My New Cloth And Paper Agenda Setup \ Half-Letter Disc Planner

hey everybody i am so excited to finally do a review and a flip through of my very first cloth and paper leather planner so this is the quilted large agenda so you guys know if you've been following my channel that i am typically a rings girl so i usually get an a5 rings planner but i have a lot of a5 rings but look how absolutely beautiful this is so this basically this size is what she calls her large agenda cover but she also does have a5 and i believe personal size rings in this color and this quilted pattern she also has just the textured black that doesn't have the quilt and then she has a couple of brown colors so all very neutral i'm sure they are all really good quality this one has just a little gold snap here but it gives you pretty good amount of room i don't feel like it's super tight and the leather is really soft but it's nice and firm in terms of the construction all of the like stitching everything in this planner is so well done and i love the way that it's set up in terms of having all these pockets on the side and a couple of different places to put stickers and things underneath and then what you have back here now this is not the prettiest part of my planner because i had to cut up a piece of a happy planner to create a hard enough cover for the back to slide in but i want to show you anyway so if i pull my planner out you can see that this is just an agenda so you could use this for a like a half size half letter size ring planner like i'm using it and i'll show that to you in detail in a minute or you could use this for a half letter size notebook i don't think an a5 notebook would fit in this but let me grab one just to be sure okay so i just went and grabbed an a5 notebook and because the half letter is bigger in terms of taller it's just usually slimmer but it's taller technically i think that as long as you had an a5 that was not like super wide it actually would fit in here but of course just a single notebook is not going to look very good in here unless you had a really big notebook but i just wanted to show that just in case but really i think what this planner with this agenda cover is made for is exactly how i'm using it which is a half letter size disk planner so this is typically what you'll see when people are using tool planners or the happy planner and you can see here look at these gorgeous discs so these discs are from inked united on etsy i will link her shop below one of my lovely hearties fans sent me these discs last year in red and i'm using those in my sort of study research planner and when i saw on her site that she had other colors i ended up getting these which are the blush pink color and then i also got the purple discs of course so look how beautiful that is and it just turned out to look so gorgeous with this black and sort of neutral tones so let me walk you through the planner but basically all you do is you just slide the back cover into the back pocket there and then you have plenty of room for the planner itself and i've got this pretty beefed up right now so i feel like you can fit a pretty good amount of pages in there i'm not sure if you could fit the extended rings but i feel like you probably could because you you do have some give here so i feel like you could get use the expanded rings but this is not the same size as like a classic happy planner or a big happy planner this is smaller so the classic happy planner i think uses 10 discs and this only uses eight so this is a half letter size or maybe you could use it for a5 size but like i said you can see how with the different side tabs the half letter is already coming all the way to the pen loop so if you were trying to use a5 i don't think that you would be able to use side tabs like this but maybe you could use top tabs might be worth a shot so you've got also this nice pen loop that's just a leather pen loop on the side and then in the front i already have it set up but i'm going to pull just a few things out so you can see the setup a little bit better so you have one two three four five six seven pockets here and they're pretty shallow pockets so they don't go all the way down so like you can see this little card that says the universe that won't go any further down so like this very top pocket doesn't go all the way down to the bottom here so you can't use the pockets all the way but you could because they're more shallow you could use this as a wallet or a purse carry so i think it's really nice and i have just used it to go in and basically mostly just decorate so some of these things are ones that i found in canva so i just created these myself this one that says i am worthy and the little rose i just made that in canva these i think i got from jetpens at some point they're just like little washy stickers and they match the neutral tones so that goes in the front i don't know that i'll actually use them i also have this little um one little word or what is this called my intent dot com you can see i'm wearing some of the bracelets now that are the silver ones that have my word of the year but i also got one single rose gold one that says synergy for the year so i've just kind of put that in here and then i have this cute little ollie clip that's the little leopard print ollie clip and then this is a saying this is something i also made on canva it's just a saying that catherine zenkina uses in her manifestation babe merch and stuff like that the universe is my atm so that brings me kind of to why did i actually buy a new planner why do i need yet another planner when i'm already using so many different ones well let me tell you this was not in my quarterly plan necessarily but i always try to take one big course a year and it's usually going to be a business course or some kind of personal growth course because i firmly believe in investing in myself and i was doing this from the very beginning even when i didn't have a lot of money it just is something that is one of my core values is to always be investing in my own personal growth and i wasn't sure what big course i was going to take this year but i've been following catherine and the manifestation babe that's her podcast and her instagram and everything for a couple years now i have wanted to take a course from her or something in her world for a while and just haven't taken the leap and when i saw that she was offering the manifestation babe academy in february i was thinking okay this is it i'm gonna do it this will be my big course and personal growth sort of expenditure for the year it was quite expensive of a course but i was ready for it and i'm just so enjoying it i'm so glad that i decided to take it i think she only offers it once a year but i will put her instagram information and her podcast information in the links down below but this i decided to set up a planner to go along with the course it's a 16 week course so it's like four months of material and meditations and workbooks and stuff and the minute she said printable workbooks i was like okay i've got to have something that i can print and be able to put stuff in and i thought i could use one of my a5 planners but i'm already using so many different a5 planners that i wanted to use something different so this was my perfect chance to get some cloth and paper so like i said this bow comes from scheduled planners this is from oli clip i've got some of these little memo stickies from cloth and paper just to stick that back there and keep expanding i made this again in canva and just cut them out i made them with cardstock and then cut them out and laminated them this little rose gold clip here is from kiki k and then a few other things from cloth and paper i got this one circle page flag set so it's in these three kind of rosy neutral colors and i just feel like everything is matching i also did have i don't think i've told you guys about this before but this was my husband's gift to me for my birthday and this is actually a kawiko and hello kitty collab let me see if that is at all can you see that so you can see the little hello kitty here and you unscrew it and when you post it it becomes a bigger like a full-size pen and you can see the little hello kitty head there on the nib this is so cute and it writes so beautifully and i know this is something that i'm going to have forever and because it's so luxurious for me i am keeping it with this planner but sadly because of the way this is only like it gets fatter here it doesn't fit in the pen loop so i've been just kind of setting it to the side and closing it up inside there and for now i have this little simply gilded pen over here but look how beautifully it matches like i just feel like it was meant to be so and please excuse the nails y'all i'm sorry i have these beautiful page flag set so they're transparent so when you pull it off they're just slightly transparent and you can see if you were to put it over something it you could see through it so you could mark a date on a calendar or set a header i haven't tried to write on these yet but i would assume you probably can't write on them too well with like just gel pen but we can try let's see so this particular gel pen is not really writing on it so i don't know that you're really meant to write on these maybe you could use something like a sharpie or a lumo color or a dry erase or wet erase marker with it but the way i intend to use them is more as like page flags or to show what's underneath so we'll just stick that to the side a little bit of an experiment gone wrong so i have that little page flag set i also have some more of these little washi shapes that i got from jetpens another cloth and paper purchase she has these little dots in different colors and they're almost all like neutral very minimalist feel to them all and i went for this more tan color that's called oak milk and these again are transparent so if you want to put them over a date the date would show through so that you can put that on a calendar you could also make little checklists with it but very cute and it came with two in a pack then i also have this bubble bath sticky note and this is actually like a post-it like a sticky note that you can write on that's just paper so it's not as like transparent and plastic as the others so a little cute little sticky and the one i got is called bubble bath but again she has lots of like rosy tones some darker tones they're all very neutral and beautiful everything sort of coordinates nicely then in the back here from lauren phelps designs i have just this card stock that has the full year 2021 on it it has the right colors to match the scheme but also i just really wanted to be able to reference the dates at a glance and that have that full year at a glance here in the back now for the actual planner itself i will say this because i was creating sort of my own disc planner i had to create my own covers for it i see how this keeps falling off i do not have a laminator that can handle the 10 ml sheets and it really bothers me so if you have a suggestion of a nice like beefier laminator most laminators will do three or five milliliter sheets millimeter sheets and i find that the five is still not beefy enough to do kind of what i want so i would love to get hold of something that can do 10 ml sheets but i haven't really found anything that i trust yet the other thing is the happy planner punch which has like deeper little mushrooms that go onto the discs that one won't cut through laminated plastic so you have to use the arc punch but those have more shallow little mushrooms here and what i did was i didn't really cut off enough i think of the plastic here and so it's mostly just the plastic holding on so i think i'm gonna remake this cover and make it to where it's you know the punch is actually going through the cardstock long story short but anyway this beautiful little design here is from the digital dashbox if you've watched my channel before you know that i've been subscribed to the planner press digital dashbox for maybe a year and a half now so i have all of her like back designs for you know months and months and months so we're looking at you know 18 months or something of different designs so i went through them all and maybe this was like august of 2019 or something like that with this louis vuitton and the nice nude heels and the little bow and it just felt perfect so she often will have many different sizes in her designs for the digital dashbox so of course i usually use the a5 but i always download all the sizes because you never know when you're going to move to something like half letter so i was glad that i had the design and then on the back i left it plain and white and put this little simply gilded sticky notes here and a little simply gilded bow as i'm going through this you'll also see that i have ordered a bunch of inserts and things from elemon paperco i don't know if i'm saying that correctly but it's elementpaperco.com i saw some other people on instagram that had more like neutral setups were using some of her inserts and i liked the look of them so other than this one look at that other than this one planner press cover almost everything else in here comes from elemon paperco or cloth and paper so this first one is just a card stock design with a glossy cover that says the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are and that's a carl gustav young quote and or jung and i loved it and i've got some digi actually digital dashbox sticky notes and some sticky notes from lauren phelps design so in terms of the structure of this planner i bought from cloth and paper both side tabs and top tabs and i did that so that i could have side tabs for each of the like main phases of the course but then also tap top tabs that i could get to things like my vision board my gratitude list any signs and synchronicities and my journaling just at a glance so that is kind of how i've set it up so each of these side tabs is labeled with the like modules or phases that as she calls them so they're 16 weeks but it's broken into six phases and that worked out perfectly with six different tabs this is called clear glass so as you can see it's slightly frosted plastic and it's it's movable it's not like super hard but it's very good construction and they're really beautiful when they when you lift them up they're hardly see-through but when you put something down underneath it you can really see it pretty clearly so see how that barely looks frosted but then when you lift it up it looks really frosted hopefully that's coming through in the video but these turned out to be really nice and all of these tabs came from cloth and paper both sets so this was one set and then the four top tabs was a second set and it was called clear glass i made the labels myself just using clear sticker paper and again making them in canva and then i just printed it out so this is another little vellum dashboard from elemon paperco and she will customize it with your name and initial so you can hopefully see just very faintly there there's an s and a sarah and so i put a picture of myself here where when i was at my ideal weight before i got pregnant with evie and as i'm working through manifesting my ideal life i want to get back to this place where i had abundant energy i could fit into any clothes i wanted and i felt so beautiful and so this picture kind of represents that for me and it's very much my style with just a black tank top and a skull necklace so i put this right front and center in this planner so you can see the sarah there even though you can't really see the s too much it shows up for me and so that's where i started the next thing for myself is this vision board so here is another one of those customized dashboards from elemon paperco and so it has a v and says vision board i'm just covering up a book cover that has not been revealed yet but i have kind of my book wishes and hoping to get to 50 000 subscribers here on heart breathing this year 8 000 maybe on my sarah cannon channel and some other things i want to manifest and then on this other side i have everything i want to manifest like travel good food a new car we're moving into a new house and it will look like this tiny little picture here it's being built as we speak i actually just got updates from the builder right before i turned on the recording i am we're gonna have a small backyard so i'm kind of dreaming about these stock tank pools if you haven't looked at these and you have a small backyard go check them out because they're very cool we're also going to have the house is an elevated house like you can see here so the whole bottom floor of the house is a garage and it will have that like the porch coming off the first level of the house will have an overhang so i've been like dreaming about how i want to decorate that with fairy lights and everything else sort of in the back porch and travel and all that stuff so this is kind of my like grounding section of like this is what i want to draw into my life lots of good stuff on these pages then i have some tool list pages these fit into any happy planner or any disc system so i've got those in here in case i want to make lists this little card also came i think with the element paper co well-being is about the combination of our love for what we do each day the quality of our relationships the security of our finances the vibrancy of our physical health and the pride we take and what we have contributed to our communities most importantly it's about how these five elements interact which is a tom rath quote so i got that from her and punched it myself and i messed up the punch a little bit but we're going to ignore that and then this again is more from element paperco with these just pretty kind of watercolor swatches now these next inserts are from cloth and paper and you get a pretty good handful of them this is just a small bit of them because i didn't want to beef the planner up too much but these are kind of nice lists one so you could put check numbers down the side with a checklist over here i am not sure exactly how i'm going to use these yet but i think this will be a way that i can track how much time i'm spending on the journaling and things like that so probably going to make it into a sort of habit tracker but i have those here in the beginning now we get into the actual like module one section of manifestation vape academy so one of the things that i did purchase from cloth and paper were these beautiful page flags okay so now that i got that out let me tell you kind of how this works so i saw this on her site sort of as an example but you can buy these cards like card holders and they're little plastic pockets that you can put anywhere so they come just separate and you pull the backing off and you can stick them on and so i was kind of going based on some of the examples i saw on her site and instagram and i stuck them down kind of side by side here and put the page flags in and she has tons of these beautiful plastic page flags in these same sort of neutral colors that are so beautiful so i got dusk and bellini but i will tell you even though they are shown so many times as being put into these little places which then makes them very pretty for say you know decoration in your planner looks so nice they're kind of hard to get out especially if you have nails they're just a little bit difficult so every time i try to get them out i end up ripping this side a little bit so just a little bit of warning it's probably more user error but if you intend to buy them and use them this way i wonder if i should have maybe put something slicker on the back of these or um i'm not sure but it's just my own fault but i am going to try to just leave those in there for the most part because they just don't slide in and out as easily as i would want them to but this is the first of those tabs the clear glass tabs and see how it looks very frosted but when i put it actually in and it goes on top of that picture of catherine it barely looks frosted so i just think that's really pretty and very classy all right so this is the first of module one the foundational phase of the manifestation babe academy and so i printed these out and what i did to print half letter it's super easy her workbooks are just letter size eight and a half by eleven so all i have to do with my printer is just click booklet and print it that way and it prints two to a page so it kind of shrinks each page down to half size and then i cut it down the middle now what that did end up doing for me was i then punch through some of this stuff in the middle where i wish i could kind of push it to the side and there may be a setting where i could push that and make more of a gutter but it works so there was a lot of journaling and things that went into this first module so i have all of that stuff and then there's like an intention ceremony i also have been doing a little bit of journaling and things here so i've got these beautiful elemon paperco just lined inserts these are very minimal but very pretty the paper is nice and thick it doesn't ghost through at all and i was using a fountain pen with these so really nice inserts there that i'm just going to use for journaling then the grounding section here is something that might kind of travel throughout the planner but i got this really pretty vellum it's kind of a thick vellum dashboard that says it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich and this is from cloth and paper and i thought how perfect is that for my grounding section because i wanted to keep a gratitude journal here so from elemont paperco i got her blush inserts that are called a line a day and i will link to all of this down below but these basically have every single day of the year and it's not dated to like 2021 or anything like that and so of course i already missed january but when i started doing it in february i started marking just a line a day for what i'm grateful for and as i work through it i'm gonna actually like back date things if i think of things i'm grateful for but i only have room for one line i'll just start filling in some of these older ones that i missed but basically it goes all the way through to the end of the year so i love these inserts they're just really beautiful and very simple design so this is another element paper co dashboard these are not quite as thick as the cloth and paper ones but they're very subtle and minimal with that little bit of blush cue there and then i put some of those same lined inserts behind it because i want to keep track of some quotes that inspire me for grounding and manifestation phase two of the course is called unlearn so i haven't made it into the next module of the course yet because you have you only get one new module a week so as that happens i'll probably take some of these just plain inserts out so that i can make room for the new um weekly workbook that goes with it so it's just the rest of this is not set up with specific manifestation babe stuff but it will be as the course continues so this is another one from cloth and paper that is the thicker dashboard that says as you think so shall it be more of the cloth and paper or more of the element paper co inserts then release is phase three of the course i have just this little truth bomb from daniel laporte that says choose to expand and then i have a little another little card i think these were from elemont paperco yes they were so this came as like a little thank you card so it has the definition of self-love and then i put some of these little memo stickies from cloth and paper on the back of that this is another element paper code dashboard that you can customize so it says word of the year and my word of the year is synergy which i have on this little my intent as well as the rose gold one in the front more cloth and paper those same inserts that i had before then i have another top tab that says signs so this is where i want to keep track of any signs and synchronicities so as i begin trying to manifest something if i ask like show me a sign that this is what i'm meant to do or show me a sign that this is the right path i want to keep track of it in this section so here i have this is like a two-part dashboard the 21 writing is on the top and then the big 20 is on the white page underneath this is again from element paper co this little card here that says keep writing is from procrasti planner etc's anniversary box and again this little rose gold clip is from kiki k another little truth bomb synchronicity is the universe saying yes so i put that on the back i also got from cloth and paper this really beautiful just plain like linen folder and i put some stuff from lauren phelps designs in there in case i wanted to have a little note there then there are some lists section so this is where the signs and synchronicities come in so if something happens i've got a section to put it here and then write down what happened so i'm hoping by the end of this course i'm going to start filling in a lot of these so instead of it actually being a list these inserts will hopefully be filled with signs and synchronicities and lucky things that i have manifested into my life so i put the entire pack in here so this you can see kind of how many it comes with but like i said as i print out more of the manifestation babe printouts i'll probably take some of these out to use them later the next phase is called rewire and i put this element paperco like pretty little crack thing here that says the light only truly shines through people who have been broken and if you know my story you know why that resonates through me so much so i had to grab that on the back i have more of these printable sticky notes from digital dashbox and lauren phelps designs the next phase is called relearn and just another little cloth and paper i think one here that says i am the architect of days that haven't happened yet and i thought well that's perfect for this section on relearning because i'm hoping to co-create and become the architect of my life so this is pretty thick so i'm pretty sure this one came from cloth and paper more cloth and paper of those kind of list inserts the final section of top tabs is called scripting here so you can see this little j and journal this is from elemon paperco and it sort of shows through there so i'm basically going to be using this to script out the way that i want to feel so this will be more journaling but in a specific way called scripting and you can see here see how that little dot is over the date that is using these little oat milk dots so that'll give you an idea of how that looks when you use it in your planner so i've got some just plain element paper co sheets back here for that journaling and then the final phase of the course is called recreate and so i just threw some more blank pages in the back and like i said this is probably the ugliest part of the planner and i will rectify that eventually but what i ended up having to do since i don't have the 10 ml sheets is i just had to take a really heavy card or heavy cover from an old happy planner and cut it down so that it would stay without popping off like this top one is but for the most part you can't see it unless you're actually in the back of the planner but that is it you guys right now i have a simply gilded pen here but like i said i've been mostly using this really cool kawiko hello kitty pen and this is one of my favorite planners i've probably ever had and set up i cannot tell you how much i am loving just the feel of this the style of it it feels luxurious and it feels worth the cost i know it's an investment and she's often sold out of them but i will leave links down below because she does restock every week some items will get restocked but absolutely worth the money totally quality everything from the sticky notes to the planner itself like i feel like i will probably have this and use this for a decade or longer like i think it's going to be one of those pieces in my collection and i'm so so glad that i personally chose not to get the a5 because if you know me you know that i'm constantly switching out my a5 binder every month and this is something i actually just want to be able to use all the time i love it that much so i'm glad that i got the discs again the discs with the dragonflies are from an etsy shop and i will get you the link to those as well i will link as many of the things as i can here if you're interested in them but let me know what you think of this setup let me know what you think about the idea of a manifesting course i know this is not necessarily like writer based but this actually is a big part of my joy and happiness as a writer and i'm specifically trying to manifest everything in my ideal life which includes creativity joy gaming a tv deal with netflix or some big group and i want to see these things come to fruition in my life and so for me a manifesting course is not about expecting magic without action it's about taking inspired action and learning to really trust myself and my own intuition so that i know which path to take down you know which road to go down and in my courses like my hb 90 course we start off talking about basically how your vision for your life is your gps it's your roadmap and every time you go to make a decision you look at that vision for your life and you say will this get me closer to that or not and a part of knowing whether that's a yes or no for you is learning to trust yourself and your own intuition so this manifesting class for me that's what this is all about going deeper into trusting myself loving myself getting over limiting beliefs and blocks when i really used to struggle with that a lot so i just was really determined to have a planner that every time i looked at it it made me feel abundant and joyful successful happy and really want to use it so every single day i've been journaling and using this planner and i am in love so i will get you all the links if you're interested if you have a suggestion for me on a better laminator i've used the scotch laminator and the amazon basics and neither one of those are good enough for what i want to do in terms of the thicker laminating pouches so if you have any suggestions i would greatly appreciate it let me know if you enjoyed this i know that many of you are waiting for my next series on great ideas so i will have a full schedule of that coming up soon on sunday we will have the march hb notebook challenge i'm just going to do it recorded instead of live most likely this time but i will still have a great giveaway and some great books to recommend to you so look for that on sunday if you're interested my hb 90 course is kicking off pretty soon we start on march 14th but the registration is actually already open but we will open the facebook group and everything on monday so if you're interested go ahead and join in for that course and i would love to see you there hope you guys enjoyed this look inside my brand new cloth and paper highly recommend this brand this is actually a black-owned business which if you've been looking to invest more in small businesses and black-owned businesses this is definitely one to check out lots of goodness here for you to check out today look how gorgeous those dragonflies are as well um inked united is another black owned business and i am happy to support them i hope that you'll support them too i hope that you enjoyed this video and i will see you guys in my next video don't forget to subscribe like and comment and i'll see you on sunday [Music] bye [Music] foreign

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Length: 34min 18sec (2058 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 26 2021