A 'colourful' year ahead

This week, I started the last year of my undergrad degree. It's the scary and daunting year, and I knew I had to be more dedicated to my schedule. I looked high and low for a planner I really liked, and I couldn't find one. Until, after a final search of Amazon, I found one I fell in love with.

I have a clinical writers cramp, therefore find it really hard to write for a long period of time - anything more than half an A5 page and I feel like I want to vom everywhere. Exams are a big no-no for me if I'm writing - praise Uni for letting me use a PC during my exams (I am a very quick touch typer).
I do, however, really love to colour. Colouring is a de-stress to me, and I don't find my hand begins to hurt until after I've finished the page. I own many a colouring book, including but not limited to; Game of Thrones, I Hate Fairyland,  Creative Cats and Victorian Fashion (I brought this one second hand - and someone had already coloured in two of the pages with the hardest hand and bright felt tips). I always buy a new colouring book before I finish the old one.

I finally found the perfect planner for me. Introducing Johanna Basford's 16-Month Weekly Colouring Planner.

The question is - do I colour in the front page or not?

This is a gorgeous, slightly bigger than A5 (It's a really weird size) planner. The front cover has some gorgeous gold-leaf design that can look green in certain light, giving it a more true to life plant look.

The only downside to the front cover is it is made of the same paper the planner itself is made of - it lacks the protective cover that you want on a book.

Just look at that intricate leaf work!

The moment I opened the planner, to write some important dates in it, I forgot all about it and coloured in the front page - perhaps this planner was a bad idea after all, all I want to do is colour it in! I have told myself I can colour in one of the drawings a week, once I have coloured in the couple weeks from September.
This one page gives a great idea of what the whole planner looks like on the inside. The good thing with these abstract images is you don't have to stick to what colour things are actually meant to be. As you can see here, I coloured a lily-pad blue and some leaves orange.

Cute little stare-y owl waiting to be coloured

And just to prove I'm using it, this is my schedule for the 10th of October to the 17th of October so far. I used a pen given to me as a gift from my friend Daisy, which is why there's both red and black. So far black means assignments for university and red is stuff I want to do myself. I'm looking forward to colouring that owl in!


Do you have any good ideas on how to I should use my planner? Perhaps you have your own planner that you can't wait to gush about. Leave a comment in the box below and tell me all about it!