Showing posts with label Arc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arc. Show all posts

03 April 2012

Staples Arc Notebook Diary Creation

I got home last night and I have a little look at my Arc notebook and at the moment I officially Love it! But I do miss my Filofax, so it wont be long before I am back in that, maybe this shall just be a notebook, but then I do not want to carry both around!

Well last night I went for a lovely walk up to the Mound...its like a small hill, its a burial chamber I believe, supposed to have a boat in there too or something?  And on my walk I thought a lot about what I wanted to do with my Arc and how I wanted to do it.

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When I got home from the walk I had decided I wanted to have four boxes on the left page, for Monday-Thursday and three larger ones on the right page from Friday to Sunday, as the weekend then has more space!

What I used to do this was some pens, but I had to decide on the colour etc... I wanted to use...

In the end I went for my Neon Gelly pens... I chose Pink and Orange, Pink for the week, Orange for the weekend!

My first go at drawing lines went a bit smudged, but then all my line drawings I did seemed to get smudged I do not know what I was doing wrong!  Maybe too impatient!

My next issue after drawing all the lines was to write in the dates and days etc...

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I had a go and it went WRONG I wrote Monday where Tuesday was etc.... so I had to start all over again!

This time I decided to write the numbers in a different colour to the day, I wrote the week days in neon green and weekends in neon yellow, but changed half way though to metallic pink and the neon yellow was barley viable!

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Then I made the mistake of getting out my sticker collection.....oh no....

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This is only half....

I decided that I should make the pages a bit prettier but I was not feeling creative at all and I feel a bit disappointed with my attempts at making it pretty!

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Oh and I have used the post it note sheet as the rule, I am really not too sure how long this will last, as if I am honest, I DO NOT LIKE IT, I don't know what it is but I just do not like it!

Close up of my homemade diary...

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I will do another blog post in a few days to show the final set up as my dividers should be coming today and also my little list sheet things....eeek the excitement is overwhelming!!!

I hope you have enjoyed this little trip in to the world of my Arc Notebook Diary Creation!!!
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02 April 2012

Staples Arc Notebook Haul

First things first..... I HATE THIS NEW BLOGGER!!!

Now back to the subject in hand...

On Sunday at the Philofaxy Roundtable we started to discuss this new notebook from Staples called the Arc. As I do I got all excited there was lots of screaming and eeeking etc.... I feel sorry for the people listening to me!

Here is a little video demonstration from the lovely FAKE Alex


Today at lunch time I rushed off to Staples and dragged poor Sian along!

Here are my purchases... I had to order some from Staples online which will get here tomorrow!

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Leather A5 Black cover (in America they have PINK)

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Pockets :-) 

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Sticky notes :-) 

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To-do lists 

Online I ordered some coloured dividers and the small little note list sheet things!

I am going to try set it up as a diary, and have a dashboard at the front using one of the dividers, it is going to be oh so amazing!!! It also has a pen holder and all, so it is pretty amazing!!

I am very excited to set this up, and start to plan things, I will try and do photo step by step as I set it up!

I will be drawing my own diary pages, maybe doing some doodles too so it will be Dodo padish maybe? But in an Imysworld way!!!

I just had to share my purchase with you as I am so excited to use it!!!

The paper seems lovely too touch, it is 100gsm which is good :-) And I need to take out alot of the pages as I do not need to carry that much.

I am planning on having the following sections:

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Planning - Youtube, Blog, Travel etc

Lists

 Need to think about the other sections, but I am going to do the tabs using sticky notes to make it easy to change!

I am seriously so excited about all this!!! I hope you enjoy my little journey! I will try and make a Youtube video about the whole thing too!!! :-)

So you can all buy one CLICK HERE - Ps the paper is BEAUT! 
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