Filofax Accessories

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I have added some stationary to my Pen Organiser this week, not that it really needed anything, but it's always good to have a few more bits and bobs floating about, especially if it enhances the look of your Filofax. 

The white rectangle stickers are from Ryman, I wanted these to cover the A-Z tabs on the Filofax divider tabs...they worked wonderfully.
 

 
The Union Jack To Do Lists are from Staples, it is slightly bigger than A5 but I can easy cut a little from the top.
The Arrow Labels are from Wilkinson's, the arrow part is sticky, am sure I will find these useful too.

The Eco-Friendly writing pads are also from Staples and they come with no pre-punched holes. I spent last night punching holes in the margins, I think this is going to be a very good cheap alternative to Filofax paper.
Paper clips are also from Wilkinson's.

 



Washi tape, I got this from e-bay for a very good price of £1.69 per roll and only 70p p&p for any quantity.   I've seen lots of people use it in their Filofax, so thought it was time to try it. Not sure I'm that keen on it though to be honest!
 
Martha Stewart Removable Labels, not sure what I will use these for, but you get 100 in a pack so I'm bound to find something I can use them for in my Filofax.
 

 

 

Finally, I have to show you these wonderful pockets with Divider tabs attached.  I got them from Staples from the Martha Stewart range, you get 5 in a pack for less than fiver. 

 



What is so great about these pockets are they are removable. I have stuck this one on the back of a A5 Filofax Clear pocket, but I can move it around to wherever I need it. 

 



 

So all in all, I've had a pretty good week regarding my Stationary finds.

 

 

P.S.Just want to apologise about the photo sizes in this blog, I have no idea why, but Blogger would not let me resize any of the photos this evening.  Hope you still enjoy! x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







30 Days of Lists Filofax

Hey everyone

Am sure by now you will have heard of Imy & Kate's Facebook group, 30 Days of Lists.  Every month a selected person will produce a list of 30 or 31 topics for us to write about.  This is open to all Philofaxy users and gives some of us, another excuse to get a Filofax. lol

So the big question is, which Filofax are you going to use for this project?

First I was going to use my daily Personal Holborn, but it's heavy enough in my handbag without adding more pages, so I decided to use my A5 Finchley.....I am really loving this Filofax right now, it's so soft and supple but firm at the same time.  I am using it as my 365 Day Journal at the moment and I think, I can just about squeeze a few more pages in there.  The pretty divider on the left is a home made divider to separate the Journal from the Lists.

I've printed the September List onto card and added a September sticker (similar to the ones I made here ) to the tab.  Hopefully you can see the list, but if you can't, you can find it on the Facebook page.

Next question was, do I use a full page for each day?  Well that would be ideal but the A5 Finchley only comes with 25mm rings and they are pretty full up all ready, I really needed to keep this to a minimum, so I created this layout, I can now get 4 days to a sheet instead of 2.

I don't use stickers that much in my Filofax, even though I have a small mountain of them, so I thought, this is a fun project, why not add some fun stickers!  Notice I haven't put numbers down the sides of the paper, this is so I can use different styles styles, ie..huge bubble letters if the list is small or tiny writing if the list is longer, maybe even use different pens, ie...chunky felt tips, crayons or even water colour paints....who knows!

Really looking forward to getting started with this now though.....and I would love to see what Filofax you are using and what ideas you have come up with to write your own lists!

Filofax Video Blogging!

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OMG!   I watch loads and loads of video Blogs about Filofaxes and would love to do one myself.  Today the house was quiet, no one was around so I thought I would give it a try!  Lordy be!  It's not as easy as it looks, how you guys make it look good is beyond me!!! 

Holding the camera straight while handling the Filofax and talking at the same time.....that is going to take some practice! 

Also, thinking of something to talk about without umming, ahhhing and saying er..... all the time is again, not easy.

So after a minute or so I stopped.  I was also very worried about my accent, I live about 25 miles from Newcastle Upon Tyne, so people think I have a "Geordie" accent.....except the Geordies who can't actually work out where I'm from. lol

So I've uploaded it just to....I dunno....ease my way into Video blogging.  But I am going to have to have a script or some more confidence or whatever before I dare attempt another. lol

Any advice on how to do this would be so much appreciated!

Pen Organiser & Filofaxing

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Let me introduce you to my Pen Case! It's really a plastic handbag organiser I bought from the Pound shop, I cut the handles off and use it as my pen organiser.  It holds absolutely loads.

On an evening I like to relax by pulling all my Filofaxes out.  I have the TV on in the background so I can half listen to whatever is on, and my Filofax Box is there right next to me.  Well it's not really a box, it's a Pilot's Brief Case

But inside, it holds a good few Filofaxes and keeps them well protected.  In this, I have some of my A5's:
Holborn Zip - unused at the moment, 
2 Chameleons - my Blog Filofax and Goddess Workbook. 
Black Holborn - I'm using as a memory journal.
Imperial Purple Finchley - I'm using as the 356 day Journal. 
2 Maldens - the Ochre one is my household planner.
The Purple Malden is my Spiritual Filofax.

With that many Journals and workbooks, I go through a selection of pens, so rather than stuff each and every Filofax with pens I have my pen holder in front of me.

In this section, I keep my "fancier" pens, and pens that have more than one colour in them. I also have a craft knife here in case I need to cut anything.

This section, I keep Pencils, erasers, correction tape and my favourite poem bookmark.

Next section is my hole punch, glue, another eraser and scissors.

Finally, I have highlighters and fine liners...though the fine liners write beautifully, they bleed through Filofax paper something awful.

The middle holds a fair amount too, in here I have gel pens in every colour imaginable and some coloured pencils.  Also have stickers and tabs, sticky tape, paper clips and a pencil case with Frixion pens in.



Some Magnetic page clips, antacid tablets, spare hole punch, paper clips and spare Rulers.

Stickers, tabs, Filofax catalogue and quick address book





My daily Personal Holborn sits on top of the bag at the end of the day ready for me to update it.

                                     

When I've finished with it all, it all tucks nicely behind my sofa out of sight....well almost. lol

So this has worked well for me for the past few months now, no having to search through pencil cases etc and everything is within easy reach.

365 Day Filofax Journal

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I recently came across a blog from Tami Taylor about keeping a Five Year Journal. She prints a list of questions every month for you to work on, just one a day.  Tami does this on index cards....but as a Filofax user...this is another great excuse for a new Filofax.  So my Filofax this time is, the beautiful A5 Imperial Purple Finchley. At £125 this one doesn't come cheap.....unless you find a used one on e-bay OR contact The Filofax Shop in Neal Street, London and get a bargain (like I did) for £40.

The Finchley is a beautiful Filofax, it feels heavenly and the colour is rich, only downside is the 25mm rings. I would love this to have had 30mm ones.  But look at how flat it lies!

So inside, I have kept it clutter free. The red card insert is from the journal cover I used, to make the Filofax paper I did here. It is only there so I can rest on it whilst writing. As you can see, I am using the 25mm rings to the maximum.

Under the flyleaf, is a yearly calendar I designed. Most yearly calendars have the months down the left hand side, I wanted days of the week in that place instead.  I haven't started the journal yet, but once I do, I will mark off each day with a highlighter so I know what days I've completed.

I went onto Tami's Blog and printed off the questions.  So far, there's only January to August, but she adds the following month's questions around the middle of the previous month, so September is due any day! I decided to print the questions out on patterned paper, but to be honest, I'm not sure I like this format.  I was going to add tabs to them with the months written on and use them as dividers but decided against it.

                 

Next I had to make the pages, in hindsight, it would of being so much easier printing these pages on plain paper and punching the holes to fit the Filofax. Drawing the separation lines and writing in the years, took me the best part of two days and four A5 White Ruled Notepads

On the very top line, I write the daily question.  We haven't been given the October questions yet so I wrote one with a Frixion pen (so I can erase it later), to show you what it would look like.  I used this date for obvious reasons. lol  So you can see how this journal is going to work, I can imagine each answer for the same question will be different every year.

I've added divider tabs using Avery stickers, using the same format I did in my Homemade Label Blog.

So now I am really looking forward to using it!  Even though we are 8 months into this year, I am still going to go back and try and answer the questions from the previous months, using notes from my daily dairy/journal.

Thank You Filofax Readers

OMG!!!  I can't quite believe it, but sometime during the night on Sunday12 August 2012, my blog hit 10,000 hits.  I'm so surprised and very happy, that it's been looked at that many times!  It's not bad since I only started it a couple of months ago, I was so apprehensive thinking no one would want to read anything I wrote.

Thank you, to each and every one of you who has read or reads what I have wrote, it means a great deal to me and gives me the encouragement to carry on blogging about my beloved Filofax.

Just going to add some random pics of my Filofaxs that I have taken over the last 2 years since I started using them.

Thank you all  again and if you do read my blog, why not become a follower, I follow dozens of blogs and if I see your name there, I'll follow yours too. xxx

Fancy Filofax Papers

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It seems we are always looking for some nicer, prettier, cheaper or just different papers to go into our Filofax.  I tend to look at ready made journals and see if I can pull them apart to make them fit into my own Filofax.  I've tried the spiral bound ones and if you slice off the hole side and re punch new holes, they don't look so bad, but if you have to add the new holes  on top of the holes that are already there...well the results are not so good.
Yesterday, while out shopping in John Lewis, I came across these two beautiful Journals by Jill Bliss.

The paper is a lovely quality and is really beautiful, but this is the one I want to show you first.

So there's about 105 pages (210 sides) and at £7.50, I thought it was good value.  Time to take it apart.  Every 8 pages I found the cotton binding, I just snipped at this and pulled the sheets out.

Then I sliced the pages down the middle with a paper cutter and punched the holes in.

Then I popped them into my A5 Filofax. 

Grid

 Plain

 Dots

 Lined

I've even found this paper can be turned upside down so four designs now becomes eight.

This design is called Succulents eco-journal and is printed on re-cycled paper.

I haven't had a chance to do the Typewriter Journal yet, but it too has lovely sheets in it.....more on that one next time.