Parragon Life Canvas - Partial Review - Part 1

A little while ago a company called Parragon contacted me asking if I would like to see their new range and do a review! I got very excited about this! The products looked amazing, and are amazing!

To see the full range click on THIS LINK and then choose if you are in the UK, USA or AUSTRALIA!!!

I just wanted to share there magical introduction video!! Have a watch:

They sent me a large range with two bits to give away, the competition will be in a week or so once I finish announcing the winners of the National Stationery Week posts, as I do not want to do just one post on these as some of the items I would love to go into more detail, this is sort of an outline post.

It isn't all visable, but there are two Notebook Organiser Sets, a Doodle Diet Diary, Travel Journal and two My Life books.

If you are really in to making lots and lots of lists, these products really are for you!!!

First of all, the Travel Journal, this has lots of sections, I have photographed a few of these and put them below, I will list them too!

When you open it, you can see a little envelope on the left then a notebook on the right, inside (even though I didn't photograph it) are a sheet of stickers, I didn't realise they were there! On the other side is the notebook which is full of places to make lists!

First of all are a few list sections, Things to do before, Things to pack. It then goes on to the journal section which has lovely patterns on each, there are quite a few pages, I didn't count them but below are a few of my favorites!

At the back it has a Favorites section which is to write different places, the sections they give are, restaurants, bars and clubs, cafes, hotels and shopping! There are plenty of places to write addresses and details of each, it really is an amazing idea if you are going on an around the world trip or to a few places on one holiday!

At the very back there is a map to mark where you have been, a map with time zones, currency list and measurements lists.

They have thought so much about this and put loads of effort in to all the details, it really is an amazing product. It costs £8.00 which I think is very reasonable.

Next The two My Life books:

I received two of these one to give away one to keep.

The only way I can think of describing these is.......A LISTERS PARADISE!

They have lots of sections and a place for you to write your own:

• Notes
• To-do
• Ideas
• Music
• Books
• Films
• Websites 

They retail at £8.00 also which is very good!

The butterfly one looks like this inside:

Throughout both there is different patterns on the majority of the pages, they have repeated some but it is still so amazing to not have the same boring paper over and over, I love their ideas of using pretty patterns, things like this really draw me in to products!

This is Part 1 of the review, I will do Part 2 tomorrow!

Midori Traveler's Notebook Unpacking - London Haul #1

Sorry for the small quietness on my blog, I know I have been very regular recently, daily in fact, I had scheduled lots and lots of posts and had it scheduled for 10 days, but then over the past 3 weeks I have been extremely busy!

Last weekend I had Bristol, and the past two days I have been in London for the Hospital, my 6 monthly check up, I had scans, blood test, and appointments, I was in all morning! I even had 5 medical students watching my appointment, felt very scary having them all listening to you! But it is over for another 6 months, YAY!! So It is time to get on with blogging. As I went to hospital I had to buy somethings to cheer me up, not that I could actually afford any of it, but if I hadn't I would of regretted it very much so!

Here is my reveal of my Midori Traveler's Notebook, which usually online costs £40, which I managed to get for £27.20! It was in a kind of Japanese Department Store (I think) it was like walking in to a house with lots of stuff on sale, and downstairs there was a shop called JP Books.

To get to this store all you need to do is get off the tube a Piccadilly and then go down Regent Street (away from Oxford Street, the opposite direction), and it is on the left hand side!

ADDRESS:

JPT EUROPE LTD. - Trading as JP-BOOKS
c/o Mitsukoshi 

Dorland house
14-20 Regent Street 

London 

SW1Y 4PH

The Department store is called... Mitsukoshi

When you go inside, walk all the way to the back of the shop, and then when there are some stairs through a door way walk downstairs, there is a sign about a bus or something (I cannot read Japanese). When you get to the bottom of the stairs it is like a chocolate shop, turn to the right and you see a shop full of magazines and books, as you enter turn right by the till and there are the Midori notebooks, and there are some inserts, I just wanted to buy the cover. I didn't look to see if there was any other stationery but as far as I know there is other stationery (another trip in April I think).

The staff were very nice and friendly and I very much enjoyed going there even though I felt so shy as I was concerned there could be a language barrier as I overheard them talking to all the other customers in Japanese!

Here is the beautiful Midori Traveler's Notebook (FINALLY you are all saying) (from here on there will only be pictures as I have to leave work) Thanks for looking and if you have any questions let me know!!!

Sorry about the rubbish photos but it was late in my hotel room!!!

Any requests let me know, if you want any specific videos about it let me know!!

Thank you for reading!!!

London Haul # 2 coming TOMORROW!!!

Travel Planning?!

Oh look who is back, for a second time in one day!

Yes I had to do another blog post as I had said I would do it yesterday and never got around to it, I am also going to give you an update on the Filofax Experiment, I will obviously do a full post on my findings at the end!

So this is all about my OCDness when it comes to planning trips on the train anywhere whether it be a day trip to a local town or a trip to London for a day, a week, a month, a few days etc, you get the idea, well I once bought this Moleskine London trip planner! I used this for the second ever time I went to London without my parents, it came in handy as we were too scared to catch the tube, so we walked everywhere!

This is the front of the book, I bought it from Waterstones around 5 years ago! Wow that’s a long time I didn’t realise it was that long ago……

I might add a bit of this into my book…hmmm…..

So when you open it you get the usual thing where you can write your details, which I never did, which may have been useful as if I lost this notebook I would have been lost! Properly! (just to let you know, when I go up now I always plan in a Filofax then photocopy the pages, as I don’t really like to travel with too much when I go to London as I'm usually carrying one bag for 2 days).

I didn’t open it on this page for any specific reason! Just first page I opened at, was for some reason marked with the page marker….i don’t remember going there either?

You don’t have to draw on the map either as it comes with like post it not style tracing paper to mark out your routes you want to take which is VERY useful and if you use pencil you can re-use, which I didn’t do! Will show you the tracing paper at the end as its in the pocket at the back.

Next you have a tabulated section :-

 

I love the word tabulated, is it even a word??

I kept al tickets in the back ready for use.

So the first secion written in was appointments and outings, here is what I wrote all those years ago

My planning is A LOT neater and more organised these days I write every tube station to the last second I need to change at etc…. but I do have problems I know, who needs that much detail, I'm a bit of a control freak about things like this, I'm out of my comfort zone I need to be prepared so I feel safe, my plans are like my blanket that keep me safe from people hurting me! Now that just sounds mental.

Here is the next section:  -

This was the hotel arrangements, I had to book two rooms as I was going in for an operation I was only in one, for a night then my parents were in one etc…. so confusing, I'm slightly confused about all this as this was not a book I took for my operation, so I don’t know if we had to change rooms half way though our trip or what happened, as this wasn’t my op trip it was the one before to say I wanted an op…to find out about the op and all read my book in 500 years when I finish writing it. I loose motivation you see!

It appears I used this for two separate trips as you can tell there are more train planning behind this one! I bet you love the way how I'm discussing with myself all that’s going on with this book, even I get confused with this early practice planning before the hard core stuff I do today! (BTW this was before secretary school where I was taught to plan even more efficiently).

Then it’s the tracing paper you can see where I traced with a black pen I believe

Madame Tussauds is marked out so that must be a good sign?

In the back pocket I found a lot of random pieces of paper that didn’t make too much sense, like the train reservation was the for the wrong date COMPLETELY!!! 

I’ve never been in August!

So I hope you enjoyed the trip in to my early planning techniques!!!

And now a quick experiment update: -

I am now only using Experiment #2 Two Days to Page.

Full post will be on this experiment on Saturday I believe!

Much love <3 sorry it got a bit confusing xxx