Planner Supply Haul: Target Dollar Spot

   I have recently learned that the planner section on Instagram is not exactly the best place for me to look. I see things I want and then end up spending waaay too much money on planner things each month, no make that each week. I have been trying to refrain, however the last three days have consisted of buying planner supplies. Today I am making a vow that for the rest of the month I will only get things I need. Since I am going back to school and if I leave campus I will never find a place to part again that shouldn't be hard.

   I made an exception today to buying planner things because there is not a Target in the town that my college is in, so I went in just to see if they had any of the Valentine's day stuff yet and they did. I wanted to get so much more than I did but I tried to resist. I think I spent about $7-$8 today so I would say that is successful. So since I have joined everyone else in their Target obsession I figured I would make a little haul post for you guys today.

  This is just a quick look at everything I bought. I know the picture isn't great but do to filming a YouTube video my actual camera was dead, so I opted for my phone.

  Next I bought sticky notes that were in the dollar section because we all know that I just need so many more. I have so many I could probably make an entire YouTube video about them. Anyway I grabbed two packs of the valentine themed ones that came with two sticky notes types in a pack. I actually picked up the candy heart ones on accident, I was trying to pick up the owl ones and grabbed the wrong thing, but I still like them. They are pretty cute, and I know I will use them a lot during February. Then I picked up one pack of some black and white ones that were in the dollar section. I know a lot of people say these sticky notes don't stick the best but I really haven't had much of a problem with them if I stick them to a laminated sheet. If I stick it to normal paper though I have to washi tape it a lot.

  Then I picked up two packages of washi tape, or as pretty much every place calls it now, paper tape. The one on the left is a red glitter tape and the one on the right says Happy Valentine's Day. Now I just have to say that I have never gotten as much washi tape for a dollar on a role as I have from the Target dollar spot or Dollar Tree. I can rarely ever find the washi at either place but when I can it always has a whole lot more on a role than anywhere else.

   Next I picked up a chalk marker. I got this because last week I picked up some chalk board sticker flags from the dollar spot (which are still available if you want them) and didn't have anything to write on them with. I did buy some white gel pens at Jo Ann's the other day that work well, but when I saw this chalk marker I knew I needed it to try to make things a little less permanent. Let's just say it doesn't exactly work how I thought it would, but it was a cool concept and I will find some way that I can use it.

  The last thing that I got where these huge clothes pins. They were actually the very first thing I saw and I decided I needed them. When I got home I wasn't really sure what I was going to use them for, but I am using one as a marker for my blog section of my planner/ life binder. I have not found a use for the striped one yet.

  That is it for my Target Dollar Spot haul. I hope you guys liked seeing the completely un-needed things that I splurged on today. I am thinking that next month will be a no spend month for me...except for Valentine's day of course. Let me know what your favorite items from this haul are in the comments, or even just let me know what your favorite dollar spot items are.

See you later this week for the free printable post,

   Kaylan

Free Printables: 3x5 Inspirational Journaling Card Pack

  Today I am bring you another free printable. This weeks printable is actually a 3x5 inspirational journaling card pack. There are 8 cards in this card pack for you guys to print off and use in your planners, smashbooks, project life, and anything else that you can come up with to put them in. They are all inspirational quotes that I have added to backgrounds, and pictures that I have put together for you guys.

You can download the card pack here.

  As a note. I made these to be 3x5 cards, however when I printed them out they were not the right size and where WAY to small. I re did them in a word document style and scaled them to be a bit bigger. They still were not exactly the right size for my planner, though that is possibly because I have a normal sized binder as a planner (more on that in another post). You can move them around to new pages and edit the sizes of them if you need to to make them work for you.

  I hope you all enjoy this weeks free printable. If you have any questions feel free to ask away in the comments. Otherwise let me know what you think of this pack and what you are using it for if you print it. I would also love to see pictures of the cards if you guys use them so send them to me on twitter @latenight_kay or on instagram @beautiful_kaylan

~Kaylan

The dreaded return to School

  Well it has been almost a month that I have been home from school due to winter break, and let me tell you it has been nice not to be in school. Weirdly though I do miss being at school. I think it is due to the majority of my friends being people that I am in college with, not people that live in my home town. I miss the American Horror Story tv nights in my room, but most of all I miss just being around the people who irritate me the most sometimes, but that I always end up talking to regardless because if I didn't talk to them I would miss them.

  As the semester draws closer (just a week until I leave to go back) I have been thinking about what is going to happen with blog posts once I get back. You guys know that I tend to be that person that is good with a blog for a little bit and then just gets busy and abandons it. Then comes back expecting it to give me love again.  A little to far maybe? Either way I know that it is probably coming so I have been trying to figure out how to keep it from happening. The best way I came up with was to write a bunch of blog posts and schedule them to go out at certain times. The only thing I am worried about with that is that a)writing a bunch of blogs when I don't really have a bunch of ideas or printables finished that I can just schedule out does not really seem smart idea and b)that I have never scheduled out blog posts on here and I would be scared it wouldn't work. Another thing is that I feel like not physically typing the posts would make me honestly forget that I had to write after the scheduled posts go up.

  I know this basically means that I am going to have to work my butt off with post to keep up and hopefully keep up on my promise of one free printable a week. As well as keep up with telling you guys about other stuff because, let's be honest, we all love free stuff but just reading about the free printables would probably get boring for most people. I mean I know that I would get bored of just writing those posts.

  Also with the start of the semester looming I have been thinking about books and the other college related things that come with starting a new semester. I can say I didn't spend all that much on books last semester as I am this semester. I am spending almost $300 more!!!! I know crazy. I mean I knew when I started college that books were expensive, but damn. My normal strategy to order used books or even rent books did not happen this semester (or it won't....once I actually order my books) do to a few things that I have being books you have to buy new because you have to have an access code, and the fact that I am a fashion major and one of my classes revolves around a fabric swatch kit that, again, has to be bought new because we light stuff on fire! I can't say I am not excited for that part, but still the kit is a decent chunk of money.

  I thought about maybe writing another blog post all about books now that I have one semester down and am starting another semester. There are a few things I learned about the different types of books that I think some people would be interested in hearing about, but I don't know if you guys would want to see another post on that. The last time I just basically talked about the different options for buying books. This one would be about my experience with the different types, as well as my opinion on which is best. Just a running thought, not sure though.

  Another thing that is just sort of a passing thought at the moment is attempting to keep a bullet journal and seeing how it works and if I like it. I would write blog post about it of course, one of which I have already started writing. I just don't know if it is worth it to me. It seems a little redundant when you have a planner, and I am also not really a fan of how the beginning of the journal is set up.

  I think I have written enough random rambling today for you guys for the next month. Let me know what you think about writing another post about books for college as well as what you think about the bullet journal. I would like to know how other people feel about it before I completely pass it off.

~Kaylan

Printable: Free January 4x6 Calendar

Hey everyone,

Today I am bringing you guys the first free printable that I have made! Now I will offer more than one free printable a month, no worries. However, I will only be offering the 4x6 calendars in a blog post at the beginning of each month that the calender is for, since the calendars are dated for 2015.

The first printable that I am offering is my 4x6 January Calender. You can get it here!

I originally made this calender in a 4x6 form, you CAN change the size however when you print it if your printer gives you the option. I am currently using this in a 4x6 form in my fitness journal and in a 3.5x5 form in my monthly planner/life binder set up. The calender is white, not grey as the picture above is showing. It does have some grey around the curved corners however so that you can see to cut the curves out if you are like me and don't have the fancy corner curve cutting devices that are currently sold.

How to use a mini Calender in a planner

If you are lost for ways that you can use a mini calender in a planner then boy do I have some ideas for you. Trust me there are many ways that you can add a calender into a planner. If you have a filofax or anything of that sort it is probably a little more practical but I even use them in my monthly view of my Sugar Paper LA planner. 

1. 30-Day Challanges-

        Other than February (cause there are only 28 days) you can use these mini calenders to track 30 day challenges, such as the 30-day squat challenge. 

2. Habit forming

        Another way that you can use these mini calenders is to form a habit. There is a saying that it takes 21 days to form a habit, so you could put stickers or some other form of tracking on it to track your 21 days until your habit is formed.

3. Tracking New Year's Resolutions

        Now this one can be taken a few different ways. If you are tracking a number of days you want to be doing something in a certain month this is really easy to use if you still want to have all the room on your planner. Or you could use it to track a new years resolution like stop biting nails, or eat healthier, or any of those sorts of things. Now I know this is close to habit forming, but I figured I would throw in a new years related thing since it is the 2nd day of the year.

4. Bill Tracker

        You could also use the mini calendars for bill tracking. Again this is more practical maybe for people with a filofax since they could throw it right in their finance section and move on. But as always anyone with a spiral planner could make it work too. Plus it would keep you from taking up space in your monthly boxes, which is important when you have a lot going on in your monthly view. Like moms and students.

I hope you guys enjoy this first printable of the year. Let me know in the comments what other printables you would like to see, what you guys think of this mini calender, and leave ideas for how to use this mini calender.

~Kaylan

Free Planner Printables

Hey everyone,

Today I want to talk to you all about something that I am going to start doing here on the blog. One of my New Year's Resolutions is to design and sell planner printables, because it is something I like to do and I know that I personally can not always find the pages I am looking for currently in a planner, and sometimes I can not even find a form a like in printables that are already made. I know I can not be the only person with a brain that processes things like I do.

What I need from you guys to do this is support. I also need ideas for printables that you guys would like and that you would benefit from using. I know that some planner printables can be expensive so even if there is something you have already found that is paid and you would like my take on it for free that is okay.

Please leave in the comments what kind of printables you all would like to see on the blog. I will do my best to get everything you guys want, and more.

~Kaylan

My College Binder

Hey everyone,

So today I want to talk about something that is pretty essential for me to have for college in my opinion and that is my college binder. Now I have not had this for a super long time and there are still things that I would like to add to it. However, I wanted to show you guys what was in it incase you wanted to start your own.

1. The front

This is the front of my binder. I do find this part of my binder just as important as the inside because I can quickly determine exactly what binder I am picking up without having to look through it. I kept this cover pretty simple because I didn't want to have to remake it a bunch of times, I just wanted it to be kind of a one stop binder cover.

2. Courses for my major

The first thing I have when you open up my binder is a list of courses that I have to take/have the option to take for my major. This is helpful for me just because I can see what semesters everything is actually offered and not have to worry about making my schedule ahead of time and picking a class that isn't offered the semester I want to take it.

3. Recommended class sequence

This really isn't something that I actually follow to be honest. I only use it to make sure that I have all the required classes taken by some point, as well as know how many extra classes I need.

4. Projected Course Plan

This is again just a projected course plan. I made this to kind of plan out what courses I wanted/ needed to take each semester for the next 4 years. I have a feeling this will change a bit, but for not it seems to be working out for me.

5. Next Semester Schedule 

Now this is what I am actually  most proud of just because I managed to be able to actually make this on excel and I am terrible at actually making anything on excel. Its a simi-color coded schedule of my classes next semester. So its helpful for knowing when classes are for other people of they need to know when I am busy or when I am not. And having it in my binder also helps me if I forget I have a class and try to schedule something to do...which does happen...a lot.

Things I want to add

 A few of the things I want to add include:

1. List of grades for each class at the end of the semester

2. Current GPA (for each semester & accumulative)

That seems to cover most of it. I know this isnt the most exciting thing, or even the most exciting post, but I thought maybe a few people would like to see it. I also thought it might give some people ideas if they were trying to come up with something like this that they could do.

Fashion Show

As most of you know I am a fashion major at my college. As a freshman I was not exactly sure of any of the events that were hosted by my major. Ever year we have a fashion show where the proceeds go towards scholarships for students in the program.

Basically we have local boutiques who bring clothes in for models to wear on the runway. They get exposure and the models get experience. We also have student competitions within the show that include accessorizing a black dress, creating an outfit/ piece of an outfit, and a recycled portion where you use an item of clothing to create a new item: for example making a long wedding dress into a short prom dress.

I did not make anything for the fashion show this year, I did however do hair and makeup for three of the models in the black dress portion of the show. I do not have any pictures that I can show you guys of what I did because I don't have permission from the models to post their pictures on the internet. It was a stressful two days because I had a very limited amount of time, one hour, to do hair and makeup for all 3 girls. Even as a cosmetologist doing all that in a short amount of time, even with someone helping, is really hard. Though not impossible it seems like it. We made it work though which was pretty awesome.

We also had Fade Zu Grau from Project Runway as the emcee for the show. I did get a picture with him after one of my classes the morning of the show, since I would not get to actually talk to him at the show so I wanted to take the opportunity that I had in front of me that morning.

All-in-all it was a fun experience and I will be participating in it next year. Which I will be talking about in another post.

~Kaylan