I’m Stephanie, a wedding + lifestyle photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Warrenton, Virginia. Whether I’m by the mountains of Colorado or Virginia, my soul feels at home, surrounded by rural living and the raw beauty of nature. I genuinely love what I do, and feel so passionate to share the enthusiasm and joy of these celebrations with you!

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January 31, 2014

Organizing the Daily Life

HAPPY FRIDAY! I’m sitting at Panera right now as I realized last night that I have gone over my month’s allowance for internet usage from when I redesigned my website last weekend. That’s okay because places like this make me appreciate the free internet! 😉

Today I want to share the next project I took on this week! Of course I’m always keeping myself busy, but I’m SO pumped about this! I love being organized and having an organized life. I’ve been using a journal to keep everything organized from day to day as well as my workflow charts I created last year that are hanging on my office wall. However, I have found myself wanting something more simplistic and something I NEED from week to week, day to day. So I’m creating my very own planner! Yesterday I sat down and created pages of templates and designs … and I must say that I am super excited to start using them because it works for me! There are GORGEOUS planners like from Elle & Co. or Emily Ley’s Simplified Planner or Whitney English Day Designer … I have craved for these designs but found myself wanting something that works for my daily workflows and lifestyle. So I am creating a mini planner that is the perfect travel size (5.5 in x 8.5 in)! I bought a mini binder from Target with the dividers that fit the size and I am planning to purchase a small piece of fabric to cover the binder for a more perfect branding. 🙂 Photos to come when finished!

As for what is included inside the binder, I have created 12 pages of templates.
*An overlook of the entire calendar year of 2014
*Birthday reminders page
*Blog and Project ideas
*Album Workflow
*Month overlook
*Monthly portrait workflow (2 pages)
*Monthly wedding workflow (2 pages)
*Weekly planner
*Daily planner
*Sunday checklist going through menu planning, cleaning chart and little weekly reminders to start the week off right

I’m excited to take down the workflow charts hanging on my wall and putting it in my planner! It’s more hand on for me to have everything all in one spot instead of having it on the wall. 🙂

Here is a little sneak peek of what I designed yesterday. 🙂

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I hope everyone has a wonderful start to their weekend! I’m off again to Massanutten to go skiing. 🙂

  1. Areli Glenn says:

    Awesome! You should make a neutral design and put the download up for sale!! I could use this! 😉

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