Favourite Bloggers and Vloggers of 2013

As I sit here on NYE Eve and contemplating the year that has passed, I realised I've seriously gotten into blog reading and and while I still watch YouTube videos it's funny how your faves change over time. If I had to go through every video and blog I've come across over the past year - taking the whole year into consideration, what would I pick to be my favourites? Well, in no particular order... 

Filofax / paperchase blog planner inserts: part 3

Oh, hello!

Yes, it's me again, two days in a row - can you believe it? In all seriousness, I've been just awful lately with posting to my blog. I'm at a crossroads in my personal life* and add to that the darkening for the skies for Autumn (yeah right, it feels like winter already) and add to that the fact that I've had so many ideas swooshing around in my head I don't know where to start!

Well, let's put an end to that, for one and all, for once and forever!**

I've created a third part to the blog planner inserts - a simple weekly/monthly schedule. Have at it:

Filofax / paperchase blog planner inserts

I'm always coming up with great blog post ideas. Trouble is, I don't keep track of them, I forget, so all you guys are lumbered with reading from here is this nonsense - sorry about that by the way. 

Well, the time had therefore come for me to improve things, and incorporate blog planning into my personal sized planner. I used the printables noted in a previous post as inspiration and came up with the below.

part 1: a list of the ideas, indicating when they're posted 

Reorganised filofax / paperchase personal planner

Part 2 (the last part) there is an update/review part coming your way!
Ok So everything is in groups, I need to think about the order I want them in, put them in that order, reshuffle if necessary and then bung them in the planner, if it'll let me.

I'll show you the order and how they ended up looking in my planner, cos, why not?

1. Personal Info - to be redesigned at a later date - i stuck some sticky notes on the back of this

Filofax / Paperchase personal planner reorganisation

So... this bad boy's a bit messy huh? For my main daily organisation it's doing fine, but the rest of it's a mess. I think it's time for a good reshuffle?I've not finished but here's the beginning.

I started by taking EVERYTHING out and spreading it out... photo time...

First I sorted everything already in my planner and everything on standby into piles as follows, after removing my payslips which belonged elsewhere ...

Social Media Tracking Insert (and best blog planner printables)

I've been a bit quiet for a while eh - I'm just nearing the end of m my third month at my new job and spent a month training my colleague while continuing with my normal role - so I've basically been trying to do a two person job and teach at the same time. I'm not complaining but I'm weary it's leaving me little time and energy for my hobbies including the blog!

Anyhoo,  I reckon it's pretty important, if you're going to commit to developing your social media, that you somehow track your progress. 

There are some amazing printables out there which I'll quickly share below, but these are all surplus to my needs. At the moment I just wanted to track my followers, my posts, my most popular posts. SO here is what I came up with, as an insert for my filofax:

(again, I'm printing in magenta as that's all the ink I have (we don't do much printing in this household and we're frugal with the ink and paper!))

Update of what I've done and what's to come...

Hello world! How are you doing today?

I just wanted to talk for a moment, randomly, as you do. 

Planner things to come:

images of my superschedule in use - I had a few problems with my mail merging the dates and then printing the pages off with the right things on the back of each page. BUT I fixed it YAY! I'll be uploading pics and the actual files themselves.

Reading List & Review planner inserts

Here's a quickie for you. 

I wanted to find a way to list the books I wanted, and keep track of whether I've bought them, whether started them, whether I've finished them (does anyone else have the problem where they have shelves full of unfinished books? Comment below!), a rating out of 5 and whether I've posted a review.