Three Black Skirts Little Black Book 2005 : A Style Survivor Planner (Desk Diaries)

Rating:
Summary: Not roomy enough...
Review: I have to say that I loved Anna Johnson's "Three Black Skirts" so much that as soon as I found out that she had an engagement calendar out, I was pretty excited and determined that to be my calendar for 2005 based on the book I'd just read and all the information available here on Amazon about the calendar.

Weeell, I just received it and I think I may have rushed just a little bit. Don't get me wrong, the calendar's beautiful. It has cool quotes and big, colorful, fun illustrations alongside the grids for each week but... it's just not roomy enough. The spaces for each day are waay small. You can't fit too much information about your engagements (or too many of them) or make too many random comments because they just won't fit. And even if they fit, it'll just look way too cramped. Not what I expected for someone so big on preaching about style.

I wish it came bound instead of spiral-bound as this makes the pages a bit hard to turn. The tables at the end of the calendar are not that useful but fun and the "personal freak-out" pages (blank pages for notes) are something I've come to rely upon on every engagement calendar I've ever owned but..only two measly pages for a whole year of notes?? Come on!

On the whole, this engagement calendar really IS all about style but not too much substance. For the busy woman, it may even be a little impractical. I am however, giving it 3.5 stars because if you don't care too much about these details, it is a very pretty, fun option.