar before adding my deco. It takes away the white spaces and ahh just looks so beautiful! So if you're interested in a paper like this, go check out TheDigiRainbow, she has tons of Digi papers!

So for my sidebar, I used a cute lil bear box from the Kit, then two glitter habit trackers to track some habits I'm keeping watch over. Then I used a To Read sticker and I didn't have a Dinners label, so I used the personal one, but I'm using this weekly box to track my dinners. I used to put my dinners in each day, but I think I'm going to be putting it on my sidebar from now on. Then I added some cute deco, I got these other bear and heart stickers from the Dollar Tree. Oh, how I love my dollar stores.

So for each day, I always start with my date covers. I love these glitter date covers, I'll find the site I got these from, they were a printable freebie. Of course my glitter headers for above the boxes, I used a darker rose color, a tan, and a lighter pink.  Then each day I set up my To Do list, which doesn't change that much, but some days it does. I use these awesome glitter check flags. I haven't yet used ombre heart full boxes, but I might be trying those down the road. Then each day in addition to my daily To Do's, I have my schedule all mapped out.

Let me explain a bit. OK during the month of April, I'm going to be participating in Camp Nanowrimo which is part of NaNoWriMo, and for those non-writers, NaNoWriMo is every November and it's basically National Writing Month and years ago a gentlemen and his buddies decided to write a 50,000 word full-length novel during the month of November and it took off. SO now it's a huge thing, whether you're a professional writer or just wanna give it a go, it's a lot of fun!
Here's the link in case any of you would like to learn more or participate.

NaNoWriMo: http://nanowrimo.org/

Camp NaNoWriMo: http://campnanowrimo.org/

So, ever since January 2016 I had this idea for a historical romance series come into my head and through this past year I've had surgery, tons of medical stuff and illness as well as work stuff too, that have occupied a lot of my time. However, I never gave up on writing this series and well with Camp Nano starting in a few weeks, I decided I'm going to be sitting down and finally writing the rough draft for Isabelle and Richard's story. It will most likely be over 100,000 words; however, at least 50,000 are getting written in April!

So getting back to my planner. I sat down this past weekend and went through all of my writing craft books and chose a few that I wanted to really review and utilize for my outlining process and getting prepared for Camp NaNo. I also have some books that I want to tackle this month too; yes, some are for reviews (I review for HarperCollins Publisher's) but also some are for my own research and just enjoyment. So if you'd like to learn more about it visit Marie's Romantic Quill to learn all about my writing and such. Also, I've sat down and created a Historical Topic list that I want to research and write about on my author blog every two weeks. So here's the link to my author blog:

Marie's Romantic Quill: http://mariegreavesromanticquill.blogspot.com/

So during the month of March, you will be seeing a lot of reading and study stickers down! So my month and this week, in particular, are going to be very busy! However, I love it!

So that's my weekly spread for this week and I had a lot of fun working on it. I hope all of you have a wonderful week and until next time, Happy Planning! :)

Oh yes, on a side note, I did not get last weeks spread posted because I was really sick. However, I will be getting that posted tomorrow for all of you!

March Monthly Spread ~ St. Patrick's Day Kit from goDIGIgo

This is my monthly spread for March. I used an adorable St. Patrick's Day kit from goDIGIgo on Etsy; I'll link their shop down below. I added some cute St. Patrick's Day decorative stickers from Dollar Tree and I'll be adding those in my upcoming weekly spreads in March as well.  I have a lot going in this March.

For my sidebar, I set up a goals list, a To Do list to add in any additional To Do's that come up and I also set up a To Buy list, as I know I'll be getting some more stickers from Etsy as well as other things I might need to buy this month.

This kit was a lot of fun and I can't wait for all the wonderful St. Patrick Day and green's of March coming up!

Hope everyone has a great month!

goDIGIgo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/goDIGIgo

Weekly Spread ~ February 13 - 19, 2017

This week I used a lovely Valentine’s Day kit from Futile’s Peregrenations, a French website. She offers some lovely free Happy Planner kits. Her Valentine’s Day kit can be found below!

http://futiles.eu/set-de-stickers-saint-valentin/

Due to some very bad back pain that I've been dealing with, I didn't get my journal page done. However, I'll be getting that done later today. I have a HUGE Etsy and Freebie Haul coming soon. I've been absolutely in love with glitter stickers and also Kawaii stickers; oh so cute! 

On my side bar, I have some pretty love birds deco and I kept the fancy "Notes" that was on the page and put down a heart check list, then my Meal Plan tracker and a personal habit tracker for something I'm working on. I added some pretty pink polka-dot washi from Michael's and some lovely deco. Some came from the kit and the little sparkly silver hearts came from the Dollar Tree.

I love adding in a cup of coffee at the top of Monday to get me energized to start my week. On Monday's I always post my planner weekly spread across social media, Instagram and here on my blog. I also have to make a phone call today and I have my daily duties that I partake in every morning for my work. Top if the list, of course is tending to my adorable cat, Cello and getting my coffee!

Here's a pic of my darling, Cello.

Every morning, he get's a little saucer of Cat Sip milk, that's specially designed for cats, as they are lactose intolerant and can't handle milk. Whilst, he's drinking his Ceam as we jokingly call it, I have my coffee :) Then it's off to work, where I do a lot of author promotions, blog tours and any editing that needs done. Also, I take time to pray daily and in the afternoon's, around 3pm I have Teatime and reading!

Tomorrow is Valentine's day, so I decorated my spread for that day, of course, I have my normal work. However, for dinner, my fiance and I are getting Chinese food and I'm going to be changing my meal sticker and putting in a cute Chinese take-out box sticker instead. Also, for the first portion of the week, I'll be working on cutting out and organizing my stickers. I found TONS more freebies and lots of Etsy stickers; so  huge Haul is coming soon!

Also, on the author front, I'm still working on re-vamping my writing craft course. I'm putting it officially into action starting March 1st, so I have lots to plan and prepare for! No slacking, this book WILL get written and published, no later than October 1st! Because NANO will be coming in November and all of October, I'll be preparing my NaNoWriMO plan and it's Get Ready, Set, Write, come November 1st! Lots ahead, my friends! Just a side note, I realized I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to have this book out like real fast and not realizing, hey ya gotta have a lot of this knowledge under your belt. To me it's not different than teaching, you can't walk into a classroom without a real strong foundation under you. So this is my version of Writing University and classes LOL Begin March 1st! I really want to put great work out there, yes, I have talent, but talent is only part of the equation.. ya gotta have the craft down pat!

Also, I love history and the Regency period and I'm going to be working on getting out bi-monthly Historical Articles for my blog Marie's Romantic Quill. Also, I'll be doing the same thing with bi-monthly Writing Craft articles. So essentially every week I'll be researching and posting in one of those to subject areas. In college, I fell in love with research and writing papers and yes I'm a geek and LOVE APA formatting, so that's how I"ll be approaching this History and Writing Craft project!

So these next two weeks will be focused on creating my schedule and here again, March 1st will begin the official posting of these articles!

Here is the second page of my weekly spread, and I've started a dusting schedule on every Thursday. I want to dust my dresser and night stand upstairs in my bedroom and dust both of my desks. I have my computer desk and my beautiful writing desk. I also, want to dust my book shelves. I may have to break these up throughout my day as I suffer severe back pain and fibromyalgia plus chronic nausea due to gastroparesis. However, I really want to strive to get these done every week. God give me the physical strength to endure! Then on Friday's I take the time to chose my stickers that go along with my weekly spread and this coming week, I will cut and put them all in a ziploc bag for on Saturday when I put the spread down and all together. I absolutely LOVE decorating my planner, I wish I'd found this years ago, what fun!

Sunday is my future Mother-In-Law's birthday, we are planning a very special dinner for her and we've got a lovely gift and card for her. We got her a CD (shhhhh can't tell her! ;) of one of her favorite singers. Then Sunday is a day where I rest a lot and do some reading as well as watching Plan With Me Videos, yes, I'm addicted! Oh Yes, of course I'm going to be creating my reading list for March soon. I have SO many books to read and so little time!! But I do have some reviews coming up in March, so I'm dedicated to those books!

One of my FAVORITE things about this spread, si the Typewriter full box. I LOVE it! I miss the days of using a typewriter, that awesome classic tick tick sound! I used a typewriter back in College and gosh back then was when I'd started my first full-length novel. It was about a young new doctor who began resuming piano lessons, she'd taken them as a child, but gave them up in her young adult years in order to focus on med school. Well the young dashingly handsome piano teacher, who is currently finishing up his Doctorate in music, well you can imagine, they both begin to fall madly in love. However, he gets a professorship job in another state and she's at her dream hospital, can their love prevail and will they remain or will their deep passions for their work, overtake the love they have for one another? Perhaps one day, I'll return to that book and finish it. But I remember the long hours in the night clicking away at that typewriter as the words flew across the page. How I'd love to find that story again and see how different my writing style is now from then! 

So my friends, lots to come this week! I hope all of you have lots of Happy Planing and a Wonderful Valentine's Day!

Etsy Shop Spotlight ~ ThatMomOverThere +20% Discount Code :)

Hi Friends,

I'd love to share with a wonderful shop that I recently found on Etsy. It is called ThatMomOverThere and it's run by a wonderful lady; M. Christiana.

I've fallen in love with her printable glitter kits. As many of you know I'm in love with everything glitter. Well she has these wonderful kits, that include a ton of functional stickers to decorate and use in your planner. She has a variety of color schemes with cute names like, "Harry Potter", I really love these kits and am in the process of printing them all out and organizing them in my sticker binder. I recently used some of them in this week's spread.

Here's a pic of some of the glitter sticker's I've recently purchased and printed out. 

She also has some other wonderful pattern kits as well, I definitely intend to get all of these! So I highly recommend her shop and her items, they are wonderful! 

She also has so generously given a code for all of you to get a 20% discount. So check out her site and code information below! Thanks M. Christiana, I LOVE your shop!

ThatMomOverThere shop information:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThatMomOverThere

Coupon Code: PLANWMARIE for 20% off, no minimum or exclusions

Etsy Shop Spotlight

HI Friends,

Something new I'm starting on my blog is an Etsy Shop Spotlight! There are so many wonderful shops out there on Etsy and many of these ladies are either stay-at-home-mom's or working full-time jobs and running their shops. These ladies are very busy and many of them are so very generous to their customers and to the planning community, with wonderful sales and such. So I would like to spotlight a different shop each week and honor them! If I get any coupon codes from the shops for all of you, I'll share! So let's give these shops a big round of applause and while you're at it, stop on in and consider purchasing something!