Why My Planner Never Looks "Right"

For the longest time, I thought decorating planner pages was a tad silly. And then I switched to the standard Filofax week on 2 page inserts. And now I decorate. And I love it.
By the end of the week, I'm ready to look at something else, but what I end up creating is something...well, something that I enjoy.

I have no style. I have no cohesive "look". It's a smattering of whatever sounds good at the time. Colors that are appealing to me. And it may match in some way or another (because to me, orange and aqua go together perfectly, but not many other people agree).
Beyond that, my pages are perfect.

Well, sort of.
You see, for a while, while collecting supplies, I ended up buying a lot of things that were "popular" - which is not really what I am wanting to use. I have cutesy things. And none of my decorating has really been too cutesy.
It's difficult to decorate when you have Game of Thrones in mind when you have only brightly colored tapes and stickers. Believe you me, I tried though. And I ended up with purple & gold stripes with Skylanders. Not perfect, but workable.

This week, the same thing happened.
I restarted Skyrim on Tuesday, and have spent way too much time on it this past week. But that momentum will be carrying on to next week. So I drew the dragon, and then tried to decorate.
It didn't go well.
I ended up using the comic book style washi first, then the Hello Kitty washi to match the colors...and then, well, it ended up being more 4th of July themed than dragon-y themed! So I added Skylander dragon-like characters, and called it good.

And while I'm proud of my dragon drawing, I'm not so happy with the lack of, well, better supplies. Because I doubt anyone sells Dragonborn stickers or washi - though, if they do, please let me know!
I would love to find better themed supplies. Stickers of swords or shields, and dragons or fire washi, Batman or Pokemon...the list could go on and on. But I have yet to find any of this stuff - again, if you know where some may be, please let me know!

I've still been trying to work with what I have, however, and using it to suit my desires as best as I can (which is why I succumbed to drawing!). And while I do enjoy what I end up with, it's just not enough.

Let's be honest, the planner sticker world is geared towards the cutesy crowd. I understand that. But, come on, I know there are more geek-minded people out there - y u no maek sticker?!

~Havok

P.S. Lulz, remember "so i herd u liek Mudkips?"
P.P.S I'm debating tearing apart doubles of Pokemon and Magic cards to tape onto pages. I have a ton of them just hanging around in boxes, and the "notes" section of the Filofax pages are the perfect size for the trading card images...it's an idea I've been haggling with, and it seems kind of awesome. Blasphemy, so far as cutting up the cards goes, but awesome in actually getting to use them!