I see your pliers struggle... You can get a set of jewelry pliers for under $10. They a slim needle nose pliers but they're rounded and don't have teeth so they shouldn't damage your coils.
"Because I want to." is the best and totally valid answer to why you would want to franken-plan. I think I will remember that when I am getting questioned on why I spend time decorating my planners every week. There is not always a need to excuse how you want to spend your time. Why did I watch this whole video even though I don't franken-plan? Because it was fun and I wanted to. Great video.
I can never get enough of planner setup videos. I would probably never do it myself (looks like faaaar to much work, and as much as I i love planners, I'm not busy enough to actually need or use them), but watching others do it is my favorite form of inspirational procrastinating!
It's always fascinating to me how differently we approach the tools we use. You often find a tool (planner page, particular spread etc.) and ask "what can I use this for?", whereas I'm often thinking, "I want a very particular thing - let me figure out how to make/find exactly the thing that's in my brain." (Sometimes it doesn't exist, and then I am very sad.) So fun to see how different brains work!
17:44 I don't have those planners, but I was thinking that instead of a binder clip for your archive volumes, you could "sew" a piece of yarn though the holes. You wouldn't need a needle. Just dip the first 2-inches or so of the yarn in some school glue and twist into a point (you may have to hold it for a few seconds to keep the tip from untwisting. But as soon as it gets tacky enough you can let go). Place on a piece of wax paper or parchment or even a silicone mat to keep from gluing it to your table whilst the glue dries. Once dried use it like a shoelace to sew a yarn "coil" on your notebook. 💖🌞🌵😷
I don't think I have the patience to do a coil rework like this, but I love seeing how it would work, and gearing your logic/reasoning for what would or wouldn't work for you. Videos like this are awesome for my own personal productivity, whether I'm at work or at home when I watch/listen, cause I use them as body doubling. Sarra's working, I should be too! Thanks for sharing, hope you and your family have a great (and safe!!!) 4th of July!
Oh my gosh, I've never tried to frankenplan before, but I did it with you today! I'm pretty excited about the results - I repurposed parts of an EC monthly planner and now I have NINE months for my Writing! Thanks for putting this out!
I'm a "One Planner to Rule Them All" kind of person, but you're FrankenPlanner videos give me so many ideas on stuff to add to my planner. Keep 'em coming. Would love to see these planners as they get used and, of course, ALL the FrankenPlanners. All day long. They're the best to watch while I'm working on setting up mine. Thank you Sarra!
Where I work we do coil binding and we use 2 different tools to bend the wires into shape. One looks like pliers that bends them into shape to prevent the pages from uncoiling and the other is a machine that cuts and bends them. But if we mess up and have to undo them we have to just cut off the crimped section and rebind it. So we don't really unbend them we just restart.
I wouldn't do it myself but I loooove watching this kind of stuff! I was working through my HB90 planning pages for Q3 so long videos are perfect for me! I would love to see what your planners look like later in the year as you've used them! 💜
💜 Love seeing your process and how you think this through. I wouldn't do it - at least not this way and with these coils - but it inspires me to do more customization with my own planner processes!! Would LOVE to see an update of how you're using the pages and if you find that you use them as you intended, or if the process morphed. Thanks!
This was so helpful to see your step-by-step process! I'm a visual learner, so I very much appreciate seeing you put them together while hearing your thought process! ❤ Thank you Sarra!
I enjoyed the video and got some wonderful nuggets of advice to help me with my creative life. The main thing I’m going to do is have a planner for my writing life and a planner for my content creation. I was just wondering why my planner was so cluttered. Bingo! Thank you, Sarra! 💜
Since you do this so often, you should invest in the rubber jewelery pliers. Come with 3, and one of mine has two flat sizes to get the "crink" out of the coil. Made it so much easier. Got mine from Michael's!
I'm open to trying out my own Erin Condren Frankenplanner. I think it would be kind of fun. I'm using an A5 binder for the first time this quarter but I'm always open to try new things, especially if it has to do with planners. Thanks for the video!
I love this video and it’s length. I just signed up to be an EC insider! I’ve seen you in so many other people use their products, but I’ve never felt tempted myself. But with my birthday coming up, and all of the welcome coupons they send, I may be making a few purchases to use up all my coupon codes 😅 I hope you have fun with this new planner, and I can’t wait to see how it’s going in your notebook challenge videos
I live in Texas. And my husband and I can’t get anything to grow our tomatoes hardly make it through the season. I think it’s great you were able to eat fresh vegetables from your own garden. We will try again next year.
You should get your soil checked out. Check you tube for some garden videos on problems in the garden too. Some times it's just a bad garden year for your area. Keep trying. Good luck.
I love your planner videos! I love the concept of using planners but I have yet to find a system that works for me. Your videos help me determinr what may or may not work without having to buy planners to find out they dont work for me.
I’m actually giddy about the new EC teacher planner format! I’ve been using it as a blog/content planner for years and it took way too much time to reformat every year. I use the monthly spread for my post tracker. The weekly spreads are for my FB group/SM post planning and tracking. I use the checklist pages as my blog post task and Pinterest post tracker.
totally different subject-watched the live actors version of the little mermaid and from the very first appearance of Ariel, I thought Sarra-she could be Sarra-not looks wise really but the energy and the singing made me think of you-made the story even better
I love your frankenplanner videos! Wish you wouldn't worry about people not liking them. Also get planner envy as we don't get as many pretty ones here in the UK
Not that I would be opposed to doing the frankenplannering (and I greatly enjoyed watching!) but this made me want to set up a travellers notebook because your pink pages at 4:27 are so pretty.
Always a bunch of good ideas. Your kids are adorable! I've been with you from your 1st pregnancy. Where do you get your stickers? Thank you for your hard work to help all of us.
I love these kinds of videos when you do them! ❤❤❤ I only have three EC items and they’re all different sized notebooks. I do like the compact vertical layout though. Hmmmm.
Could you take some blank pages out of your 18 month, archive planner so it would fit a 12 month coil? So that you can use that pretty 18 month coil elsewhere? 💖🌞🌵😷
I was rooting for a 3-month planner so you could use the smaller 'rainbow' coil without taking apart your beautiful creation ! I'm only 40 minutes in, but I'm sure it'll work out by the end.
Love to watch and get ideas but I don't see myself messing with the coils. I really love disk bound and would love it if Erin Condren put out a disk bound.
I wish the new Teacher Weekly Spread was something that was available in their regular planners! I would love to have all of those categories to plan, but I don't need all of the additional teacher pages they have in the planner 😅 hoping they offer that as an option some day!
I put all of my tasks into my HB90 planner on Sundays and I use the daily page to plan and track my days. I have several videos and series if you look back for things like "a week in my hb90 planner ". These content planners are essentially brainstorming/ strategic planning. I work through ideas and potential strategies in these notebook hybrids so I can get an eagle eye view of how it fits together. HB90 brings it all together as my actual plan and to do list. I have had some requests to show how they all work together so maybe that would be a help?
What types of pens do you use to write on your Sticker Guru stickers? I got the Sticker Guru monthly spreads for Q3 but all of my pens smear and it makes me sad haha
Does anyone know what brand that white out, and I guess tape/glue in the clear containers she was using at the 50-minute mark? I guess that's what they were?
It was interesting to see how you do them, but way too much work for me. There is definitely an appeal to having things exactly as you want them, but I would be so afraid of putting pages upside down halfway through or something. LOL
For some reason my announcement email went out on Eastern time, so it was an hour early! We are live now! Enjoy!
I see your pliers struggle... You can get a set of jewelry pliers for under $10. They a slim needle nose pliers but they're rounded and don't have teeth so they shouldn't damage your coils.
"Because I want to." is the best and totally valid answer to why you would want to franken-plan. I think I will remember that when I am getting questioned on why I spend time decorating my planners every week. There is not always a need to excuse how you want to spend your time. Why did I watch this whole video even though I don't franken-plan? Because it was fun and I wanted to. Great video.
I loved this video!!! It's funny I got even more excited when I saw how long it was LOL I was like Sarra made a MOVIE!!!! LOLOLOLOL 🤣💜😍 💜🍒💜
I can never get enough of planner setup videos. I would probably never do it myself (looks like faaaar to much work, and as much as I i love planners, I'm not busy enough to actually need or use them), but watching others do it is my favorite form of inspirational procrastinating!
It's always fascinating to me how differently we approach the tools we use. You often find a tool (planner page, particular spread etc.) and ask "what can I use this for?", whereas I'm often thinking, "I want a very particular thing - let me figure out how to make/find exactly the thing that's in my brain." (Sometimes it doesn't exist, and then I am very sad.) So fun to see how different brains work!
Please make these videos every year I honestly love the process ❤🎉😊
Lmao I love Sarra asking, “what do they use in the warehouse??”
Tool Magic Solution - Rubber Coating Dip for Pliers and Jewelry Tools -- it's at micheals the art store usually. you can coat your pliers
17:44 I don't have those planners, but I was thinking that instead of a binder clip for your archive volumes, you could "sew" a piece of yarn though the holes.
You wouldn't need a needle. Just dip the first 2-inches or so of the yarn in some school glue and twist into a point (you may have to hold it for a few seconds to keep the tip from untwisting. But as soon as it gets tacky enough you can let go). Place on a piece of wax paper or parchment or even a silicone mat to keep from gluing it to your table whilst the glue dries. Once dried use it like a shoelace to sew a yarn "coil" on your notebook. 💖🌞🌵😷
I don't think I have the patience to do a coil rework like this, but I love seeing how it would work, and gearing your logic/reasoning for what would or wouldn't work for you.
Videos like this are awesome for my own personal productivity, whether I'm at work or at home when I watch/listen, cause I use them as body doubling. Sarra's working, I should be too!
Thanks for sharing, hope you and your family have a great (and safe!!!) 4th of July!
Am I the only one who started screaming at my phone bc you went the wrong way with the rainbow coil?! Lol ❤😂
😂 oops
Oh my gosh, I've never tried to frankenplan before, but I did it with you today! I'm pretty excited about the results - I repurposed parts of an EC monthly planner and now I have NINE months for my Writing! Thanks for putting this out!
Love your long videos - would love a planner video too.
Thank you ! I enjoyed every minute of your process 😊
Thank you!
Looks great, you even cover most of the color from the grey divider. :)
I LOVE when you do these videos!!
I'm a "One Planner to Rule Them All" kind of person, but you're FrankenPlanner videos give me so many ideas on stuff to add to my planner. Keep 'em coming. Would love to see these planners as they get used and, of course, ALL the FrankenPlanners. All day long. They're the best to watch while I'm working on setting up mine. Thank you Sarra!
Where I work we do coil binding and we use 2 different tools to bend the wires into shape. One looks like pliers that bends them into shape to prevent the pages from uncoiling and the other is a machine that cuts and bends them. But if we mess up and have to undo them we have to just cut off the crimped section and rebind it. So we don't really unbend them we just restart.
Oh that's super interesting and helpful thank you!
I wouldn't do it myself but I loooove watching this kind of stuff! I was working through my HB90 planning pages for Q3 so long videos are perfect for me!
I would love to see what your planners look like later in the year as you've used them!
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💜 Love seeing your process and how you think this through. I wouldn't do it - at least not this way and with these coils - but it inspires me to do more customization with my own planner processes!! Would LOVE to see an update of how you're using the pages and if you find that you use them as you intended, or if the process morphed. Thanks!
A labor of love. Vice done it myself. I usually only undo one end- makes it a bit easier.
Thank you!
Would welcome seeing updates with these planners.
This was so helpful to see your step-by-step process! I'm a visual learner, so I very much appreciate seeing you put them together while hearing your thought process! ❤ Thank you Sarra!
I enjoyed the video and got some wonderful nuggets of advice to help me with my creative life. The main thing I’m going to do is have a planner for my writing life and a planner for my content creation. I was just wondering why my planner was so cluttered. Bingo! Thank you, Sarra! 💜
Since you do this so often, you should invest in the rubber jewelery pliers. Come with 3, and one of mine has two flat sizes to get the "crink" out of the coil. Made it so much easier. Got mine from Michael's!
Also.. you can order bigger coils online... you could do 6 months and notes pages. It would be big but it would turn easy and fit everything.
Such a great idea for reusing old planners. I definitely have a bunch of planners that I didn’t use. Thanks Sarra.
I love this so much! I frankenplanned one to hopefully work as my writing planning/drafting notebook starting in July :)
I love Erin Condren, but being able to Frankinplan without all the work and stress about the coil is what drove me back to Happy Planner. 😂
Totally get this lol
I have had minimal damage to my coils by using the padded pliers but for jewelry. They are a bit smaller and more precise.
I love to watch this even though I don't frankenplan. So much fun to watch.
You inspired me to make my own frankenplanners for both my writing and my personal schedule. They have helped me so much!
I love your planners. You're so organized. This video gives me lots of ideas for my planner. Thanks for sharing!
I'm open to trying out my own Erin Condren Frankenplanner. I think it would be kind of fun. I'm using an A5 binder for the first time this quarter but I'm always open to try new things, especially if it has to do with planners. Thanks for the video!
I love this video and it’s length. I just signed up to be an EC insider! I’ve seen you in so many other people use their products, but I’ve never felt tempted myself. But with my birthday coming up, and all of the welcome coupons they send, I may be making a few purchases to use up all my coupon codes 😅 I hope you have fun with this new planner, and I can’t wait to see how it’s going in your notebook challenge videos
I live in Texas. And my husband and I can’t get anything to grow our tomatoes hardly make it through the season. I think it’s great you were able to eat fresh vegetables from your own garden. We will try again next year.
You should get your soil checked out. Check you tube for some garden videos on problems in the garden too. Some times it's just a bad garden year for your area. Keep trying. Good luck.
@@UtahGmaw99 thank you for the advice. I will search you tube
I took notes..💜
I love your planner videos! I love the concept of using planners but I have yet to find a system that works for me. Your videos help me determinr what may or may not work without having to buy planners to find out they dont work for me.
I’m actually giddy about the new EC teacher planner format! I’ve been using it as a blog/content planner for years and it took way too much time to reformat every year. I use the monthly spread for my post tracker. The weekly spreads are for my FB group/SM post planning and tracking. I use the checklist pages as my blog post task and Pinterest post tracker.
totally different subject-watched the live actors version of the little mermaid and from the very first appearance of Ariel, I thought Sarra-she could be Sarra-not looks wise really but the energy and the singing made me think of you-made the story even better
I love your frankenplanner videos! Wish you wouldn't worry about people not liking them. Also get planner envy as we don't get as many pretty ones here in the UK
Not that I would be opposed to doing the frankenplannering (and I greatly enjoyed watching!) but this made me want to set up a travellers notebook because your pink pages at 4:27 are so pretty.
Always a bunch of good ideas. Your kids are adorable! I've been with you from your 1st pregnancy. Where do you get your stickers? Thank you for your hard work to help all of us.
I love these kinds of videos when you do them! ❤❤❤
I only have three EC items and they’re all different sized notebooks. I do like the compact vertical layout though. Hmmmm.
Could you take some blank pages out of your 18 month, archive planner so it would fit a 12 month coil? So that you can use that pretty 18 month coil elsewhere? 💖🌞🌵😷
Where did you get the purple flowers cover from? I love it!
I was rooting for a 3-month planner so you could use the smaller 'rainbow' coil without taking apart your beautiful creation ! I'm only 40 minutes in, but I'm sure it'll work out by the end.
Love to watch and get ideas but I don't see myself messing with the coils. I really love disk bound and would love it if Erin Condren put out a disk bound.
I wish the new Teacher Weekly Spread was something that was available in their regular planners! I would love to have all of those categories to plan, but I don't need all of the additional teacher pages they have in the planner 😅 hoping they offer that as an option some day!
I am excited to see how the teacher planner works for the HB content and HB90 video updates! Also excited for all the video updates!!
Sarra, can you just unbend one end or the other to get the coil off and back on?
Mostly you can only do it for one end, but you do initially have to just slightly move the other side out of the way to get it to uncoil.
This was great Sarra! What is the whiteout you’re using? It works a million times better than the little BIC dispensers I have!
Tombow!
@@HeartBreathings oh perfect thank you!
so, how and when do you use your HB90 planner?
I put all of my tasks into my HB90 planner on Sundays and I use the daily page to plan and track my days. I have several videos and series if you look back for things like "a week in my hb90 planner ". These content planners are essentially brainstorming/ strategic planning. I work through ideas and potential strategies in these notebook hybrids so I can get an eagle eye view of how it fits together. HB90 brings it all together as my actual plan and to do list. I have had some requests to show how they all work together so maybe that would be a help?
That would be awesome! I’m trying to put together a system that works and I’m struggling! Thanks for responding and I love your channel
Where did you find that cute little 'Today' tab?
Hmm. I'm trying to remember! I think it was actually a gift from a subscriber maybe 4 years ago, so I'm no help there I'm afraid.
What types of pens do you use to write on your Sticker Guru stickers? I got the Sticker Guru monthly spreads for Q3 but all of my pens smear and it makes me sad haha
Use sharpie fine points! Not the sharpie gel but the actual sharpie original but in fine tip or ultra fine!
Question… are you doing camp nano for this July?
Does anyone know what brand that white out, and I guess tape/glue in the clear containers she was using at the 50-minute mark? I guess that's what they were?
They are both Tombow brand!
@@HeartBreathings Thank you! ❤️
It was interesting to see how you do them, but way too much work for me. There is definitely an appeal to having things exactly as you want them, but I would be so afraid of putting pages upside down halfway through or something. LOL
You might want to consider some jewelry making pliers.
I think you're right thank you!