Happy Planners all the time!

When last we talked about planners, a few weeks ago, I was saying I was still intending to buy a Lifeplanner for 2021. Well, that plan has now changed, because I bought an 18-month Happy Planner for $12.99 from the warehouse sale that they just had, and I now have no excuse to buy a Lifeplanner next year - nor do I really want to. I put the first six months of the new planner away, and I'll re-date those and use them later, because Lifeplanners are expensive and I'm bound and determined to finish my (frankenplanned) 2020 book.

In fact the frankenplanning is part of the problem, in a way - why stick yourself with a coil-bound book if you want to be able to add pages? There are many, many disc-bound and loose-leaf planners you can use instead. I've been using various permutations of Happy Planners all year - many, many permutations, in fact, I keep buying them on clearance and changing things around almost constantly, but I haven't tried a classic vertical and I'm going to give it a try for 2021. I really don't see why I wouldn't like it just fine. (I did try the mini vertical HP and didn't like it, but that was because it was Just. Too. Small. I have no reason to think I'll have that problem with a classic.)

I know I had at least a few pictures to show, let's see what that was.

Oh right, I decided I wanted to do an election countdown. I found these date covers - presumably meant for July - and used them to count backwards. (This is just the top row of my Lifeplanner.)

I am not usually big on patriotic stuff, but I think this is pretty cute. (These are from PB Taco.)

Here is the August monthly page - I sprang for the Planner Kate sets - or at least, various pieces of the sets - for August and September. (The fruit stickers are Happy Planner, I think - I had stuck them in at some point. But the header is Planner Kate.

And here's a little bit of September:

There was the plaid, or there was a version with apples - I decided I liked the plaid better. I do have some washi with the apple pattern.

All that is in the EC book. I'm doing pretty minimalist planning in the other books right now - by which I mean I'm not using a lot of stickers. I have two horizontal books I'm using to journal in (one about books, one about everything else). I have the mini vertical which is just a spending tracker at the moment, and I have my skinny classic, which I have started filling with checklists. I especially like to use that one at work. So my years as an Erin Condren girl are over, apparently. Right now I'm a combination but in January I will be a full-time  Happy Planner girl! (Happy Planner woman? somehow that just doesn't sound right.)

More Polish 'M

I've showed some polishes from Polish 'M previously (here and here). Here are a couple more polishes that didn't make it into the previous entries.

I keep wanting to call this polish just Lettuce Play, but in fact that's not its full name. (In case you can't read the picture, it's actually Lettuce Play (In The Dirt).)

So here is Lettuce Play (In The Dirt):

It apparently is discontinued. It's really pretty, though, and I don't think you can tell from this picture. It seems to have a variety of glitters and shimmers in it.

Purple-A-Palooza 2:

There is a whole series of Purple-A-Palooza polishes from Polish 'M. In fact, as I write this there are still a bunch of them on Polish 'M's website for $4. Honestly, I have to say I'm not completely blown away by this one, although there's nothing wrong with it - I just don't love it. But I haven't worn it yet, either. (Looking at the pictures, I might try #3 if I was going to try another one.)

I Scream, You Scream

I bought a couple of polishes from I Scream Nails, neither of which I have worn yet, and I really have to rectify that before summer is over, especially for this one, which is called Mermaids Made Me:

Of course the bottles and the packaging are utterly adorable. Hopefully the polish is too! This one seems to be a conventional glitter. (I don't see it on the website so I think it may be discontinued. I believe it was marked down when I got it.)

(I was thinking "why didn't I take these out of the boxes to take these pictures, but I think it was to keep the bottles from rolling all over. That kind of round bottle is not very cooperative when you want it to lay flat!)

Then the other one I got is Wonderworld, an iridescent pinkish-blue:

It doesn't look like too much in the swatch, does it? I'm going to have to experiment with layering here. (Wonderworld is still on the website but is currently out of stock.)

Olive Ave summer polishes

I've been spending all my money on planners, lately, and I have more polish than I know what to do with, anyway, so it's been a month - maybe more - since I've bought any polish. But I haven't posted the last stuff I did buy, so I'm trying to get up the swatches I have that never got posted. The first installment is from Olive Ave Polish.

 This is Olive Ave Herbology (2 coats), from the Summer Reading collection:

This is turquoise with gold shimmer - super-pretty, but sheer. I liked it best when I layered it over other things - here's a swatch over Aster:

Aster is a paler green creme, but I was surprised at how much I liked this. There's a picture of it on my hands in this post, and it's also on my Instagram page!

For the record, here's my earlier post about Aster and the other colors from the spring (Flora) collection.

Then here's the other one I bought from Summer Reading, which is Fey - not quite as showy as Herbology but really pretty, still:

Fey on my nails: