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January 18, 2020 By Dru Cortez

A Look Inside the Erin Condren Life Planner – Vertical Layout

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Hello planner peeps!  You know the good feeling when you open a Christmas  or birthday gift and it’s just what you wanted?  Well, that was just about how I felt when this “happy mail” arrived in my mailbox.

Yes, it has arrived…my Erin Condren Life Planner for  2020. 

I also received a few extra goodies that Erin Condren graciously included in my delivery.   So, this way I can give you a review of this lovely and colorful planner and share my observations with my readers. 

It would be important to mention that the Erin Condren Life Planner comes in a beautifully decorated box, so unwrapping it was kind of fun.  No plain, boring box for Erin Condren!   Too bad, the shipping company plastered it with a bunch of sticky shipping labels.

 

erin condren life planner and supplies

 

Planner Review

So, let’s get started…

Three Weekly Layouts to Choose From:

  • Vertical – This is the classic layout that divides the planner into three time blocks for each day.  Erin Condren use to label these but they are now left blank for you to  customize as you please. The headers are about 1/8″  of an inch rather than the 1/4″ they used to be. You  choose  between the colorful layout or a neutral layout.  I chose the colorful layout. You can the customize the planner to your liking or preference.
  • Horizontal – this layout has ruled lines, and shows the week as the name suggests in horizontal blocks.
  • Hourly – this layout is designed with hourly increments, I believe this layout would be awesome for someone who has strict hourly commitments or someone who has several appointments or specific schedule throughout the week within  specific time blocks.

Interchangeable Covers

The Erin Condren Life planner comes with a strong coil and interchangeable covers made with thick mylar.  Of course, you have a huge variety of cover design choices  that you can choose from.

You can choose from beautiful florals to minimalist designs to pictures of your family, it’s really up to you.

Yes, that means once you buy your Erin Condren Life Planner you could exchange your covers with either new ones that you can purchase from Erin Condren’s website or you can DIY your own.   There are so many options to personalize your planner.

Don’t forget you  also can personalize it with your name.  I chose not to for mine.

Either way, you are not permanently stuck with a cover that you might want to change.  I ordered the silver foil floral cover with a platinum coil, although due to the reflection and lighting in my picture  it looks more like gold.  I ordered the Metallic Budding Romance Life Planner which comes in rose gold, gold or silver. 

Last year, Erin Condren  released binders that are either softbound and can be carried in a traveler’s notebook type of binder or a new binder cover with rings.  So, now you have even more choices or options on the type of binding you may prefer.

Binding and Paper Quality

In addition, I thought I would mention the great thing about the super strong coils on this planner.  The planner lies flat when you open it and the pages turn smoothly without catching and the coils do not  easily bend or get crushed. 

The paper in the planner is very thick and smooth.  The Erin Condren site states it is 80 lbs/ 120 GSM.  Why is this a good thing?  It  allows you to write with a variety of pens without bleed through to the other side.

This is another failing of less expensive planners…they look good but you can’t write in them without smudges, tearing the pages  when you erase your writing or bleeding through when using markers or gel pens.

That’s a feature that seems to happen with more inexpensive planners that you can purchase at  office supply stores or at cheaper box stores.  The planners look beautiful but don’t hold up under daily wear and tear.

What’s Inside the Erin Condren Life Planner 

You might be curious about what actually comes in your planner.  The following is a list of the many pages or parts of the planner that are included:

*Year at a Glance pages

*Monthly Blocks to write in birthdays, and anniversary’s , if you choose to do so.

erin condren monthly goals page

*Sturdy monthly tabs

*Monthly goals page after each monthly tab to write in your birds eye view of that specific month’s goals, birthdays and events to remember.

*Month at a glance view

*Weekly pages for each month, here’s where stickers, planner decor and your weekly and daily planning  happens.

weekly layout, erin condren life planner

Weekly Layout for the Erin Condren Life Planner – Vertical

*A few notes and contacts pages in the back pages of the planner

*A sturdy pocket with  kaleidoscope print embossed with gold foil.

*A few wire bound pages of gorgeous, colorful stickers with  Erin Condren’s trademark asterisk in gold, rose gold and silver foil.

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Erin Condren foil stickers

 

*A perpetual calendar in booklet form that includes upcoming holidays and dates for the year.

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Erin Condren Kaleidoscope back cover and perpetual calendar booklet

 

The Erin Condren Life Planner is a popular planner for several reasons, with it’s colorful pages, quality materials and construction,  multiple options to personalize to your preferences, lovely design and interior pages with  personal quotes peppered throughout the pages …it’s a clear winner for your personal planning.  

Now the ultimate question would be is the Erin Condren Life planner going to organize your life, track your expenses, manage your kids’ activities? 

No, not really, that will be depend on your taking action on your tasks and goals.    But it will help  you keep focused, keep all your life’s activities in one place and all those colorful pages will  motivate you to open your planner  day by day to achieve the improvements you want to make in your life.

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Just a reminder, if you haven’t visited my blog before, I have designed over 200+ planner stickers printables just  for the Erin Condren planner alone. 

The following are a few of  those freebies.  

If you would like to see other similar color or subject  themed freebies, check out the list below:

Pretty in Pink Planner Stickers

Flower Power Planner Stickers

Happy Flowers Planner Stickers

Spring Tulips Planner Stickers Printable

 

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Also, if you are new to this site, I wanted to let you know  that I have a board on Pinterest  that  you might want to follow that has several pins (ideas) by other planner designers, stationery, home office decor,  office supplies and planner freebies that are mostly planner related, you can view that and/or follow here,  Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original photos or illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and under copyright with a few that are under commercial use or creative commons licensing.

October 9, 2014 By Dru Cortez

Doodled Floral Daily To-do List II – Free Planner Printable

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Hello…today’s freebie is a light turquoise  daily to do list planner page in two sizes!

This is a  variation on two of my favorite themes, whimsical/doodled style and a black, white, turquoise  and grey color scheme.

Facts about the To Do List freebie:

This freebie is a slight revision of my previous  daily to-do list planner page freebie; however, I did make a few changes in the design and the floral doodles.   I snagged the  idea for this to-do list from some of my blog visitors’ Filofax boards that have pins mixing scrapbooking or smashbook goodies with daily planners.

The interesting note, ironically,  is that  I published my first planner page to-do list approximately about the same time last year! Wow…time flies!

This free printable has been designed as an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file.  The freebie’s file size is  approximately 78 KB.  The design layout was  created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp.

While I designed this printable on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ page, I did try scaling it down to 5 1/2″ by 8 1/2″ to test it out in my planner.  The results were okay if you are able to write small and still be legible, otherwise you are better off using the larger size.

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You might be interested in my original “to do list” planner insert…

Doodled Floral Daily To Do List

Thank you for your Pinterest re-pins.

I’d like to say thanks to all those taking the time to comment, I sure appreciate the gracious “thank yous” and the legitimate “link love”.  Thank you for your pins on Pinterest as well as a few Facebook links.  I also appreciate mentions in your blogs with appropriate link backs and active links.

My traffic keeps increasing from visitors from all over the world, and from generous pinners who have great social networking influence.   I hope you don’t mind when I check out your Pinterest boards, and repin some of your pins to my Pinterest boards, these pins usually provide inspiration for new designs of my own!

As usual these freebies are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.)  If you have been here before, you know the drill.  If not, you might want to read the quick  TOU below before you access the printable.

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Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables  are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Studio & link back to my blog, so others can obtain the resources.  Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook are great social media sharing platforms, it’s the  sharing without a link back to the original blog post that can be a problem.

You can access the pdf file>>>Doodled Floral Daily To Do List .

Or if you like, CLICK on the picture below for the download.   Hope you like this list! 🙂

Doodled Daily To Do List

 

2 Per Page  To Do List Planner Size:

After reviewing the request regarding one of my previous planner freebies, someone asked if there was a way to print two of the above pages on one 8 1/2″ x 11″ page.  While I couldn’t duplicate the A5 size exactly,  by readjusting the calendar by 1/2″, I was able to put two 5″ x 7 1/2″ inch pages of the doodled calendar on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ pdf page.

Make sure you adjust your printer for Landscape view and Actual size.   Hope this satisfies those of you who do not want to waste paper, but have a little flexibility with the page size.

You can access the PDF download here >>> Doodled Floral Daily To Do List.

Or, click on the preview picture below.

Doodled Daily to do list - 2 per page

Image Credit:

Commercial Use Doodle Images by Pathy Santos used for this planner design.  Most of my elements are made from commercial use or public domain sources.

However,  if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be available.  Designers vary in their restrictions for their terms of use (even for CU items), so although I try to be scrupulous, I may miss some.

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