Since I decided to create my own planners (as nothing I see or buy has the right amount of details that I want), I’ve become obsessed with planners and diaries and then stationery in general. I’ve listed my top 5 that I keep going back to have a look and drool over.
1.Erin Condren
I discovered these through another blog. These you can tailor them with your own cover which you can personalise and even create the inside diaries how you like. You can have monthly diaries, weekly or even hourly for appointments etc. The website also sells a huge variety of stickers and other accessories for your journal to make it more colourful and personal. I do love drooling over these but they are a bit expensive especially when you add postage onto them. Possibly for this reason only, I’ve been holding back buying anything.
2.Edie and Rona
This is all things stationery and again something I just look at and love and enter as many competition as I can to see if I can win something (still trying!). They have notebooks in lovely modern colours and cards and little bags and postcards. Basically all things beautiful.
https://www.edieandrona.co.uk/
3.Michelle Rohr – Secret Owl society
This has got to be the first time I had seen planners being created and sold. This is based on buying a folder which they do sell and then downloading printables to insert into your folder to tailor make your own diary/ journal. In principle I do like this idea as you can really personalise it. However, I’m not so keen on carrying folders as I find them too bulky. I like carrying slim diaries but with as much information as possible inside.
http://www.secretowlsociety.org/
4.Toad
This is quite similar to the first one where you can customise your diary to suit your needs and customise the cover and personalise it too. Also, as they are based in the UK, the costs of postage is not so high. These are printed diaries starting from 6 months in duration to 18 months. I love the flexibility of these but need to check that quality of them.
https://www.toaddiaries.co.uk/
5.Fearne Cotton – Happy The Journal
The final one on this list is Fearne Cotton’s Happy The Journal which is based on her autobiography. These have dates and months but no years or days so you can literally start it anywhere and do what it says for the day. Ironically for my birthday, it says to make a list – I love lists! Each day takes half the page and it gives you a question to think about and a little space to write notes about it. I bought it as a present for my niece but I am having a quick look through before I wrap it up.
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When you start obsessing about diaries and planners, you find there are so, so, so many planners out there that I hadn’t even heard of. Here are some more links to even more planners!
https://www.youbabymemummy.com/blogging/best-planners-for-bloggers/
https://www.thebettermom.com/blog/2016/11/26/10-best-planners-for-moms
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