All these years of being a planner girl, I have never thought of having myself a Starbucks Planner. Back in the days, I will just giveaway my stickers. I am sucker of coffee but honestly, I am not really attracted with how the Starbucks Planners looked like the passed years. Don't get me wrong, I am just the girly type when it comes to things. I like them with designs and different colors.

This year is different. After I decided to give the BDJ Petit Planner to my sister as a Christmas gift (because she really wants to have one), I was sure enough that I wanted to get the 2017 Starbucks Planner. 

There are actually 2 choices for this year. Starbucks Philippines offered a coffee stained design and the other that I got, a blue siren inspired - The Siren. These comes in regular and mini sizes.

As a tradition, these planners can be obtained by collecting stickers. 9 regular drinks and 9 featured holiday beverages. One may also get a planner by having a single receipt purchase of any participating Starbucks items worth P7,000.00.

Seeing what's inside the box, Starbucks is putting their game up. For The Siren, they have included a navy blue cloth pouch designed with gold mermaid tail, an erasable pen, a magnetic bookmark and coffee stickers.

I can really say that I am impressed of how simple yet intricate the planner looks like. I love the gold geometric pattern which lies on the luminous aqua, jade and teal background of it.

Of course, a calendar is included on the planner starting from 2017 to 2018. Yes! Up untill 2018.

I have been a loyal Belle De Jour fan since 2014. As I have always said, the love for planners started when I got a Belle De Jour Power Planner. It was given as a gift. I used the same planner brand until this year, 2016. This 2017, since I already have a Kikki.K personal sized planner, I opted to try something new and got the small planner BDJ offers.

My Favorite Features

 Zippered pocket

My Big Ideas

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Colorful and convenient, the 2017 Petit Planner is a follow-up to last year’s popular pint-sized version of the BDJ Power Planner.

BDJ Petit Planner: Overcome the Waves

The 11th Edition of the Belle de Jour (BDJ) Power Planner continues its mission to empower and inspire today’s renaissance women so they can achieve their goals, their dreams, and make a difference in their community, all in great style.

My Big Ideas

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Check out other planners of BDJ on the link below. You may also order there online.

https://ilovebdj.com/

The group of people I am always with during planner meet ups recently organized another meet. This time, it's for our Christmas Party. The day is a little hectic for me, I have a dance practice in the morning till afternoon reason why I was late on our meet up. You may be wondering, what do we always do on a planner meet, anyway?

There are a lot of tools or supplies we use on Creative Planning [check The Art of Creative Planning], two of which are colored pencils and clear stamps. I love stamping during planner meets. Of course, not all of us have all the clear stamps available in the market. If a planner girl has a stamp that we don't have, we use it on meets. We usually stamp on a matte sticker paper, color it and cut it after.

Us, the Planner Seatmates' usually hold our meet ups to one of the planner girls' home. During our party, she allowed us to print our desired designs and printed it on sticker paper. Kiddie and Kay also allowed us to use their Canon Selphy to print photos!

 No friendship is an accident. -O. Henry  

Group pic!

Creative Planning and the fascination with planners are now creating a buzz in the online community especially on Instagram and Facebook groups. That being said, you can see a lot of planners aesthetically designed with planner bling and accessories.

Just recently, admins of the Facebook group Journal and Planner Enthusiasts of the Philippines held one of the biggest gathering of creative planners – the Journal and Planner Enthusiasts Philippines Grand Meet 2016. The event was held at EDSA Shangri-La mall last October 15.

My planner seatmates joined the Journal and Planner Enthusiasts Philippines Grand Meet 2016’s open session – Creative Planning with Chinky which is scheduled in the morning. If you are from the Philippines, you definitely know Chinky. We were then really ecstatic to know that she will be doing a demo on how she decorates her planner.

 My planner seatmates joined the Journal and Planner Enthusiasts Philippines Grand Meet 2016’s open session – Creative Planning with Chinky which is scheduled in the morning. If you are from the Philippines, you definitely know Chinky. We were then really ecstatic to know that she will be doing a demo on how she decorates her planner.

Maintaining more than 1 planner works for her because she separates work and her personal planner. She provided tips on how she would use her washi tapes and stamps. She also mentioned she love using doilies and ephemeras. While she’s planning, she asked us to design our weekly planner spread, too then she would select 3 winners among us attendees!

Guess who won 3rd? M-E! Yey!

After the open session, my Planner Seatmates Cathrea, Ira and Toni had first our lunch with Kuya Albert, Kiddie and Kay.

We returned on the venue by 1:30 and the booths are already set up. Planner babes need not wait for long for their orders to be delivered because the online shops are here! Arts and Crafts haven for a day, indeed! We really can’t wait to check for the arts and crafts supplies being sold.  Yet, we also wanted to mingle with other planner girls so we  lined up and registered first. I have noticed how this event is so organized. There is a registration booth, the booths per shops are properly structured and there are areas where we can do DIY.

I would like to thank the admins of this planner group and the organization committee who made this event super successful. I was so lucky to make it on the list of attendees. The sessions are very informative and I get the chance as well on getting the arts and crafts supplies I need.  I went home with 2 large tote bags with me. And what did I do when I want home aside from staring at them? Organize them all!

And take some photos, maybe? 

See you on the next planner meet, ladies!

-xoxo-