Monday, 30 September 2013

Trying to DIY Inserts for Filofax

Finally had an hour to try and customise a "to-do" list for my personal sized filofax, which, incidently, is in the mail.

I found a "How To" guide, to set up MS-Word margins and page layout, for personal sized paper.  I added a very basic table, where I can write in a "to-do" and added a box next check box for each new to-do.

Google had some pretty, free images for clipart borders.  I found a nice, corner, butterfly border and a purple flower border.  After some faffing around, I now have a couple of, possibly, usable pages.  Which look far better than some plain ones I've seen.


Sunday, 29 September 2013

Introduction

I'm Kirsty, mum to Chinedu and Tochi.  Chinedu means "God leads", in Igbo.  He is just 2 yrs old and going through temper tantrums.  Also known as, "terrible two's".

As much as my husband, Chris, and I love him, the screaming when we tell him no and the temper tantrums, can end up driving a person up the wall.

Week days, he waits until his dad has left the house and then decides to play me up.  Grabbing things he knows he should not touch and when told no, runs off screaming, into his room.
He also has a very sweet and cute side.  He'll climb up on the sofa in the evening, lay his head on my lap to fall asleep, while holding my hand or a finger.

Chinedu also has a younger sister, Tochi, meaning "Thank God".  She is 9 weeks old and born the same day as Prince George, almost exactly 2 hrs before.  Although Chris is also her father, her skin tone look caucasian, paler than Chinedu.

Our poor little girl is a bit restless at present, after having her first vaccinations Monday and her BCG today.  Evidently, the regular vaccinations make them feel worse than the BCG.
She has the cutest smile and coos when she does so.  She weighed 9lb 3oz at birth.  Chinedu was 7lb 3oz.  So Tochi's size was quite a shock, but we guessed she would be bigger than Chinedu due to me looking like  I'd swallowed one of those huge exercise balls, when carrying her.  Plus I was in a lot more discomfort, especially as she kept kicking my sciatic nerve for the last 2 months of pregnancy.

I've very stupidly been trying to remember things I need to do, while running around after our two little people.  Needless to say, I have baby brain and kept forgetting a lot.  Last week, I ordered a pocket sized Filofax, the Breast Cancer Campaign version.

I found a few blogs where people had customised theirs.  I really loved this idea.  My problem is, I'm having trouble deciding on the label names I want for my dividers, without over stuffing it before I've even written anything.
I was thinking of using the following:

To-do
Diary
Chinedu
Tochi ( I jot down things they do, achieve or say to record later, in their baby journals).
Notes
I may end up changing these of course.

I love stationary, always have.  This customisation, provides me with the opportunity to indulge my love of all things stationary-like.