[ 28th April ]
was doing excessive browsing and shopping on shopee for home sweet home 3.0 when i chanced upon this notebook that i think is very suitable to be used as my Planner 2026...
besides the comparative price tag, it has just the right number of pages @ 160 for the monthly & weekly spread + trackers, each page is @ 100 GSM and finally dotted pages that allow for more flexibility & freedom in designing all the pages in whichever and whatever way i want... 😍😍😍
getting ONLY this notebook came with abit of luck that deserves to be documented here... heee
original price of this notebook was at $5.50 but there was a minimum quantity of 3 items per purchase... decided to put in shopee cart first then think of what to do with the other 2 notebooks later on... 25.4 came, discounts, vouchers, rebates here, there, everywhere and the notebook now cost $4.72 each with free express to-door delivery...
the twist came when the two black notebooks came a size smaller, the peach notebook came with 3 stains... 一气之下, requested for return & refund but somehow i only keyed in to return one peach and one black notebook...
so end result, i am left with ONE black notebook, which was what i had wanted right from the beginning!!!
PERFECT!!!
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[ 1st May ]
decided that it shall be an Art theme planner for 2026 where every design is based on an art style / artist... starting with my name in graffiti, inspired by my exploration into pre-demolised Peace Centre with mx...
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[ 14 May ]
cover page in zentangle patterns... inspired by the art club session that vanessa conducted at the beginning of the year...
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[ 3rd May ]
Hatchday tracker inspired by Henri Matisse's cut-outs artworks; La perruche et la sirène (The Parakeet and the Mermaid) and L'escargot (The Snail)
the curly wurlies really tested my cutting, gluing skill and the power of my 老花眼 seh!!!
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[ 5th May ]
All monthly spread designs takes inspiration from an artist whose birthday is / was in the month.
January's theme is inspired by Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique... had fun dripping and splitter splattering paint to create the background for the headers and all the curly-wurly strips...
white & blue were chosen as AI 'tells' me white symbolises a fresh start to the New Year, coupled with blue to evoke snowfall and winter...
what an artistic mess i had created !!!
[ 1st June ]
"artifying" the weekly spreads for the first time since there's ample time and enthusiasm on my part... this 4 part layout; weekly work to-do list on the left, weekly sketch, weekly personal to-do list & a weekly habit tracker on the right, works wonderfully for me since Jan 2025 so i'm just gonna continue with this layout into 2026...
making use of the remaining of the splitter, splatter paper so no fanciful inspiration for its weekly spread
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[ 8th May ]
designed a parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic with my favourite gothic character and her brother for February... 😂😂😂
[ 29th May ]
abit 跑边主题... by right, the focus should be on Grant Wood's American Gothic but as i had added Addam's family gothic element into Feb's monthly spread, this T1W5 weekly spread focused on the gothic tree which i had so much fun sketching instead... 😂😂😂
made amend in T1W6 weekly spread with the Carpenter-Gothic house and pitchfork in Grant Wood's American Gothic but i just had to add Cousin Itt & Thing from Addam's family in too... 😁😁😁
[ 2nd June ]
took inspiration from another Grant Wood's masterpiece; Young Corn for T1W7 & T1W8 weekly spread...
[ 20th October ]
this spread is so gothically dark for a supposedly lovey dovely Feb seh.... 😅
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[ 11th May ]
this March spread inspired by Piet Mondrian took many many griding, re-griding, re-re-griding and re-re-re-griding so that there's a balance between it being Mondrian-ish enough yet structurally functionable enough for me....
[ 23rd Oct ]
[ 25th Oct ]
spot the error !
holiday 就是连 weekly layout 都不一样... gonna leave it looking like Piet Mondrian's Composition C (1935) till the week it is planned for use... gonna use the 'white' spaces as my 4 sections but dont wanna the headings for the sections to 'spoil' the look of it for now...
[ 26th Oct ]
i hope i will be able to use the left side as a weekly art - learnt page instead of a weekly work to - do page... 🙏🙏🙏... my approval please arrive soon ?!?!?!?
[ 27th Oct ]
inspiration from Piet Mandarin's New York City... had used pvc tape for this creation... the page before and after will be so bumpy to write on seh... 😅😅😅
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The evolution of my planners :
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