Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers: Target $1 spot (sent to me by a friend!)
Washi Tape: From the Idea Owl
Sunday, 15 February 2015
This weeks pages - Feelin' Foxy!
I am sticking with a lovey dovey kinda mood this week, mainly because I decorated my pages on Friday so not even valentine's day and I am still feeling the romance!
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers: Target $1 spot (sent to me by a friend!)
Washi Tape: From the Idea Owl
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers: Target $1 spot (sent to me by a friend!)
Washi Tape: From the Idea Owl
Friday, 13 February 2015
February Brimbles Box Reveal
It's February Brimbles Box reveal time! I know most have you have probably seen what is in the box from various social media platform shares but I like to make sure that most have you have recieved your box before I do an 'official' reveal here!
So what was in the box this month?
The lovely Alexis was one of my guest bloggers this month and you can watch her unboxing below or carry on reading for photos and a description:
There are more videos in the YouTube Brimbles Box playlist if you would like to see what other people thought of their box. These are all honest opinions!
So of course as always we start with a postcard from me:
So every box had the same items in:
Washi / Paper tape roll - Various valentines designs
Signo Uniball Pen in pink with pink ink
2 x White corrector tape which together make a heart shape
Pack of cute stickers (80 in total)
Booklet of 180 cupcake themed sticky notes and page flags
Box of macaron / macaroon pencil erasers
The lovely folks who received a planner box either in personal or A5 would have received one of the following dashboards which as you know is a reproduction of my art work.
Along with a Snoopy planner charm
And for the lovely folks who opted for a Stationery box they received a lovely tin to put all their little bits and bobs in
I hope you all enjoyed your boxes! If you like what you saw but missed out, don't worry, I do still have some boxes left aaaaaaand I have a discount code for you which gives you £5.00 off from now through to Monday after valentine's day. That is my valentines present to you! Just code code: Happyvday in the check out.
The March boxes ship at the end of February so there is still plenty of time to order a one off box or to take out a monthly subscription.
Lots of love
A x
So what was in the box this month?
The lovely Alexis was one of my guest bloggers this month and you can watch her unboxing below or carry on reading for photos and a description:
There are more videos in the YouTube Brimbles Box playlist if you would like to see what other people thought of their box. These are all honest opinions!
So of course as always we start with a postcard from me:
Washi / Paper tape roll - Various valentines designs
Signo Uniball Pen in pink with pink ink
2 x White corrector tape which together make a heart shape
Pack of cute stickers (80 in total)
Booklet of 180 cupcake themed sticky notes and page flags
Box of macaron / macaroon pencil erasers
The lovely folks who received a planner box either in personal or A5 would have received one of the following dashboards which as you know is a reproduction of my art work.
Along with a Snoopy planner charm
And for the lovely folks who opted for a Stationery box they received a lovely tin to put all their little bits and bobs in
I hope you all enjoyed your boxes! If you like what you saw but missed out, don't worry, I do still have some boxes left aaaaaaand I have a discount code for you which gives you £5.00 off from now through to Monday after valentine's day. That is my valentines present to you! Just code code: Happyvday in the check out.
The March boxes ship at the end of February so there is still plenty of time to order a one off box or to take out a monthly subscription.
Lots of love
A x
Thursday, 12 February 2015
It's been all go here!
Hello everyone. Things have been a bit slow and quiet on the little old blog front haven't they? To be fair I have also been quiet on YouTube too! I am still posting regularly over on instagram although naughty me, I am a day or two behind on the daily photo challenege but I have time to catch up.
So what has been going on here in Anna land? Well this last week or so has been a whirlwind of crazy in the Brim household. We have been without hot water or heating for days and it is going to be yet more days until we get some. Argghhhhh! Not good for winter although it is milder than it has been thankfully. We had our boiler serviced but in doing so it was then condemned as they found out it was leaking and very dangerous. Not good indeed. The past week I have had a British gas engineer here every day. EVERY DAY. For hours at a time. Hopefully today the new boiler will be ordered and it can be installed early next week. You don't realise how much you rely on one until you don't have it. Oh and who knew boilers cost so freaking much! Geeez it's like taking out a new mortgage. It is old so I guess it was only a matter of time but still! So between phone calls and house visits with British Gas, we have been snuggling to keep warm and boiling the kettle every time we want warm / hot water. Fun times!
My darling girls have had their ups and downs this week. Splodgey as you know has been up and down the past few months with her health. She is 9 and has a tumour on her tummy which isn't bothering her at all, there has been no change but she has now developed one on her mouth. The vets says she is not in any pain but it is interfering with her eating. She is still a happy bunny and enjoys sitting and watching the babies play around. She prefers to just sit and watch them rather than joining in but she is still happy. She comes running out in the morning to say hello which melts my heart every single day. She has slowed down loads, like most old folks do I guess and she is also a lot more cuddly lately. This is a big thing as both Splodge and Nibbles came from a home with domestic abuse and at some point they had their legs broken. When we first got them it took a while for them to accept us and they weren't keen on being touched. So for Splodge to be all cuddley and want to be held is a massive thing. Like a lot of old folks she can't chew hard stuff any more so she is on mushed up food. As I say she is still happy and lively, she just needs help to eat. Mummy has to syringe her some food every now and then and all food she is eating has to be wet, soft and mushy. We know we have that awful time approaching, goodness knows when, of, you know, making that final decision. Never a nice thing to think about or have to do.
Nibbles too has a problem with her teeth and had to have an operation on her molars. She was a good girl and got through the operation with no problems and has been eating like a trooper ever since. With Splodge slowing down, Nibbles has been taking over the parenting of the babies. Luna Petunia Macaroon and Florence Tinkerbell (yes I know!!!!!) have settled in nicely and I now call them my three amigos. They are inseperable which is lovely. As I say Splodge just likes to watch. Oh my goodness the babies have sooooooooo much energy it is crazy. They are into everything and anything, it is exhausting just watching but it is nice to have them around and has given Nibbles a spring in her step which is lovely to see.
The piggies are as cheeky as ever. They were so funny the other day, I thought I was going to have a complaint from British Gas about one of their members of staff having been harrassed. The whole time he was working on the boiler (which is in their room), Betty was whoooooping at him, starring at him and pacing up and down her house every where he went in the room. It was quite funny really!
It only took us a year and a half but we finally found furniture that we both liked and it was delivered last Friday. I love it and it makes the living room look nice and homely. The babies sneak in there every now and then even though they know they are not allowed, they are chewers and I just don't want them chewing my new furniture! All of my photos in this post are taken from my instagram feed because I am too lazy to take some photos. I will soon though and show you what it looks like. I love it and couldn't be happier. We went for the Cambridge range from Next.
What else is there to update you on? Well I have quite a few things in the pipeline that I am working on behind the scenes as it were and hopefully it won't be too long before I can show and tell! One of the things is I am talking to a lovely high end company in the States about stocking their products so hopefully I will be able to update you on that soon.
I am working on some new printable planner inserts but as with all of my inserts I like to give them a good 'road test' before I release them for free or for sale. As all of my inserts are ones that I use too so I gotta make sure that they work and don't need any tweaks or anything. Hopefully I will be able to show those off in the coming weeks.
Talking of showing off, I know that my Websters Pages Color Crush planner in winging it's way to me and I am giddy excited about getting that and showing it off. Eeeeek, I seriously can't contain my excitement. Please tell me that other people get this excited by new planners!
I have been working hard on the next Brimbles Box which is the March one, due to dispatch at the end of February. I hope you like it. I have been working hard to find new suppliers and to put it together for you. I will be revealing the contents of the February box, probably tomorrow. I know a lot of you have probably seen it but I don't like to do an official reveal here on the blog until I know that people have received theirs and I know my friends in the States take a little longer.
mmmm yes lastly (as I know this is a rather long blog post now!) I for a while now have wanted to change the design elements of the blog and website but wasn't sure in what direction. I was just growing bored of it you know. I don't know why, I just was and fancied a change so this morning I got up and decided to change my logo, graphics and design elements. What do you think? I like it, it is much more in keeping with what I wanted. I wanted something much 'cleaner', classic and versatile which I think this is now. I would love to know what you think too!
Right then me dears, I am going to end this post now before it becomes huge!!! I am sure there is more to update you on lol! So hopefully I will be back with more blog and youtube content soon. oh p.s. please check out my friends blog The Prudent Pair as I have been guest blogging over there. They are a fledgling blog so they would love to have some support.
TTFN x
So what has been going on here in Anna land? Well this last week or so has been a whirlwind of crazy in the Brim household. We have been without hot water or heating for days and it is going to be yet more days until we get some. Argghhhhh! Not good for winter although it is milder than it has been thankfully. We had our boiler serviced but in doing so it was then condemned as they found out it was leaking and very dangerous. Not good indeed. The past week I have had a British gas engineer here every day. EVERY DAY. For hours at a time. Hopefully today the new boiler will be ordered and it can be installed early next week. You don't realise how much you rely on one until you don't have it. Oh and who knew boilers cost so freaking much! Geeez it's like taking out a new mortgage. It is old so I guess it was only a matter of time but still! So between phone calls and house visits with British Gas, we have been snuggling to keep warm and boiling the kettle every time we want warm / hot water. Fun times!
My darling girls have had their ups and downs this week. Splodgey as you know has been up and down the past few months with her health. She is 9 and has a tumour on her tummy which isn't bothering her at all, there has been no change but she has now developed one on her mouth. The vets says she is not in any pain but it is interfering with her eating. She is still a happy bunny and enjoys sitting and watching the babies play around. She prefers to just sit and watch them rather than joining in but she is still happy. She comes running out in the morning to say hello which melts my heart every single day. She has slowed down loads, like most old folks do I guess and she is also a lot more cuddly lately. This is a big thing as both Splodge and Nibbles came from a home with domestic abuse and at some point they had their legs broken. When we first got them it took a while for them to accept us and they weren't keen on being touched. So for Splodge to be all cuddley and want to be held is a massive thing. Like a lot of old folks she can't chew hard stuff any more so she is on mushed up food. As I say she is still happy and lively, she just needs help to eat. Mummy has to syringe her some food every now and then and all food she is eating has to be wet, soft and mushy. We know we have that awful time approaching, goodness knows when, of, you know, making that final decision. Never a nice thing to think about or have to do.
Nibbles too has a problem with her teeth and had to have an operation on her molars. She was a good girl and got through the operation with no problems and has been eating like a trooper ever since. With Splodge slowing down, Nibbles has been taking over the parenting of the babies. Luna Petunia Macaroon and Florence Tinkerbell (yes I know!!!!!) have settled in nicely and I now call them my three amigos. They are inseperable which is lovely. As I say Splodge just likes to watch. Oh my goodness the babies have sooooooooo much energy it is crazy. They are into everything and anything, it is exhausting just watching but it is nice to have them around and has given Nibbles a spring in her step which is lovely to see.
The piggies are as cheeky as ever. They were so funny the other day, I thought I was going to have a complaint from British Gas about one of their members of staff having been harrassed. The whole time he was working on the boiler (which is in their room), Betty was whoooooping at him, starring at him and pacing up and down her house every where he went in the room. It was quite funny really!
It only took us a year and a half but we finally found furniture that we both liked and it was delivered last Friday. I love it and it makes the living room look nice and homely. The babies sneak in there every now and then even though they know they are not allowed, they are chewers and I just don't want them chewing my new furniture! All of my photos in this post are taken from my instagram feed because I am too lazy to take some photos. I will soon though and show you what it looks like. I love it and couldn't be happier. We went for the Cambridge range from Next.
What else is there to update you on? Well I have quite a few things in the pipeline that I am working on behind the scenes as it were and hopefully it won't be too long before I can show and tell! One of the things is I am talking to a lovely high end company in the States about stocking their products so hopefully I will be able to update you on that soon.
I am working on some new printable planner inserts but as with all of my inserts I like to give them a good 'road test' before I release them for free or for sale. As all of my inserts are ones that I use too so I gotta make sure that they work and don't need any tweaks or anything. Hopefully I will be able to show those off in the coming weeks.
Talking of showing off, I know that my Websters Pages Color Crush planner in winging it's way to me and I am giddy excited about getting that and showing it off. Eeeeek, I seriously can't contain my excitement. Please tell me that other people get this excited by new planners!
I have been working hard on the next Brimbles Box which is the March one, due to dispatch at the end of February. I hope you like it. I have been working hard to find new suppliers and to put it together for you. I will be revealing the contents of the February box, probably tomorrow. I know a lot of you have probably seen it but I don't like to do an official reveal here on the blog until I know that people have received theirs and I know my friends in the States take a little longer.
mmmm yes lastly (as I know this is a rather long blog post now!) I for a while now have wanted to change the design elements of the blog and website but wasn't sure in what direction. I was just growing bored of it you know. I don't know why, I just was and fancied a change so this morning I got up and decided to change my logo, graphics and design elements. What do you think? I like it, it is much more in keeping with what I wanted. I wanted something much 'cleaner', classic and versatile which I think this is now. I would love to know what you think too!
Right then me dears, I am going to end this post now before it becomes huge!!! I am sure there is more to update you on lol! So hopefully I will be back with more blog and youtube content soon. oh p.s. please check out my friends blog The Prudent Pair as I have been guest blogging over there. They are a fledgling blog so they would love to have some support.
TTFN x
Sunday, 8 February 2015
This Week's Pages - Valentine's Love Bugs!
I felt more in a doodling kind of mood this week so doodle I did do. He he I felt that was going to turn into a little song then! Well as it is Valentine's week I thought I would go for a love bug theme.
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers: Hearts, arrow and banner from My Mind's Eye, Cupid's arrow
Journal Card: My Mind's Eye, Cupid's arrow
Dashboard: Love Bug from my Etsy Shop
I haven't doodled on my pages for ages. (What is wrong with me today, that rhymed and again I felt like bursting into song!!) I really enjoyed it and I should so do it more often, I know I should because that is how I first started with my inserts. I should go back to my roots more often but then, I do love my stickers. Who doesn't love to play with stickers?
Irealised that I might not actually have that much room to write this week so I added a journalling card so that I could use that for little lists and notes and such like. I mean I have a to do list and note section in my planner which I use daily but it is also nice to keep details in your week as well so that they are there at the quickest of glances. OK it was also an excuse to use this journal card as it matches he he!
So one side is red chevron and I can write on in black and the other has a design on it but I can write on it with my white uniball signo which I love!
Of course my week wouldn't be complete without a matching dashboard now would it!
If you like the look of my love bugs and would like something similar for this valentine's week, or any week for that matter, I have ladybugs over in my Etsy shop.
Hope you have a lovely week everybody and enjoy your Valentine's Day if you celebrate. Mr B and I aren't really one for going to a restaurant or anything all lovey dovey but I am sure we will do something. I have a great gift lined up for him and I will be sharing it with you soon because it is related...
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers: Hearts, arrow and banner from My Mind's Eye, Cupid's arrow
Journal Card: My Mind's Eye, Cupid's arrow
Dashboard: Love Bug from my Etsy Shop
I haven't doodled on my pages for ages. (What is wrong with me today, that rhymed and again I felt like bursting into song!!) I really enjoyed it and I should so do it more often, I know I should because that is how I first started with my inserts. I should go back to my roots more often but then, I do love my stickers. Who doesn't love to play with stickers?
Irealised that I might not actually have that much room to write this week so I added a journalling card so that I could use that for little lists and notes and such like. I mean I have a to do list and note section in my planner which I use daily but it is also nice to keep details in your week as well so that they are there at the quickest of glances. OK it was also an excuse to use this journal card as it matches he he!
So one side is red chevron and I can write on in black and the other has a design on it but I can write on it with my white uniball signo which I love!
Of course my week wouldn't be complete without a matching dashboard now would it!
If you like the look of my love bugs and would like something similar for this valentine's week, or any week for that matter, I have ladybugs over in my Etsy shop.
Hope you have a lovely week everybody and enjoy your Valentine's Day if you celebrate. Mr B and I aren't really one for going to a restaurant or anything all lovey dovey but I am sure we will do something. I have a great gift lined up for him and I will be sharing it with you soon because it is related...
Thursday, 5 February 2015
#plannernerd Merchandise!
I don't know why but I woke up really early today, we are talking 5am which for me is early especially in the winter time when it is dark outside and all I want to do is hibernate under my warm duvet. Anyway I thought I might as well get up and be productive and I thought you might like to see what I did...
I was sketching and doodling and drinking tea. I love the hashtag #planneraddict and
#plannernerd and suddenly the idea hit me to combine it all and so my little
#plannernerd was born. She is actually going to be a dashboard available in my Etsy shop (personal size only) within the next week or so because I just fell in love with her. So if you like her watch out for that. Anyway I thought she would look really cool on a mug and I really fancied her on a mug so I hopped on over to Society6 and uploaded my artwork and she is now over there available as certain merchandise. What do you guys think?
You can also get it as stationery which I think would be great to send a card to a fellow #plannernerd lol!
Why not pop on over to my Society6 which is available at: www.society6.com/annabrim as I will be uploading some of my other artwork over the coming weeks. Do you have any of your favourite dashboards that you would like to see in other products?
My little winter bunny dashboard, this one...
is already over ther as a mug and cushion and all that jazz!
What do you think? I think I might be a little bit addicted now to seeing how my artwork looks on mugs etc. If you have any favourites you have of my artwork please let me know and I will prioritise those first.
Please note with Society6 I have no control over pricing. I upload my artwork and Society6 set the price and it is Society6 that you will deal with for your ordering etc but as the artist I do get a (very) small cut of the sale. Seriously I get like 50p or £1 but it is the best way I have found to offer variety of products without me having to order 5000 of each item lol!
I was sketching and doodling and drinking tea. I love the hashtag #planneraddict and
#plannernerd and suddenly the idea hit me to combine it all and so my little
#plannernerd was born. She is actually going to be a dashboard available in my Etsy shop (personal size only) within the next week or so because I just fell in love with her. So if you like her watch out for that. Anyway I thought she would look really cool on a mug and I really fancied her on a mug so I hopped on over to Society6 and uploaded my artwork and she is now over there available as certain merchandise. What do you guys think?
You can also get it as stationery which I think would be great to send a card to a fellow #plannernerd lol!
Why not pop on over to my Society6 which is available at: www.society6.com/annabrim as I will be uploading some of my other artwork over the coming weeks. Do you have any of your favourite dashboards that you would like to see in other products?
My little winter bunny dashboard, this one...
is already over ther as a mug and cushion and all that jazz!
What do you think? I think I might be a little bit addicted now to seeing how my artwork looks on mugs etc. If you have any favourites you have of my artwork please let me know and I will prioritise those first.
Please note with Society6 I have no control over pricing. I upload my artwork and Society6 set the price and it is Society6 that you will deal with for your ordering etc but as the artist I do get a (very) small cut of the sale. Seriously I get like 50p or £1 but it is the best way I have found to offer variety of products without me having to order 5000 of each item lol!
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
January Fauxbonichi Flip Through
It is time again to share with you my journal pages from the last month in my Fauxbonichi. I have been blown away by the amount of people who asked if I will share again this month. I am incredibly flattered that so many of you would like to see my pages so of course, here is my flip through. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoy creating my pages and then revisiting them again.
I also like to pick out a few of my favourite pages to share in photograph form here on the blog. I think Tigger has to be my top fav though!!
Sunday, 1 February 2015
This weeks Planner pages - Cheeky peeking monkeys
Well now that we are in February I think I am fully justified with getting out the pink and valentine's bits don't you? Any excuse he he! Last week I went with a Frosty wintery theme and we did end up getting the snow that I so longed for in the end. Not a lot but we did get some. The photo you see below is how the landscape looked for about ten minutes and then it all melted away to nothing. No snowman building just yet then! Anyway even though it was short lived it was very pretty.
So on to this week then...
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers & Washi Tape: From the Target $1 spot very kindly sent to me by an American penpal.
I have a thing for faces peaking from corners, I don't know why but I just do lol! I just stuck the sticker down so it was over hanging the page and then just trimmed it off. Cuteness!
So on to this week then...
Products Used
Planner: Filofax Personal Ochre Malden
Planner Inserts: My Grid Won2P
Stickers & Washi Tape: From the Target $1 spot very kindly sent to me by an American penpal.
I have a thing for faces peaking from corners, I don't know why but I just do lol! I just stuck the sticker down so it was over hanging the page and then just trimmed it off. Cuteness!
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