erin condren vertical colorful planner 2019

hi guys! this post seemed easiest to make as my next, so i decided to go ahead. as can be seen in my instagram history, i got the 2019 planner already, along with this year's designer washi tapes, a bookmark and a notebook. in this post, i'm going to primarily highlight the changes between the 2018 and 2019 planners. if you'd like to see the 2018 vertical colorful planner, please check my post from last year. ~Lindsay ^.~
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this time, i got this succulent themed cover personalized with a rose gold coil. i wasn't feeling this year's themed pattern for my cover, and have been eyeing this cover for a while now.

the notes pages have returned to lined pages, instead of having the circles, two columns of lines, and box at the bottom. the monthly view pages now have a mini calendar for the following month. i really appreciate this addition and sometimes look for these mini calendars when buying monthly kits.

the notes section still has the lined, dotted, and coloring pages, but they have now included a page for important phone numbers, etc. or you could use it for other important notes.

this year, they have also included the same foiled banner type stickers, but also included a sheet of random functional stickers.

this year's freebies and accessories are more or less the same as previous years. there is a separate sheet of foiled functional stickers, along with comment cards, clips, pouch and gift labels. they also included a reusable collapsible T-shirt bag with my order (i think this was a time sensitive freebie), which is pretty cute! 

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erin condren vertical life planner - my march

hi guys! so, march planner post, eh? my march in general wasn't too bad, until the end there... i'll elaborate further below. ~Lindsay ^.~

monthly calendar spread: this spread was from JoyfulPlanner! super cute floral design!

week 1: all of the birthday stickers. so many different shops on one page here! my birthday was pretty whatever this year. i went to work, didn't really mention it was my actual birthday, then i got a slew of belated 'happy birthdays' becuase my manager sent out a happy birthday email to me. i guess he found out from my linkedin? i'm not sure...

week 2: this spread was from ShepherdSupplyCo and i apparently have been liking florals a lot this year! otherwise, not a whole lot happened during this week..

week 3: another floral?! i loved this st. patrick's kit from PlannerFrenzy! i liked how it was cherry blossom-ish plus all the greens!

week 4: this was another PlannerFrenzy kit, i figured it was fitting as we were supposed to travel this week...
this is where things got pretty frustrating. so, we were supposed to go to DC for a week for a wedding and do touristy things because teh paul has never been. tuesday rolls around and they decided to cancel our flight because of the snow and rescheduled us for thursday. after a few hours of trying to figure out what to do and such, we decided to cancel our trip entirely. as much as i really wanted to attend the wedding we were invited to, 1) i hate cold weather -- like i can barely stand how cold our winters are and i live in southern lousiana for crying out loud.... and 2) airports are a complete hassle. our original flight was a direct, and we ended up getting rescheduled for 2 flights on thursday, putting us at arriving a full 24 hours after we wanted to be there. this gave us less time to do anything we had wanted to do. the decision to cancel also came about based on the hassle my grandparents went through to make it up there, their first flight tuesday morning, and they didn't make it until wednesday night because of cancellations and redirects. and 3) protests. in light of current events, we found out that there would be a protest pretty much in downtown DC where like everything we wanted to do and look at would have been. and dealing with all that wouldn't have been enjoyable...
anywho, we cancelled our trip, i ended up shortening my 6 days of vacation to 1, and paul's was a mere 2 hours. as soon as we were able to sort out our travel cancellations, he went straight back to work on wednesday. on the flip side of things, i was originally really bummed that i'd miss out on the first annual company picnic. our office has been here about 5 years now and they've been trying to think of fun things to do to boost morale. since we were in town, we went and got 2nd place in the dessert contest with paul's cheesecake recipe. w00t. also, i'm not sure why i never got prescription shades sooner, but they've been great!

notes page: stop wishing start doing

erin condren vertical life planner - my february

hi guys! where did the day go?! yesterday i said i'd play catch up today, and then all the adulting and slight computer issues (bios updates...) happened and it's already this late! anyway, here's at least one more post for now! ~Lindsay ^.~

monthly calendar spread: main theme is from Hurricane Randi. deco from OMWL, TCMC, PinkPaperPlane, TamashiPrints, PlannerStudio, AHappyBlueTree, WontonInAMillion, RiverStreetStickers, OhHelloStationeryCo, and PlannerFrenzy.

week 1: ugh, TCMC kits are so pretty!

week 2: MNA kits are also super pretteh! i'm not sure what this one was called, but i got it in a misfit bag. this is the second time i'm using this kit, since i somehow got two mistfit kits! since i didn't have a complete kit, i used various stores' headers and hydrate/check boxes.
for actual life things... i originally had an eye appointment for the previous week and ended up rescheduling it to go to my great uncle's birthday party... we didn't end up getting to go because teh paul had the flu and the flu and old people don't go well together..... then i ended up getting to my appointment and they said my prescription's good for a few more months. so i cancelled it, since i just wanted to get some prescription sunglasses --- i still need to go back and pick some out.. hahaha. as annoying as it is, it kind of makes sense how insurance works. if i carry paul for anything, i also have to have it. i ordinarily wouldn't carry vision since my eyes haven't changed much, and i'm on like my 4th pair of glasses since 2003? my last pair being 10 years old when i got my current ones last year! but anyway, i don't recall what his vision plan is, but mine is somehow better. so if he needs it, i have to have it too. 

week 3: do you guys like my franken week?! lookit all those things! v-day kit from Hurricane Randi, mardi gras & year of the dog kits from Boulderbon, CNY sticker from PinkPaperPlane. then random deco stickers from WontonInAMillion (& CNY washis), TCMC, and OMWL.

week 4: threw this together since all of these were glossy from a Boulderbon grab bag, and they kind of went together..ish. still trying to figure out how to use stamps here, lol.
so, do you guys remember around this time last year (march-april), i think i mentioned that my stereo in my car died. like it just randomly keeled over in a matter of 36 hours of showing signs. (it's a 2012.) anyway, i bought a $30 bluetooth speaker to pair with my phone, after learning that the dealership wanted a whopping $1500 after the $100 diagnostic fee i already paid for parts and labor to replace it. what is that?! anyway, we bought some pry tools to get the bezel off, and we bought an OEM stereo from a parts person (likely from a junkyard or something..) and were able to [finally] replace my stereo for around $100 and about 2 hours of time. smh. but i'm glad that my car is "a car" again!
also, for those from not around these parts... we call vehicle inspection stickers brake tags for some reason..

notes page: well done is better than well said

winter pbc sale haul!

hi guys! sooo. winter pbc sale. i think i did pretty good staying close to my budget. it's funny how like a year or so ago, i was like dood these are just stickers! so much money! but no, it's a real thing and i need them. ~Lindsay ^.~

Shepherd Supply Co - had to get next year's mardi gras kit early while it was on sale!

Planner Kate -- apparently i love the month of april? not remembering that i'd already ordered one, got another april kit from the january Monthly Planner Madness sale, which i'll save for next year.

Joyful Planner -- this monthly kit is really nice!

Sticker Sensations -- super cute!

Planner Frenzy -- so. many. freebies! 😍

 

☝ 95% freebies! (i ordered the glitter strips)

Keatown -- all of the can't even's. soooo cute! i got the 4 kits: totoro, sailor moon, mulan, and princess and the frog, and i also got 2 glitch bags.

Bubba Bear Studios -- pandasssss!

Creating & Co -- i've always loved birds, but not so much owls. but oscar is so freakin cute!

Anxiety Aids -- you guys. these freebie sheets? i can't. a vending machine, dollar bill, and cassette tape? yes.

Miscellany Boulevard -- i loved her lainey's and now there's other characters / designs with her?! yess.

my first erin condren, a year and a half later...

hi guys! so you know how i published a post around 30 minutes ago about my january (planner), and i mentioned this post would come in a few days. lol. yeah. i'm ready to post this now. lol. so. my thoughts on my first ever erin condren life planner. this is also partially a comparison post of my older hourly against the new vertical planner. enojoy! ~Lindsay ^.~

something you may begin to notice with my end of month planner posts, i've actually been liking planning in the vertical a lot more. i'm not sure if part of it was because most stores design their stickers for the vertical (and some horizontal), but even less so for the hourly? the hourly planner's boxes are a lot wider than the vertical, so i could still get away with using vertical and happy planner kits. another thing too, i'm not huge into the no white space planning, just because i don't think it's practical. that being said, it's nice buying weekly kits and being able to use them for up to two weeks! also, any other straggler stickers i may have, i've been building up my own random stickers kit for those weeks (which remain to be photographed as i pre-stuck a a few of these into my vertical).

as always, i tag my posts. so feel free to check the tags for my hourly life planner or the vertical life planner.

here's what we're lookin like after 1.5 years and stickers. as you can probably tell, and i may have mentioned it in my haul post for the vertical planner, this coil is not big enough for 1.5 years of sticker usage. and they use the same diameter coil regardless if you get one year or 1.5.

what i'm holding up is the first 6 months (June - Dec 2016), and about where that and a year looks like against the coil.

after seeing a video by Kayla, owner of Oh Hello Stationery Co, i got inspired to go ahead and uncoil the parts that didn't belong to 2017. this is a 2 pack of plastic cinch coils that i got at the local craft store for about $3. these coils were a bit wider than i needed, so i fed it through every other hole.

here are all the pages i ended up removing completely, which were sticker and notes pages and the back pocket. notice how many teeth this poor snap-in bookmark has! omg. we lost most of those around the 1 year mark, which isn't too bad.

here's what 1 year looks like in my used in the hourly (left) compared to my new vertical (right) which has maybe 1 month's worth of spreads in it at this point.

erin condren vertical life planner - my january

hi guys! it's already february and i wanted to share how i used my first month of my new vertical life planner! sometime in the next few days, i'm going to make a comparison post with my hourly planner, so you can see my thoughts on both formats and my transition into this one. i'm still getting used to using stamps, so they'll probably be pretty crooked or misaligned for a while until i get the hang of using them. ~Lindsay ^.~

monthly calendar spread: i didn't end up getting a kit for this month because i wasn't sure what i wanted to do with this planner yet or how i wanted to use it. so i just threw on a few extra stickers that kind of suited the color scheme.

week 1: are you guys seeing the transformation of my sticker/planner usage?? omg.

week 2: kit from boulderbon

week 3: kit from my newest addiction

week 4: kit from once more with love. as mentioned in some recent post (been playing catch up so i don't remember which..), i will be making a pbc haul post once i get all my orders in!

notes pages: i don't think i'll be photographing these much as i have a bunch of household chores that need to be done written on all of them (all the way through december!) and for now, i filled in some of the empty space with washi tape or stickers from the washi tape packaging.
(pre-january) trust the magic of new beginnings.
(pre-february) you are a diamond nothing can break you.

december and january planner hauls

hi guys! i decided that i bought too much stuff in december and january to split it up into two posts: (it's been a while!) one for planner stuff, one for everything else. ~Lin-chan ^.~

Planner Studio - whatever paper she uses is super awesome and i love it! the smaller sheets here are about the size of a baseball card. despite the longer wait time, i really like ordering custom colored mi'me's from her!

The Coffee Monsterz Co -- this is such a pretty kit!

Once More With Love -- had to get the washi page for the kit that came in the 2 year anniversary box!

Wonton in a Million -- all of the CNY goodies. three shops' worth.

Hurricane Randi - she was doing a christmas card swap, and since i actually made christmas cards this year, i sent her one! (btw she's doing a valentines swap too, but i don't have any v-day cards..) and she sent this card and sticker sheet back! annnd i also needed to take advantage of a sale she was having. 😉

A Happy Blue Tree -- ALL of the mini chores related stickers. all of them. this is probably the largest order i made with them!

Stickeriffic, Avalon & Ninth -- there must have been some kind of 90s theme to this month's Monthly Planner Madness sale... both of these shops had 90s themed freebies

planner stamps -- i want to say i got these at hobby lobby, but i can't remember. they came with a small acrylic block.