Diaries and Organisation

I love organising. If you hadn't already noticed, I am slightly organisation-obsessed. I have a diary that I keep with me at all times, with all my lectures written out neatly, all in different, colour coded colours, sometimes with sticky notes and/or stickers. Yep, I know, slightly over the top, but every time someone sees my diary, they want to have a look through it, so I must be doing something right? Or do they just want to find out what my secrets are? Jokes, I don't have many, I'm a bit boring and like cats a little too much... (he is a picture of the perfect organiser for me)

Anywayyy, back to talking about organising myself... From time to time, I become a super organised person, always ready to take on new DIY challenges and accomplish something wonderful. The amount of times that those hopes and dreams never become more than just hopes and dreams is a lot more than the times when my ideas were actually completed to the end. When I complete something that I had started, not only DIY projects but things like a 5km run or that dreaded Sociology essay, I feel like the President of the United States of America or like I had just climbed Mount Everest. I'm sure you all know of 'that amazing feeling' when you hand in your assignments and feel like you can run free with the imaginary horses and then burn all the revision notes while you're making yourself some corn-on-the-cob, it's beautiful. Okay, going on a tangent here, but you know what I mean. I love finishing projects. I love seeing the end result of something which I have spent ages making. However for me, that isn't ever possible unless I use a diary and a very large amount of coloured pens to established what I will be doing next.

Here are my top 3 diary brands, which I researched when I was trying to find my perfect 2017 diary!
*All the websites have been tagged on the main heading! Please go visit them!*

1) Paperchase!

Who doesn't love a bit of Paperchase in their lives? From the animal shaped rubbers to pens of all shapes and sizes, Paperchase never disappoints. Their diaries and notebooks section is what dreams are made of. I have been a proud lover of Paperchase products since Year 11 in High School, which was 4 years ago (I feel so old now). I have had diaries from there 3 years in a row and let's say it's always a struggle to leave that place without purchasing myself a wonderful and pink and sparkly notebook or diary, even though I already have 6 on the go. They diaries are around the £7 mark, give or take a few pounds off! And let's say, they are worth every penny. The current one which I have is from Paperchase! It's a new design that I hadn't seen before which attracted me to it the moment I saw it. It has incredibly cute inspirational quotes on every page and it is so colourful I want to be it. Enough obsessing over my diary for today, but honestly, if you haven't tried the Paperchase diaries, I would say you've been missing out on a lot!

Here is a very old picture of some Paperchase diaries! I chose this one because there is a variety of different designs shown!

2) Rymans

Rymans diaries are a lot less expensive than Paperchase. Their diaries are still the style of Paperchase ones, however they are for those of us on a budget and the not-so-perfectionist-y ones of us! I remember seeing one of their diaries for £1.50 and it was a perfectly good bright pink one. I am, however, a bit picky with my diaries and I like them to be more than one colour, so Rymans isn't really for me. However for those of you not as picky as me, I would say go for it!

Here is an example of what these diaries look like!

3) Erin Condren

Erin Condren planners are a bit of a weird addiction, which includes you decorating your diary every week and then obsessing over it for the next couple of weeks while posting photos of this diary of yours. At least that's what I did. My Erin Condren planner experience was amazing. It made me feel super organised all the time and I had slots for almost everything is the little laptop-style bag which I also got for myself. I had bookmarks, highlighters and all other stationary you can name (which funnily enough I got from Paperchase!)

It was however, a bit of a struggle doing all the weekly designs, choosing what theme I will be going for, matching it to the seasons and everything along those lines, it's brilliant. The price of Erin Condren planners is what makes me feel a little sick every time I look them up... and let me just say, they are a ton more expensive than any other diaries which I have ever had and I wouldn't recommend anyone purchase this diary unless they are 100% sure that they will love it until the last page - I am very bad in this respect as sometimes, I just leave my diary for the week and write everything on a post-it note... Not good, I don't recommend it!

However, if you do have an Erin Condren planner, I would strongly recommend you look on Etsy for stickers of all kind, and if you are from the USA, I recommend you look at Elle Fowler's Etsy sticker shop, there are all sorts of beautiful stickers! Press here to be re-directed to her Etsy page!

For this section of the post, I decided, instead of looking through Google Images, I was going to put a screenshot of the webpage - it's so pretty!