**My Christmas Planner**

When it comes to decorating my home for Christmas, I love getting creative with lights and decorations. This year, I decided to create an Advent calendar using a plain planner that I felt had potential. The front of the planner was uninspiring, but I saw an opportunity to turn it into something special.

I started by stringing up some Christmas lights around the room and then thought it would be fun to make this planner look like it too. This is essentially going to be my Advent calendar, where I'll write in each day's activities, treats, and traditions. I haven't added any sticker letters yet, but once I do, it will become a beautiful and festive decoration.

The back of the planner is simple, which I liked because it had all these words and designs that felt like they belonged together already. I didn't want to mess with perfection, so I just left it as is. However, after being inspired by this Advent activities calendar from Polka Dot Posy, I realized that I needed a way to organize my daily tasks and keep track of what I want in each Advent bag.

To solve this problem, I created the "Advent Activities Calendar" tab, where I can write down what I want in each day's bag. This is part of the Polka Dot Posy insert, which I just thought would fit perfectly with my vintage theme. The tab itself is made up of a cute image, some Washi paper, and layered scrapbook pieces. I also added a little notepad that came from the Target dollar spot for a dollar - I peeled out a few pages and hole punched them to create this fun tab.

Next, I created several "Basics" tabs, which are essential elements that I had to include in my planner. The "Traditions" tab is one of my favorites - I love this image and decided to cut it out and layer some other scrapbook pieces on top. I also added a green Washi strip to give it some extra flair. On the back of this tab, I have a fun deer design that I just can't resist, as well as a little notepad that came from the Target dollar spot.

To keep track of our family traditions, which are so important during the holiday season, I created a "Traditions" section where I'll write down what we do each year. This includes opening one gift on Christmas Eve, playing Clue by the tree, and watching movies together. Eventually, when my daughter is older, she can look at this section and see what our traditions were over the years.

I also want to keep track of the ornaments we hang on the tree each year, as well as any special activities or outings we do during Advent. This will be a fun way to reflect on our past holidays and create new memories with my daughter.

To complete my planner, I added a zipper pocket from Doki Book that came with my order - it was only $50 cents or $1! I filled this pocket with some of my favorite images that I haven't used yet, as well as some fun stickers and goodies. Next to the zipper pocket is a ruler from Doki Book, which I thought would be useful for measuring things.

Finally, I added a little CLA sign that says "Always believe something wonderful is about to happen" - this is perfect for my planner, don't you think? On the opposite page is a plastic divider and a little notebook list pad from Target dollar spot. I took some of it out because it was too thick, but I love having extra writing room.

**Flip Through My Planner**

If you're looking to create your own Christmas planner, I encourage you to take inspiration from my vintage theme. Browse through Google for images that speak to you and find the ones that make you happy - they'll be perfect for your planner. You can also use scrapbook paper or other materials that you have on hand.

As I flipped through my finished planner, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and joy. This is going to be such a special tool for me during the holiday season, and I know it will become even more meaningful as time goes on.

**About My Christmas Planner**

My Christmas planner can be found in the links below:

* Polka Dot Posy website

* Etsy shop (not listed)

* Target dollar spot (where you can find notepad list pads)

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enbefore I get started just in case you can hear like some noises in the background that's because my daughter's taking a shower so um hopefully you won't be able to hear too much so here is my planner it is from Doki book now you've probably already seen this if you follow me on Snapchat I showed this to you guys when I first got it in and I did want to pick this white with gold just because of all the colors I had to choose from this one said Christmas to me the most most they really didn't have like a true Christmas green or a true Christmas red at all so I really felt like this one was a great alternative I will link everything that I talk about down below Doki book is a very affordable planner and it's very comparable to Kiki K so it's kind of like a Kiki K dupe so let's go ahead and Jump Right In because there's a lot to see so of course here is what my doy book looks like on the outside and here is the side just so that you can kind of see how thick it is right now and if we open it here is what it currently looks like on the inside there are a couple of few cute little embellishments these are just some paper clips that I actually made myself this is from Hobby Lobby here's a whole bag of them and they were $2.99 at 50% off so they were $150 and then I just hot glued a gold paper clip to the inside and I have a cute little Santa hat paper clip and then this bow right here I actually got as a GI from a subscriber and I have a couple more of these throughout the planner and you'll see that and I feel like this looks really great for a vintage feel and so I have course wanted to make it into a paper clip as well and it's probably my favorite uh item throughout this whole thing are these little bows and then I just have some Washi back here this is a little booklet of Washi I was sent this in a pocket letter and I end up using this uh glittery green Washi in here and then this is just a wood chip Chris Merry Christmas tag I love that it like goes with my whole vintage feel and then I thought this tag was really cute don't open until December 25th so I just kind of wanted to stick it in here so that I could see it and then this is just a Santa this is a entire huge sticker of Santa Claus I got this at Hobby Lobby I just haven't used him yet same thing with this Santa right here he's really cute he's a huge sticker as well just haven't used him so then over here I have my little pom pom I've done these a lot throughout my planner videos I feel like they're so fun and vibrant and then this is where ultimately I started to realize that this was going to go in a vintage theme because ultimately I did not even have that as a concept whatsoever I just kind of thought I was going to take my favorite images and put them in here and then that just turned out to be vintage so completely obsessed so here's the first page and I did a lot of layering and this scrapbook is actually very sturdy it's very thick so when I doubled up with this pattern and then I glued this pattern to the back it made it very thick so I didn't even have to laminate it at all so if I take really good care of this it should last so I'm just going to be really gentle and try not to bend the corners or anything um because I do want these tabs to last for a very long time and essentially that's what these are they are tabs I just didn't want to actually add little indicators on the side this is the first tab which is basically my calendar so when we flip over to it here's the other side so if you're wondering about this right here it came from this scrapbook section Louis family vacation $88.99 the paper Studio of course when I got it it was 50% off so essentially it was like what $4.50 and they have some of the most fantastic patterns in here so I just added this this I added some Washi all right so in here is going to be my December monthly out of glance this way I can add like all of my major things that I want to see whether it's going to be Hallmark movies or when I need to do some shopping or when orders are coming kind of thing um that's probably what I'll add here but thinking right off the bat it's probably going to be where I Mark all of my Hallmark movies and stuff cuz that's um cuz there's going to be other spots for online ordering and stuff you'll see soon so I do want to talk about these inserts that I have here because they're absolutely fantastic so I stumbled upon it I don't even know how but the website is called pca. pos.com I'll link it down below and then um she has a ton of free printables by the way ton of free printables and this was her 2015 collection I believe and so it's for sale on Etsy for $5 you get the whole kit for five single dollars and as soon as you pay for it you get the download link and you download it and all you have to do is print it and cut it and then and do your punch holes and let me tell you I did try to attempt my own inserts and that's when I thought to myself this is way too hard I need to find someone who's already done these and all I have to do is print them out and punch hole them and that is how I found this and of all the designs I saw on Etsy this one was my favorite it just really went went well with my planner theme the colors and everything I felt like was very vintage to me so I'm completely obsessed with this kit and if you guys are going to do any DIY inserts or anything and you're not really into like digitally designing or if you just don't have that kind of time because we are almost at December I would highly recommend purchasing her kit she does make them in multiple sizes also by the way so I'll link them all down below again I'll tell you the hardest part of this whole planner was trying to do my own inserts and you'll see a couple of my attempts But ultimately obsessed with hers then I wanted to go ahead and add a second month at a glance just in case I wanted like more room to write more stuff and this is actually what came with my Doki book here is the second tab who's obsessing just me all right so this is what I call my tracker tab um or basically online ordering tracker so I do a lot of on online shopping if you watch my videos you know this about me it's my favorite thing to do especially now that I have Ebates so if you're doing any online shopping please do yourself a favor and go through Ebates I'll leave a link for sign up for that as well online ordering is a huge section for me um I want to be able to track everything because I want to make sure I'm getting everything and if you do so much online shopping you can quickly lose track of things coming in I mean I got to a point where I did 95% online ordering last year that I actually lost an item in my house I have to be completely organized this year so this is that Tab and this is from the Dollar Tree I added some Washi and then here's the back is this not the most gorgeous thing ever so these are just you know my favorite vintage images I just went to Google did a search for like vintage Christmas and just basically copied them over to word and resized them and printed them out that's it so if you're wondering where to find all of these images that I'm finding I just Googled uh vintage Christmas all right so here is my attempt at doing my own inserts I really do like how it turned out it's just very timec consuming and as you can see it's nowhere near as beautiful as polka dot posies so and by the way when you buy her this kit right here you can keep downloading as many pages as you want because you own the digital download Once you pay for it so this is essentially where I would track my online ordering for myself I put date order the item description the website where I got it the scheduled delivery date so that I can you know pay attention to that who's it for and did I receive it so online ordering is a really big thing because nowadays there's unfortunately some people who just start to drive by neighborhoods and check porches and stuff so so um the schedule deliveries very very important to watch out for but if we take a look at uh pokka do posies she did date item purchased Merchant order ship number the amount and then the checkbox so really great data in here I really really like it and then here is this tab holiday baking probably one of my favorite tabs in here I layered a lot of scrapbook on top of scrapbook you'll probably see me use that in my uh tutorial CU I will be putting out a video on how I made my tabs so that video will be coming soon I just wanted to get this video up right away so that you guys can take a good look so that you can gather your materials and get going so then I just used some sticker letter holiday baking and of course this is a vintage image of the bakery and then here is the back oh my gosh I'm just so beyond obsessed it's ridiculous again layering and washy and then this is one of my favorite vintage images she's you know at the door knocking very cute and then here is the polka dot posies insert holiday baking and this is probably my favorite inserts of all the ones that she had this is the one that really sold me was this whole layout I can only imagine how long this took for her to do so I completely appreciate all her time and efforts things I want to make cute little gingerbread so I can list all the things I want to make and then the ingredients and supplies I might need to buy and then you know occasion the date what I'm making and the quantity I mean that probably really won't come into play for me because it'll just be like for me and my daughter but overall this is the cutest layout ever and again I can print like 2,000 of these if I wanted to because I own the digital download and then here is this one the Christmas dinner schedule this is really cool I've never thought of this before in the past so this is really really cool and you get like a little time clock over here and then this is what's on the menu and things that you don't want to forget and then here's another one part of our kit which is the meal planner appetizer relish entree side dish two side dish vegetable salad bread dessert beverage and then you've got the event title and the date so that's really cool so I decided to print a couple of those here is a tab that I'm finding to be very very fun it's kind of like my Christmas wish now I really never even thought of a Christmas wish in my life it's only until I started watching Hallmark movies that I'm always hearing this Christmas wish Christmas wish and I'm like you know what I want to jump on that bandwagon and write to Santa and tell him my Christmas wish too I thought that would be really really cute I mean I'm sorry you just can't be too old for Santa you just can't so I have these cute little stickers that I got at Hobby Lobby of course I layered again with the Scrapbook and then I wrote wish just because I was limited with my sticker lettering so I had to just you know compromise so that says wish and then the back here I took a Dollar Tree wrapping paper that's what this is and you will actually see me put together this in an upcoming video okay so here is my own attempt at making an insert I really do like how it turned out but this is really what caused me to find an already made kit because this took so long to do Dear Santa this year I've been really and then I can select naughty or nice and then love and then I'll sign my name and this is where I'll just kind of put my Christmas whip and then I took some notepads from the target dollar spot punch hold them and in and put them here so that I can add more of a Christmas wish if I wanted to here is this tab which is I'm calling it a list I didn't really want to say too cuz I thought that it wasn't the correct verbage to kind of go with my theme so I thought list was just I don't know more vintage I don't know why so I guess to-do sounds more modern so this image really inspired me because the colors were really different so I wanted to make it like a snowflake theme so I added this snowflake uh scrapbook paper here is the back so I'm obsessing about the back because I feel like it's true cheap crafty girl planner DIY I added my signature envelope and card I figured this was the perfect place to do that because it's a to-do list so it gives me more riding room and I love that I kind of carried the Washi I did this plaid Washi which I got a Dollar Tree and this was Dollar Tree like two years ago so I don't think this is recent Dollar Tree and then this light Washi I'm not sure where I got this probably Hobby Lobby as you can see it's up here as well I did add the envelope just because I wanted this red trim behind here but you can't actually access the Red Envelope so it's really just this and I also got this as a gift set from subscriber which I'm in love with and every time I I look at all my gifts I think of how you guys know me so very well and you're so considerate to send me things that you think I will love and you always nail it every single time hello hello and then this is polka dot posy insert to do look how cute I didn't even honestly plan that because I had done these tabs before I got the insert do you see how perfect that is just be mindful like me if you see I kind of cut into the little dots be mindful where you're you have to hole punch so that you don't actually cut into the image so essentially what I'll write in here is just all the things I have to do you know if I need to run errands or go to the bank or just any any kind of notes that I'll need to take you know if if there's like a sale online I need to pay attention to it or like coupon codes or anything like that I'll list that here and then here is where I start using this beautiful bow obsessed and this is what I'm calling gifts so this is is like where I would put my gift ideas so adorable and she's shopping so I thought this was the appropriate image for here and then here is the back how gorgeous okay so here's a funny story when I found this image it said it's beginning to look a lot like cocktails I just thought it was so funny and the look on her face she's kind of like hey I'm over it but um I just thought it was so cute I decided to keep the verbiage but otherwise I really don't drink so whatever I just thought it was really cute so again here is my personal insert it says gift list and then I put recipient item description the website or store and have I ordered it so this is essentially like ideas it's not necessarily anything that's completed because anything that's completed would go into order tracking up here so here oh I double-sided it so I glued it to itself and double-sided it and then here is uh polka dot posy insert for Santa's gift list what's the gift who's it for and the amount here's a different version that she also has this one has it like broken down into little sections which I really like all right so here is another Tab and I'm calling it stocking but otherwise this is where I would put my stocking stuffer ideas um that's a really big thing for me to keep track of because honestly the stocking is probably my favorite thing of of everything I feel like some of the greatest gifts goes into stocking stuffers so I wanted to go with this old vintage car feel again this is an image that I found when I typed in vintage Christmas here's that bow again and then I just layered it with like really fun vintage feel scrapbooking and then this is a sheet um that I got at Hobby Lobby so if you saw my Hobby Lobby haul then you saw me haul this one scrapbook sheet individually because I was obsessed with it and here's where I used it so if I flip it to the back here's the back I carried the car image again it came from this guy right here so here's the car image there and I had to do a little bit of trimming otherwise it almost fit perfectly in here so I actually need to add some inserts into here um there really wasn't any from polka dot posies for like a stocking stuffer um so I'll probably just have to add something blank like this or I can add some like little notes that I've you'll see here these are from the target dollar spot the only problem is it only has three holes but you'll see what I've done here is the next Tab and I called it movie night I'm really not sure why I created this tab it's probably just for like being artsy and crafty and in here um but otherwise I just wanted to do this and I really love this image I love all the layering here's the back this is also Dollar Tree wrapping paper and then this is a vintage image that I found so here is the target dollar spot notes section I had to rep punch them so they would fit in here but but otherwise I'll probably like print images of my favorite movies and do a little scrapbooking so that I can like write down the movies that I watch this year I guess so you know like Christmas Vacation Santa Claus all my favorite Hallmark Christmas movies I'll just go to Google find the image I like and just you know decorate the page the next tab I mean honestly just speaks for itself now these are actually little light bulb decoration things that I got from Hobby Lobby as well it's in their Christmas craft section and I just basically took some glue dots and you'll see this in my tutorial video as well when it comes out and I just wanted to string it up up here and make it look like there's Christmas lights and this is essentially going to be my Advent calendar I did I haven't added any like sticker letters yet but and then here's the back this back is really plain just because I felt like it had all of these like words and stuff and felt like this was just great the way it was and then I was inspired by this right here part of the planner kit from polka. posie which is the Advent activities calendar so this will give me room to write for each day in my calendar Advent bags what I want in each bag so that I'm keeping track and by the way if you're wondering about calendar Advent bags I did all 25 on my channel so I'll link those down below they were for 2015 but I think they're still fabulous and we are reusing them again this year and then I also added Santa Supply inventory wrapping supplies stocking stuffers oh there is stocking stuffers in here and decorations this is part of polka dot posy insert again I just thought that it would go really well this tab here is the last tab that I made now I wanted to make more tabs I'll probably just make them a little bit later on but these are just the ultimate Basics that I had to get in here and this one is Traditions so I really liked this image so I cut her out and then here's that green one Washi I layered different scrapbook pieces of paper and then here's the back which has a really like cool deer theme which you know I'm all about that and then I added this little um notepad that came from the target dollar spot for a dollar I just kind of peeled a couple out and then hole punch them and this is probably where I will write Traditions that you know I want to make sure that we do whether it's you know opening up the one gift on Christmas Eve and we like to play Clue by the tree and play board games and all kinds of things and watch movies together so I will keep track of that here and then eventually when I'm older I'll probably pass this planner down to my daughter and that way some of these things will still exist here and she can look at those traditions we also get her a ornament every single year so I want to start writing in hear which ornament she got in which year even though we do Market on the ornament but I think over time that will fade so I want to keep track of that here as well so this is a really great thing to add to your planner or your traditions because this is ultimately the most important part of Christmas is the traditions and the family time and then back here is this little like zipper pocket that I got from um Doki book it came with my order I think I actually added it for like 50 cents or a dollar I don't remember how much it was and I added a bunch of my favorite images I haven't used yet and some like stickers and goodies and then here is the ruler that comes with doy book and then this is a little CLA pocket that also came with the Doki book and I thought this was a really cute uh sign so I wanted to put it here always believe something wonderful is about to happen I thought that was appropriate for this planner and then here's just like a plastic divider dashboard and then I just tucked this little Target dollar spot um notepad list pad in here I did have to take a lot of it out just because it it will be way too thick and honestly I don't really need that many like I could even remove some more in here if I wanted to but just some more extra writing room and then I do have a spot for a pen but I don't ever keep a pen in there just cuz I always change like and I use markers and stuff all right so that is the entire planner at a flip through glance I'm obsessed with it I love this vintage theme definitely think about your favorite images play around look on Google wherever for images that you love the most and then plan a theme around that and get the scrapbook paper or whatever you have on hand whatever makes you happy and go for it otherwise if you do love my vintage theme again just go to Google and type in vintage Christmas and you should be really happy with the results because there's a lot of great images to find all right guys so that is my video for this Christmas planner I'm so excited about it thank you so much for watching this video don't forget I will link everything I talked about down below poco.os webbsite her Etsy shop all that good stuff and yeah so thank you so much please give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you really soon for when I share with you on how I built my tabs bye guys\n"