FINALLY! My Happy Planner Review

Good Evening Everyone! So I THOUGHT I had this post posted up for a couple days now and I just came to realize that I never pushed the publish button (SUCH A SMART MOVE, RIGHT).  As you will see in the following pictures, I was pretty busy. Well, without further a do, here is what I thought of my Happy Planner (please excuse my lighting right now, I promise I will try to fix this in future posts).

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLANNER!!!  To some of you this may be a boring/ bland overview of my month, the lighting makes it even worse, but I like it this way :)

I am not bashing other companies out there, nor I get payed to do so, but honestly I adore this much more than my old Erin Condren planner!  I did notice a lot of similarities on my Happy Planner to that of the Life Planner but for the price, I am very pleased with this so much.

 I should also point that the pages on these are so easy to remove!  You can't really tell on these pictures but it is a big bonus if you like to decorate your planner and dislike the whole 'rings one the way' thought.

If your wondering where did I get all these stickers... well I made them!  Yup, thanks to my cricut, printer, and some sticker paper, I whipped most of these myself. DISCLAIMER: I can't take full credit on making the stickers, since most of the images came from searching on google.  No, I do not have an ETSY store out there, although I have seen awesome sellers on my IG.  Still on the fence on creating an ETSY store, maybe y'all may push me on creating one :)

 As you may (or may not) have noticed, I haven't used the notes section on the far left.  Not sure what I will do with that empty space yet but for now I have been leaving it blank.

So, there you have it :)  My monthly overview may seem pretty empty, but weekly, it is a whole different world.  Some things I did forget to jot down or were just not written at all but I'm not perfect :)  Remember, I have three crazy pieces of myself running around in my world and they keep me busy!  If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask on the comments below. Till next time :)

Summer on a Budget

So ever since last summer, I have had the privilege to have my 12 year old niece Angie stay over for a couple weeks.  She is from a small town in Nevada which is somewhat limited in certain things/places you can go too (the closest theater is about an hr away).  This year since I am home for the summer I thought we can do so much more, until reality hit, I have 4 kids under my waist! At first I had NO IDEA what to do with them!  Seriously, if you haven't been a stay at home mom for a bit, you sort of loose your edge, at least I did.  Especially when it came down to places to enjoy, entrance fees to those certain places, and plainly just what the heck were we going to do at home!

While I was at school or work I would have so many ideas I can do/ teach my kids, sadly all those ideas just weren't coming to me in the time of need :(  Well, neat less to say Instagram and Pinterest saved me and brought my mojo back! I found a lot of DIY projects that you can do and on a really good budget!  The dollar stores are one of my favorite places to go to.  You can really get a whole lot of supplies there and if you get on craft stores' mailing list, you can get plenty of more deals and puts also puts a smile on your wallet :)

One of our first summer projects were Popsicle frames. My niece Angie put one of her favorite pictures in here of this summer :)  The sentiment came from Cricut Font and Basic Shapes using my Explore, which she knows all to well :) Even Eileen had fun making one and she is half her age!  Personally I think craft stores are a bit overpriced for plain Popsicle sticks so try going to the dollar store for this or just stock up on ice cream and collect their sticks!

Since the photo kept sliding down, we took one of the sticks, cut it in half, and glued it down. We also stuck on some magnets to stick the frame to our fridge. The magnet sheets I got are from  Hobby Lobby Thought these were pretty reasonable in price since I cut them to the desired size. Eventually it all depends on how much your willing to spend and obviously how much your going to make, then again the possibilities of using this are endless :)

Andrew and Angie made these awesome canvases! Before painting, they applied tape to the spots where they didn't want paint on them. After they painted their canvas the way they liked it, they removed the tape (waited to dry about 10 min) and VIOLA!  This one in particular is from Andrew.  The canvases I bought were on sale at my Michael's and so was the acrylic paint.  If you are not in their mailing list, do so, it will save you in the long run :)

It is so much fun to create with kids and letting their creativity take off. It really beats sitting on the couch watching television or playing a game console for hours not really moving much. Summer is in full effect right now and so many more ideas come to mind!  I have already told my kids to save our toilet paper rolls for our next project LOL!  As for this one, this is one of the girls favorite but at the same time a challenge and that was a to create this dream catcher!

This project did take them a bit more time but I'm pretty sure with some more prepping we could have done it in less time.  Eileen had the most trouble doing the 'threading' with her little hands and both Andrew and Angie are lefties which made it a bit more challenging.  I do recommend being extra patient with this one if it is your first time trying :)

The feathers for this are from my dollar store and come in a decent pack as you can see in the previous picture. The beads are from Hobby Lobby but using their coupon (get yours joining their mailing list) I got 1lb of beads for about five dollars.  Can't beat that if you have girls in the house :)  I am pretty sure I will have to go back and get some more LOL!

Of coarse summer is not complete if you just stayed home (personally I like that idea, HA) so Groupon has been a help too!  Signing up is totally free and easy.  Also checking your city's website can also give you information on free activities as well as discount days like museums and what not. Even places like Chuck E. Cheese have promotions! Oh, if only Disneyland offered one free park hopper for residents one day out of year *sigh.*  Well Walt did say Dreams Do Come True :).

No Breaks!

     Good morning everyone!  Well, it has been over a month I haven't posted ANYTHING on here!!!  Super sorry but I do have an explanation and it starts of with being a mom LOL.  No this is not a rant, just a plain explanation of what I deal with on a daily basis :)

     As some of y'all know, I am a mom of three. There ages are 9 (Andrew), 5 (Eileen) and 1 (Noah).  They are the peanut butter to my PB&J sandwich :)  They come first above everything, all moms can relate to this, especially when it comes to making them happy.  I do help them with homework as well as taking them to their out of school activities.  Mon, Wed, and Fri my two older ones have Jiu Jitsu practice and Tues and Thurs Andrew has baseball practice.  On the weekend they have either a tournament competition or Andrew has a baseball game Sat and Sun.  They too are busy, but they love to be out there practicing and having fun with their friends.  It is a fun way to spend it with the family while the kids have fun as well. 

     Besides their activities I am also a full time nursing student.  Mon-Fri from 6am to roughly about 4pm.  Talk about nuts, but that is another passion I have and I made it my goal to be a one of a kind nurse to my future patients.

     As for my planning and such, I am still on top of that.  More so since I am busy ALL the time now :)  My Filofax comes in handy there and saves me plenty :)  I think this week fits in the theme of hectic, especially with all the earthquakes we have been having!  Yes, I get terrified but living in California my whole life, we don't have frequent earthquakes that are felt in a somewhat high magnitude.  So far since this past Friday we have felt over 5 and they just keep surprising us.  Some friends of the family have said that they have been feeling one at least every half hour!  It's nuts over here but all we can really do is prepare and TRY to keep calm :)

I really liked how this turned out :)  I do have some pages that are my favorites :)  Do you women and men have pages that are your favorites?



Some of the items I used to decorate.  The giraffes are super cute :)  Target's dollar spot is AMAZING!



Filofax LOVE!

Good evening everyone and welcome to my blog! Now if you follow me on IG you can see some of my previous Filofax décor and other stuff that I love like CRICUT!!! By the way KEEP your calendar posted for tomorrow at 9PM PST and 12amEST for the release of the Cricut Explore on HSN!!! I will confess that I am a bit spectacle of this machine since my Imagine gave out on me in such a short bit of time and it did cost me LOTS of hard earn money. Oh decisions, decisions lol. So far I have only seen good cuts and read good review so I guess I will have to wait for the final decision tomorrow hahaha. So back to my lovely FILOFAX :) Since this week is LOVE week I would like to show y'all how I decorated my filo with a few stickers and washi tape.

The post it note, and LOVE sticker is from the dollar spot at Target :) Most of my post it notes are from Target'sdollar spot. As for the Disney and heart stickers, they are from the party section at Wal-Mart. Well thanks for stopping by and come by again soon :)