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-

I have met and known a lot of planner girls during the planner meet up edition of The Planner Affair. But there are these girls to whom I have gotten in touch since then. We call ourselves Planner Seatmates because of the obvious reason that we were seatmates during the planner affair. My planner seatmates are Ira Eijkelenboom, Kath dela Fuente, Cathrea Fernandez, Dianne, Noelle Amposta and Toni Protacio. We created a Facebook Group Chat to which we always talk about planner stuff, craft stuff sale and creative planning. We all became good friends already so we decided to organized our meet up again so we can catch up.

So what do we do during planner meet ups?

Planner meets are usually organized to catch up with planner girlfriends. We usually do creative planning. Some [online] craft shop owners give away samples and sell products. We also share our own craft supplies. Add up the chatting and eating!

Our planner meet happened last 8th of October. Each of us brought foods, and of course, we also brought our planner craft items to share.

 

I was in awe with Ira’s collection of washi tapes. She has a lot! All of them are gorgeous. We, the rest of the girls also brought ours so we spent the day rolling washi samples!

We also did a lot of stamping using Love Cynthia, Sweet Stamp Shop and other brand of clear stamps. One thing I love with these stamps is we can color it. Isn’t that one singing happy girl lovely with colors?

As I just came back to the creative planning world, I decorated my spreads to catch up. I am so happy doing this again now. I decorated my November 7 to 13 spread because I am excited to note down things and my itinerary for my vacation travel in Sagada.

And while we’d all love to continue planning, rolling washi tapes and stamping – we need to eat too! Look at these yummy treats! Not in the photos are Mango Ice Cream I bought and the pancit Ira ordered.

I shared to you how can you beautify your planners using Papermela stickers and clips. Ooops, have you noticed as well that the shop name has changed? From Bella Storia MNL, it is now called Papermela. Well, I think the name best fits the shop. Isn’t it?

Just few weeks ago, I have received new stickers from Domina, the owner. She included her new stickers from  the new Hibiscus Collection and I also personally bought the Boho Chic themed stickers.

Who wouldn’t love florals? I always have an eye for flowers. I decorate my planner with flowers most of the time so Papermela coming up with this made me giddy. I used the sticker with quote to highlight the start of the week – Monday. Then, I also used the half boxes to highlight the days.

Along with the Hibiscut comes also the Chibi stickers. Her cute Chibi stickers completed my week spread! The busy bee chibi below best describes my Thursday because I do a lot of accounting of funds and checking of orders for my business.

I like this Bohemian collection. It looks so chic and minimalist at the same time. I enjoyed filling my vertical boxes with the stickers because stickers can be repositioned. So if I get it wrong on the fist time, i can still remove and stick it again.

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