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Caoimhin Creates
Приєднався 29 кві 2024
I'm an eclectic creator whose inspirations ebb and flow. Art makes my heart happy and creating settles my restless soul.
When you visit here you'll find different kinds of art I've created (makeup counts as art in my world), my daily/weekly/monthly planners and planner supplies, my love of all things stationary, and bits and pieces of life as I organize and muddle my way through. My hope is you pick up a little inspiration for your own art and organization.
You can check out my instagram page for some of the art I've created over the years.
caoimhincreates
When you visit here you'll find different kinds of art I've created (makeup counts as art in my world), my daily/weekly/monthly planners and planner supplies, my love of all things stationary, and bits and pieces of life as I organize and muddle my way through. My hope is you pick up a little inspiration for your own art and organization.
You can check out my instagram page for some of the art I've created over the years.
caoimhincreates
If Sirens Had FaceTune
I got a green wig thinking it would be good for some kind of ocean themed costume. As I fell down the Pinterest rabbit hole looking for inspiration, I kept seeing either beautiful mermaids or creepy sirens.
Inspired by my Ice Queen look, I decided to combine two looks for one character. I thought it would be cool to see what would happen if a siren had FaceTune. This was so much fun to do, even though I got a piece of glitter stuck on my inner upper eyelid 🥲 Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina 2 palette's pressed glitter is NOT eye friendly and I clearly wasn't as careful as I should have been when removing the makeup. Sigh. Here's hoping it "leaves the building" faster than someone who swiped on the FaceTune version but met the "real siren" for the first date 😂🤞🏼
I hope you enjoy my take on a siren's selfie in this age of AI 🧜🏼♀️
Happy Halloween 👻
Inspired by my Ice Queen look, I decided to combine two looks for one character. I thought it would be cool to see what would happen if a siren had FaceTune. This was so much fun to do, even though I got a piece of glitter stuck on my inner upper eyelid 🥲 Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina 2 palette's pressed glitter is NOT eye friendly and I clearly wasn't as careful as I should have been when removing the makeup. Sigh. Here's hoping it "leaves the building" faster than someone who swiped on the FaceTune version but met the "real siren" for the first date 😂🤞🏼
I hope you enjoy my take on a siren's selfie in this age of AI 🧜🏼♀️
Happy Halloween 👻
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Ice Queen - Instagram vs. Reality
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I was looking for ice queen inspiration for a Halloween look when I stumbled across the movie poster for the 2005 film "Ice Queen". She was certainly not what I had in mind originally, but then I thought it would be amusing to combine the two looks. So here we have my satirical take on "Instagram vs. Reality". I hope you enjoy it even half as much as I did making it 😉❄️ Happy Halloween 🎃
A Little Update For My 2025 Hobonichi Plans & Trying Out Some New Fonts
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Welcome back, or just welcome if you're new, and thanks for popping by either way 🤗! Today is a chatty video about my updated cover and layout plans for my 2025 Hobonichi Techo A6. I made my own patchwork-esque cover for the journal and it didn't turn out as expected (as seems to be the case with most of what I do here lol) but I actually really like it. I also have a template now for future co...
Unboxing My 2025 Hobonichi Techo A6
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Well guys, I joined the Hobonichi fam! I was unofficially indoctrinated into Hobonichi last year when I got the Cousin for Christmas. It was so overwhelming for me and I hadn't discovered this beautiful little community of fellow planner aficionados so I had no idea what I could do with it. I ended up shelving it after a couple of futile attempts 🫠 But since starting this channel and getting in...
Plan With Me - Setting Up October In My 7x9 Plum Paper Planners
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This should come as no surprise but today is another "plan with me" video 😂🤗 We're setting up the October dashboards and monthly overviews in both my personal 7x9 vertical priorities and my 7x9 weekly overview plum paper planners. The JacmoBlue kits arrived! YAY! I cannot tell you enough how smitten I am with her designs. Check her out on Etsy, she's got kits for all ranges of planner types and...
Let's Make Stuff - Making Anglerfish Bookends From Resin & Polymer Clay
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Hey guys! Welcome to the first actual creation video on Caoimhin Creates lol. I've mentioned before that inspiration comes in splutters and spurts for me and I just never know when the muse will pop up. I got the urge to make some glow-in-the-dark anglerfish bookends from polymer clay and resin the other night so here we are. They didn't work out exactly as envisioned (none of my art ever does ...
Plan With Me - Setting Up The End Of September In My 7x9 Vertical Priorities Plum Paper Planner
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Hey guys, welcome back for another video 🤗 We're setting up the end of September in today's video, and doing a review of August and the beginning of September as I haven't been posting since my surgery in August. It's chatty as usual lol. I am (im)patiently awaiting the arrival of some monthly sticker kits from JacmoBlue on Etsy, as well as a planning box and some sticker packs from Planners An...
Plum Paper Planner 7x9 Neutral Horizontal Weekly Overview
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Hey guys, I've been MIA due to a surgery a few weeks back. I'm on the mend and finally able to record again, and what better way to come back than to review my new planner?! It showed up today and lemme tell you I was PUMPED to open this bad boy up 😍 🤗 Today I'm going through my new Plum Paper 7x9 Horizontal Weekly Overview in a neutral layout. I got this planner to use solely for my business,...
Plan With Me - Finishing July & Setting Up August In My Plum Paper Planner
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Hey guys, welcome back to another Plan With Me 🤗 Today I'm setting up the last few days of July in my Plum Paper planner, as well as setting up the initial bits & pieces for August. How are we in August already fam?! As always, I am chatty and show you what I've done the last couple of weeks in my planner as well. I hope you're having an awesome week. Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soo...
Making Plum Planner Bookmarks
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Hey guys, welcome back to another video 🤗 I had one viewer say she wanted to see how I make my bookmarks for my Plum Paper planner so today I show you my method. These will also work for Erin Condren (I originally had to buy Erin Condren bookmarks for my planner, they use the same size coil). It was insanely hard for me to find actual tutorials making my own bookmarks and I have no clue why LOL...
Unboxing My First Order From Sigma - How Have I Never Purchased From Them Before?!
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Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. Today I'm unboxing my first ever Sigma order! I seem to be trying lots of new companies lately so you're all getting my first impressions of my first purchases. Today is a makeup/beauty tool order from the iconic Sigma. Spoiler: I am OBSESSED with their packaging 😍 you will hear me rave about it more than once in here. I swatch two eyeshadow palettes, as we...
Plan With Me - Setting Up July In My 7x9 Vertical Priorities Plum Paper Planner
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Hey guys, happy to see you again 🤗 I was doing a very cohesive thumbnail thing with all my videos, but Canva did me dirty and the template is gone. So we're back to old school, cowboy, whatever-I-feel-like-making-it-look-like lol there's a reason I'm a mechanic and not a computer coder or whatever 🥴👩🏻🔧 Today I'm setting up July in my Plum Paper planner, as well as the first week properly. Can ...
Plan With Me - June 17-23, Reviewing End Of May & Crafts For The Planner
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Hey guys, welcome back 🤗 Today I'm setting up June 17th to the 23rd in my Plum Paper planner, as well as doing a review of the end of May/early June and showing you the crafts I've been making for my planner. I have been having a blast making stickers and bookmarks for my 7x9 vertical priorities planner! As usual, I am chatty and like to show you all the things. I hope you're having an awesome ...
Making Stickers With The Canon Ivy Mini Print
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Hey guys 🤗 Thanks for popping by! Today we're making stickers using the Canon Ivy Mini Print which I cannot say enough good things about. I demonstrate both the plain 2"x3" stickers and the 1.3" round stickers on the handy little pocket printer. I put these stickers all over the place in my planner, but they are a PERFECT fit for the Saturdays/Sundays at the end of a month where the dates carry...
Plan With Me - May 6th to 12th
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Hey guys, welcome back 🤗 Today I'm setting up my second week of May in my Plum Paper planner, as well as doing a brief review of the first week. Spoiler alert; I didn't love a few of the things there. My planners honestly evolve every week and certainly don't look the same even month to month. I feel like half the joy of planners is being able to look back at not only the things you've done, bu...
Unboxing My First Order From The Washi Tape Shop
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Unboxing My First Order From The Washi Tape Shop
Setting Up My New Plum Paper Vertical Priorities Planner
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Setting Up My New Plum Paper Vertical Priorities Planner
Plum Paper Planner 7x9 Vertical Priorities
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Plum Paper Planner 7x9 Vertical Priorities
I just realized the mask is a book 😂
OH MY GOSH! Okay I literally had to go back to look, that is amazing 😂 thank you for sharing, you would be an "I Spy" champ 📖🫶
@@CaoimhinCreates Also he has the Cousin A5 around his neck. And I guess that's supposed to be the A6 for the mask.
the green weekly supplement is my favorite out of all the hobonichi's.
I'm still trying to decide how to use it without feeling overwhelmed haha I don't know why I seem to have a mental block about the weekly sections 🙈 what do you use yours for? It gives me encouragement that it's a fav for some people. I have faith that I will find its use for me hopefully before the end of 2025 🤪
This is completely off-topic, but I just have to mention your beautiful hands and nails. You could be a hand model!
Aww thank you so much, that is such a lovely compliment and just made my day 🥰🫶🏼
@@CaoimhinCreates I’m serious. You should be a hand model!
Okay right? And then I heard you say you're a mechanic and I was shook!! Haha
@@loreedavis5988 You are so sweet! I wonder if I could turn that into a side hustle to help pay for all the stationary 🤣🙊
@@shelbseroo Hahaha I think wearing gloves for work has always helped protect them! I've always used a ton of hand cream too cause of how drying the cleaners and stuff get too so I feel like that part of being a mechanic helps the cause LOL.
Stick with what works for you. Is Hobonichi really what you need to be successful in 2025? It is a very good expensive planner, but Plum Paper isn’t cheap either. Maybe the structure is what is needed for your Sophomore year of planning.
Structure is definitely something I need for planning haha, you're so right there! And I love my Plum Planners for actual planning and tracking, they have just been what consistently works for me year after year. I appreciate the fact that it's all laid out consistently for me and it's really digestible for what I need from a daily planner. And like you said, they certainly aren't cheap so it really is important to do what works best considering the investments we make in our products. I am looking forward to using the Hobonichi as a kind of brain dump/memory keeper for the end of each day. It's such a small space too that I don't find it overwhelming where I found the A5 Cousin SO overwhelming to start. I'm also looking forward to practicing my writing and new calligraphy in it, the paper is so lovely!
I use a Hobonichi weeks mega as my EDC, a regular weeks as my crochet project tracker, an A6 AVEC as my health and wellness planner, an A5 Cousin as my detail planner for everything not related to health and wellness as well as some memory keeping and an A5 HON in my business pursuits as a researching tool, I am a professional Genealogist. So to recap I use a weeks mega, a regular weeks, an A6 AVEC, an A5 Cousin and an A5 HON, so 5 in total although I am thinking of changing it up in 2026 and combining my A6 AVEC Health and Wellness and my Weeks Crochet Planner/Tracker into a Single A5 Cousin it’s too late for the upcoming year of 2025 as things have already been purchased and setup.
I love this so much! It just sings to my OCD soul of having a place for everything 😍 That is so clever to use your regular weeks as your project tracker, I really like that idea and may use the little Weeks one for art project tracking too! I can see where combining your A6 Health and Wellness with the Weeks Crochet Planner into one Cousin could totally work! You'd just be combining the two you're currently using into one bigger space and you know you'd use all of the space for both of those purposes 🙌🏼 I love hearing about how other people use their planners, it's so inspiring to me. Thank you for sharing 😊 Also, professional Genealogist is so cool! That has got to be a super rewarding career 🤗 it must be awesome to have all of your research in the one spot as well so you can keep track of it all but also be able to look back through easily.
Just wondering what is the brand of your watch that you are wearing?
It's the Garmin Epix Pro 47mm! I cannot recommend it enough for a fitness watch, it is totally worth saving up for. To be honest, any of the Garmin watches are great and they make different models for different needs. I started with the Descent G1 for scuba diving (which doesn't see the light of day the last few years lol), then moved to the Forerunner 955 for when I was more focused on my running, and used it along with my Apple Watch. I exclusively use this model now because it's amazing for running as well as other sports like weight lifting and water sports like paddle boarding or kayaking. They also have all held up really well in my work environment which is super dusty and dirty so they really are tough! It's replaced my Apple Watch and I have no regrets there haha.
Love your haul. I'm the same trying all of the sizes to see what I like the best.
It makes me happy to hear other people need to try out all the different sizes to see what works best too 😊 I feel like it changes from year to year too, or depends on what my end goal for the use is haha change is inevitable for me 🤪
Cool concept. New projects take trial and error.
Thank you 😊 So true, it's always an experiment lol. Very rarely do things turn out like I envision the first attempt. I also feel like that's half the fun of art. I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video and leave a comment 🤗
I have been debating the sizes and layout and you just helped make my decision for me!
That makes me so happy to hear, thank you so much for checking out the video 🤗 What size and layout are you getting?!
I just switched over from Erin Condren to Plum Paper and found you when searching for Plum Paper content on You Tube. Love you, keep the videos coming, currently binge watching your videos for inspiration.
Aww thank you so much, that means a lot ☺️which Plum Planner layout did you get?! I’m currently on bed rest after surgery so I won’t be able to upload for another week or two but this encourages me to keep filming 🫶🏼 enjoy your new planner and thanks again for watching the video 🤗
Hi Caoimhin, I just came across your channel and I’m so glad I did. I just received my first Plum Paper Planner last week and was looking for some tips for setup. I love how you are telling us about your goals ❤
Oh yay, it makes me so happy that my video was able to give you some tips or inspiration 😊 that makes it totally worthwhile! I like seeing what other people do for theirs cause it always sparks some ideas for me, and I also like seeing what other people's goals are for the same reason. What layout and size did you go for?! I hope you love your Plum Planner, I honestly love how much customization you can do with them. Thanks so much for watching, and for commenting 🤗❤️
I just bought my planner, I love how you decorated yours! Id appreciate a video on how to do a bookmark!
Thanks so much for the kind words, and for watching and commenting 🤗 which planner did you get?! I will absolutely do a video on bookmarks for you this week 🙌🏼
I love how you plan. It should be whatever you want it to be. I use a lot of Papermate pens; I will have to revisit my Snotes. (prefer Mildliner's) Every year, I reflect on how I used my planner/journal, what I didn't use, what I hated, and what things I just needed. I have used this planner version and its size before. I use the big boy for work (The teacher needs all the space for different parts of my job) and use the grid-neutral layout for planning and journaling. If you are not opposed, you might want to change sizes again ( Sorry)
Aww thank you so much, and I super appreciate the comment and subscription 🤗 Agreed on it being whatever we all want it to be, I love seeing what other people do because we all like to do such different things with them and I get so much inspiration from other people. Midliners are definitely gorgeous, I have been loving using them as well. Papermate makes so many dope pens! I use a mishmash of a couple different Pilots and Pentel RSVPs, and my all time favourite pen is the Papermate Ink Joy in 0.7. Stationary makes me so happy lol I love finding like minded people 🙌🏼 Those disposable fountain pens from Amazon are a top contender now though too. Ooh the Big Boy would most definitely be a requirement for you teachers! The amount of things you need to capture and organize is amazing, I can totally see how you would love the grid layout. I got that one for a Christmas gift for my best friend who is a teacher as well and she loved it. I am already plotting and planning my next planner so I may actually bump up to the 8x11 as well, I think that would probably be the best size for my layout to be honest. Not hard to twist my rubber arm here eh 🤣🙊 Thank you so much for popping by and commenting! Please continue to do so, and leave recommendations for sure. I am always on the hunt for new supplies to try haha 😜 Have an awesome week!
I need one of these!
Right?! They are actually AMAZING. And you can get them on discount on Amazon sometimes which is so nice 🙊
Hi, I know nothing about plum paper planners, I love how you created your's!
Aww thank you so much! And thanks for watching the video ☺Planners are so fun to play around with and I truly love Plum Paper for how customizable they are. I may have another one on order as we speak LOL. What kind of planners do you use? I'm always so intrigued by how other people do theirs 🤗
@@CaoimhinCreates I also love planners and decorating them. I've only used Happy Planners. I'm an educational assistant at an elementary school, and on a budget. I hope to upgrade soon! 😁
Happy Planners are so much fun, and they have so many accessories for them. That sounds like such a rewarding career, and definitely one that requires some planning haha I love that!
Finally a planner that sounds just like me ✊️🙌
UA-cam is the place for kindred spirits to unite 😂🙌🏼 thanks so much for watching 🤗
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