{"id":334,"date":"2015-02-22T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/?p=334"},"modified":"2023-11-27T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:12:01","slug":"using-my-sketchbook-as-a-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/using-my-sketchbook-as-a-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"Using My Sketchbook as a Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I listened to a really fun and informative podcast<\/a> by The Scrap Gals on the topic of Memory Planners – using a  planner to help stay organized and also save as a scrapbook-like keepsake with photos, decorative papers and all kinds of other fun things that we associate with scrapbooking<\/a>. I’ve saved old planners or calendars on occasion because the records in them really bring back vivid memories. Memory planners are a really great idea but I don’t anticipate having the kind of time to exploit the idea to the fullest.<\/p>\n

One idea on the podcast that really had me intrigued was the idea of combining an art journal with a planner. This got me thinking. I have kept sketchbooks since 1985 and I’ve saved all of them. They have a lot of thumbnail sketches and notes about future projects in them, and occasionally other things that get in there because it’s the handiest blank paper around – supply lists, to-do lists, hours that I’ve worked for various clients to be transferred to electronic records later, web site notes, class notes, things like that.<\/p>\n

A sketchbook could incorporate aspects of a planner. I have rubber stamps in my Carolyn’s Stamp Store<\/a> collection with months, years, and days of the week – designed for memory crafts, but adaptable for making a planner too. I also have several sets of letter and number rubber stamps and stencils from other companies, some are even vintage. Along with my rubber stamps, I got out a pencil and ruler and started playing around with page layouts.<\/p>\n

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First page layout experiment – two weeks per page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used the wall calendar that I keep in my office as a reference and filled in the first two weeks. On this first attempt I tried to include 14 days per 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook page.  Some good things were happening, but I decided that I needed more room for each day. As a result I came up with this second layout:<\/p>\n

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One week per page with To Do list on the side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the layout I’m going to stick with for awhile.  The month, day and year stamps are from my own Carolyn’s Stamp Store<\/a>. The large numbers are from ‘Lil Davis Designs<\/a> and the pointing hand and ruled lines stamp are from 7gypsies<\/a>. A page like this is quick to throw together. My stamping got a little sloppy there on the numbers but this is pretty much for my eyes only so it’s not a big deal. My plan is to add a new week as needed wherever the next blank page happens to fall in my sketchbook. I’ll write in things like work schedules and appointments and also make a brief note about what I did that day. I went through my rubber stamp collection and picked out ones I thought suitable for journaling and put them all together in a bin with the inks I used on this page so they’ll be handy when I need them.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to this new way of getting organized and recording my activities. When this sketchbook is full, I may switch to a 3-ring binder and put 8.5 x 11 inch sheets of drawing paper in it, with the flexibility of adding additional pages wherever I want of any kind of paper or cardstock if I want to expand the memory aspect of the planner\/sketchbook combo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I listened to a really fun and informative podcast by The Scrap Gals on the topic of Memory Planners – using a  planner to help stay organized and also save as a scrapbook-like keepsake with photos, decorative papers and all kinds of other fun things that we associate with scrapbooking. I’ve saved old planners … Continue reading Using My Sketchbook as a Planner<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,20],"tags":[349,345,351,353,346,341,340,352,1350,174,343,209,342,347,348,350,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}