Friday 4 September 2015

Very mini haul

I was out doing errands for my mother today and I've reached the habit of checking out Dollar stores.  I've been on hunt for a specific type of pens sold at Dollarama and I finally found them (after visiting 4 other locations in the past 2 weeks).  I went elsewhere to continue mom's errands and went to another "Dollar Store".  I was about to walk back out when I finally found the quarter aisle of stationary.  I found a plain-ish set of star stickers for a dollar.  And then I saw the stamps - and not the cheap, crappy ones expected at a dollar store.  These ones are the same brand as the ones I've found at Michaels so I left with 2 of them and will be using them in my planner...obviously.


I also learned this week that not all Michaels stores are the same.  I went to a location that was by my old workplace, to see if I could find stickers and such for the Happy Planner.  I couldn't find the planner section at all, not even for their house brand, self building set. I asked the cashier and she said their location wasn't slotted to get the planners and therefore didn't get anything to do with planners.  That's just not right.

Thursday 3 September 2015

Happy I didn't wait

The "planners" I was waiting for, arrived today. I learned that I need to read descriptions more carefully.


It's still a nice enough but it's definitely not a planner.


It has potential if I make my own pages for it. One is definitely going to be used as is as a notebook. The other one will be set aside until I am better at making custom pages for it.

The brown one has an old leather feel to it, which I really like.  The green one is nice in colour but it doesn't feel anything like the brown one.