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Valloween, where Halloween meets Valentine's Day. It makes total sense to me, what is scarier than love? Just kidding but there is something to be said for celebrating Valentine's Day (or any holiday)  in a way that speaks to you. This year I am absolutely loving this trend of ghosts enjoying different seasons and activities!  I always have a few ghost decorations out year round but there is something so cute about a little ghost holding a red heart. More and more, I am seeing ghosties in the stores outside of Halloween, which I think is great for spooky people! To embrace this twist on Valentine's Day, I decorated with a spooky winter forest vibe with touch of red and pink.  When I was taking down my Christmas decorations I decided to leave out these grey felt trees and some snowflakes. I wanted to keep a wintery feel in my decorations. These trees remind me trees in group of 7 paintings, civered in snow and swaying in the wind. I added these pink and snowflakes and of c...

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...