Happy New Year's Eve! (Free Downloads)

I will be heading out with friends this evening to spend the new year with those around me that share all I am and who they are!  It's going to be a wonderful night!

So to show you just how wonderful you are!

I've 8 weekly pages I want to share with each of you!  Only weekly and only A5 sad to say, I've been working on using a 5.5 x 8.5 Martha Stewart binder as my planner.  Any other pages will be posted on Friday!  (I want to have one day a month at the beginning for free pages!)  So please check back!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year and 2015 is a wonderful beginning for all!!

Week 1 : preview

2015 is almost here!  I just can't believe it.  I'm so excited for the new year, like always it's a really big fresh start to so many!  I may not do a lot of resolutions (I do a few, I will be honest!) but not a lot.

So today I wanted to share my new 5.5 x 8.5 set up in my Martha Stewart blue planner.

On my first page, I have my "obedience" doodle I did tonight.  I'm so happy I packed a few boxes to come with me, because I have the following books in my stash, and for someone not oozing creativity, they come in seriously handy!

 These are the two books I have.  One is from 1998 and the other in 2002, I hope they are still in print, they are wonderful!

This is it inside my binder:

My next are some little calendars I threw together after talking to a girl in our prayer group.  We are using the bubbles on the right to track our activity nights!  Or maybe something else, it's not concrete.  I haven't done any writing in my pages yet.  I am working on that tonight, it's been a really long Sunday before the 1st of the year, type of day!  Which meant a lot of visiting of sweet ladies and their families!

Next are my new weekly pages, I will be using these for Documented Faith, if you haven't heard of it, it's so worth getting involved if you feel like you need a large shove on finding your faith daily!  I heard about it about two or so weeks ago, and I've loved the anticipation and seeing others wonderful views!

Right now I haven't washi taped the edges.  I tried it, I did. I even got three pages in for those who have seen my instagram!  I just wasn't overly fond of it, so I ditched it and started over.  I've three or four different page types to try if this doesn't feel like it will work.  Which I will offer here free on Wednesday!  (I use only Sunday to Saturday calendars, and couldn't bring myself to purchase extra's to document my faith in, that didn't fit my schedule and my life.)  I did however, create pages for Monday to Sunday.  I'm a bit anal when it comes to making things, it's like I HAVE to make two different types or something.

As for my edges, I need to get accustomed to the entire washi tape love before I drop any money on it!  That and I couldn't see allowing a really great activities director to allow me to use up all her tape so my pages could match others.  I may be alone in this, I'm not sure.  So I may find another way to involve color?

Now my daily pages!  I shrunk my previous page, can you tell?  It's horrible how much smaller it made it, but I'm hoping this works!  I would really dislike knowing I dropped even so little money for items from Staples I may never use!  I've been using a red Martha Stewart binder for my blog planner and I'm really liking it!  It's by far so much easier than the 8.5 x 11 I was using!

So there it is!  Week one starting TODAY!  Yes!  Here's to an awesome beginning to 2015!

Week 52 : In review

Hello friends!

Today I wanted to show you my week 52 in review!  I am so excited for 2015!  I bet so many of us are!

I am new to a few things.  (Like you can't tell!)

First I've been using an 8x11 planner, it's sort of mixed with my blog planner.  I'm not accustomed to planning yet!  I was asked to teach a time management class at our church so I searched, saved and created and making my own so much easier!  So now three months later, life feels like it's finally going smoothly with my planner. 

Only issues I'm having, I haven't bought any washi tape, I used some at an activity on Saturday that I wasn't sure how to use which you will see on some pages!  I also haven't gotten used to the entire time box schedule.  I write everything down.  I even write down when I carpool or not, visiting teaching, and when I write my friends and family.  I'm a student, I have had two weeks off school now and we have about another week or two before it all starts again, so I want to really have something concrete set up for then!

So here is my week in review!

Month :

Monday (I forgot to take a photo of the first Sunday!)

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday (Yes I forgot what day it was!)

Saturday  (today)

I've posted this on my Instagram and Facebook, but Staples is having a HUGE sale today.  I bought a load of Martha Stewart cute planners and items for less than 15$.

This is it

If you love her products it's worth it!

Some things I'd like to try this next week :

I'm moving my daily planner into an blue A5 Martha Stewart binder (for Documented Faith !)  And my blog planner into a red A5 Martha Stewart binder!

Mealplanning with the entire house.  We have five of us living here, and we each take nights making dinner.  I'd like to see if we can steam line this, so if someone is grocery shopping they may be able to pick up things one of the other roomies need for their night.

I'd also like to create a financial record!  We all did our bill payments today, but I think a set place where it can be is going to be a big benefit for all of us!  Especially when sometimes we aren't sure of where some bills are, nor who is supposed to pay them for the month!)

So stay tuned!

And really, thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

A Christmas Gift : Free Downloads!

It's Christmas day, and while I will be dealing with a huge snowstorm and not leaving my house to venture out in this beauty of a day. I hope all of you are safe and sound in your travels near and far.  Since I have room-mates working the shift gig today, I feel the pain of running about in this muck.

It's beautiful, really beautiful.  It's just hard to have the first snow on a holiday and have people who have to work in it = scary driving!

So let me wish you the best of a very Merry Christmas and give you some freebie pages! 

Yes! I love free stuff!  I hope you do as well!

For you, it's a YEAR of monthly calendars.  An entire year!

I was going to sell them in my shop, but I just can't bring myself to do it.  I keep thinking of the scripture :

John 3.16
"And God so loved the world, He gave his only son."

I am so moved by this, I can't even get past it today.  So instead of charging for a download, I'm giving a download.  It's my #sharethegift for the holiday season.  God loves us, he loves our talents, he loves our mistakes and he loves our success and joy.  I hope everyone knows just how much He loves us!

So here they are:

The first are MO2P (Month on 2 pages) A1 (Sunday start) and A2 (Monday starts)

January to December 8 x 11
(I somehow forgot to make Month on 1 page layouts, those will be placed up at a later date!)

PL8X11MO2PA1-2015

PL8X11MO2PA2-2015

And two blank of the same (Please click the link)

PL8X11MO2PA1BLANK
PL8X11MO2PA2BLANK

January to December A4, A5, 5.5x8.5 Month on 2 pages

PLA4MO2PA1-2015

PLA4MO2PA2-2015

And blank :

PLA4MO2PA1BLANK

PLA4MO2PA2BLANK

January to December Personal 

PLPERMO2PA1-2015

 PLPERMO2PA2-2015

 And two blank

PLPERMO2PA1BLANK

PLPERMO2PA2BLANK

January to December Pocket 

PLPOCMO2PA1-2015

PLPOCMO2PA2-2015

And still more blank pages!

PLPOCMO2PA1BLANK
PLPOCMO2PA2BLANK

January to December A4, A5, 5.5X8.5 These are month on 1 page layouts!

PLA4MO1PA1-2015

PLA4MO1PA2-2015

Also some blanks!
PLA4MO1PA1BLANK
PLA4MO1PA2BLANK

January to December Personal

PLPERMO1PA1-2015

PLPERMO1PA2-2015

Blank pages, again!
PLPERMO1PA1BLANK
PLPERMO1PA2BLANK

January to December Pocket

PLPOCMO1PA1-2015

PLPOCMO1PA2-2015

And the last blank pages for you
PLPOCMO1PA1BLANK
PLPOCMO1PA2BLANK

I hope you enjoy these pages!  I've really loved making them!

Merry Christmas : Free Download!

With tomorrow being Christmas Eve, and my heart being full of love and happiness.  (And hearing from my parents this morning!)  I thought before I head out to bed, I'd share some free planner pages I've been working on.  These are free to all!  To keep them free, please don't abuse these, for example changing file names or selling the pages, and please let others know they are here for them to use as well! 

Below are all the MealPlan pages, I've created this far.


Some FAQ for you :

My file names show as the following :

PL 8x10 Mealplan A1 

To explain this naming system, this will not change much from file to file I create.  Which I do have months I have scheduled for Christmas Day!

PL = That is my username Pembrooke Lane

8x10 = This will be the sizing, this is actually standard US Letter 8.5x11, A4, A5, PERSONAL, POCKET, MINI

Mealplan = self-explanatory I hope

A1 = Sunday to Saturday
A2 = Monday to Sunday


So here they are, free printable mealplans with grocery list!

To get the download, please click on the photo and a new window will open for you to save your file.

PLEASE DO NOT SELL THESE PAGES.


8 1/2 x 11

PL8X11MealplanA1

PL8X11MealplanA2

A4/A5/5.5x8.5

PLA4MealplanA1

This will print as an A4, A5 and 5.5X8.5

PLA4MealplanA2

PERSONAL

 PLPERMealplanA1

  PLPERMealplanA2

As you can see these had to be edited to a smaller size, I hope to update this to be more like the Pocket type pages.  I do however know this works, my sister loves it!

POCKET

PLPOCMealplanA1

 

PLPOCMealplanA2

Font used : Crushed which is a free font online!

PRINT INSTRUCTIONS!!

8X11 and A4

No changes

A5 and 5.5x8.5

You can purchase premeasured and cut pages at any office supply store.  Change settings to fit the page size you have and select "Fit to page"

Personal

It is set up to print 4 mealplan pages front and back.  Print front side regularly, print second as you would for any double sided page.

Pocket

You will get 4 mealplan pages, with a double sided format.  It's still set up for a regular page of paper, and double side print with "fit to page" settings.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at eileen@pembrookelane.com

And thank you for stopping by!

Word for 2015

If any of you follow Ali Edwards, you indeed know about her "One little word"

I've been thinking on it this entire month!  

I kept thinking it should be a word, that could explain me!  Some word defining moment?  Well that isn't going to happen!

So today I was frustrated by my entire world.  I was tired, I was irritated.  I wanted to just throw in the towel kind of day.  So I took a nap.  When I got up, I had my word.  Something I'm lacking a lot of in my life.  I can be patient but when I'm not feeling like it, I am the worst at obedience. 

Listening to the small voice inside, and following where God wants me to.

Definitely the word I need more of in my life, and the word I need to work most on this upcoming year.

What is your word?