Shop Update: 2015 Daily Planner Printable

It’s here!!! I finally finished my 2015 Daily Planner Printable and I couldn’t be more excited!! It’s now available in my Etsy Shop!

 

Once purchased, you’ll get an automatic email with the PDF available for instant download! So what’s inside?
You get a beautiful colourful Cover page, and personal information page, then a 2015 and 2016 Year At A Glance spread calendar.

 

2 page monthly spreads are then followed by pre-dated side by side weekly spreads of 2015 from Jan to Dec. Weekly notes and daily meal planning are included over the 2 colourful weekly pages. There is also a highlighted section at the top of each day for the most important notes first.

 

This planner is designed in A5 size (210 x 148mm or 5.8″ x 8.3″) and to be printed front and back. You can take it to be professionally printed, but if you prefer not to and have a perfectly good printer at home – just print it yourself – I did! I printed mine out on A4 sheets (297 x 210mm or 8.26″ x 11.69″) and trimmed it by hand. Just make sure the proportions and size of the document stays true to size. You’ll need to feed the printed pages back through the printer to print front and back – but the end result is worth it! Look how pretty it is! I can’t wait to start using it!

But wait, that’s not all! I also included some extra add-on pages – Meeting Notes Pages, Notes Pages, Contacts Pages and Presents Pages (for jotting down present ideas). And the awesome thing about printables is that you can print as many copies as you like! These extra pages can be printed multiple times to build up your planner.

You can snag all of these planner pages as an instant download file! Yay! Right here, right now!

My favourite Planner Binder is kikki.K‘s Leather Personal Planners. They are super cute and constantly come out with some great colours. Mine one is from their Lilac & Gold collection. It comes with dividers for your extra add-on pages so you have them sectioned off. It does comes with it’s own notes pages too! It also has 3 pages of stickers and labels which you can use in your planner! There are pockets to hold pens, stickers, post-it notes and small notebooks. I love it!

I’m thinking of working on some colourful stickers and labels to go with the planner highlighting more special events and reminders as well as more extra add-on pages. If you don’t already know I have a Blog Schedule Planner and a Budget Planner already in my store which can all be used in the one planner.

Got any other suggestions? Please let me know! I hope you get a lot of love from this!

Happy Planning!

M x

Blog Planner and Budget Planner Printables

I recently added a new item to my store: The Perpetual Daily Planner which will help those who like to be super organized and have day to day tasks, ideas, reminders, meal planning all in the one place.

I had mentioned that I would be creating add-on planners and here are two!

For those that love to blog - a Blog Planner.

Keep track of your blog posts, schedules, ideas and upcoming blog projects. Everything you want to record on the one page! What's the post about? What photos do you want to include? Any links? Don't forget to include your tags to the post and check off whether you share it across your social media. Check off steps from drafting to publishing and even jot down a follow-up idea for the future!

For those that want to keep their finances in order - a Budget Planner.

 Keep track of your daily expenses, determine a monthly budget and record a monthly summary, and track all your credit card purchases with this simple Budget Planner. This printable is a great way to record your income, expenses/bills, differences and spendings. Write notes and goals on how you can improve.

These two organizational planners works great in A5 size binders or ring bounded notebooks. They can be used by itself without the whole Daily Planner if that's what you want, or, have everything all in the one binder! You choose! Print these out yourself, shuffle them all in a planner or binder of your choice, and print multiple copies for as long as you wish!

Click these links now to get them: Blog Planner Printable or Budget Planner Printable or Perpetual Daily Planner.

I hope you enjoy.

X

Shop Update: Meal and Exercise Planner Set

Just added this little gem to my store!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. My husband and I have been looking at buying a house and it's seriously a mentally exhausting job! It pretty much takes up most of our Saturdays!

I've also been doing a few posts on Mockeri as well.

In between all that, I've been working on this Meal and Exercise Set for Tinys and Tea. It's got a Monthly Meal Planner, Weekly Diet Planner, Workout Trackers, Profile Updates and more. Go to it now for a more detailed description.

Hope you make good use out of them!

6 Things I Want In My Life

1. Rising Garland Skirt from Zimmermann $245 AU

2. Hakuna Matata Cushion Cover by Sarah Eshak from Society6 $20 US

3. Engraved Rabbit Signet Ring by Laura Lee from ASOS $210.24 AU

4. Brazil Nut Body Scrub from The Body Shop $27.95 AU

5. Pompom Sweater from YesStyle $42 AU

 

6. Mr. Fox Poster by oanabefort from Etsy $43.39 AU

Sunday Picks

I think I wasted half of the weekend sleeping in! So exhausted! I blame the warm weather, just makes me so sleepy. I've also been taking baths all week because we painted the tiles in the shower. I've forgotten how nice a good bath can be. And it's got me reading again!

Here are my Sunday picks:

Favourite recipe: Vietnamese Chicken Salad (Lifestylefood. Recipe here)

Favourite colour scheme: Spring Tones (design seeds)

Favourite Mac game: Hobby Farm (Big Fish Games)

 

Favourite Etsy store: Belle & Boo - adorable illustrations

What are your favourites?

Have a beautiful week!

Mel xx

Sunday Picks

Rain, rain go away. What's with all the rain lately? It's nearly October!! Come on Mr. Sun, back to work! I hope everyone had a great week! I've been hitting the gym lately, and I feel really good about it! I've been going 6 times a week, and it amazes me how fast you can get fit! I ran 8km yesterday! I feel very proud of myself.
So anyway, here are my Sunday picks.
P.S GO MANLY!!

Edit: It IS October! That's how much I've been paying attention! D'oh!

Favourite Craving: (Seriously Happy Meal) - It's a cupcake cookie!

Favourite Colour Scheme: Gumdrop Hues (Design Seeds)

Favourite wedges: (urbanog)

Favourite lolly buffet: (The Wedding Ladies)

Favourite Etsy Store: (Petit Plat) - Deliciously Inedible.

 

What's your favourite?

Have a beautiful week!
Mel xx

Featured in Etsy Treasury!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to report that my "The Three Bears" note card illustrations have been featured in the "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" treasury!!! It's super exciting!! Look at all those other cute handmade items other Etsy sellers are selling! SO CUTE! Thanks so much!

Check it all out here.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Mel xx

NEW ITEMS

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend has been fun so far!

Just a quick post showing some new things going up in my store.

First up, I've had a super nice customer request a special custom order of a gorgeous cupcake charm bracelet and ariel necklace for her daughter for chistmas! She wanted the mermaid necklace to look similar to Ariel from The Little Mermaid as it's her daughter's fave movie (mine too!)

I thought the necklace I made was sooo gorgeous that I had to make an earring set too! Unfortunately both the charm bracelet and necklace is reserved but the earrings are available in my store now.

I also made up these cute notecards with my sweets illustrations that pop out of the cards (like 3D!) There's 4 cards, with matching envelopes and they all have different sweets.

Lastly, I designed a helpful food diary/planner. It's a printable PDF format available in my store so all you need to do is print and use! Great for those who want to keep track of what they're eating (and make sure you're not eating one too many cupcakes before Christmas!)

Holidays and Celebrations,

Mel xx

4th January 2010

A little while ago I told you guys that I'm designing a diary date page for the 2010 diary project which is run by the fabulous Lucy. Go here if you can't remember what I'm talking about.

Well, the design has finally been finished and here it is! The real one will actually be in black and white but I wanted to show you guys how I designed it in colour! It was so much fun designing this and I'm so excited to see the final completed diary with all the other amazing artists around the world!

The diary won't be printed until sometime in September though so I've got a while to wait!

Better late than never!

It's taken me ages to finally post this but hoorah!! I call this style of this drawing - light and fluffy because it's so incredibly cute in a quirky way! This drawing I did months ago inspired by the lovely tale of Billy Goats Gruff has finally been posted in my store! Apologies to all who has been waiting for this to come out!! You get 5 postcards in this posting - go to my store for more details!

Sorry that it's been a while for me to post something about my artwork! I've been thinking about getting more into doing stationery work and am in the process of doing up some cute designs for notepads, to-do-lists, note cards, letter paper, envelopes, invites and announcements. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I've found however is how long it takes to print and ship each design/drawing I do!!!! (about 3-4 weeks - I get them professionally printed - I find my printer at home just does not cut it with the quality I want.) So, I've found a solution (which a lot of other etsy sellers have already started doing!!) and that's to sell PDF designed templates so that all you have to do is print it out yourself on what ever surface/paper/texture you want!!! I may decide to print some of the most popular ones later down the track though!

I'll let you guys know how I'm doing!!

xx

Cupcake Giveaway

This is exciting news! Cupcake obsessed Suzi from Minnesota contacted me in regards to some of my cupcake jewellery for a giveaway she's having on her amazing blog. It's such a great idea and something I may have to consider doing in the future! She's giving away a pair of my cute and delicious purple cupcake earrings and an adorable cupcake necklace to anyone that comments to her post SO GO THERE NOW before you miss out!

While you're there don't forget to read along her other posts and follow her blog, it really is an interesting read, you won't be disappointed.

Suzi - Thanks again so much.

A Talented Artist: rkdsign88

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on this fantastic etsy shop by Rita. I bought a gorgeous and adorable print of a girl holding a tray of a teapot/teacup set. But there are much more talented artworks that is available to buy from her shop (and so cheap too). Here are only just a selected few of my faves.

She is incredibly kind, generous and easy to talk to. I remember when I received my order in the post I was flushed with such excitement it made up week! The print was more than I could ever imagine and also included extra treats! I framed it straight away, hung it on my wall and it looks so cute!

Everything in her store is a pleasure to look at, and it doesn't hurt if you're also obsessed with cupcakes and tea like I am.

Check it out now! and also have a peek at her fantastic blog!

NEW ITEMS

A few of my Alice in Wonderland Postcards have been delivered and are now available to buy at my store so come check it out!

Tea Party in Wonderland

All gathered around the table for a tea party. Everyone had their own ideas on a conversation starter:
Alice: "It would be so nice if something made sense once in a while".
Chesher Cat: "Can you stand on your head?"
Queen of Hearts: "Off with your head".
White Rabbit: "I'm late!"
Mad Hatter: "Why is a Raven like a writing desk?"

and The Chesher Cat began: "We're all mad around here"....

I'm everywhere

Well not really. But I'm trying my hardest to be everywhere!

So I've set up my store on facebook and created a Flickr account. Flickr is great! I'm still a newbie at it though but I had a look at groups and there's so many I can join! I joined Australian Polymer Clay, Aussie Polymer Clay, Anything Polymer Clay and Polymer Clay Today. I think I've become a Polymer clay freak! But it's so exciting to be part of a group! And I've made some new friends along the way!

Everyday I found more and more stuff on polymer clay and different techniques and ideas! I've found so many artists that work with polymer clay and their work is fantastic! If only I could be as good as them :(

Beginning

Exciting news!! I have decided to go into business! Doing what? Well let me tell you! Let's start at the beginning...

There's this really cool online marketplace called www.etsy.com that I have become addicted to! Here you can find a whole range of handmade stuff (jewellery, clothes, paintings, stationery, books, you name it!) And the sellers are ordinary people from all around the world! Genius!

This is a perfect place for a crafty/design enthusiast like me who has always dreamed about making her own artwork and selling it to others! But what would be my art? Well, after many hours of researching and clicking links I found the perfect idea! Polymer clay...and let me tell you, it's addictive!

So there I was, playing with clay, molding cupcakes, ice-creams, muffins, cakes, animals, hotdogs, and movie characters to be made into cute and adorable earrings, necklaces, mobile phone charms and more! The ideas just kept coming: tv characters, book characters, gaming characters, different foods, matching things and even sporting teams! THEN I had ideas on doing charm bracelets, leather wraps, and pandora style beaded wrapped bracelets (it's so popular at the moment). Playing the polymer clay is so much fun! I was determined more than ever to set up my own shop and sell sell sell!

Having a design background has helped me tremendously. I had to design my own shop banner, profile, business cards, and stickers for packaging. I also had a few marketing ideas up my sleeve to try and kick-start my business. Once everything was in place it was definately time to register my shop!

I took several photos of my products and calculated all my costs. My shop http://tinys.etsy.com was up and running in no time. Everything looked great - the banner, profile, announcement, shipping, policies - I was so excited! But now all I could do was wait....(how long will it take for someone to buy something? Would people like it?)

But I didn't have to wait long! My first sale came through within 24hours of setting it up! and then another 2 the next 24 hours! Good sign so far don't you think?! I am so excited!

So that's a lot to take in, in one post! But things were on a roll and I thought setting up this blog to write down my progress and the life of Tinys would be a fun and interesting adventure!

Til next time
Tiny Love