Blast From the Past – September’s Reader Faves

Hello Autumn!! Hello cooler days and the coming end of yard work!

September is month for making the transition from summer to fall. To move back into routine and the daily round that makes up three quarters of our year. It’s a month for getting settled and looking ahead, and that feeling is supported by September’s Readers Faves.

According to the most visited content, this month is all about managing time, planning for holidays, and making life flow a little easier. Autumn is officially here and it’s the calm before the holiday season begins. Making the most of that time seems to be a good theme for this month.

But don’t just take my word for it. Scroll on down and check out the goods for yourself.

What is Blast From the Past?

I’m glad you asked!

The Blast From the Past series is that features a collection of posts and pages that have hit my monthly top 20-50 posts in previous years. I always find it interesting to see which content stands the test of time and which comes and goes. The five pieces of content I’m sharing each month will be a mix of both.

Now let’s hop on down to the good stuff!

September’s Reader Favourites

The more Blast From the Past posts that I write the more I see that content, like life, has a rhythm. Certain things resonate more in one month than another. This month’s theme seems to center around reorientation and preparation. Kind of like getting our feet back under us while looking ahead and planning for what’s to come.

September is a month of steady movement, not too hurried but not too laid back either. So I hope you enjoy take a little meander through the posts and page linked below. And if you have time, I’d love to hear your thoughts on them.

(As always click the images or the links below to check out the updated original posts and pages.)

My Top Ten Tips for Surviving School Day Mornings

It has been a looooong time since I’ve had to think about school day mornings on a regular basis. Originally published in September 2014, this post was written at time when everyone was sharing their routines online. It was also a time where it felt like the routines were unnecessarily complex. This was also during the “the busier you are the better you’re doing life” trend.

This post was me jumping on the bandwagon in my own way. Don’t get me wrong, I fell into that busy is best trap over and over and over again. Mornings – not the time for me to be busy. I wasn’t a morning person back then. So these tips are a little on the lazy side, nothing ground breaking – just a tired, night owl’s tips for how she made sure her kids got to school on time.

Find My Tips for School Mornings by clicking here.

{Day 7} – More Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Oh the good old days of the Write 31 Days challenge! First published in October 2014, this post was part of my 31 Days 31 Printables series. It was my second year participating in the Write 31 Days challenge.

The printables in this post are my holiday planners for Thanksgiving. It makes sense that these would pop up in the favourites for September. It gives people a chance to start planning and prepping a little early, and get a jump start ahead of the crowds and increasingly full schedules.

After you check them out, I’d love to know if you think these ones could a refresh and an update. Let me know in the comments what you think.

Click here to grab a copy of the Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Halloween Costume Planner Printables

Did you know that once upon a time I tried using graphic in my printable designs? This is one of those planners where it made sense when I made it. I shared this one in September of 2015 and it’s been hitting my top twenty every year since.

The Halloween Costume Planner was a printable that I made that pushed me a little outside my comfort zone. If you read the post, you’ll see that I wasn’t super crafty back then and I wasn’t entirely sure how to create a planner for something like this. I think it turned out all right.

I used this planner every year until Liam decided that he didn’t want to trick-or-treat anymore. I hope you get some use out of it. If nothing else, I hope you head over to read about the crazy costume Liam wanted that inspired this planner.

Check out the Costume Planner Printables by clicking here.

Day 18: Setting Your Priorities – Make Time for Coffee

This post was published in October 2015 as part of my From Scattered to Sane series. The post takes a look at why setting priorities is so important and uses Stephen Covey’s Rocks in a Bucket analogy to help organize your priorities.

I share my version and there is a printable worksheet to help if you want it. Prioritizing the things we do is a foundational tool for creating a time management system that works the way you need it to. The system should work for you, not the other way around. I hope you’ll check out the post and let me know what you think.

In case you were curious Write 31 happened in October and the whole goal was to write and publish a post every day for the whole month. Bloggers would pick a topic to write about and create a whole series or challenge for it. It was fun but exhausting.

Fun fact, this is the only 31 days series I fully completed and I didn’t finish it until years later.

Find out more about Setting Priorities by following this link.

Understated Rainbow Collection

This collection will always hold a special place in my heart. The Understated Rainbow collection began with the 2016 calendars. I really wanted to design something using the rainbow colours, but I wanted to put my own spin on it. That’s when I decided to make each month only one colour and I loved how they turned out.

I loved it so much I decided that every printable needed to be done the same way. So there are six different colours for almost every printable in this collection. It was a lot of work at the time but to this day it’s still one of the most popular planner collections.

In the collection you will find everything from undated monthly calendars to daily planner pages to note paper. It has everything you need to create a planner tailored to your planning needs. And if there’s something that you’re not finding there, let me know in the comments and I’ll add it to my list of printables to make.

Click to check out the Understated Rainbow Collection.

That’s it for the favourites of Septembers gone by! What did you think? Are there any posts here that you found helpful? Anything surprise you?

As always drop a line in the comments below and chime in!

Until next time,

Happy Printing!!!