Christmas Planner/Journal Peek and Flip Through

It's nearly Christmas... want a peek inside my Christmas planner and Journal? I have never had a Christmas planner before so this was a first for me. So grab a hot drink, slippers on, chocolates out and let me take you through it; complete with a video flip through.

This journal has been my go to planner this month for adding in my present logs and card making lists and it will be used even more for planning over the next few weeks in the build up to the big day itself.  My poor Carpe Diem is almost out of commision (aww bless it). In addition to the planning section, I have also added a December Journal section (also known as December Dailys - except mine hasn't been daily as I am a drama teacher too and this time of year is very busy with my school productions).

Christmas Planner Set Up:

As you can see from the image and video, I have used a Tiger Traveler's Notebook, which was blue and painted it in a red acrylic paint, then added a gold acrylic alcohol ink spray to that I made myself (see the tutorial here).I then sealed it with a gloss medium.  I added decoration to the covers of the two notebooks (which were included - bargain!). If you watch the video above, you will see I have split the Christmas Planner in to two sections, for planning and journaling (December Dailys).

What's in my Christmas Planner?

Here are the pages I have included in my Christmas Planner section:

• Gift Ideas
• Who to buy for
• Bought so far (gifts and things for Christmas)
• Still to buy and money due
• Christmas Shopping (food)
• Christmas Card List
• Buffet Preparation
• Festive Things to Make
• Festive Places to Go
• Christmas/Winter Wishlist
• Pockets and envelopes for reciepts for purchases

Well, that's it, I will be sad when Christmas is over and the planner will go back to sitting on a shelf. I hope that you enjoyed my little planner peek/flip through. I would love to hear how you do your Christmas planning in the comments below. Stay tuned for a few more videos and flip throughs this week including a re-upload of my shared Art Journal (I deleted it by mistake) and a flip through of my Smashbook, other art journal and my bullet/list journal, so make sure you are subscribed to the blog and to You Tube (links below).