WashiGang Journal

With the festive season approaching, we thought we'd chat DIY festive crafts for your washi tape, stickers & stamps!!! We love getting crafty in front of a Netflix movie marathon, chomping down on a rum ball (or three). Read on for our DIY holiday decorations, cards, gift wrapping and gift tags:

We're back with a special Christmas themed bullet journaling guest blog from Rox Paper Stickers!! Roxanne has some great prompts and decorating ideas for your bullet journals! Read on to see a very Aussie style #bujo spread and lots of tips and tricks for creating your own!

We're so excited to have Kobi (AKA @pagesbykc) join us again for another guest blog! Kobi has been cooking up a storm and has put together a few tips on recipe organising for us all. Recipe planning is a great way to keep treasured family recipes, fave finds from the internet, recommendations from friends and to try new things in the kitchen. Read on for Kobi's recipe planning tips and tricks:

Have you ever thought about trying meal planning? It’s actually a great way to save time, stick to a budget, try new recipes, stop food waste and enjoy what you’re cooking! Having a plan can help reduce the stress of making a meal, so that you have more time to enjoy it! 

We've done some research on meal planning and have collected all of the tips to help you on your way to easy breezy meal planning! 

New to Happy Planner? 

A bit confused about all of the different options and trying to work out which Happy Planner is right for you? We’ve got you covered! Let’s break it down!

Hi Gang! Have you used a Memory Keeping Journal before? We love the idea of treasuring our special photos and memories in a journal, but sometimes it can seem overwhelming wondering where to start. We're so excited to introduce our guest blogger, Kobie (AKA @pagesbykc ) who is an absolute pro at documenting special memories, from family holidays and travel details, to documenting her daughters important life events! Read on for Kobie's tips and tricks on using a Memory Keeping Journal!

There are many benefits to journaling about books we love, read and hope to read! Are you a book lover? We've been thinking about the benefits of journaling about books, including, noticing your own reading patterns and personal interests, gaining a deeper understanding of the books that you read, learning about and recording new words, sayings and topics, making the books that you read more memorable and of course, a way to love books even more!!! 

Read on for the benefits of journaling about books, journaling prompts for book lovers, team WashiGang's reading list and our fave stationery products for book lovers. 

Today we're celebrating National Book Lovers Day! As we're all book lovers in the WashiGang office, we thought we'd celebrate for the whole week! Are you a book lover, too? Have you ever thought about starting a reading journal to keep track of what you've been reading? 

We thought we'd kick off National Book Lovers Day with a guest blog on how to start and write a reading journal, from our favourite WashiGang crew book lover, Library of Kate! Yay!! Library of Kate is the master or reading journals and she has some great tips to get you started.

With Christmas in July just around the corner, we thought we'd share a few prompts for creating a fun spread in your Planner or Journal! 

There's something about a winter Christmas that is SO MUCH more fun than a summer Christmas. We're all used to seeing Christmas movies, with snow, fire places roaring, cozy winter activities, baked goods and warm drinks... why not bring a little festive cheer to the Australian winter season, we say!!