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It’s November!!! This week's Happy Planner Layout

This week’s Happy Planner layout is flowery — because, well, people in Manila are currently bringing flowers to the cemetery for All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. Haha! Joke lang. What actually happened was: what I  wanted  for this layout didn’t quite work out, so I ended up adding flowers and leaves instead. Hence, that curved floral thingy smacked right in the middle of the spread. Such an  ugh  layout, but oh wells. I used the  Happy Memory Keeping Floral Memories  and  The Encourager  sticker books for this week’s spread. Sentiment for the week:   Girl, you are super amazing. Crafty things I worked on last week  I finally turned my  Bee Happy Weeklies Aall & Create “paper dolls”  into cards ! It was a little #Inktober inspired project I worked on one afternoon just so I could play with my Distress Oxides again. I made a  hybrid scrapbook layout  for  Traci Reed’s Sketchy Sunday  — it’s a layout for my...
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Happy Planner Layout | Color Me Happy Sticker Book

Next weekend kicks off my birthday month celebration and the start of our long-awaited vacation—which called for the happiest, most colorful planner spread I could imagine! I reached for my Happy Planner Color Me Happy sticker book, and it did not disappoint.







This Week’s Spread




I filled my pages with all the feels:

  • “grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between”

  • “I’m every share of happy!”

  • “stay color full”

  • “color me happy”

  • “happy happy happy happy happy happy”


 


These bright sentiments perfectly capture my mood as I countdown to birthday fun and packing for sunshine.



Workshop Recap & New Cricut Nook



The other day I joined a fun painting workshop—read the full recap here! And since we were already in Khobar, I decided to finally cleare out my dresser and roll in a new table on wheels for my Cricut machines (thank you, Cricut MEA!). It’s so handy to move around, and now that it’s freed up, my DT paper and embellishment boxes sit out of the way on my old dresser top. Look at all that clear workspace—and more room for Lucky to lounge while I craft! Bonus: my Distress Oxides no longer against the wall, which I think dries them up.











Check out how they looked before here.

What I’m Reading


As I mentioned on last week’s layout blog, I will start reading again so Ton and I picked up Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez where we left off—and I just finished The Girls Who Disappeared. Now I’m diving into Then She Vanishes, both by Claire Douglas—her blurbs caught my eye at Jarir, so of course I grabbed the ebook! That's what I do when deciding what to read - go to the bookstore and read on blurbs or checkout my fave reading Facebook groups.



Last Week’s Projects Round-Up


I’ve decided to share my previous week’s makes alongside each planner spread. Here’s what kept me busy recently:

  • Wicked ephemera / cupcake toppers for our CCSC swap



  • Disc-bound Friends journal using Kelly Bangs’ The One About Friends collection (full blog post coming soon!)



  • Polkadoodles Digi Choosday project—read about it here



  • Wicked-themed friendship bracelets for the swap



  • Painted rock magnets for my July swap



Plus, I put my new and more convenient Cricut location inspired me to work on scrapbook titles for our summer trip: Alaska and Cruise Mode On are ready for the trip and scrapbook!



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Here’s to a colorful week and even brighter adventures ahead!


💛 Ana

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  1. BeaBooJuly 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM

    I love your planner, your craft room, your creations and I love you sis!!!! I'm sooooo excited to see you and Ton soon!!! 🥰🥰🥰

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  2. AnonymousJuly 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM

    I’m so happy to see your happy planner made just days ahead of time for your happy birthday. There’s always a thousand reason to be happy and grateful. Your craft room is well crafted as well; as colorful as your projects. The rainbow only has ROYGBIV and your crafts has 152 colors same as the largest Crayola crayon box. Color the world Happy!
    -aMOMymous

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