Planning

 My name’s Louise and I’m addicted to stationary. This isn’t a new thing, I’ve always had a love of notebooks, posh pens, journals and planners.

The stationary I typically use each day

Despite having a plethora of apps for planning and organisation available to me, I still favour the tangible action of writing down my appointments. Making plans on paper, and even (occasionally) decorating my pages with stickers and junk.

I’m notoriously bad at sticking to one planner for a year, often changing tack part way through. When I bought this 18 month diary back in July 2024, I thought that trying to stick with it would be a good exercise for me. Turns out it was because here we are, working through the last month of high days and holidays and I did, indeed, stick with it.

Over the 18 months, it’s become emblazoned with random stickers, many put on by little miss. I quite like the ragged and well worn look of it now.

I’ve already set up my planner for next year, and it already has plans in it. I bought this Louis Vuitton planner back in 2019. I’ve used it on and off over the years, and so it will be back in action for 2026.

It’s small enough to carry in my bags, but the trade off is that I have to use inserts with smaller spaces for each day. Not a problem though as I can do more detailed planning elsewhere but this will be my everyday carry.

Let’s see if I can stick with it, 12 months should be easy!