Out With The Old

The Malden Pocket is no more and I've been reimbursed with the cost, which makes me feel a lot better now I know what's going on. Of course, my only course of action was to zip along to the Filofax web site and order one!

I wonder when it will arrive...

And now... To Business!

Since I don't intend to turn this blog into one long-winded eternal gripe about the non-appearance of my beloved non-existing Pocket Malden...

... On with the show!


May I introduce to you, my most splendid Ranger Personal....

Originally, this was going to be thrown into one of my many bags and taken everywhere with me. Because of this, I loved the fact that it has a purse on the front of it as it would save me lugging an additional purse around in an already full bag. (Obviously this would mean I had to buy a more suitably sized bag...) 

Most spiffing, don't you think? However, as it turned out I keep it on the kitchen table and as far as I can recall, it has never made it out of the front door with me yet.

This is the inside left bit. It has 6 card holders and a mesh pocket, jolly handy for holding sticky dots and other such delightful stationery items. There's is also a full sized pocket just behind all that. The pic on the right is a top loading plastic pouch - great for holding upcoming tickets for events which in this case, got cancelled! GRRRR!

Next page is one of those clear plastic pages with others tend to call 'dashboards', so for sake of argument, I too shall call it thus. Basically, tis a thing where you can stick sticky notes and is terribly useful.

A random page of daily busyness. I found some handy re-stickable arrow type things which I label with recurring events - things like when the buckets and recycling should be put out, because I get rather confused with such things and always got them muddled up - when I remembered about them at all.
After the week is over, I just pop them onto the next relevant dates.
I also use transparent day-glo highlight stickers to put over stuff I really shouldn't forget about. These can be pulled off after the event and re-used. I also use mini sticky notes for to-do lists I have to see to before a specific thing - in this case, it was what I needed to do before a Christmas concert that weekend.

A few more plastic dashboards to store any highlighter stickies that aren't in current use

Next comes a load of stickers for general decorating.

Because you can never have enough stickers! These are of the Stickopotamus variety which are easily available.

The back page is a plastic section for business cards or other such sized items.

The inside back cover has a mesh pocket - there is also another full pocket behind.

The very back contains yet another splendid pocket, which I keep forgetting to put anything in at the moment. 

So.... there you have it, a brief intro to my personal filo. It has evolved over the year to be mainly a diary / to-do thingy and is an ongoing project, but has so far been highly useful! 

Oh Where Can It Be?

Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?Oh where do be my lovely new pocket Malden?

For those of you who may have missed the subtext there,  my eagerly awaited new Filofax of delight has not yet arrived.

I may soon have to actually post about my other preciouses soon...

Christmas Eve

Will my lovely Malden come today? Will it? I await with nervous anticipation... 

In the meantime, I've been reduced to fiddling with the pocket Metropol... 

Still Waiting...

I've been waiting so long for the arrival of my lovely new sparkly Malden Pocket Filofax that I've taken to staring at photos of the wondrous object online. Sad, I know. But it helps. Mostly.

By the way, it's not actually sparkly - it's purple. Well, I think it is as it's been soooo long since I ordered it. Over a week at least! 

In the meantime, I do have my most wonderful Ranger Personal, which I've had pretty much close to a year now - it was/is my last, desperate plan to become at least partially organised, and has been an ongoing project ever since. Amazingly, it does actually seem to be working!

I also have an A5 Domino which I've had for roughly the same time and is also a work in progress.

I'm not new to the joys of filofax though - I've always had one, pretty much since the start, and although have accumulated a few over the years, I've only really just found how they can be turned into near works of art. I spend a worrying amount of time watching, with almost orgasmic delight, the many videos on YouTube, which have had a most wonderful influence upon my current Folders of Fabulousness.  

Today, but not an hour ago, the brainwave came to me about starting my own Filofaxy Bloggy delight. I've also been toying with the idea to start my own YouTube channel where I can babble about these magnificent objects with careless abandon without having to worry about spelling everything correctly. There shall be photos aplenty, words of wisdom and mindless musings.  You have been warned...