2021 Erin Condren Petite Planner Setup and Flip-Through || EC Petite Planner Folio System

hey guys welcome back to my channel my name is steph just in case you were new here and today i wanted to finally show you guys what i'm using for planning for at least the start of 2021 [Music] i'm hoping i will stick to this for the whole year but knowing me might not happen so anyway we're just gonna dive right into it so this is the erin condren petite planner folio system and i've actually been using it for a couple of months on and off just to kind of get used to it see what i like see what i didn't like all that kind of stuff so when i placed my order i did actually order the final planner for this year so if you are unfamiliar with the petite planners it actually comes with four notebooks like this i've got the first one actually in the planner you can see that here it comes with four notebooks with three months per notebook so i ordered the end of year one for 2020. it didn't arrive it just didn't get put in my order so they ended up sending me this daily customizable one and i just dated it normally i wouldn't date ahead of time but i do kind of like to look back on what i was using or what i ended up not using i don't know if i'm weird for that but that's how my brain works so this was very much a let's just figure out how to do this kind of thing so here we go here's a fairly plain page so the daily customizable planner is undated actually i think i've got a couple of undated pages at the back yeah so this is what it looks like when you haven't done anything to it and the color changes with every page and obviously you get a full page for the weekends as well because every single page is the same just the color rotates and it's got the um mid-century circle design i think that's called so that's what i've been using i chose this planner because of the customizable nature of it i really liked that you could put whatever headings and titles you wanted there was lots of space to write so many possibilities and i really liked the amount of possibilities that were in it i was intrigued by the fact that it's a notebook i liked that i could swap out the notebooks in the folio all that kind of thing so that's that's how we ended up here but i actually found that by the time i got to using it i was a little bit like what a way what do i use all these sections for so at first things were a little bit a little bit um i feel uncomfortable kind of thing and i kind of started doing recaps and that kind of thing and then i didn't plan for a while and then i sort of messed around with some scrapbooking stuff i hate how these things turned out but i really like the idea i hate this with a passion but i love the memory keeping aspect of it so i ended up actually sticking with that and i just got much better at doing my spread so i used my hp sprocket for this i don't love the way that it prints it does seem to have a bit of a pinkish tone but i have really appreciated having the pictures and as you can see i've had some messy spreads i've had some nope spreads but i feel like i really started to hit my stride when it came to christmas i really liked these spreads i had an old christmas kit for an erin condren so i used that couple of photos here and there and then i didn't really use it for the rest of the end of the year so that's that's kind of where i'm going with this year so let's do a flip through this is the actual like dated notebook for the start of the year and then i've got the self-care notebook and i've got the gratitude journal and then i've just got a plain notebook here which i think i've actually put in upside down because i just put this back in this morning so this is just a plain page notebook that i bought when i bought my folio because it was on sale for half price and i thought it would be handy to have i also have the wellness log but the way i've been doing meal planning has changed a little bit and it's less specific to the day so i used it a bit but i'm giving it a break for now it is undated which is really handy so i can use this whenever i want which is fantastic so it's got the day of the week and like an activity page water intake steps hours slept habits that kind of thing and then it's got the meal planning page over here so i will definitely pick up and use this later on it also comes with a sticker sheet which is cute but for now we are not using that so i'll go through this notebook briefly first and show you how i've started decorating it and then we will launch into these notebooks and i'll give you a bit of a flip through of those as well obviously this is the january to march 2021 daily erin condren petite planner i've just put my name there i used a brush tip marker and it didn't bleed through too much which i think is pretty impressive um this is just my january page i've gone with the happy new year sort of vibe went with the color scheme that was already here and yeah i've also got these little public holiday type stickers throughout the planner as well which i think are really cute i got the small size they're from uh peaceful mind designs stickers i should mention that i will link her below i love her stickers and i've got the little ones just for the monthly spread and then i have the bigger ones that was such a great flip that was perfectly timed didn't do that on purpose but i have the bigger ones for the actual days which i put them all here i'm kind of regretting not putting them like up here but that's okay this is my monthly spread pretty simple but i think that's kind of good i like to be able to see things clearly and i've really liked using the pink pen so that i can kind of read the things i've added in nice and clearly and then this was my first spread so it is sunday today and i can go through and actually take off a couple of things i did laundry i vacuumed i have not done oh i can take film planner video because i'm doing that right now i still need to do some things today and take a photo but with the photos i take a photo every day or i try to and then i print it every two days so i actually print two photos on one sheet of sticker paper just so i'm not using up a ton of sticker paper and because they're smaller but i really like how this spread turned out i'm not gonna go with the blue color scheme every single spread i'm gonna do something different for example for monday and tuesday i think i'm just going to kind of pick one color or a pair of colors per double page spread but these what the days look like this year with the waves i wish there was a neutral like black and white option like there is with the life planners that would be amazing because i feel like i'm going to do a lot of covering up of the colors because february for example is very pink and i like pink but i don't i don't really want it to be pink all the time so yeah i think that's going to be a fun learning curve but i've also got these page flags from erin condren which i really enjoy so this is kind of how my spreads are looking at the moment i'm very much going through and using up bits and pieces of stickers like these um that i've just got in my reusable sticker book which i will show you here it is so i've got them kind of sorted by color and this is really really cool because if you don't finish a sheet oops if you don't finish a sheet that's okay you can just pop it in here we're just gonna take that out because that's clearly not working the only thing i have trouble with is the little icon stickers i feel like they're the ones i want to store in here but sometimes they don't like to stick but i think that's more about the actual stickers themselves than anything else but yeah this is super cute i can't remember off the top of my head which store i got this from i think it may have been lime and mortar but i will link it down below but yeah this is the daily planner not really much else to see each notebook so each three months comes with this sticker sheet which i think is is pretty good i i don't have this many things to celebrate and this many birthdays to deal with so i honestly wish these were all just to do's i can deal with the reminder like one column of reminders i think that's cool i wish these were all to-do's that would make it so much more practical in my opinion but that's just me i do think it's really cool that they've matched the foil to the notebook so this one has purple foil and it's got purple foil on the stickers one of the other ones has gold foil so it's got gold foil on the stickers i think that's really cool actually i have some stickers i need to pop in here so this is the sheet that i got from the daily customizable notebook as you can see i really didn't use a whole ton of them but i'm gonna try try and use them a little bit more um otherwise i'll give them away but they're very pretty stickers and then i have my order grocery stickers from pmd designs i love her stickers so much they're quite like a papery texture they're not glossy or anything i really like that so yeah and they're really great price too and then we've got some cute little like personalized stickers of me and matt which uh cut in half because i gave half to matt because he has started planning which is amazing he's using a passion planner and he's never planned before and he's loving his daily passion planner so if you happen to be curious about that let me know and maybe i can get him to talk about that at some point so next up we have the self-care notebook now i've started filling this out but basically at the start i haven't added my name whoops it's just got some information about self-care be kind to yourself it's a very pretty notebook and then it launches into the weeks and the weeks look like this so there is an overview and then there's a page per day now the thing that i was really upset about was that i bought this thinking it would go for six months there was enough pages to go for six months the listing on erin condren's website actually said it was a six six month journal it actually only has seven weeks of pages in here so not even two months which has kind of bummed me out because it's meant that i've been really hesitant to use it so for example i used it up till here and then i didn't use it for a bit and because it literally has the week overview and then seven days of pages it felt weird to just jump back in but that's what i'm gonna have to do to actually make it worth it i think and then at the end of the week it's got a tracking like habit tracking page which i think i personally would prefer to have at the start of the week but that's okay i just need to remember that it's here and then it's a weekly reflection which i think is really cool so i love the concept i love what the pages actually contain i personally wouldn't buy it again just because of the price versus like what you actually get but i do like that it's got like a full reflection at the back and of course it came with stickers as well which honestly now that i'm looking at these i might just put these in my daily planner so we'll take those out next up we've got the gratitude journal which is super nice so this is oops this is what it looks like inside and it has i think 30 days worth of pages and then it's got a reflection yeah 30 day reflection and then looking forward which i think is really really nice i'm not using it every single day the goal is to use it every single day i'm not great at that honestly it's something i really want to improve this year which is why i bought these journals um but i think it's really cool because it's not just what am i grateful for today like for example this is ways i connected today what i love about this time of year lessons i learned today what i focused on today cute things i saw today and yeah i don't know i think it just gets me reflecting in a way that i wouldn't by myself and i think that's really cool so that is the gratitude journal edition three and then obviously we've just got the plain notebook so yeah that's what i'm using i think i will like try and do some plan with me because i do find them fun i don't know how well that will go just because it's daily planning so i'll have to see how that goes but let me know in the comments below if you're actually interested in watching a plan with me using my erin condren folio system but anyway um yeah this is this is what i've got this is what i'm using i also have started a social media content planner in a ring-bound planner and i made the inserts myself and i'm really really loving it so if you would like to see that also let me know in the comments below and that's all i have for you today thank you so much for watching this video i so appreciate each and every one of you if you did enjoy this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up because that really helps to support my channel and get the video out there to other people that might want to see it and if you haven't already i would love it if you would subscribe and i will yeah see you in my next video bye

Channel: Steph the Homemaker

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Id: w79YdjTQvLc

Length: 15min 24sec (924 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 07 2021