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I personally absolutely love a to do list and a planner. Over the past couple of years I have found that I am repeating my lists in multiple places, for example my calendar and reminders are in Google Calendar but I also write them down in my paper planner.

I love writing to do lists in notebooks such as packing lists for upcoming trips or as I’m currently planning my wedding I have a lot of lists for that event. I then tend to replicate those lists in an app called Asana as I’m in it every day for work.

Asana is fantastic piece of software that is completely free and you can either access it through their website or through the app. I tend to use the website to organise my work tasks but then when I think of things I need to remember when I’m at home I can use the app to update it. It is separated into a work section where you can share tasks with coworkers and add due dates and a personal section that only you can see.

I also use it for scheduling recurring tasks that I need to remember such as cleaning. I can write a task such as clean oven grill trays and then set a repeating period so once I’ve ticked it off it will automatically reset to a fortnight after that.

I do like a planner for future planning though and to remind myself of things like my partners work schedule and my sons activities. I wanted a digital planner that I could use my iPad or iPhone to update and I did buy one from Jordan Page at funcheaporfree as I love her block schedule planning method but I didn’t find it covered everything I needed as it’s an undated planner there wasn’t calendars for months or years.

I use a website called Canva which is free and brilliant for creating all sorts of designs including A4 documents, posters, social media posts, invitations etc; I used Canva to create my perfect planner and download it as a PDF. I used the website Calendaropia to snippet or screen shot calendars for the years and months.

You can create a document up to 100 pages so I have created a planner that has two daily pages to one A4 sheet so if I printed it the planner would be A5 in size. I have kept blocks to continue to follow Jordan Page’s block schedule method but adapted it to include a big section for to dos, the main goal for my day and the meals for that day.

Use Canva to create your own planner and you can download it as a print PDF with bleed and crop marks so you could even get it professionally printed and bound if you require a paper planner. Alternatively you can do what I’m going to do and use the PDF to use on the Books app on an iPad so I can still write notes on it using my Apple Pencil.

I’m a big fan of labelling items as I live with two boys and I have found that if I label the areas where I want things to be put I have a much higher chance of those items being put back in those places.

I had some leftover blue vinyl so I used a free font I love called dalgona and created some fridge labels using Cricut Design Space.

I labelled up the drawers and the door shelves. I am so happy with how it all turned out and it is definitely working!

Two of the labels were destined for the freezer, I wasn’t sure how the vinyl would hold up in the freezing temperatures but so far they haven’t had a problem at all.

I have been labelling my food containers using my label maker but I wanted something more impactful and colourful. I am the only girl in the house (well, me and the dog!) so I went with blue vinyl for the labels rather than the usual black or white. Mainly just because I had the vinyl as it was the sampler that came with the Cricut and I had no other project to use it on. Waste not want not and it meant the project was free.

Here’s an image of my containers before…

The containers looked so much better afterwards, this project took me five minutes and didn’t cost me anything!

I love cooking fresh food from scratch and I follow slimming world a lot of the time which is easier to follow if you do home cooking so I have all of the stock cube flavours on hand at all times. If you’ve never tried adding a vegetable or chicken stock cube to rice or pasta I highly recommend it, it’s so tasty!

I was keeping my stock cubes in my spice cupboard which is a small pull out cupboard with wire shelving but the slim boxes kept falling through the slots and I was buying different size stock cubes so I wanted some storage that would suit different size cubes that I could put into my food cupboard instead of having the little boxes in there.

I found this small three drawer unit on amazon which was ideal for what I needed and fits perfectly in the cupboard. I used my Cricut Explore Air to cut out the labels using the free hello honey font.

I don’t know about anyone else but my son keeps his room a lot tidier if I give him a place for everything and label those places. I even label his clothes drawers.

Normally I use my trusty label maker but he has a stack of large plastic drawers that he stores his ‘toys’ in although as he’s 11 it’s more electronic cables, school stuff and the odd toy.

For these drawers I did use the label maker but I wanted larger labels for the drawers than I could produce with the label maker so I designed some labels just using text in Cricut design space and used some white vinyl I had in my craft stock.

This project literally took five minutes and my son loves the new labels.