Alexia Claire’s The Stationery Club July Unboxing

Alexia Claire’s The Stationery Club July Unboxing

SPOILER ALERT

If you have ordered the first Alexia Clare The Stationery Club box and haven’t opened it yet don’t keep scrolling as you’ll spoil it for yourself.

If you didn’t…..

Why not?

I’m very much a stationery tart as many of you already know and was incredibly excited when a few months ago the uber talented Alexia Claire announced that she was going to create and curate stationery boxes to be released monthly (on a different theme each time) for all of us fans.

July’s theme…..


Misty Mountain, stationery theme, Alexia Claire

The first box for early bird subscribers (I was in there bang in 8am!) cost just four pounds something (I forget exactly) which was a P&P charge however all subsequent boxes will be £15.00 on a rolling subscription until you choose to cancel. The full / exact details may be found via The Stationery Club page.

To the unboxing…..

I had decided to try my virgin hand at recording a YouTube video for this however thanks to tech fails you’ve escaped that horror and so get to see non-shaky photos instead.

Alexia Claire, stationery unboxing

The fun purple coloured box fits perfectly through the letterbox so no annoying “we missed you” red cards from the postie.

On opening the box we have some lovely purple tissue paper and – what’s this? It’s a furry thing! (After further investigation I’m going with the furry thing being a planner charm and a very cute one at that).

Alexia Claire

Next up we have this lovely handwritten note from Alexia herself (details of the mentioned hashtag competition were posted into the lid of the purple box and were clear to see)

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Next up we have some absolutely adorable woodland creature paper clips. I love these, especially the fox.

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Then we have four stickers, again following the Misty Mountain theme. I’m a sticker tart so these please me greatly.

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Now we have some personalised notepaper (you were asked your preferred name when signing up – very clever) and some brown envelopes.

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Then a DAILY PLANNER PAD! I adore Alexia’s planner pads, having bought the downloads for a couple via her Etsy store in the past. Again these go along with the Misty Mountain theme, are a convenient size and will definitely be used.

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This next item I am very excited about. What we have here is a little craft kit that I have no doubt my boys will show me how to use properly,

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Last but not least……. a free 40 page printable planner (and a fab quote on the back of this card).

To my horror on going to print said planner bundle I found myself out of ink (something I’ll sort later today) however take my word for it when I say WOW (I’ll add pictures for the bundle asap and link to Alexia’s own video unboxing when it goes live soon).

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The bundle (again featuring the Misty Mountain theme) includes:

  • A “This Planner Belongs To: page
  • Daily planner printables (the same as in the pad)
  • A weekly planner
  • A monthly planner
  • To Do Lists (3 different ones to a page)
  • Note pages (lined)
  • A weekly menu page
  • A large to do list (1 per page) – perfect for a clipboard
  • Important dates
  • New project planner
  • Shopping lists
  • Social media planner
  • Daily spends tracker
  • Monthly spends tracker
  • Password keeper
  • A “My Sales” tracker
  • Blog post planner
  • A full page expenses planner
  • Petrol milegae tracker
  • Business expenses (full page)
  • Reading list
  • Wish list
  • Daily positivity worksheet
  • Daily health planner
  • Today’s meals
  • Printable bookmarks
  • Monthly planners January through to December

What is great of course is that you can print whichever pages you want and need, or all of them as many times as you like. This particular planner bundle is specific to The Stationery Club too.

 

Is it worth the £15 we’ll pay for the next box? I’m going to say for me absolutely. These boxes (this is not my first!) are always a bit pot luck because they are put together with the whole group in mind. For me though I have to say there’s nothing here that will be wasted and nothing I don’t like.

Thanks Alexia, from me this is a big thumbs up!

 

The Erin Condren Deluxe Notebook with Calendar

Erin Condren Deluxe Notebook with an added calendar

As many of you will no doubt already know I have been using the Erin Condren Life Planner for a while now. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it and it has even encouraged my creative side out of hiding. I’ve decorated the daily spreads somewhat, used stickers, become more organised BUT (there’s is always a but) it hasn’t ticked all of my organisational boxes.

I’ve spent an obscene amount of time browsing blogs, YouTube videos and stalking  following my favourite stationery tarts and decided to give using a bullet journal a try. I adapted my current ECLP and used the notepaper in the back and came up with the perfect system.
Planner zen at last.

This system allows me to organise and prioritise work notes and tasks, incorporate brainstorming, lists and more while still managing a busy family and home schedule and all the appointments and reminders that comes with that.

While this notebook is larger than the popular midori set up  the size is perfect for me and I’ve included monthly spreads and monthly note pages in the front for scheduled / adavnce planning etc (this cost $15 more).

I’ll blog properly about my bullet journal soon however for now I’m just happy to introduce my Erin Condren deluxe notebook with calendar.

The notebook comes with:

  • 12 monthly spreads (starting from whatever month you choose)
  • Monthly note pages
  • 132 lined pages
  • 21 designer blank pages
  • A double sided sleeve for storing papers
  • A clear sealable pocked for storage
  • A page of date dots to use on the monthly spreads
  • A clip in ruler / page marker
  • Removeable covers 
  • A voucher for ordering a personalised divider (I didn’t order dividers as I have two ruler/page markers I can use if I want).
  • An assortment of stickers, postcards, sample coil clips, a sample page of EC Do it All Dot stickers
  • Referral cards (gives someone $10 off their order and I beleive $10 credit to the person whose link is used). I’ve not included my referral link but feel free to comment and I’ll email you it or contact me via the contact us page if you aren’t on my FB etc.

I can vouch for the paper quality already as this isn’t my first EC.

Keep your eyes open for a new post shortly about how I’m using this as my schedule / bullet journal.