This post is in collaboration with Planner Girls Collective and is my 4th(!!!) post writing with the group. This week our topic is Favorite Books, you can find links to the other bloggers taking part at the end of this post, please check them out and let us know your thoughts!!!
I’m an avid reader and always have at least one book on the go on any given day. I tend to read crime/mystery/thriller type books but do dip into comedy and chick lit every now and again! I also like reading practical books, whether it be about cameras or lifestyle, or crafty art books, though I prefer the term “research” when it comes to these types of book! As finish a book I often think that it was my “favorite” until I have read the next, or the next so picking a favorite is really hard for me, instead I am going to share a few of the books I have recently read and thoroughly enjoyed along with a few that are on my reading list! I really wish I had the fiction books as actual objects, but I download them to my Kindle to read…I do however, have the non fiction books to hand!
I’m going to split this section down into Favorite Non-Fiction Books that I have read, Favorite Fiction Books I have read and Books on My Reading List (to-read).
Favorite Non Fiction Books (that I have read…)
From L-R
The Hoarder In You – Dr Robin Zasio
Stuffocation – James Wallman
1000 Journals Project
The Photograph as Contemporary Art – Charlotte Cotton
Life With A Sprinkle Of Glitter – Louise Pentland
A Mindfulness Guide For The Frazzled Mind – Ruby Wax
Sane New World – Ruby Wax
Spark Joy – Marie Kondo
Postsecret – Frank Warren
Favorite Fiction Books (that I have read)
Tainted Lives – Mandasue Heller
Not pictured as have been read/returned on Kindle
Phoebe Smith’s Private Blog – Lynda Renham
Mad Love – Nick Spalding
My Sisters Grave – Robert Dugoni
Kill Me Again and Only the Innocent – Rachel Spalding
Books On My Reading List
L-R Top to Bottom
The Devils Work – Mark Edwards
Thin Wire – Christine Lewry
Hand on Heart – Sara Downing
Mad Girl – Bryony Gordon
The Little Book Of Hygge – Meik Wiking
What are your favorite books? And what have you got sitting on your reading list?
Please visit the other girls taking part in the Planner Girl Collective series using the links below!!!
This is my second post in collaboration with Planner Girls Collective – a group of like minded planner girls who will be blogging each week on the same subject and then linking to each others posts afterwards.
This weeks Planner Girls Collective post is about inspirational quotes. At first I didn’t think I really had any quotes to share apart from my secondary dashboard that used to reside in my Temperley for Filofax Ikat Compact wallet and now lives behind my main dashboard and separates my information sheet from the rest of my planner inserts.
This is an Oscar Wilde quote which I have loved for years and found in a Tiffany Jewellery catalogue in 2015. I cut it out and punched it and it has happily sat behind a clear dashboard in my Temperley for the past year. I moved it over to my Filofax Malden in Kingfisher blue when I set it up, the color almost matches! This quote reminds me to embrace my creative side and either be a creative being and make my life a beautiful place – “be a work of art”, or dress creatively and embrace the quirky fashion sense and accessories that I like “wear a work of art” and to never be afraid to be unique.
I have a diary that I bought for planning my blog posts that has this on the front of it
which always makes me smile. I didn’t really make any resolutions at the beginning of the year but evaluated what I love doing and how I could be better at that, and blogging was one of them. I currently run 2 blogs that are active (this one and https://tenthousandsteps2016.wordpress.com ) and decided that I wanted to blog more regularly and this diary was chosen for that front! It reminds me that in order to succeed I need to plan, and to plan I need to write down and schedule things! This diary has a schedule of all my blog posts mapped out for the whole year and, so far, I am sticking to that schedule!
Other quotes that I find inspirational are
This quote reminds me that the whole earth is alive and that the trees and plant life are at the very heart of this life – they provide our oxygen and without them then we would ease to exist. It puts everything into perspective for me, and sometimes, when everything gets too much, a walk into the woodland can realign my thoughts and calm me.
This quote is just a reminder that whatever bad happens, it can be the best thing to happen sometimes. We learn from bad things and grow and that can make us better people and change our perspective, our attitude and our outlook.
This quote is really relevant as I spend so much time worrying about materialistic things – money, objects, jobs, etc…it reminds me to let go, stop worrying and start living in the moment, don’t catastrophize, and stop wasting energy and time on insignificant things.
This last quote is one of my favorites, I spent so much time last year just sorting, re-arranging and caring for belongings that are no more than objects. This year I am trying to minimize my belongings and stop wasting time organizing them and not using or utilizing them which will give me more time to enjoy my home, friends, family and hobbies!
If you have enjoyed this post then check out the rest of the Planner Girl Collectives posts linked below…. And don’t forget to check back next Monday for the next Planner Girls Collective post!
xoxox
I shall be doing a series of introduction posts to new things that will be cropping up on this blog – I thought an explanation may help before I jump feet first into a series and end up loosing all of you due to confusion or lack of clarity in why I am suddenly writing the series. Anyway, on to explaining the next series you will see randomly popping up on this blog (well, technically, not randomly, I’m attempting to run this blog on a 4 weekly cycle and this series will run in week one of that cycle on a Wednesday, provided I can keep to the plans!)…
The series is called Planner Uses and will focus on different uses for you planner besides being, well, a planner. I will be looking at creative ways to use your planner and how others have re-purposed them for other uses. After that, (hopefully on the Friday of the same week!), I will be showing you how to set up and use your planner for that purpose! When I started researching for this series (waaaay back in 2016!) I thought I would struggle to find other uses for a planner but when I searched and looked and read and commented and questioned, I found a whole host of uses that I hadn’t even though of or that would have ever occurred to me! I’m so excited to start this series and if you are too then swing by for the first installment of this new series on 1st February!
And, if you fancy popping by on Friday I will share with you my planner set up, as a planner!, for 2017 🙂
xoxo
Welcome back to my planner blog! I have been away from the blog for quite some time, I have been thinking about the direction I want to take the blog in and working on a schedule of posts that I will be sharing through 2017. The way I write my posts has changed and whereas I used to write a post as it popped into my head, I have now devised a calendar that makes sense, meaning that I will be posting more regularly, always have a topic to write about and have some structure to work with. I feel that the way I used to post was a bit hap hazardous and I always seemed to struggle with topics to write about when thinking/writing off the cuff.
2017 will see me returning to blog more regularly, I am aiming to blog here around 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) on various topics and on a Sunday I shall be sharing the following weeks spread. I will be sharing my set-up, loves, products and a whole host of other subjects all planner related!
Even though I have not been blogging regularly I have still been using my planner, recently switching from my personal pink Classic Filofax to a new (Birthday present from the Boy!) Filofax Malden personal in Kingfisher Blue! I have also set up a planner related Instagram where I have been sharing planner related images. You can find my plannergram over at @plannermontannah,
The other TWO, yes, two big things I have worked on are getting this site set up as a dot.com (see the address bar above!!!! J) and I have also set up an etsy store! I have been busy making planner charms, photographing and listing them and they can be viewed over at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Plannermontannah?ref=search_shop_redirect , I will be adding more to the store as time goes on! I have a few plans for things I would like to make and ideas of expanding the selection to include other planner related goodies along with my planner charms!
Life with my Planners 