I'm so sad to see that the EC sale ended today. I was hoping for a few more days. Sorry about that! I missed you all and hope you had a lovely start to the year! Happy 2023!!! Wishing you all joy!
One day I would love to frankenplan the EC life planner vertical layout with the EC daily duo and have me an all-in-one planner. I might just do that next year. You are the second person that I have watched frankenplan EC planners.
You know what I enjoy a lt about your planning videos? You saying you love something. It sounds so genuine to me, so it just makes me happy to hear you're happy :)
you can use a pair of half-round jewellery pliers! They're accessible at bead and craft stores, but they're designed with one softer round side to avoid marring the inside of the metal. :)
I love how you talk about how a planner has to serve you. I never thought of it that way. I’m so picky about planners and can never find one that fits my needs fully. I never would have thought to do this.
I love the Hello Kitty Cover. I love your videos and followed you on your journey last year. I was able to win NaNo with your help. Just the positivity you put out there kept me going up to the last minute for the last two years. Thank you. ❤🎉😊
I just uncoiled and combined a bunch of extra pages from previous planners as well as repurposed some unused or partially used pages. It was a leap of faith but so much easier and more satisfying than expected. YAY!!
Those planners are so cute. I love reusing old planners. Planners are so much fun to decorate and make your own. It's almost a hobby as you create them and use them.
This Hello Kitty is adorable! Love the idea of creating a planner that is personalized! Great ideas here! Now I just need to gain courage to take apart some of my unused planners! 👍🏼
All of your videos are so fun to watch! Your voice is so relaxing. I’ll listen to old videos while I’m doing chores to make it almost seem like a friend is there with me.
I love the look of Erin Condren planners. Just wish we could get them easier in the UK. The shipping is insane. Watching you show your planners brings me joy ;) x
It's great to see you doing so well in the beginning of 2023! I really enjoyed watching your Nano diaries. Not only was it exciting to watch you on your journey to achieving your goal, but it helped me mentally to get out of bed, sit at my lovely desk, and start a new habit. After the Nano diaries were done I wanted another daily youtube video series to keep me going and I found PlanWithLaken, all thanks to you!!!! Between the two of you amazing women I feel like 2023 can be a good year for me!!!
It is so nice of you to be doing the giveaway! Love the frankenplanner! That is a very clever way of reusing multiple planners and making one that is useful for you!
For me those pages that you didn't know what to do with after the monthly spread can be used for important things that did happen, but weren't planned, so you can look back and go, yep that happened. Also, when you do declutter and have to throw out the books, that one page can be kept and and little things can be remembered. Even if it's a question of the month for your kids, EX What is your favourite colour this month? Favourite show of the month, best dinner, etc. Sometimes one might need to have something that is a break inside the planner to make you smile.
Sarra, what you do to a notebook is amazing. And your ring planner set up are both beautiful and highly functional as well. I love that you’re able to put it All together. ✌🏽and Love
I love this idea. I have so many pages from notebooks and planners that are just collecting dust. This is an excellent, exciting way to utilize them so that it won't be like throwing money out the window. Thanks for another inspiring video!
You’re new planner is the cat’s meow!!!! My friend needs a new planner so it would be wonderful to give her a new one to get her in the road to her own business.
I loved how your planner turned out!! I had never thought about doing that with old planners so I could take them to the next year lol. It looks really really good! I am new to your channel so now I'm slowly making my way through your old videos :) xxx
👏👏👏 Way the go in making it your own planner to suit your taste. 👏👏👏. I love bookmarks/tags. They are ever so useful and making it easy to reach the place where either I stopped in a book or the place I want to be in a planner.
Love the Frankenplanned EC. Everything at your fingertips! My go to daily for everything is a Happy Planner with HB90 printed A5 size on Happy Planner sized paper and HP half sheets in between. Discs make it easy for those of us who reinvent the day sometimes on an hourly basis. Thanks for sharing your process!
CONGRATULATIONS!! You're one of the giveaway winners! Please email me at sarra@heartbreathings.com and let me know which of the three planners is your preference (first come, first serve for choices).
Thank you for a giveaway! To answer your question about those monthly pages at the beginning of the month that you don't know what to do with - how about using it as an end-of-the month review page? You could list a few wins, some stats if you want, maybe a favorite memory... Then you have a snapshot of a month on one page that you can keep to remember things, because we all know keeping all the pages means we never look at them again. ;)
I used to do bullet journaling but I feel like is the best of both worlds. The structure I need but the ability to create something new/different without all that drawing.
I am so glad you had a video out today! I was procrastinating something fierce on a project and being able to put on your video and listen to you while I finally got down to working was such a joy. I found you just before NaNo and I am grateful for you! Hope you’re feeling better now!
This looks great! The first set of monthly spreads is so pretty. You've got such a great ability to bring a picture to life! I don't think I could envision half these 😅
Happy 2023 Sarrah. I love watching your ideas of putting your planners together, you are very creative with them :) I would love to be entered in the drawing for the planners please. And congrats on hitting 60,000 subscribers, you deserve it.
I just love frankenplanning my planners. I know that you love Erin Condran but I so love happy planner…. No need to take apart spirals! Love your videos! Soooooooo loved your office tour too!
Love my Erin Condren teacher/academic planner - hadn't thought about Frankenplanning it with my calendar. I use a regular calendar with the HB90 pages worked it and LOVE that. HB90 really, really helped me. Thank you so much for all you do!!
This past year (2022) I combined my personal, work, and writing planner all into one Happy Planner and never looked back. It made scheduling so much easier! I didn't have to consult three different calendars or project planners. I think you'll like putting everything in one calendar and just using different sections. The overall monthly part was the most helpful for me and then I color coded all the different activities. The page you don't what to do with: I kind of make this an activity or goal "wishlist" for that month. If I happen to complete an activity or task on the wishlist then I check off, if I didn't get to it, I carry it to the next month. It helps me to see what's attainable, like doing Yoga three times a week.
Never really thought about combining planners but how I’m really contemplating… I’d love that large harmony book for my business! I’d definitely use it as an editorial calendar.
I am glad you’re back and feeling better! 🙂 I love that Hello Kitty beachy cover and how you Frankenplanned the layout. 💜 I may have to splurge on an EC monthly with that cover!
I started using the Kanban system last year. WOW, can I just say how my productivity sky rocketed last year! I planned my quarter on January 2 and I'm on a roll already. Thank you for your inspiration.
Thank you for doing another give-away! How generous of you! And I am so glad to hear that you are feeling better. My hubby and I made it through the holidays and now we are sick with colds. At least I think they are just colds. We haven't tested yet, should do that tomorrow. But we've had all our vaccines and don't have the new symptoms they are talking about, so hoping it's not Covid or that new respiratory thing going around. Love to you and your beautiful family. I hope you had wonderful holidays despite being unwell.
So excited for you to have over 60,000 subscribers! Love what you did with the Franken planner, and that big one is beautiful I can see why you’re sad to not use it.
Hi you have been such a positive influence for me and so many others! You also have hooked me on Erin Condren! I earned my hello kitty planner with Nano and I'm loving it!
Frankenplanners have scared me to death it's too much freedom for me XD It looks so good though, hopefully one day. Glad you had a great holiday break! I always watch your planner setups and hope one day to be able to do the same. For now it's a lil bullet journaling and setting up writer planners lol
I Frankenplanned my HB90 digital planner! I wanted a paper and a digital planner this year, but with a small budget and so a little time to make a choice, I decided to just combine my two top choices: I got the HB90 digital planner while it was on discount (which I was so excited to see come out) and the “she is in her apron“ printable planner (also discounted-she doesn’t have a digital planner yet). I took screenshots of the “She’s in her apron“ weekly spread pages and budget pages, and pasted them over the Weekly pages and note page for each week of the HB90 planner in Goodnotes. It doesn’t quite have the space for everything I want to track, but it allows me to track my budget and schedule, while still putting my HB90 goals in my face every day! LOL
I attempted to remove the coil once, scratched my coil with the pliers and got too scared to continue. So I ended up spending the next 6 hours individually snipping all the coil holes on the planner pages (on three planners as well, my poor fingers were bruised from the scissors the next day) so I could remove the pages easily and move them around. It was a huge pain in the arse but well worth it. I essentially made an EC hobonichi with daily pages between weekly hourly pages. Super useful for detailed planning.
Glad you’re back! The Frankenplanner turned out great! I’ve always kept a monthly calendar spread of biz and personal and it’s really helpful. Glad you love it! As for the dashboard pages, I never seem to find a good use for them either. But I like the idea of them…it’s just the execution that’s the hang up 😂 Also, I reuse pages my daughter colors on all the time! And now I’m also repurposing her art into dividers in my disc planners.
I've simplified this year and (for now) I've ended up doing everything in an EC Hourly - my family calendar, HB90 stuff, various other pieces. I've already decided I need a few more pages every month, so thanks for the inspo to combine some of my HB90 pages directly into the EC!
I'm so sad to see that the EC sale ended today. I was hoping for a few more days. Sorry about that! I missed you all and hope you had a lovely start to the year! Happy 2023!!! Wishing you all joy!
Happy New Year, Sarra!
Happy New Year Sarra ❤️🔥💎🌻
I love the idea of combining several purposes in 1 planner to keep track more easily. I did that this year as well. Hope it works!
Happy New Year, Sarra. I am happy you had a lovely time with your family. I hope you feel better. Missed you.
It's 50% off planners now, and if you wait a week it'll be 60% off
One day I would love to frankenplan the EC life planner vertical layout with the EC daily duo and have me an all-in-one planner. I might just do that next year.
You are the second person that I have watched frankenplan EC planners.
this was so satisfying to watch with the coils being removed and everything being put together
Why has it never occurred to me to take planners apart and put my favorite parts back together?! So smart! Thanks for sharing!
Love the idea of no unused pages being tossed!
You know what I enjoy a lt about your planning videos? You saying you love something. It sounds so genuine to me, so it just makes me happy to hear you're happy :)
Perfect timing! Time for some vid watching while I get some chili together 😁🥣
you can use a pair of half-round jewellery pliers! They're accessible at bead and craft stores, but they're designed with one softer round side to avoid marring the inside of the metal. :)
I love how you talk about how a planner has to serve you. I never thought of it that way. I’m so picky about planners and can never find one that fits my needs fully. I never would have thought to do this.
I'd love to try out some of those layouts. I wish EC made a sampler pack - sort of a frankenplanner of their own lol
That hello kitty cover is so stinking cute on the EC.
I love the Hello Kitty Cover. I love your videos and followed you on your journey last year. I was able to win NaNo with your help. Just the positivity you put out there kept me going up to the last minute for the last two years. Thank you. ❤🎉😊
Oh my gosh! I loved learning how to change the coil! What a blessing to be able to put your planner together the way it works best for you!
I just uncoiled and combined a bunch of extra pages from previous planners as well as repurposed some unused or partially used pages. It was a leap of faith but so much easier and more satisfying than expected. YAY!!
I love that Hello Kitty cover!! So beautiful!!
Those planners are so cute. I love reusing old planners. Planners are so much fun to decorate and make your own. It's almost a hobby as you create them and use them.
This Hello Kitty is adorable! Love the idea of creating a planner that is personalized! Great ideas here! Now I just need to gain courage to take apart some of my unused planners! 👍🏼
All of your videos are so fun to watch! Your voice is so relaxing. I’ll listen to old videos while I’m doing chores to make it almost seem like a friend is there with me.
I am really suffering from writers block, I admire your dedication.
I love the look of Erin Condren planners. Just wish we could get them easier in the UK. The shipping is insane. Watching you show your planners brings me joy ;) x
Did you know? A lot of craft stores will have silicone coated pliers in the jewelry making section. Great grip, and reduced scratching.
Ooh I didn't know this! I need to grab some thank you so much!
I frankenplan basically every year. This year I am trying a modified bullet journal/drain dump planner & daily hourly tracker.
It's great to see you doing so well in the beginning of 2023! I really enjoyed watching your Nano diaries. Not only was it exciting to watch you on your journey to achieving your goal, but it helped me mentally to get out of bed, sit at my lovely desk, and start a new habit. After the Nano diaries were done I wanted another daily youtube video series to keep me going and I found PlanWithLaken, all thanks to you!!!! Between the two of you amazing women I feel like 2023 can be a good year for me!!!
It is so nice of you to be doing the giveaway! Love the frankenplanner! That is a very clever way of reusing multiple planners and making one that is useful for you!
So happy to have you back! Glad you're feeling better!
For me those pages that you didn't know what to do with after the monthly spread can be used for important things that did happen, but weren't planned, so you can look back and go, yep that happened. Also, when you do declutter and have to throw out the books, that one page can be kept and and little things can be remembered. Even if it's a question of the month for your kids, EX What is your favourite colour this month? Favourite show of the month, best dinner, etc. Sometimes one might need to have something that is a break inside the planner to make you smile.
Sarra, what you do to a notebook is amazing. And your ring planner set up are both beautiful and highly functional as well. I love that you’re able to put it All together. ✌🏽and Love
I love this idea. I have so many pages from notebooks and planners that are just collecting dust. This is an excellent, exciting way to utilize them so that it won't be like throwing money out the window. Thanks for another inspiring video!
You’re new planner is the cat’s meow!!!!
My friend needs a new planner so it would be wonderful to give her a new one to get her in the road to her own business.
I loved how your planner turned out!! I had never thought about doing that with old planners so I could take them to the next year lol. It looks really really good! I am new to your channel so now I'm slowly making my way through your old videos :) xxx
Welcome! Thanks for begin here.
I love the hello kitty cover and the overall chonky planner goodness. Thanks!
So good to see that your first video for 2023 is already here!!!
You made this look so much easier than I thought it would be!
So I’m not the only one who plans out there planners😊
👏👏👏 Way the go in making it your own planner to suit your taste. 👏👏👏.
I love bookmarks/tags. They are ever so useful and making it easy to reach the place where either I stopped in a book or the place I want to be in a planner.
Ridiculously happy to see a video from you! We've missed you too! Great job on the frankenplanner, always fun to peek into someone else's process!
Love the Frankenplanned EC. Everything at your fingertips! My go to daily for everything is a Happy Planner with HB90 printed A5 size on Happy Planner sized paper and HP half sheets in between. Discs make it easy for those of us who reinvent the day sometimes on an hourly basis. Thanks for sharing your process!
Thank you for showing us how to repurpose pages and how to reuse a variety of planners. I love your writing and planning videos!
yay 2023 is the year to thrive. My word of the year is persistence I've had two years of resilience now its time to move forward rather than defend.
Thank you, Sara. I love your planner videos. There's nothing better than a chunky planner💕
CONGRATULATIONS!! You're one of the giveaway winners! Please email me at sarra@heartbreathings.com and let me know which of the three planners is your preference (first come, first serve for choices).
Thank you for a giveaway! To answer your question about those monthly pages at the beginning of the month that you don't know what to do with - how about using it as an end-of-the month review page? You could list a few wins, some stats if you want, maybe a favorite memory... Then you have a snapshot of a month on one page that you can keep to remember things, because we all know keeping all the pages means we never look at them again. ;)
I love Erin Condren's Hello Kitty covers. I just wish they offer other Sanrio characters as well such as Keroppi or Little Twin Stars.
Never thought we could do with a coiled planner the same as with a ring or disc bound planner!
The hello kitty planner is so cute!!! 😍
Love the Hello Kitty Cover! Loving your planner setup!❤️
Wow that’s dedication right there it must have taken you hours to do
I used to do bullet journaling but I feel like is the best of both worlds. The structure I need but the ability to create something new/different without all that drawing.
I am so glad you had a video out today! I was procrastinating something fierce on a project and being able to put on your video and listen to you while I finally got down to working was such a joy. I found you just before NaNo and I am grateful for you! Hope you’re feeling better now!
This looks great! The first set of monthly spreads is so pretty. You've got such a great ability to bring a picture to life! I don't think I could envision half these 😅
Happy to see that you've taken a break to hang out with your family!! Great way to gear up for the new year!! Here's to 2023!! 🖤
Happy 2023 Sarrah. I love watching your ideas of putting your planners together, you are very creative with them :) I would love to be entered in the drawing for the planners please. And congrats on hitting 60,000 subscribers, you deserve it.
Feels good to see you back on UA-cam! Lots of good tips here as I make my editorial calendar at work!
I love watching you put a planner together. They always look so awesome!
So in love with this planner cover. So dang adorable!
I love love the hello kitty cover!
I’m new to the whole planner community, and I love the idea of making a frankenplanner! That is so clever!
I love how your planner turned out! The half year planner would work really well to use for this semester!
I just love frankenplanning my planners. I know that you love Erin Condran but I so love happy planner…. No need to take apart spirals! Love your videos! Soooooooo loved your office tour too!
Glad your feeling well enough to start back with content. I'm still trying to nail down my planner for 2023.
You make Frankenplanning look so easy! I had to have my hubby help me last time.
Love my Erin Condren teacher/academic planner - hadn't thought about Frankenplanning it with my calendar. I use a regular calendar with the HB90 pages worked it and LOVE that. HB90 really, really helped me. Thank you so much for all you do!!
Thank you for being such an important part of my 2022 writing regime. Happy 2023 and may you and your family be blessed indeed.
This is so cool! I never thought you could take those coils apart!
These planners are so beautiful!
This past year (2022) I combined my personal, work, and writing planner all into one Happy Planner and never looked back. It made scheduling so much easier! I didn't have to consult three different calendars or project planners. I think you'll like putting everything in one calendar and just using different sections. The overall monthly part was the most helpful for me and then I color coded all the different activities.
The page you don't what to do with: I kind of make this an activity or goal "wishlist" for that month. If I happen to complete an activity or task on the wishlist then I check off, if I didn't get to it, I carry it to the next month. It helps me to see what's attainable, like doing Yoga three times a week.
I cannot wait to get my planner all set up....still working out the kinks! (Kinda hard to get it all done with 7 kiddos up in here!)
Never really thought about combining planners but how I’m really contemplating… I’d love that large harmony book for my business! I’d definitely use it as an editorial calendar.
I LOVE EC notebooks and I frankenplanned the Teacher planner with a notebook and it has been amazing. EC paper is the bessssst!
I love your cover ❤. I glad you feeling better. I hope you enjoyed your break. I love how you used the teacher planner
Love the hello kitty cover!
I am glad you’re back and feeling better! 🙂 I love that Hello Kitty beachy cover and how you Frankenplanned the layout. 💜 I may have to splurge on an EC monthly with that cover!
I’m glad you had a well deserved break, but glad also that you’re sharing again! Happy 2023!
I started using the Kanban system last year. WOW, can I just say how my productivity sky rocketed last year! I planned my quarter on January 2 and I'm on a roll already. Thank you for your inspiration.
Such a great idea to pull apart different planners and create one that is bespoke. 👍 genius❤.
Love the idea of uncoiling and recoiling!!!! Thanks:)
You have an amazing Frankenplanner! Thank you for an opportunity to win! Wishing you a wonderful day!
Thank you for doing another give-away! How generous of you! And I am so glad to hear that you are feeling better. My hubby and I made it through the holidays and now we are sick with colds. At least I think they are just colds. We haven't tested yet, should do that tomorrow. But we've had all our vaccines and don't have the new symptoms they are talking about, so hoping it's not Covid or that new respiratory thing going around. Love to you and your beautiful family. I hope you had wonderful holidays despite being unwell.
🤯🤯🤯. Never even thought about doing anything like this. Wow! Thanks for sharing.♥️
So excited for you to have over 60,000 subscribers! Love what you did with the Franken planner, and that big one is beautiful I can see why you’re sad to not use it.
I love all your videos, but you're planner videos are always my favorite. Thanks for sharing your frankenplanner!
New subscriber here and so grateful I have found your channel!!! 2023 is about to be the most productive yet 🎉
I had no idea you could customize spiral planners. So cool!
I'm so glad that you got a break and am also glad you're back :)
You make the process look so easy.
I'm so clumsy I know I would hurt my hand doing it.
Now I know that it can be done I may try it any way.😊
Hi you have been such a positive influence for me and so many others! You also have hooked me on Erin Condren! I earned my hello kitty planner with Nano and I'm loving it!
I loved this! It's cool that you are using the notebooks you already have and making it work for you!
Yay! You were missed. I’m using a BEAUTIFUL A5 EC planner for the first time and so far I’m loving it.
Learning a lot about creating systems, making goals, and planning... Thanks Sarra.
Such an interesting process to watch the frankenplanner come together
Frankenplanners have scared me to death it's too much freedom for me XD It looks so good though, hopefully one day. Glad you had a great holiday break! I always watch your planner setups and hope one day to be able to do the same. For now it's a lil bullet journaling and setting up writer planners lol
Hey Sarra…love your planner and your channel. Appreciate how authentic you are! 💕
I can't wait to repurpose some old planners. Thanks for the encouragement.
I Frankenplanned my HB90 digital planner! I wanted a paper and a digital planner this year, but with a small budget and so a little time to make a choice, I decided to just combine my two top choices: I got the HB90 digital planner while it was on discount (which I was so excited to see come out) and the “she is in her apron“ printable planner (also discounted-she doesn’t have a digital planner yet). I took screenshots of the “She’s in her apron“ weekly spread pages and budget pages, and pasted them over the Weekly pages and note page for each week of the HB90 planner in Goodnotes. It doesn’t quite have the space for everything I want to track, but it allows me to track my budget and schedule, while still putting my HB90 goals in my face every day! LOL
Ohh love the hello kitty cover!
I am so sorry people are scamming. That's so mean!
Glad you're feeling better, UA-cam feel empty with out you!
I attempted to remove the coil once, scratched my coil with the pliers and got too scared to continue. So I ended up spending the next 6 hours individually snipping all the coil holes on the planner pages (on three planners as well, my poor fingers were bruised from the scissors the next day) so I could remove the pages easily and move them around. It was a huge pain in the arse but well worth it. I essentially made an EC hobonichi with daily pages between weekly hourly pages. Super useful for detailed planning.
Franken planner perfection! Would love to try any of the planners you are giving away! So awesome of you!
This is so creative I love the bespoke planner, definitely need to take the plunge and take a pair of pliers to the coil!
Glad you’re back! The Frankenplanner turned out great! I’ve always kept a monthly calendar spread of biz and personal and it’s really helpful. Glad you love it! As for the dashboard pages, I never seem to find a good use for them either. But I like the idea of them…it’s just the execution that’s the hang up 😂 Also, I reuse pages my daughter colors on all the time! And now I’m also repurposing her art into dividers in my disc planners.
I've simplified this year and (for now) I've ended up doing everything in an EC Hourly - my family calendar, HB90 stuff, various other pieces. I've already decided I need a few more pages every month, so thanks for the inspo to combine some of my HB90 pages directly into the EC!