{"id":722,"date":"2014-11-27T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:26:04","slug":"the-planning-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/the-planning-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Planning Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">12 Days of Christmas 2014 &#8211; Day 11<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-724 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-ai-my-crush-holiday-happenings-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"02 \u2013 Sarita L3\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/>When it\u00a0comes to reducing stress around a busy event filled time of year,\u00a0pre-planning is the number one key. Another key is to write everything down &#8211; that way you are reducing the\u00a0strain on your brain that comes from trying to\u00a0remember all the things you\u00a0are supposed to do.\u00a0 This year I thought I should take my own advice and write all my Christmas planning down, and to do this I found this beautiful Christmas\u00a0diary from Close to My Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Their Christmas Crush Album has 15 beautifully designed pages, including a few little plastic sleeves to slide in notes, photos or whatever else takes your fancy.\u00a0 My plan is to\u00a0write into it all our advent activities; other appointments; Christmas d\u00e9cor plans; shopping lists; to-do-lists; travel plans; menus; recipes and photos.\u00a0 Then at the end of the season I&#8217;ll also have a lovely keepsake.<\/p>\n<p>However you decide to plan for this Christmas I hope it frees you up to enjoy the season even more and if you&#8217;re interested in purchasing your own folder like this one then click through to <a title=\"My Crush\u2122 Holiday Happenings Book\" href=\"http:\/\/mnv.shopctmh.co.nz\/retail\/Product.aspx?ItemID=8067&amp;ci=1573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close to My Heart <\/a>and order online.\u00a0 If you want to\u00a0see how I get on with putting\u00a0mine together, connect with us on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsYouWishEventsLtd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> as I&#8217;ll be adding the occasional\u00a0update.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-663 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sign-off-300x118.png\" alt=\"Sign off\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1ba978ff-30be-48a5-a285-6a5e08bb72c4.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Days of Christmas 2014 &#8211; Day 11 When it\u00a0comes to reducing stress around a busy event filled time of year,\u00a0pre-planning is the number one key. Another key is to write everything down &#8211; that way you are reducing the\u00a0strain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-crafts-and-things","category-nadines-favourites","category-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}