Just Add Stickers

It is time, once again for my reading journal set up post.  This year I decided to incorporate my reading journal into my daily planner. I ended up with far too many planners last year. By the end of this year I might decide that my planner is far too full and go back to using separate journals. We will see what works out best. I had my last readingg journal for 2023 , 2024 and 2025 . Each year had a distinct sections with reviews and books trackers. For my book tracker last year, I stamped different colored flowers for each book that I read. The end result was a beautiful reading garden of 36 colorful flowers.  In order to add everything into my Happy Planner this year, I purchased a tracker bundle from Etsy. I am very excited to use this new book tracker. I printed out 2 copies of this book tracker page, punching out holes in one of the pages to add it into my planner. I cut out the little books from the extra page and taped them on top of the little books in my planner. Th...

  I am so excited to start my planner for 2026 and to share my new setup! I have been thinking about this planner for months, yes months. I was not happy with my planner from last year. For many years I have used Happy Planners, for 2025 I decided that I wanted to try something different. I chose a planner written and published locally. I chose it for the extra pages at the end of the planner, there were habit trackers, size trackers for members of the family and a whole expense tracker section. The day to day layout wasn't exactly what I wanted, however. In July I ended up switching for a smaller planner and in December I printed out some festive habbit tracker pages and tucked them into my original planner. By the end of the year I ended up with a mish-mash planner. I decided to go back to my favorite planner the Happy Planner classic planner. To make it even more perfect I got the Gilmore Girls Happy Planner for Christmas. With the matching planner stickers. My sister and mom al...