What to Do When You Skip a Week (or More) in Your Planner But Don't Want Blank Pages
(My cat Wallace is just for attention 🤣)
We can't be consistent in our planners 100% of the time. Here's what I do sometimes when I skip weeks in my planner. Throw down stickers!
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OMG so needed this right now. I have been constantly a week behind in my planner for the past month. Why are we allowing ourselves to stress over a HOBBY that literally no one else cares what we do with??? This just gave me permission to "back plan" with just a few words about that week. The reason I've been so behind is because I've been all over creation with my daughter at dance competitions so it's a happy "break" and I will give myself grace and enjoy the coming month with far less running around and more time with my stickers 🤣
"waves bye-bye" made me laugh! I love your humor! "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" ~ a favorite quote from Steel Magnolias. Huge hugs as your heart heals. ♥
You are so right! My husband and I are team drivers. Our truck doesn't stop rolling until we park it to go home. I literally have a day and a half home every week I miss so many weeks of decorating and writing in my planner. It sucks. But even if I don't fill it out... just decorating it is so therapeutic! It's satisfying & pretty and gives you a feeling of some kind of accomplishment ❤ I call it my therapy time... lol
The “bye bye” was so funny, literally laughed out loud. Love your humor!
I had the flu and couldn’t even lift my head for an entire week… After the fact, I went into those stickerbooks that have the snarky and “adulting” words like blah, ugh, not today etc… and I just wrote down that I had the flu and then spread those words and sick emoji, sad emoji, and water bottles, medicine stickers etc…
You totally need to use the “waves bye bye” sticker in this spread. It’s a little bit of snarkiness and humor to brighten up a tough week in your planner. Love and hugs! 🥰
I'm sorry but "waves bye bye Mike" made me laugh! Great video and much needed. I love the idea of just one box to journal in for the entire week. If it's not a good week, I hate writing how bad it is every day, but I love to decorate my pages.
I have also attached pretty scrapbook paper over the pages and then added stickers and sticky notes. It feels more like I didn't skip the week. I just used it for a note s page. I have also done adult coloring pages that I colored to cover up the weeks. There are some cute ones in smaller books that covers the classic planner pages.
Love that idea!!!!
Sometimes the best therapy is to just decorate your planner but not write in it. Sometimes I get out my planner to write in it and I sit there doing nothing. LOL We need to give ourselves permission to just not care if we don't fill it out. Back planning is a great idea.
I love how you make everything fun, I love your wit and sarcasm….I want to name the owls: howie and George…I have no idea why…..I wish I had something to write in my planner my life is so boring……so I have blank days and days….but I still decorate each week.. I hope you go back to a big planner someday….I loved your process videos for those. Hope you are getting stronger and better each day. Hugs!
I think it turned out really cute. Thank you for your honesty, it truly helps knowing it's ok to skip (which I do a lot) or just fill it with stickers. I really like that idea. I'm so sorry Mary Ellen for your hurting heart.
Thank you for this. There are weeks when I just don't feel like using my planner. Of course, then I feel like I'm a bit of a failure. But you're right. My life is still moving forward. I'm doing the things I have to do, so no harm, no foul. Here's to brighter days.🌞
This is the video I needed to watch. Mary Ellen, how did you know I was feeling this stupid guilt over not doing anything in my classic or my mini this week?? Ugh!! Life has taken over and all of my enthusiasm for planning flew out the window. It makes me feel a thousand times better to know it's fine to go back and decorate the blank pages. Thank you and HUGS!!!! 💝💝💝
It looks really pretty. I love the Owl stickers🦉🤎 I Love Owls 🦉 🤎
Big stickers, lots of stickers, big writing. Yep, that will do it. Thanks.
Love this. I totally back decorate because the decorating is my coping skill. 😊
Thank you so much for being real. One of my favorite things about your brand. You don’t edit out the less-than-perfect parts, whether that be personal or planner related. Everyone feels so close to you because you’re relatable. 💕
Out of sadness comes a beautiful spread❤
I love that ccover peeking out😅
Your smart speaker made the "new announcement" sound and I checked mine. 🤣
You made me laugh with the “waves bye bye” 😂😂😂 This is adorable.
YESSS! You should have named this spread “bye bye Mike” LOL great video. Thanks for sharing this kind of content!
😂😂”waves bye bye” absolutely need to use this in one of your empty pages!!! Please!!!! ( and of course show us how it looks!) 😉 Have a wonderful time in Cancun 😊
Very cute! The owls are adorable.
Thanks for making this video and thanks for not being afraid to face the empty weeks in your planner! It can be overwhelming and then those feelings can become daunting and make it even harder to get back into planning. I love the idea of just decorating a spread for fun and having fun playing with stickers to bring the joy back to the process. It will make it easier to get back into it. I've been guilty of that before and am sure many of us have so this will help so many, but I hope it helps you, too. I hope it will be easier for you, Mary Ellen. I know you're going through a rough time right now, but use this creative outlet to your advantage. Get sassy, get angry, get sad, get motivated or whatever you're feeling; but DON'T GET STUCK! And please use the "waves bye bye" sticker in that spread or in one of the other blank week spreads. I think that it will be cathartic for you, especially when the future you looks back on it.... besides, when else are you going to have a need for that sticker? Lol!
I have definitely been there where I do not feel like opening my planner. But I also LOVE flipping through my old ones, so I think this is a great idea. I feel like our planners are our art work and we put things in them that we love.
You and I are kindred spirits, Mary Ellen.....I lost my oldest son in Jan...😭💔 I have not touched my planner to decorate it since. I lost my umph and desire to make it pretty. But I have continued watching you(!!!). You have helped me cope (I just wish I could decorate like you!)
I'm so sorry for your loss.
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I really enjoyed this video Mary Ellen! I use the happy planner sticky notes to write down anything I have to do for the week and there are sometimes more than a few weeks that don't get decorated....so I just leave the sticky notes on that week and move along...does it bug me, yes, but I have been trying to just let it go, move forward and not get upset that I couldn't do a spread that particular week. I just love working on my planner so much and it's so relaxing that sometimes I get so annoyed when I don't get the time to do a spread. I loved the way this little spread turned out thanks so much for all of the great ideas! 💜💜
Thanks for the reminder about taking pressure off myself! I struggle with this in relation to colouring and my channel which are both hobbies and should not be a source of stress! I definitely don’t want to bring that mentality into planning. I love your videos and your sense of humour! You’re such a great human! Thanks for sharing your sparkle with us! What are some books that are good for bigger stickers?
Life sucks sometimes! I am sorry for what you are going through. Just know, you are amazing and ….. you can buy yourself flowers 🌺
Thank you for this. It is very helpful. I particularly like the idea of writing a big word or two just to fill the page up. Definitely going into my box of Tips from Mary Ellen. ❤
The owl on the left I named Horrace. Not sure about the one on the right.....maybe Bernice?
I do the same thing you did except I'm from Texas and I write like I talk...loonnnggg!!! I write my feelings all over the page or I find pretty poems or uplifting passages people have written to inspire me, things like that. Somehow it makes me feel better. I struggle with depression and anxiety and this seems to really help me inside with all these emotions.
I love this! Thanks for sharing. I could do the same and put some bible verses in also.
Mary Ellen .. thank you for your frank talk. I sure understand sadness. January was my month .. i hate looking at it ”blank”’ .. but that was me time. Im still trying to recover .. forced myself to plan this week .. but I did it today and feel somewhat better, having pretty pages. My problems are different than yours .. but still problems that make me sad. “Its okay”
Your so nice my planner looks so much better since I started watching your videos'
Looks really great. I like idea of just quickly commemorating the week. I usually find myself so overwhelmed with todos or just exhaustion that I miss more weeks that I fill out so I just rip them out and save for use later on. lol. Your videos are really inspiring. Your channel is the only one I’ve ever considered subscribing too. I can’t right now, but it is on my wish list!
Yep when i miss weeks they become creative journal spreads. I have a planner that ends in June that i said I'd do creative journaling in. Welp its been on the shelf 4 much of this year so i just said well i have some extra paper! Lol. I love that when i miss a week i don't have to worry about leaving space 2 write lol
Wow I’ve had a rough week where filling my planner and putting pen to paper didn’t happen I felt like I had to catch up before I could write the next week thank you for sharing what makes so much sense and to give my self a break from pressure thank you again xxx
This is perfect timing!! I am having one of those moments also.
I use my planner as a creative hobby as much as to keep organized (which I desperately need). I wouldn't say I stress about missing weeks but I will still go back and decorate because I enjoy doing it. I don't even know how I got hooked into it but I'm glad I did. Plus there's a lot of great people in the community, creators and commenters alike.
Cute, hope things will be better for you soon 💕
I really needed this. Thanks for sharing. Many blessings.
Hi Mary, Ellen so sorry to hear about your break up. Yesterday I had an oral surgeon appointment to get my top wisdom teeth removed, feeling the pain, ice pack taking Advil, & liquid gel are definitely my friends at this very moment😊. Thank you for sharing this, it will definitely become handy. Love how this spread turned out 💗.
I love you, friend ❤
I really liked this video and your spread! It's so pretty!! Am new to planning & found this idea helpful!!
Perfect timing Mary Ellen ! Needed this, plus this is an awesome idea ! Thank you, enjoy Mexico 🇲🇽 😘 ♥️ -Jessica
This is so beautiful! I love everything about it! I love the colors. It’s so calming and peaceful. I sometimes don’t write in my planner either and it’s okay. Thank you Mary Ellen 🥰
Thank you so much!
i have a memory keeping planner that i use thats undated. i use the weekly layouts but not the currently/monthly, and for those spreads, i just do a big sticker bomb spread with stickers i either dont think id use anywhere else or just from my non HP sticker stash that i want to use up!
Loveeee this
Really cute!
Beautiful spread…and I love the meaning behind it. 💜
Thank you
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I recently had a week with some very bad news. I wrote a brief description directly on the page in the top boxes for each day. It looks really terrible. Do you have examples or ideas for how I can fix it?
Mary Ellen I am sorry
The owls are Fred and Barney And you never name the insects
The colors you’re choosing are pretty symbolic by themselves. 😐
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