Planner Setup - 2021 FRANKENPLANNER

hey planner people so as you can see here i have quite a mess um it has been forever since i uploaded a video to my youtube channel and one of my goals for 2021 is to be a little bit more consistent with the things that i share on social media so um you might not see something every day but i would like to at least get a video uploaded to youtube you know each week for sure if not two videos a week um and then also get something on my instagram every single day if you're not following my instagram make sure you do so it's at happy planner mama um and also subscribe to my youtube channel so you can see what i am up to and all my new stuff anyway so today i am going to be getting ready for 2021 and setting up my planner system so i have a really hard time sticking with a planner and actually using the same planner for a whole year um so it'll be a challenge i think to see what i can do but i've got a ton of stuff here because i'm gonna be setting up a few different planners today um currently this beautiful black quilted cover this is currently my franken planner so this is the planner that i actually carry with me um to and from work have out on the table every day this has my meal planning my daily plan it's got like everything in it lettering all of it so the only thing that's not in here really is my lesson plans and my teacher planner because obviously that stays at school my social media planning is not in here and then also i've got some other notebooks and things that are not in here but for the most part everything else is in here now i've got quite a mess because i really need to get organized my plan is to have all of that stuff in here in my franken planner um but then i'm also going to have a journal um i'm going to have my social media planner i'm going to have a lettering notebook i'm going to have a notebook that's just notes and then also one of my goals for 2021 is to try and um be more consistent with taking care of my house and keeping up to date on that so i'm gonna have kind of a household planner now the idea is that i will be putting everything in my franken planner for each month um and then i switch it out um at the end of the month kind of thing so this is going to be like the command center that has a bunch of other stuff in it so for 2020 i started this 18-month dashboard planner in july of 19 um and as you can see she is hefty now um and i actually have not even i didn't stick to the dashboard planner for the entire year um so i started with my dashboard there's some of my old social media stuff in there look at my name i did a whole like study gram type writing um i had some other notes in the front i had a little bit of lettering some social media planning but my very first ever dashboard spread right there um a lot of you really liked looking at my dashboard spreads but they just weren't necessarily working for me i mean i ended up after a while having a lot of like empty unfilled space which it just seemed like a waste to me to have as much like this whole box down here didn't get used i mean i only had one couple things up there same thing on this one i really liked this spread though with the washi tape but um yeah i had a lot of unused i'm going to flip through this more later because this is fun but anyway so here's a year later in july and yeah i still didn't use like any of this space so for me the dashboard planner while i really like the idea of it i like having spots for lists and notes and then spots for my daily to-do's but it just really wasn't i don't know it just wasn't working for me i wasn't keeping up with all the lists and everything like even this one i tried getting like i tried to incorporate some journaling tried to find different ways to look at this one this one i didn't even like use and this was so weird there were no lines here so weird anyway um and then september is where i switched and started doing more of a um free form i guess i wouldn't call it freeform i don't know but i started doing my own layout so i kind of used the idea of the cloth and paper um planner inserts which i then ended up using in december but i kind of used that idea um and i liked having this extra box over here for other lists and then also the more decorative space up top um and i had a bunch of things a bunch of weeks where i really just didn't have a lot going on but like doing things like this where i got to be a little bit more creative was super fun so i'm gonna i decided that for 2021 i'm gonna continue on this route and doing more of these do it yourself by hand so i've got a bunch of pages here that didn't get used from this planner but i'm going to save those just in case because who knows i might decide to come back to them and re-date them or something so there's all that anyway so the first thing that i'm going to do today is i'm going to be putting some things in here that i don't need in here anymore now for 2021 also i am using this notebook as a planner now i already put this planner or this notebook on some different rings and i've got reminder notes falling out of it already let's just get some of this out of here okay so i already put it on these different rings but i can tell right now that it's just not gonna be enough um so i'm probably gonna switch out the rings to these plastic glitter ones i got these on clearance at joann's you can see for 347 but i also had an additional 20 off so that's exciting so i'm gonna be using this as my planner technically but i'm gonna be frank and planning it so what i've currently got in here got lots of crazy things in here right now um for now i am going to be leaving december in this planner because um i like to be able to refer back to it also december's not actually over yet so i'm gonna be um leaving that there but in front of that i was doing lettering now this is a special page that my daughter made for me my four-year-old this is a giant heart and this is a letter she wrote about how much she loves her mama so she told me that had to go in my planner now i have these like unfinished lettering challenges in here these were the mermaids logic um lettering or handwriting challenges that i was working on i made it through to september 29th so i did pretty well with those but that's what's in this notebook so i've got this notebook here and i was using this for my lettering challenges all year i was doing the mermaid's logic handwriting challenge up through september anyway and so those are all in here as well as some old journal pages but i'm going to move those over here i like to look at these and see how my lettering has changed since i started practicing so i like to flip through those so i keep those now i've got something exciting coming for you guys in january i'm gonna be starting my own daily lettering um practice now i'm not going to make it a challenge because i don't want anyone to feel like they need to compete or have a lot of pressure but the idea is that for january i am planning on doing um a daily lettering practice so each day in january we will do some practice together take this out um i'll be sharing more on that in just a little bit but um yeah that's my plan i would like to get more practice in i don't want it to be individual words i just want it to be practice so you know to just get better at brush lettering and so i'm going to do my own little daily practice i got to figure out a hashtag but i'll be sharing some information on that later okay so i just removed the letter and this is very unorganized i realize so i'm actually gonna i'm gonna set this aside this baby is almost done december is gonna go in here once december is fully finished actually i'm gonna keep december in my planner all the way through january but you know um this is where i'm keeping a lot of my lettering practices in this notebook when i'm done with it um this is just an extra like divider page that i made but i'm gonna set that aside for now i have so much going on here holy moly um and i had to get this cover once i got these discs because it was like it was meant to be and i've always wanted one of these so i'm gonna keep using this cover i'm gonna keep using the discs um i'm also gonna keep this little cover in here it's very flimsy as you can see because it's just tissue paper that i laminated um i had this adhesive pocket that came with my farmhouse teacher planner and um so it's got the farmhouse florals which actually blends in pretty well and i like to keep these cloth and paper memo stickies in there um the next thing that i keep in my giant franken planner is an envelope with some cash in it um these are some old sticky notes that i've had for like ever i don't really use stickies a lot so i mean i've been using the same sticky pad for like two years and i mean looks like there's only two stickies left on that one this one's actually gone there's a bunch of my little unicorns there's a few left of these only a couple of those i'm gonna leave those in there for now i don't know actually no i'm taking those out they're just taking up real estate that i don't have so i'm just going to set those aside um i made this little washi tape thing for like on the go planning um i really haven't been on the go very much so i'm also going to just set this aside for now but this is a what i did with this is this is that plastic that when you get a new planner this is the plastic that comes on it and i just cut the strip and i wrapped washi tape around it so that i could use it on the go i like having um my these types of stickers in here because throughout the week sometimes you end up having to add something and it's nice to have the pop of color to really point it out so i keep those in there this is that nice little letter from my daughter um and then i've got december here which is almost done but i'm gonna leave december in here i just realized i had some stuff in here that i didn't really want to show you guys but anyway um so one of the things that i like to do with each month is i do like a sleep tracker i'm not going to be doing that in this planner anymore i'm going to tell you more about that in a little bit um i always have the month and then the weeks now i'm gonna keep using this inbox i like this because as you can see i'm trying to keep track of what laundry still needs to get done this week but i like being able to stick a sticky note on there and if i don't have a sticky that i need to keep track of i can still see through it and see the other half of the layout which is nice or the other half of the spread now i don't really need this page because i want to switch to january for next week all the other happy planner people are starting in their new planners for next week so i'm probably not gonna use this i mean i'll just set it aside for now um okay so here's what i'm gonna do next for my setup so over here this is a happy notes and i'm really excited about this one it's super pretty um but it's it's literally notes now i like this one because it's mostly dot grid so the top i don't know three quarters of the page is dot grid and it's this very very light blue you can barely even see the dots and then this bottom quarter is lines and i love this idea because i am going what i'm going to do with this is i'm going to be kind of doing oops doing this like cloth and paper style layout or spread but instead of having these be the whole page i'm going to be splitting this part in half so each day is going to have like a smaller box and then this will be for jotting down notes throughout the week down here at the bottom and random to-do's or those things you just don't want to forget or slap a sticky down whatever you need to do so that's my plan with that and i'm so excited about this now another thing that i did so i decided to kind of start this planner with a mantra positive mind positive vibes some stuff to remember for the new year so that's going trying to decide exactly where i want stuff to be and how i want to do this so december we'll be leaving eventually i want this in here and then i've got my year to glance now i'm making all of this myself i did buy these tabs i got these tabs just in the mail the other day from cloth and paper i love them because they are frosted and see-through so those are going to be my dividers for the year all right here's what i'm going to do i've got this cloth and paper um these are like dashboards or dividers and i'm going to go ahead and use those to separate for my new year so basically what i'm doing with this planner here is or for this year is that i'm going to be doing kind of a mix of like happy planner and cloth and paper stuff i love this because this is actually two different things but they look so cool together this is the balance dashboard and the old ways won't open new doors um paper dashboards this one's a nice um hard plastic i think they call it their glass plastic i'm not sure but i'm gonna put that there and that's gonna basically be like my um my big divider for the year and then i am gonna put in some of this other stuff here so i've got my little reminder sheet now what i think i'm going to do i still need to pick my word for the year for 2021 but i think i'm going to put it on this side of this paper or maybe i'll put it down here at the bottom of this i haven't decided yet or i'm going to use this to write important dates i'm not sure yet i really haven't decided but that's going there and the back of this is blank at the moment so we'll kind of see where that goes alright so next is i'm going to be putting in january so i'm going to put in my january divider which again beautiful and clear and then i made this calendar page for me the actual monthly layout just is not really oops i put that did i put that in the wrong spot oh no i didn't um but the monthly layout just not for me i just don't necessarily care for it so this i like better because it's like a big list of the month um and you can see through the divider and look at it so what i did to make this was i used some mildliner brush pens to make the top look pretty i also used the same the matching brush pens to make these darker lines across to show the weekend days better and then i just used a gel pen to write the days of the week down the side and then this is from an old dates and holidays book and i ripped it out because obviously it's just easier because i'm kind of making this as i go but then i put the numbers down there and then this is from one of the teacher books and so it's got all the um holidays obviously and so i'm just kind of sticking those in as i need them okay so i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna grab some of these i had tried to like plan it out how much i was gonna need for each month i don't know if i planned it out right or not but i'm just gonna put that there like this um and then basically what i'm gonna do here is this is gonna be the first week of january now i do have two different kinds of paper here and it was because i didn't want to have like these lines are a little bit thicker than like the grid is and since i wanted to do my calendar all the way down i used my lettering pages for this which are from um this happy notes this is what it looked like on the front i flipped it inside out put different rings on it i just ordered two more of this one from amazon so that i have more of these like star-lined paper i really like them i think that's this paper is so nice anyway so this will be the first week of january right here and then from here what i'm gonna do is so i'm just gonna leave that now i already started doing my calendar pages i've just been kind of working on these every now and then whenever i've got time so these are going to go in next and i'm just gonna put like the next few months in here just so that as i'm like making appointments and stuff i can add those in and i'm only putting the calendar sheets in because i really don't need to put all those blank papers in here i'm just going to put the calendar sheets in so that i can keep track of appointments and things that are coming up all right so i think that makes sense we'll do through april those first four months and then the rest is just going to be left in the notebook okay so now these plastic dividers they actually do they're pretty thick they take up quite a bit of space so that is one of the reasons for moving things back and forth between multiple planners um and then also i'm gonna be putting this i'm gonna need this on expander rings but we'll kind of see where we get with that okay so i'm gonna set that aside put that back over here though now i don't have a nice workspace like some people do i know some planners have like their own little planner office and i do not so i'm sitting on my dining room floor right now and this is my yoga mat so this is what you get i'm like right in front of my slider door because the lighting is nice okay so that first bit those are my plans my actual planning um now i ordered the next section here is like meal plans that's what i have in here right now um from the happy planner and the cyber week deals i got and some of you already saw this i got this um i forgot what it was even called but basically it's the home mystery bag so it came in this nice bag it says home is wherever you are and it was full of like household planning type stuff so one of the things they sent me was this happy notes that says good things are going to happen it originally came with these little tiny yellow um discs on it and it came with these are the home body uh inserts and i already had a set of these so what i decided to do was i just put both sets on these rings and then i just did a quick i used the back of the packaging as the covers and just kind of decorated it that that one anyway and then this one's just that back so that's what's going on there but um yeah so i'm gonna set these aside but these i'm gonna be using these in my notebook as well so this happy notes came with those yellow rings i put these black plastic ones on it these black plastic rings came in the bag as well um i love these lemons i think they're so cute anyway um so what i'm gonna do next so this is like a dot lined paper and i'm i'm not a fan i'm just not i don't know but i guess it would be nice for hanging on to for notes or whatever so now as you can see this matches so i already this expansion pack this is an expansion pack sorry i'm like all over the place but anyway this is an expansion pack they sent this pack to me again in that bag i already had this pack but i've used the majority of it up so it was nice to receive that again um so the first section is chores and i am gonna put that in here because i need to get a little bit better about keeping track of household chores now they also sent these like dry erase things or wet erase i'm honestly not i'm not entirely sure if i'm gonna use these or not they're really thick i don't know i guess this would be okay for like uh breaking it down each week i don't know i think what i'm gonna do is i'm just gonna set it in here i might use it with the chores section we'll see but i'm just going to put it there for now while i think about it okay now the chores pages you get now these are supposed to each be a month so one two three four five six it's for six months so what i'm gonna actually do is i'm just gonna put one of these sheets in here because i don't need to have all six months worth just gonna put the one in for now and call that good then what i'm gonna do is i'm actually gonna come back over here to again this is that notebook that they sent me and i am to grab maybe two of these lined pages to keep in this section just for jotting things down okay so i might need this i don't even really need this in here do i i don't even know like what am i doing what am i even doing i'm not sure i'm just going to leave it there i really don't know so i'm not snapping it in yet i'm just putting it there while i think about it because it's really it seems silly to have a divider when there's this divider i don't know i don't know what i'm doing i really don't anyway you never know if you're gonna need to write stuff down about how you're doing the chores and what you could do better actually you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna put this one i'm gonna do this because then it's like a full spread with one on each side i like that okay what's next your meal plan is next now this one let me see how i want to do this okay so i this bad boy right here this is cray right here crazy town hey look at this here's some of those old pages oh that's a really old coupon hey look at that a nice little dashboard i'm gonna pop that out of there i might decide to use it so these are the um like meal planning pages that i obviously didn't use from that same um expansion pack i'm gonna take those unused ones out and i'm gonna be putting them into that notebook there's also like a bunch of budget pages i did really bad with these these are some old like half sheet mini things i don't even know um and then i also had i didn't use these projects ones really so i've got a bunch of these that are unused as well so i'm gonna pop those out and hang on to those all right now i am like getting myself confused i spilled something on these at one point oh my gosh this is a mess all right so what i've been using is these like cloth and paper uh meal planning sheets but as you can see like i just wanted to try them and because it's totally different layout but i really don't i don't know i don't write very much in it so it's not really all that useful i guess i'm gonna use up the rest of these though um and then i'll move on to something else so i'm gonna pop these used ones into this planner from this 18 month planner it's got all of 20 20 in it and i'm just going to pop them in there and the reason that i'm keeping them is because sometimes it's nice to just see when did we eat that last i also need to do a little bit better about making notes of like whether or not something was good when i try a new recipe um i need to get a little bit better about like making notes too of like okay this didn't work try it this way next time or how i altered a recipe things like that i really need to get better about writing those down oh wait this is still this week that's still this week okay i'm gonna leave that one in i'm gonna try to finish some of these up okay so now i've got my new meal planner divider it's literally the same but new one yeah and then since i've still got this one out this is another cloth and paper um dashboard that i really like i'm gonna set that aside so this is this week how many weeks do i have left of this oh there's only a few weeks left so i'm gonna go ahead and finish that up um now i this seems so silly because like this is another one of those wet erase boards it came with this other one over here that said plan on it and write it down it's like do i really need it in here i don't know i guess i could use it to just keep track of what kinds of things i don't know i might just use it as a bookmark and call it good because it says meal planner at the top and that's just kind of nice that it's already there right oh my goodness come on those ones are hard man okay so i only have a few weeks left of these cloth and paper inserts so i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna stick wait how many weeks is it one two only two weeks left there's only two weeks left of this yeah so i'm gonna go ahead and put in a few of these ones two i'm just gonna stick in three of them because that's five weeks worth of meal plans and i think that's really good enough i like these though um even though i like i wanted to try something different i don't know i like that there's not as much space to write in maybe but i like the full week layout here that you get which has you know the actual menu there's spots for grocery lists on both sides which i actually liked because i would put groceries over here and non-grocery items over here when i was going shopping now i don't really do that as much because now i have um i use a service um because of covid but anyway so but it's still nice i guess all right then i had some weird journal type things in here that i don't want to have in here and again i'm just going to stick those over here i was trying to do like some different habit tracking it just wasn't it was too much it's just too much okay this is naughty i'm sorry that it's there but i feel like it's a good reminder it's fine if sometimes you just don't have any f's to give i mean sometimes that's just a good reminder um ask for what you truly want this includes at work in life from your partner and at the bar so this actually these are from one of those little desk pad calendars that i used to have it was advice from a unicorn and i really liked those ones they were just like i don't know they were just what i needed okay these are some other um cloth and paper inserts so this one is a digital declutter um dashboard so it's giving you a reminder of what you need to do to clean up and then these are some reading logs i have a few ideas for things that i want to start reading and just haven't yet and then these are a bunch of note pages some of them are already written on actually they are all written on i'm gonna take that out and this is gonna go in my used up planner from 2020 as well well that's right there's a couple here that aren't used so we'll set those aside okay and then that's the back so oh my gosh so the next section from this though from this expansion pack look at all these you have like enough for a whole year the expansion pack there is mostly like meal planning anyway budget section needs to go in here i like that this divider is basically blank so you could do whatever you needed to it you could put stickies you could put like a um a pocket adhesive pocket on there now again i'm only gonna put one month in there because i don't it's actually got one month on the front and one month on the back and i don't really need any more than that in there at the moment but i am going to go back over here and i'm going to grab two more of these lined pages so that i can take notes throughout the month and once again i'm going to put one on each side so it's kind of like a little you know full spread thing there i'm gonna need to put some budget goals for the year on here anyway i like it all right um the last section that's it that was in the expansion pack is the projects i like how these go with like the modern farmhouse look lots of florals happening here today all right and then i have unused project sheets from my old expansion pack something got spilled on it though so it's kind of gross but i also don't like wasting paper i don't it's only three sheets it's only three sheets i'm tossing them i'm just going to toss those get here goodbye and i don't usually have a ton of projects happening at once so i'm actually just gonna put three of these in here i'm replacing those same three that's funny good job alicia all right so and then i'm leaving the rest of these pages okay so all of these unused pages actually yeah i'm just gonna leave all of these in this notebook and then when each month is over i'm going to take them out of here and put them back in here and that's where they will live so i'm going to set that aside again now also in the um house mystery bag there was a bunch of like sticker packs and stuff so i'm gonna be using these in this section so there's a little budget mini pad household mega or not mega sorry household value pack book i already have this one but it's nice to have there's this pantry organizer i really don't know if i'm going to use these or not i don't really have a pantry i don't know um these are like recipe stuff and then um a household accessory pack so but i'm gonna be using these to help me with this part okay question is now do i want to put something in here to separate hmm i'm gonna put my digital declutter in here and my reading logs i think what am i gonna do with these oh i know what i'm doing okay so i'm gonna put this guy here and i am gonna have to come up with some kind of really cute something and i'm going to grab a couple more of these no i'm not what am i doing no i'm going to grab this i have just one rand this is from a block pad and i actually had to punch those pages myself which is kind of annoying but anyway i'm gonna put these in here i'm gonna do one of these sheets and then this one and those will be easy to grab in case i need extra note sheets for the household planner stuff all right now the chores yes i am going to put this in here oh gosh this is so hard to snap note to self don't try to even take these out again holy moly all right and then i'm gonna need to put a tab on the top up here maybe that says like household and obviously i've got these going backwards now um but so i've got today and then i'll need one over here to have it say like household yeah and then it was these things and all the side tab there's a lot going on here you guys holy moly where am i going to put my reading log that's the question all right so i'm going to remove this tab i don't need that there anymore okay that's totally gonna go right here i love this divider people romanticize their plans but dread the execution the magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding so reading is one of those things that i have definitely been avoiding and that is a problem so i'm gonna do this put this here and then i'm gonna need to get some new tabs to put at the top i wish cloth and paper would just put tabs on these for me although i guess if you buy them individually because this one was one i bought individually you wouldn't they wouldn't know where to put the tab across the top so i'm gonna have to go back and add that later which actually reminds me stickies we're gonna use some stickies for a second so i can find my place stuff divided up where i need it so they're easier to find later now one of my things that i'm going to try super hard to focus on this year is using the stuff that i already have and not constantly like buying new supplies i need to do better with using what i have and so that's what's going on with these stickies at the moment because i never use these i've had these forever i'm gonna use them as my temporary place markers all right so this one let's stick here for now here's the other one here's the digital declutter one that there okay so those sections are all kind of divided out now as i use things up so like with these reading logs for example those will go over here along with my weeklies when i'm done with them um so i've still got all these other tabs to go through and whatnot okay so up front i've got my actual like plan plans these are the household planner in here reading log household planner those are the projects all right now it's time for something exciting all right so i told you already that i was going to do my own daily practice with lettering so i've got all these dot grids i like dot grids with lettering because i don't always like to do a straight line i like things to be bouncy sometimes which i just realized now that i don't have another divider that i would like so i've got this one that's from the squad goals to use as my bookmark if i decide i want that what am i going to do here i don't know all right anyway so i'm going to do a daily practice and the daily practice is going to be a lot of the basics when it comes to lettering so i don't want to just do like a word a day challenge like what some other people do i really want it to be very um very much on improving so i've already decided what i'm going to do here and so here is my month so if you're interested in doing this daily brush lettering practice with me i'll be posting a little bit more on this later but basically all you need to know is that i'm going to start with basic strokes then i'm going to work through letters individually and last i'm going to do a word a day so it's not like an entire month of words but it's a month of practicing the basics to build up to words so if you're interested in doing that with me make sure that you stay tuned i gotta come up with some kind of hashtag or something um but that is what my plan is to do this so i'll be posting about this on instagram i'll also do some videos to upload to youtube um kind of explaining how to do these different strokes now i am by no means an expert when it comes to lettering however i have been doing it for a while and trying to figure out what works for me and so i want to be able to share with um all of you what works with me for me excuse me so then you can kind of figure out what works for you and then i just need some kind of divider here hmm i'm out of dividers i'm out of dashboards that's what it is i'm out of dashboards i need something i need another dashboard what am i going to do all right well i'm just going to stick this one in here so this is just a piece of card stock that i put a sticker on a while back whatever so i'm just going to use that for now oh my gosh why can't i separate these stickies all right so what i'm gonna do later is i'm gonna get i have a bunch of these little plastic tabs um and that's what like these were because these cloth and paper ones don't come with tabs on the top so these were like a um they're from the super mom set but anyway they're a bunch of plastic tabs that i stuck on and so i need to grab a couple more of those but that's what will replace these and then i can write on them i don't have a label maker so that's just kind of what we get all right so and she is getting hefty now oh there's like a piece of a sticker stuck on here oh my god holy moly so that's my franken planner all set up um i hope you enjoyed this i don't know if you've ever done a ha uh excuse me a franken planner or not maybe you have like seven different planners and you actually just have them all separate i don't know for me i like to have this kind of command center that is all just in one quick grab it and go um then my husband also knows where to find stuff so if he's trying to figure out like what's for dinner he knows where to find it and all that so i like having it done this way i don't know what way do you prefer do you like to have extra like the planners all separate do you like to have them all in one like this what's your preference i'm really curious um how many planners do you have that's another question like do you have a bunch do you have just one and you put literally everything on the one spread like what works for you i'm curious oh hey there we go i got it anyway so i'm gonna end this video there today and i'll show you some of my other stuff that i'm working on in the next video so thank you so much for watching if you liked this video make sure you give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to my channel and also follow me on instagram it is at happy planner mama have a great day everybody

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Published: Wed Dec 23 2020