Humouring the Demon

...otherwise known as "Allowing yourself to buy stationery and clothes from online stores once in a while". Well, this week I've done it. I shouldn't have, I know. Budget and all that - which my boy has officially renamed "The GFC" (Global Financial Crisis). You know what? Stuff the GFC. I needed a diary, I want to look pretty for a superspecial dinner I'm being taken out to for a late birthday treat (don't ask where, I don't know yet - squeeee!) - and the file folder, well, that was getting carried away. I fell for the old "Spend this much and we'll give you free postage" trick.

So anyway here's what I bought.

Above: Lovely metallic string nude going out top from TopShop online

One red moleskine diary. Day to a page.

And then, because of aforementioned free postage and because I like organisational aids ;) - these lovely wooden files, from Notemaker.

Into Gear for the New Year

I like feeling prepared for each New Year. So it's about this time that I go out of my way to find things to get me organised - I find myself poring over the shelving sections of IKEA catalogues, reading the junkmail from the hardware store, and I take myself out for a day of diary shopping.

My diary is with me for 365 days of the year, and everything I do is recorded. So it goes without saying that it must be a beautiful specimen that I will enjoy every time I open it.

2008 had me with a Royal Horticultural Society week-to-a-page:

Which as I am a gardening loon was very approriate. This year, I'm thinking sleek, red, fabric cover. Possibly one from Kikki K, or a moleskine:

Even just browsing is exciting!