Mål Paper Daily Goal Setter Planner Review*

[AD- This post includes a product I was sent in exchange for a review. As always, all photos, words, thoughts, and opinions are my own].

I've always been a bit of a stationery addict and I love organising my life with a good to-do-list, so when a new company called Mål Paper approached me and invited me to review their new Daily Goal Setter planner*, I immediately said 'yes!'

As someone who prefers to coordinate her life on paper instead of on screen, I was intrigued by the planner, and couldn't wait to find out if it could help me organise my life more efficiently.

Spoiler alert: it did not disappoint!

The Daily Goal Setter* from Mål Paper is a beautiful hardback planner made from soft textured faux leather. It features a stylish, Scandinavian-inspired minimalistic design with a tasteful modern font in gold on the cover and spine, and comes in a choice of three colours: black, grey, and pink. I chose the pink because we all know I can't resist some colour, and I know many of you can't, either! It's a pretty salmon-pink in colour, and it looks effortlessly stylish instead of childish or garish, as pink stationery sometimes does.

When the goal setter arrived on my doorstep, I was instantly impressed by the fantastic quality of it. It's sturdy and very well made, and looks built to last. I'm confident it will survive regular use and being carried around in your bag to use on the go with minimal wear and tear.

A gratitude journal and planner in one, the Daily Goal Setter, is the perfect planner to help you effectively organise your life, optimise your potential, and achieve your goals. Whether you want to focus on your work, blogging, school, or home life, this planner has everything you need to make your life as stress free and productive as possible, while helping you think more positively and mindfully.

It begins with a cheat sheet section with plenty of tips for using the planner, and how to effectively set and achieve your goals, which you should find helpful if you don't know where to start. It leads on to sections for planning long, medium, and short-term goals with room to include when, why, and how you hope to achieve them, and motivational quotes at the bottom of each page to inspire you.

Next you'll find month and week in-review pages where you can record important tasks, and review and rate your month or week. 

The month in review pages also have room for notes, and include an undated calendar which could be helpful for tracking blogging or business stats and expenses, noting down appointments, or using to keep track of schedules. I see myself utilising this section for planning blog content in the future.

Pages for daily tasks naturally make up the majority of the planner, with a full page provided for you to fill each day. Half of the page is allocated to a to-do-list with a column for prioritising your goals beside it, and you should have more than enough room to jot everything down even on the busiest of days. The daily task pages also give you the opportunity to switch off from the stresses of work for a moment and take a few minutes to reflect and appreciate the little things in life each day, which I love as I try to look for the good in every day. It encourages you to list three things to be grateful for, pen some daily affirmations, record some great things that happened, and also rate your day, so even if you've been having the worst day, you can try to finish it by focusing on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives. These are definitely my favourite features of the goal setter and I really enjoy taking a few minutes to reflect on them whenever I use the planner.

This 244-page planner has room for six months of planning in total, and it's filled with quality 100gsm ivory paper. The paper is a decent thickness, and should accept most pens with no or minimal bleeding.

The great thing about the goal setter is that the pages aren't dated like a traditional diary. You just fill in the next page as and when you need to, so it's ideal if, like me, you don't have a busy schedule every day of the week, and don't want to have a planner full of wasted paper. Not only is this kinder to the environment, but it's more cost-effective, too. 

At the back of the planner, you will also find lined pages for notes, a calendar for 2019 and 2020, and a document folder attached to the back cover to keep important slips of paper safe and secure. There are two grey ribbons for helping you keep your place, and influential quotes from the greats are dotted throughout the planner to inspire you. They really have thought of everything.

Overall, I think the Mål Paper Daily Goal Setter Planner is a fantastic planner. It's beautifully designed, great quality, well structured, and has everything you need to help you stay organised and turn your goals in to achievements. It's an ideal planner for organising everything from work to blogging to uni, and it even encourages us to be more mindful of our lives. What more could you ask for from a daily planner?!

The Daily Goal Setter is reasonably priced at just £20.95, and and you can buy yourself a copy from Mål Paper here.

Do you think the Daily Goal Setter could help you organise your life more efficiently?

*The Mål Paper Daily Goal Setter Planner featured in this post was gifted to me in exchange for a review. As always, all photos, words, thoughts, and opinions are my own.

Old English Company Stationery Haul and Reviews

A couple of weeks ago, I earned a voucher to spend with the stationery brand Old English Company for promoting their recent competition, and being somewhat of a stationery addict, I wasted no time in filling my online shopping cart with goodies. It took a while to narrow down my choices as I fell in love with everything (literally everything), but I excitedly placed my order, and a few days later, a parcel arrived on my doorstep. I sure wasn't disappointed.

Today, I thought I'd give you a peek at all the wonderful stationery goodies that were in my parcel. I wasn't asked to promote my haul in exchange for the voucher, so this isn't a sponsored post; I just wanted to tell you about them (while being honest about how I earned them) because I genuinely love the stationery I chose, and all you stationery addicts in the house need to know about this company! 

So, with my voucher, I bought a planner, two notebooks, two notepads, an art print, and a greetings card.

First up, is the 'Consider This Day Conquered' A5 planner (£11.95), which is made from thick pastel pink card, and pressed with pretty copper foil. It has 380 lined A5 pages with three quarters of each page bullet-pointed for 'today's tasks', and a quarter designated for 'notes', so it's the perfect planner for organising your to do list for work, school, blogging, or home life. I think I'll mostly be using mine for blogging. The great thing about this planner is that the pages aren't dated; you can just use the next page as and when you need to, so there'll be no wasted pages on those days without plans. It's the ideal planner if you want to get organised, but don't always have a busy schedule to tackle every consecutive day of the week- and it's also perfect if you do.

My next choice was the 'Buy Me Pizza' A5 notebook (£5.95), a simple grey notebook made from grey kraft paper, with 'buy me pizza and tell me I'm pretty' hand-lettered on the front cover. What girl doesn't want those things in her life?! It has 100 white ruled pages on reasonably thick paper, and it's nice and light, so it's ideal for carrying around in your bag if you like to write on the go.

I also selected an A4 notebook, the 'Amazing Things Will Happen' A4 notebook (£6.95), because a girl can never have too many notebooks. I have dozens of the things but I can never resist adding more to the collection. This notebook has been made from brown card stock, and has 'amazing things will happen' illustrated on the cover in modern, hand-lettered script, pressed with gold foil. It has 100 lined pages, complete, with margins, and is perfect for all kinds of writing needs. I think it will come in handy for planning and writing blog posts before I type them up.

Two little notepads also fell in to my basket, the 'Things in My Head' A6 notepad (£4.25), and the 'Brilliant Ideas' A6 notepad (£4.25). These notepads each feature 50 sheets of lined 100gsm paper, with a grey boarded back, with the modern hand-lettered fonts printed on every page. They're ideal for scribbling down notes in the office or by the phone, and could be fun to use for journaling or posting light-hearted lists of social media.

My favourite purchase from Old English Company has to be the 'Ice Cream Darkness and Chaos print' 8x10" (£13.95), which I just could not resist. This awesome print comes in the design of an ice cream cone silhouette with the words 'without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos' printed inside it in modern white hand-lettered script, on a plain white background. There was a choice of three different sizes (8x10", A4, and A3), and seventeen different colours, and I chose to get it in 8x10" baby pink to compliment the pastel blue walls of my bedroom. (One day, when I have my own place, it will hang in the kitchen). I definitely made the right choice; it's perfect! The design is so simple, but it's so fun and eye-catching! It's also fantastic quality, and has being printed on 220gsm archival matte paper with high-quality inks to prevent fading over time and to help provide a long-lasting print. I can't wait to get a frame for it, and hang it up on the wall! 

And finally, I added in this 'you are my sunshine' card (£0.50, originally £2.50), mostly because I had under a pound left of my voucher, and it was one of the few things I could afford without paying extra. I also thought the design was lovely and cheerful, though, and that it would make a great photo prop or inspirational piece to pin on the wall. It's a gorgeous summery yellow A6 card with a modern white hand lettered font, printed on 240gsm card using high quality inks, with a brown kraft envelope. The inside of the card is blank so it can be used for whatever occasion you like. It would be a lovely card to give to someone special to show you care.



I'm so pleased with every piece of stationery I chose; they're all fantastic quality, as well as functional and stylish, and I know I'm going to get lots of use out of all the notebooks, notepads, and planners. I've been admiring Old English Company's stationery for a couple of years without making a purchase, and I'm kicking myself for not trying their products sooner. I'll definitely be going back for more.

All of the stationery in this post come in lots of other designs, so if you're interested in the item but the design isn't for you, go check out the other designs on their website. I'm sure you'll find another design you'll love. They also stock a wide variety of other great products from enamel pins to pillow cases, which I'd recommend checking out if you like the style of the stationery in today's post. I want to go back for this ice cream cone enamel pin!

Which piece is your favourite? Have you ever bought anything from Old English Company?

P.S. Apologies for the quality of today's photos. I swear, if I live to be a hundred, I will never get the knack of editing photos of books and paper.