My week #8/52

I am taking part in Paper Lovestory's My Week posts (click the button on the right if you would like to check it out) so these are my pages from last week.

It was a very lucky week for me as I won a couple of competitions and was selected to do some product tests and reviews too through a company called Toluna.  I have been a member of Toluna for years now and I love doing product tests for them as you get to keep what you test afterwards and who doesn't love a freebie?

On Sunday we decided to celebrate Mothers Day early and went out for a family meal as the restaurants were crazy busy last year and that kind of ruined the day.  I love the salad bar at the Harvester and the blue cheese dressing which, as my hubby likes to tease me, is odd because I hate blue cheese.  

After the meal I popped into WH Smiths to fondle the Filofaxes which I think is quite a nice way to while away a Sunday afternoon!

The wants

I have a very bad case of the wants this week.  Usually some online window shopping satisfies the longing but this time it has made it worse!  I was talking to another blogger about her mini filofax and she told me she used to use a smaller binder along side her A5 and that set the wheels in motion.  I know you can get filofaxes with the full width pocket on the exterior for your notes and a zipped compartment for your coins to use as a purse or wallet and I really like that idea.  I have been looking online at the pocket Chameleon and mini Finsbury.

Chameleon in raspberry

Finsbury in yellow

Finsbury in blue

Aren't they beautiful? I was doing a fantasy basket on the Filofax UK site but obviously I didn't check out and a couple of hours later I received an email from them offering me a discount code for 20% off my next order..... oh the temptation! I think the blue one is my favourite out of the three and it is the one that is still sitting in my cart whispering my name.  But there it will stay, for a while at least.  I know I don't need it but oh my I want it!

My week #7/52

I thought I would show you last week's pages once they were all filled in.  I got a bit highlighter happy as you can see..... 

It was a pretty quiet week but I like being able to jot things down each day just to keep track of them.  Once it is on paper I feel like I don't need to remember it anymore so my pages might get cluttered but my mind is more peaceful.   

When I started this blog I didn't really know where I wanted to take it, the only thing I knew was I didn't want it to be a mummy blog.  I am a full time mum to three fantastic children but I wanted to do something that was just for me and gave me a chance to be myself again and not the edited mum version I am day to day.  The response to my Filofax posts has been really positive so I think I will be writing a lot about my Filofax/planning/stationery obsession in the future.  My blog might not be as eclectic as I envisioned but it will be very me!