A New Year - Fabulous February Posters

The new year has started and we've been running from the start!
We've been busy with gymnastics and taekwondo!! Never a dull moment here.

I can't believe February is almost here. To celebrate, I created some cute planner covers and dividers.
These match my February Poster!
 These can be used in any planner. Simply Print, put in a page protector, laminate, and write in what you want. You can edit these in any program. I am uploading PDF and JPG versions. The PDF version can also be used in any portrait-sized digital planner. The Jpg version can be inserted as a graphic on the page of any document/digital planner. You can resize these, they're a high resolution, you just want to make sure you keep the same aspect ration/constrain the proportions.

For those living in Australia, their new year hasn't started off well. Many of the graphics I get from Janelle from Chantahlia Design. The fires have devastated many on that Island. She started a campaign to help those affected by the fire. Please pray for Australia and think about contributing.  You contact her by clicking on the link and sending her a message.

She offers her items for FREE!! She makes money by people visiting her website, as I do. Please do NOT share these files with anyone! Have them come here to download.

If you'd like to be notified when I have new freebie, then subscribe here to my blog. You can Also follow me on Instagram/Mother4Jesus and on Pinterest/Mother4Jesus.

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Have a happy and Blessed Year!!
Laura
Imperfect wife, mother and follower of Christ

My Blog is Awful! Free January Weekly Poster

I was trying to edit my blog and decorate it for the holidays. Please put on some sunglasses and continue reading. I will be fixing it, but this month has gotten away from me. 💁

Where did this month go? Seriously? It seems like just yesterday I was making a huge turkey? 

This month has been a whirlwind of parties, homeschooling,  shopping and of course, the start of Sarah's new season of competitions. We've tossed in David's Taekwondo too!! 

For January, I think of winter. I actually had a hard time coming up with something for this month's calendar. I'm not sure why? I guess I had a creative block. 

This month's background is again, from Janelle at Chantahlia's Design. This is a recent addition to her many backgrounds available on her website. If you click her name, the link will take you there. 

I love these. This is a weekly planner that is really working out for us. I print this out at our local Walmart. You can get this done in one day!!! It's about $6.00 for the 11x14. 

This is December's calendar.  I use a permanent marker and simply wipe off with alcohol. 

Everyone in the family can see what we are doing this week. Even my neighbor's son will look the calendar to see if my son will be available to play. Smart kid!! At the bottom, I have a place to put our dinners for the week. Breakfast and lunch is easy, but by dinner time, I'm done. So having a meal plan for dinner is what helps me. Here is December's poster link. 

This 11x14 Poster is free! I love creating documents!! I don't always use everything I create. Sharing is a great way for me to be creative! Please do NOT share these files directly with anyone. If they want, send them here. This month I have both a JPG and PNG file. You can adjust the size as long as you keep the ratio the same without affecting the design. If you do change the size, please post a picture, I'd love to see how you're using it! 

For notifications of the new poster, please subscribe to my blog here, OR you can follow me on Pinterest, Mother4Jesus and on Instagram. Mother4Jesus!! 

I've recently gotten into digital planning and am loving it. I really like it for school planning. 

please excuse my blog colors. I'm proficient in creating documents. web design?? Not so much. I was playing around with some colors and well, It's very bright. 

If you've been able to stand the bright, holiday spectacle that is my blog this long, then you more than deserve a free poster!! 

Click the link below for a direct download from my Google drive. 

** A few people have shown interest in these as an 8-1/2 x 11 landscape. If you think I should offer these in other sizes, please drop me a note here on the blog, or on Instagram. Mother4Jesus

Click here to download. 

Merry Christmas, 

Laura

Imperfect wife, mother, and follower of Jesus

Christmas Season is Here! - 12 January Covers/Dividers

Happy Thanksgiving!! 

Thanksgiving marks the start of the Christmas season for us! 

We had an amazing Thanksgiving. My son, his wife, and Henry, her service dog were here. 

We had a great time! 

I made these covers and dividers for January.

The covers can be edited if you know how to add in text. For those of you using a MAC, you can add in the text using Preview. For those using Word, you add the files like an image and then add a text box.  

I made these as 8.5 x 11. I have uploaded them as PNG files. You can adjust the size of these, keeping the aspect ratio. 

These were made using graphics from Chantahlia Designs. 

I do not charge for them. I do NOT require that you follow me to download them. 

If you'd like to be notified of my posts, then subscribe to my blog. 

You can also follow me on Instagram, and Pinterest. Mother4Jesus

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Look for Next weeks Blog for January Weekly Posters
11x14

Have a Happy and Blessed Christmas Season, 

Laura 

12 Hanukkah Covers and Dividers

It was suggested to me that I post my covers and dividers earlier. ok, it was more than suggested. It seems that I'm late in posting, making it difficult for people to have the time to print and laminate all my free prints!! 

I'm starting with Hanukkah. That's right!  The forgotten holiday! The holiday of lights!! Eight wonderful nights of remembering how the L-rd provided. 

**While I frequently type G-ds name, out of respect for my Jewish sisters and brothers, In this blog post, I will NOT be doing that. ** 

It's difficult finding Hanukkah graphics and digital scrapbooking art. When I find it, I try to buy it when it's on sale. It's not something that is easy to find for free. 

I print these out and laminate them for holiday planner covers. You can use the Happy Planner punch, a regular 3-hole binder punch or even spiral bind them!! I use 5mil laminate when I use them for covers. For dividers I use 3mil. 

Please enjoy these but Do NOT send these files directly to anyone. I don't charge for my files ever!! I do make money with the traffic to my blog via advertising. I also do NOT put a watermark on them. I'm posting these on the honor system. 

These are all available in a one-file download from my google drive. 

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Have a Blessed Holiday, 

Laura

November is Here and ..... Free Covers

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November has arrived in NC. It brought with it some welcomed cooler weather and crisp evenings. 

This is the time of year that I wait for!! I love this weather.

I love everything about Fall Decorating. Evening planning and covers.

I was able to create these November covers and dividers thanks to the generosity of Janelle from Chantahlia's designs. I wasn't planning on posting another freebie until next week, but I couldn't help it.  If you like to design your own covers, head on over and show Janelle some love.

If you'd like a weekly 11x14 printable for November, head on over to this blog post. Keep a look out for Decembers Weekly Poster.


If not, you can simply download these from me. Please do not share these files directly with anyone. Have them come here and simply download.
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Have a great week and Happy Planning!!

Laura,

Imperfect wife, mother and follower of Christ. 

Planner Perfection & Free Weekly Poster

I think my title is a bit dramatic, but that's how I feel. 

For years, Nay...Decades, I've used paper planners. I couldn't find the perfect planner, so I started to create my own planner pages. Times change and my children's needs change, thus changing my own needs. My needs for the type of planner changed. They continue to change, sometimes from day-to-day. 

I didn't want lists all over the house, or apps all over my Ipad. I decided to try digital planning. I have Onenote and thought it would be a good idea. The only problem is setting up a planner, one that I liked, was worse than organizing underwear!! It took too much time and with children and all I had to  do, it wasn't something that I could stay focused on. I do have trouble focusing on things to begin with. 

Simplicity is one thing that helps my ADD. If it's simple, I can continue to follow through. This includes how I decorate and organize my home and also my planner. 

When you're searching for the perfect planner or digital planner, you'll notice that all your advertising is about planners. That's because of all the advertising algorithms that many main websites use. I knew that I'd get a plethora of ads about planners and digital planners because of my search. I sat back and waited. I was right. I love it when I'm right. 😉 It doesn't happen too often. 

I had many ads pop up and I clicked on every link. More out of curiosity. 

Most of them looked great, but I could tell wouldn't be a good fit. 

Then came Artful Agenda.

Montly Screen shot

Weekly Screen shot

Daily Screen shot

I decided to give it a try. I got a free 2-week trial. I expected to try it and then delete it. I really didn't think that this would work. I also wasn't too sure about how easy it would be. 

I WAS WRONG!! 

I started, I synced it with my Icalendar, Picked out a cute cover, a type of font and I was off. I was pleasantly surprised. When I realized that I could access this from any of my devices, I started to like it. When I saw that I had a monthly, weekly AND daily view,  I was hooked. The daily tab also has a water tracker. Seriously?? How awesome this was. It took about 24 hours for me to realize that I was going to pay for the full version. I still had my paper planner, but after the first week, I realized I wasn't using it.

I can organize my plans, my lists and jot down things to remember. I can put in my monthly, weekly and daily goals. I can even create a journal for myself. Add in the cute stickers and I've got one place for everything. Because it syncs up with my phone and iPad, I always have the information with me. I created my shopping list and went to the store with my list on my phone. No more forgetting my shopping list.

Normally, I never post affiliate links. I'm also very careful about what I review and recommend. After all, I spend my money on an item, even if I like the item, they want me to then spend my time recommending them? That's free advertising for any item you do that for. For this reason, I'm very careful about what I review and recommend. 

When you join Artful Agenda, they automatically give you a referral link. I ignored this because I never thought I would share it. Because I really do love this planner, I decided to share my referral link. This was after I went back to search for what this link gets me.

Ok, if you use my referral code ( RL24865),  you get a designer cover and stickers for free and I get 10%.
Considering that this planner isn't expensive, that's not a large income.
I did not receive anything for my opinion, review or advertising of this planner. If you do decide to use my code,  I appreciate that. If this isn't something that will work for you, continue your search.
Finding the right planner is a personal thing and what works for one, won't work for another.

💁

I still had one problem. My husband and children needed to see what we were doing daily and weekly. I decided that I would just leave my planner open on my desktop for them to look at. This wasn't my brightest idea, they would never look there. Wasn't going to happen no matter what I said. 

I solved that problem I created a weekly page, that I could write in what was going on that week as a display.  Since I love color, seasons and themes, I decided to create one that could be reused each week. I created one for October. I wanted something larger than a regular sheet of paper, 8.5 x 11. I wanted to frame it and just write on our weekly plans, wipe off when needed. 

I created one for October and I also have one for November. I decided that 11 x 14 would be a good size. One reason is that I was able to get a frame from Walmart that was affordable in this size. It was only about $4.00 in the store. I also decided to have the 11 x 14 printed as a photo from Walmart. This was only about $5.00. It also makes the colors more vibrant. I came home, popped it in a frame and left for my girls' weekend. My husband loved the idea and THAT alone makes this a wonderful plan.  On the bottom of each day, I added a few lines to write in your dinner plans. 

This is my October Weekly in an 11x14 frame

I have my free November weekly poster that you can download. ALL of my downloads are free. I NEVER charge for them. If you would like to receive an email when a new blog comes out, please follow my blog. If not, please feel free to download the poster.
This months weekly poster is available with a Sunday AND a Monday start. I prefer mine to start on Monday. I know that some prefer a Sunday start. I also have the files as a PNG OR a JPG file. You can resize it as you would like.  All the files are in one folder. You can download the whole folder or the individual poster that you would like.

Click Here to download. 

Please DO NOT send the files directly to anyone. Do NOT claim it as your own. I don't put any watermark of my blog name on it because I don't like to take away from the beauty of the printable. I'm counting on the honor code for these.


**PS: Look for my December Weekly Poster. 

Have a great week!
Laura
Imperfect wife, mother and follower of Christ.