Lady Falcon Travelers

At the start of the year I made a set-up video of my planner at that moment. Now after 4 months into the system I'm still loving the current set-up. Although I did make some changes along the way. One change was the addition of a daily pages planner, which I use mainly for daily doodles and quotes. The other one is the recent addition of an A5 planner to keep track of how I spend my time during the day. Especially with a home based business it's hard to realize some time for Family and personal stuff. I hope with this new time management and time tracking system to be able to get a better grip on where and how I spend my time and in a way, to convince myself that it is ok to take some personal time every now and again. Today I made 2 video's. The first with a flip-through of my weekly and daily planner inserts and my journaling insert and the other with the new A5 work planner and the time tracking insert, which is basically a vertical week on 4 pages insert, with stylized time bar. (Still looking for a name for the system). You can find the flip-through here https://youtu.be/waz-CFLeeXA And the A5 work planner with time-management insert here https://youtu.be/TlCTW2pm_U0 Once I have tested the time-management system I will add it to the available inserts we have available through the shop. For now, after just one week of trying it out, I can say that I'm really happy with how it's working and the division between planning and tracking is really nice. It show exactly how you can plan things for the day and then life happens and in the end something else happened entirely. It also helps me to see that I spend too much time on the job and not enough time with my family, which, of course is a risk you run by owning a home based business. I'm really hoping the system will help me not only to plan better, by identifying the things that interfere with the planning, but also to help me create more time for my family. After all, when you can see that you already put in a 10 hour day, it's easier to say, "ok enough for the day, time to do something else".  Where I might otherwise just have gone on, because I lost track of time... The 2 colors pen also help identify the personal time and the work time. For now I do it all with Frixion pens, but who knows I might become confident enough in the future to switch back to fountain pens, I already have the brown and orange ink for it... I'm pretty happy with the current lay-out. It's nice and clean, it has a visual representation of the day, with the larger stripes on the midday section and has a practical bar to the right side to track the actual time spent. The left side, the planning side is smaller, since I think I can manage the planning with key words, whereas I probably need more room to the right, tracking side, for any notes or larger descriptions of the things that have passed. Hope you enjoyed watching the video's with me rambling about planners. Please let me know what you think in the comments, or maybe when you think of a catchy name for the tracking system. Have a lovely week, xoxo Monique

Well, that is, it's easy enough if you go with all the defaults, but to make it your own and have all the bells and whistles you saw in other shops, that you really thought were awesome....That ain't easy... However being a former IT admin, I do know a bit about these things. I've build a website before and dabbled with html and style sheets and stuff, had several blogs and know a little bit of scripting, so I should be fine... However it looks like it's going to be a lengthy process. I'm doing it all next to the up and running Etsy store, which is going great, which in turn means there not all too much time to spend on things like setting up my own store front... I finally managed to get it all up and running last week and filled the store with all stuff I had already made, like the Turquoise Traveler you see in the picture below. I was so happy and proud to have it all listed and have my own store...the first of my goals for 2016 already accomplished and it wasn't even 2016 yet... Now this store is going to be the face of Morgan Le Fae's Trinkets and I want it to have a touch of me, the things I like and cherish. Things that speak to me. I've now been making Traveler's Notebooks since 2013 and have feel I have developed a unique style and approach to things. I like to work with you to make you the notebook you want. In this new store I will also strive to have things already made, develop my brand and style and grow, both personally and professionally. I have been working on my new type of inserts for the store, the Falcon Files. They will soon be available ready to go in the new store. Still working out the kinks in the early birds and since this also has to happen alongside the thriving Etsy shop...it may not be next week. However I'm happy with how they are turning out so far. The new store will not only have already made items, you will also be able to purchase custom made Travelers and other items, just like you were used in the Etsy store. I hope to be able to get these up and running in the next month. I hope the ordering process will get a lot easier, because the options the new store front offers are better to shape to the Notebook possibilities. Until then all is still available in the Etsy store. I also love that I now get to make and design a storefront with pretty pictures and I already started to take some of the quotes I collected over the years. Quotes that I felt are appropriate and somehow speak of the way I feel about my Traveler's Notebooks. I've set up a coupon code for 20% off in January 2016, celebrating the new year and new beginnings, a fresh start. You can find it both on Etsy and in the new shop, just click on the [Get Discount] button. I hope to see you there sometime and I hope you check back often to see how the store will change over the course of this year. I know I am very excited about things to come and have a gazillion ideas I want to implement... however the days still only have 24 hrs, so I'll all have to be one by one. Have a wonderful and fabulous 2016 and I hope you are as excited as I am about the things the new year will bring. xx Monique