Ikea hacks...

Been to ikea today and came back with this cute mini drawers set. I'm thinking of storing the majority of my filofax/stationery bits in it. 

(picture from the ikea website)

I could have left it like that but I got a bit creative and now it matches my office!

I love it (actually love my office and how coordinated it is) but this little thing solves lots of storage probs I had without taking up too much space! So let me see if I can share how I use it. (If you click the picture it should enlarge)

To quote my hubby I can now store all my 'funny things'! 

Secret Swap #2

Wow! I'm completely blown away. On the Philofaxy swapper group Christa wrote that some lucky person would get swaps from 2 people this month. I never dreamt it would be me! All the lovely goodies below come all the way from Singapore from the lovely Padmini. 

There are stickers, sticky notes, post its and a Life is Crafted diary - lush!

Double blessed this month by my two secret swappers - thank you both!

It's secret swapper time!

My secret swap arrived today! So exciting! 

It was full of goodies, stickers, sticky notes, pen, washi tape, highlighters, pretty paper, notebooks, ink, stamps and even some love heart sweets! Thank you secret swapper!! 

A little personalised notebook - so cute! 

I love these stickers! I've never seen them before but they're really fun, the right size for decorating filos and they're practical in that they all have a label. I love them!

Thank you secret swapper I will have great fun playing! :)

Musings....

I love love love my A5 aqua Finsbury and I take it most places but sometimes it's just too big! I recently went to my folks for a week. I went on the megabus and it's about a days travel and I just couldn't carry my filo as well. When I got there I realised I had no diary, no pen, no paper to journal on. nothing! I felt lost and several times wished I'd got it. Well since then I've been wondering about a travel filo or a satellite filo that I can take with me when the A5 is just too big. I currently have Philofaxy's enhanced TM week per view and I was wondering about changing this to a day per page and a month on 2 pages and then if I were to get a pocket I could have a week on a page to refer too and a notes section etc.

What do you think? I'm wondering whether I could keep up 2 diaries - although they would both have slightly different purposes. 

Even though I haven't actually decided whether I'm gonna take the plunge or not I have chosen which pocket filo I would get. My current fav is this little beauty..... it's the pocket saffiano in aqua!

What to do, what to do, what to do??

Been playing...

Been experimenting with washi tape tonight :) I bought some bulldog clips and covered them in washi. I was inspired by a picture I found on Pinterest. Came out ok tho!

Time to celebrate!!

Today is a very special day in our house! Today my hubby gets his British Citizenship! It's been a very long road but I'm so proud of him! We did it and now we can get on with our life! 

I made him this......

After all they don't sell citizenship cards in the shops! Any excuse for a bit of fun!