Hello Friend!
Here is what my Write Brain has called me to create over the past couple weeks. I decided to start making dashboards shown below because I wanted to have something colorful, completely customizable, reusable, and useful in my planner(s). The following pictures will give you an idea of what my dashboards are all about.
Above is a picture of my current Whitney English Day Designer dashboard which also serves as my page marker. The stationery you see are from several places like Walmart, Target, Joann's, Disneyland, and Michaels. I honestly had not used or barely used any of these pieces of stationery at all until I put together this dashboard. I feel like the reason why I do not use some of my stationery is because I either forget about them or because I do not want to waste them. Crazy, right? But, because of how aesthetically pleasing this is to me, and because it is reusable, I am now having a great time planning with it.
I decided to use a coil clip with this particular dashboard. However, you really do not need to use one because of its size and firmness. I got this coil clip from the Erin Condrenwebsite when I ordered my Life Planner last year. The coil clip comes with a "negative", adhesive-less side which usually gets thrown away. I found out that this negative side actually fits the coils of both the Day Designer and the Simplified Planner perfectly! It was definitely a very serendipitous and "A-ha" moment for me when I discovered this.
Here is the other side of the above dashboard. As you may know, the Day Designer and the Emily Ley are both daily planners. I love that fact because I like to have a lot of writing space for my thoughts, lists, etc. I decided to include a Target brand week at glance on my dashboard as well so that I have the best of both planning worlds. And yes, do you see those coveted, hard to find page flags? They are eternally reusable for the foreseeable future as part of my lovely laminated dashboard.
Here is a closer look at how the coil clip looks, and yes, I color coordinate my tabs.
And finally, here is a smaller double sided dashboard that I put together. The stationery pieces are from Michaels, Target, Paper Source, and TJMaxx. I absolutely love blank clock faces, and the one shown above which I purchased for a pretty hefty price ($8 at Paper Source) has been hoarded up until recently because I did not want to waste it. Did you notice the lime and lemon sticky note? That was a steal of a deal at TJMaxx for 30 cents. I have found the Expo Vis a Vis Wet Erase markers to be both easy to write with and the most economical when it comes to writing on anything laminated in general. I played with the idea of fine tip sharpies and erasing them with alcohol swabs but found that a damp paper towel or rag was easier to find than several packs of the swabs. I still use the fine tip sharpies from time to time if I want a finer nib to play with or if I want more ink color variety.
Well my friend, I thank you for spending time with me today in my little blog abode. I hope you find my lovely dashboards fun and refreshing. I look forward to keeping you updated with my online boutique endeavors!
Until Next Write,
Teresa
@untilnextwrite
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