My Filofax Uses Part 2

Hello again, here is part 2 of My Filofax Uses blog, you can read part 1 here.

Recap

Top row: Left to right
A5 Ochre Malden
A5 Purple Malden
A5 Pink Finsbury

Middle Row:
A5 Raspberry Chameleon
A5 Black Holborn
A5 Red Chameleon


Bottom Row:
A5 Imperial Purple Finchley
A5 Magenta Flex
Personal Black Holborn




A5 Raspberry Chameleon, this is my Goddess Workbook Filofax.  

The Goddess Workbook is available to download from here: 
It cost approx £6 ($10) and it is beautiful.  There is a planner included too.  It is meant to be printed on A4 size paper, but I changed the printer settings so it would print 2 views to a page, so it would fit inside my Filofax.

Lovely isn't it! This is the planner, but because of the format, I have to use it from the side.

A5 Black Holborn.  This my Memory Journal.  I must do a blog about this sometime.  In this journal, I have lots of questions and answers about my past, especially my childhood.

I fill this journal in when I want a trip down memory lane, or if I suddenly recall a childhood memory.. 

I have old childhood photos and the tickets from when I went to see Bon Jovi (my favourite group)in 2000.

I really look forward to reading this journal in years to come and to read about my younger self.

Next is my A5 Red Chameleon.  This is the Filofax I use for my blog.

I only started my blog in June 2012, but already this filofaxis filling up fast.

When I've published a new blog, I copy and paste the  post onto a Word document, I then reduce the size of the pictures and print it out.  It's there as a hard copy for myself, if I should need it.

So that's part 2 completed.  I hope you've enjoyed reading and part 3 will follow shortly.  If you have any questions about my Filofaxs, please leave me a comment.

Edited:

Part 1

Part 3

  

My Filofax Uses Part 1

My Filofax collection has grown a little  since my last  Collection update, even though I have sold 2, I bought a few more, so now I own 27.  Not all of them have a use, many,mostly the personal sized ones, are just sat on my Filofax shelf doing nothing, a couple I use for storage.   But I do have a few in use, so I decided to show you the ones that get used on a weekly to fortnightly basis.  I have broken the blog into three parts so it should not take as long to upload all the pictures.

Top row: Left to right
A5 Ochre Malden
A5 Purple Malden
A5 Pink Finsbury

Middle Row:
A5 Raspberry Chameleon
A5 Black Holborn
A5 Red Chameleon


Bottom Row:
A5 Imperial Purple Finchley
A5 Magenta Flex
Personal Black Holborn


There are a few that I have already done a blog on, I will add the link (click on the bold words), so you can read more about that Filofax, should you wish to.

So first up is the A5 Ochre Malden, I also did a recent Video Blog about this one here: 
The Malden is a beautiful Filofax, although it can be a little floppy, it holds a lot of stuff on those 30mm rings.

My front cover and dashboard.

My Diary.

A5 Purple Malden. I use this one as my Spiritual Journal.

This one holds a lot of topics.

I use a lot of homemade dividers in this one too.

A5 Pink Finsbury. My Book Journal. I update this one fortnightly.

I use my Book journal in connection with my Amazon Kindle, so I don't forget what I own or have read.

A lot of the pages in this Filofax are home made or edited from other readers formats.

I hope you enjoy the first part of this blog, part 2 coming up.  If you would like to ask me anything, please feel free.

Thanks. x

Edited:
Part 2
Part 3

A5 Ochre Malden Review

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Filofax 30 Day Challenge

So we are 3 days into our 30 Days Of Lists challenge.  I am using my A5 Imperial Purple Finchley, which is my 365 Journal Filofax, for this challenge and I have made my own inserts using the Filofax writing pads.

Here are the first 3 days.
Day 1 & 2

 Day 3

Tomorrow's Pages...

September's List:

All bold font is a clickable link!

Five Year Filofax Journal

A note: All the highlighted words in my blog are clickable links.

A few days ago I told you about my Journal 10.  If you didn't get a chance to read it, please do, this is a wonderful Journal!  Before I bought this Journal, I decided I would have a go at making my own, using my A5 Cuban Filofax. 

What a long task this was. First I was going to need a lot of Filofax Notepaper, about 8 pads, then realised I was never going to be able to fit all this in one Filofax, so instead of doing a ten year diary, like Journal 10, I would do a 5 year Filofax diary. So I spent the next few weeks drawing hundreds of lines and writing in the years and adding the dates.  I did do the months on Sticky labels, but it made the Diary bulk out at the top, so I removed them and wrote them in by hand instead.  I did this all again recently when I made my 365 Journal.  I refuse to draw any more lines, next time I'm shoving the lot in the printer. lol

I made Monthly stickers, similar to the ones I used here, and added them to the dividers.

Then it was just a matter of placing them into the Filofax.

As you can see, 180 plus pages, plus dividers, is going to take up some real estate on those rings.

So once all that was done, time to fill it all in.  I did get quite a bit done, but then got bored with filling in all the previous years details.  (I started this in 2011 but backdated it to 2010) I ended up not finishing it and so I used the dividers for my 365 Journal . 

But I wanted to show you, what you can do, if you want to make your own... if you have the patience, and there's no need to go and buy ready made ones.

Journal 10

A note: All the highlighted words in my blog are clickable links.

I have been wanting to share this Journal with you for a little while now.  It's called Journal 10 and is available in the UK, Canada, USA and Europe.  It costs £25 and can be ordered from their website, but it is so worth every penny.  It measures 26cm by 19cm and is 3cm thick, so it really is a lot of book.  

I think you might just be able to make out the dark green cover which is made of leatherette (vinyl), so any spills will easily wipe away.

I've personalised the inside of the front cover as it was blank. 

I added my favourite poem "Footprint In The Sand" and printed it on a pretty background, I also made myself a book plate and added my favourite Spiritual quote too.



















So what is Journal 10?  Well it is a Ten Year Journal, we've all heard of 5 year diaries, well this one covers 10 years and mine started this year, 2012 and ends in 2022.

Here we have the contents pages and your details.

Then information on, How to get the best from your Journal 10.

A Long term planner and there's plenty of room to write your plans in there.

Looking ahead... Goals and Accomplishments, each year has it's own full page.

A 12 year calendar over 3 pages.

At the beginning of each month there is a 2 page spread of a 10 year planner

And this is what each page looks like....(I choose October 8 because it's my birthday! lol)

There's 4 lines per year, so you need to write small to fit events in, but can you see on the bottom right, there is a finger pointing symbol and a p, this is so if you have more stuff to add, there is place at the back of the journal where you can write more about that days events, should you need it.  You simply add the page number of where to go.  The symbols on the left are for you to use as you please, sometimes I had my weight or the day's temperature.

These are called your carry over pages, there's more than 40 of them so you will have plenty of space to add extras.

There is also an A-Z index of name, addresses and phone numbers, even extra space to add new addresses if the person moves home.

Next are the Keeping Track pages, here you can write details of Medical, Car and even blank spaces to add your own subjects.  Each year as it's own page.

Special days, 2 months per page for this one.  I should just add here, the paper is of lovely quality and is quite thick, but the pen I used here, did bleed through a little, I think they were fine liner gel pens.

Through out the Journal, I have added Post its.  For example on January 16th, it's my son's birthday, so in the box at the top of the page, I have his name as a reminder.....I don't want to write.. It is Kieran's Birthday every year, so this reminds me.  On the Post it, I have wrote the year and what presents he got as a reminder, so then I can leave the 4 lines free, to write what we did that day.

I've done pretty much the same thing on March 9 as it's my Mum and Brother's Birthday.  This time I have wrote their birthdays on smaller sticky labels and added the year they were born so I can easily work out ages.  The reason I have used Sticky labels is so I can move and replace them when I write further down the page.

Again, I've used the same concept with memorials, I added the date of the passing too, so I know how long it's being.  I've also got this information under Special Days.

The only dislike I have about this Journal is the actual size, it is a very odd size!  It is smaller  than an A4 sheet of paper but much larger than A5.  I have searched high and low, to find a suitable cover that will fit.  I found this plastic cover from an old ex library book, its too big but it's working for now.  This journal will be used daily for the next ten years so needs to last as long..... not sure how that is going to work out!  I looked at the Filofax Folders to see if any of them would work, but the folder needs to have a vertical opening on the right so I can slip the back of Journal 10's cover into it.  (A4 Flex would come in handy here..... although it would be a little big, I think it would still work!)  If any of you can think of a Filofax cover please let me know!

I've placed Journal 10 next to my A5 Finchley and Personal Holborn to give you an idea of the actual size.

I wish I had discovered this Journal years ago, it would have being lovely to fill it in while I was pregnant with my children, or when I first met my husband.  In fact, if you read some of the testimonials on the Website, some people are doing this.  One lady did it and handed the book to her daughter as a graduation present, what a wonderful gift to receive, your first ten years documented for you!  I would have loved this!

So I can't wait to read in ten years time, when I am almost 50 years old, what I got up to in my 40's.


Edited 29 August 2012
Just want to add, I had a go at making my own 5 year diary using an A5 Filofax, just blogged about it on: My Blog.

Filofax Paper Holders

A note: All the highlighted words in my blog are clickable links.

For the last few weeks, I have being trying to get a hold of these Tartan Oli™ Magnetic Paper Clips. I saw Jen from OrganisedlikeJen use then in her Filofax and I got the "Wanties" yet again. I trawled through the Internet and could only find them in America, it seemed no one in the UK has these. I put a call out to Filofax Facebook Users, to see if they knew of any sellers and it seems these little gadgets, are wanted by lot of other Filofax users. 

But then Jane McCourt from Each Shining Hour discovered something very similar in Wilkinson's here in the UK. I am so pleased she described where in the shop she found them because, I went there today and lordy be, they took some searching for!  So I treat myself to a couple of packs. The magnets in these are sooooo strong, in fact when I picked up a pack in the shop, I picked up all the packs together, as the magnets were keeping them together as one. £1.85 for six, it's not going to put a hole in your pocket is it!


So here they are in action, I think they look pretty okay. These two are holding a full 2013 Month on 2 page Diary insert together and it's holding together as good as any bulldog clip.

Just to show you how strong they are....I've put a few on the A5 Malden back cover and they are firmly in place here:

                  
I don't think they are as big as the Oli tartan ones, but they still do a good job. This holiday pass is about the same size as a Credit Card, hope this gives you some idea of the actual size.

 

I'm actually quite pleased with these and thank you to Jane for bringing them to our attention. x

 

 

 

Just want to apologise about the random photo sizes this evening, Blogger would not let me resize any of them for some unknown reason.  Hope you still enjoy! x