Team Favorites: May 2026
MAY 25, 2026
Formerly called Portrait. Short pages on the bottom with lined columns for time-blocking and list-making.
Formerly called Horizontal Week + Month. Wide horizontal rows on the middle short pages - best for list-makers and day...
Formerly called Vertical week + month. Narrow, lined columns on the middle short pages - best for time-blocking and long...
Formerly called 4 column/project. Monthly view on the left, 4 columns on the right. Ideal for organizing life by categorized...
Weekly + monthly planner with a dedicated notes section. Month grouped on the left, short pages at the bottom, and...
Weekly + monthly planner with structured 5 or 7 daily blocks. Each weekday is divided into sections, with short pages...
Formerly called Simple Month. One large monthly spread and that's it - perfect for keeping it simple.
Formerly called Pop-Up. Pops up with coil + weekly short pages on the top.
Elevate + protect your planner with our stylish and durable planner folio covers.
Sized perfectly for your planners.
Pouches for all of your favorite pens and can't-live-without planner tools.
Customize your planner to fit your life with our paper and plastic insert pages.
Give structure to your sketches, plans, and brilliant brainstorms.
Add color, categories, and joy to every planning session with our stickers.
Perfect for borders, lists, color coding, and time-blocking.
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Welcome to the monthly post where it's like sitting down with a group of gals and we share all of our recent favorites. Gate keep on the recent eye cream we found? Or our new favorite book?! May it never be. Read on for the fun.
Mabby: (aka "office mom")
This new Owala fits in my cup holders and has a LOCK! Did i realize this? No. Did I spill my entire bottle in my car and on my bag? Yep. Did I think think it was broken for 5 days until my 10 year old showed me the lock? Yes.
My planner peace is FINALLY here with the Luna layout and I have basically hugged this this every. single. day. It's saving my "Maycember"!
Lolly: (aka "the bougie one")
I've been on the search for the perfect morning coffee combo and I think I've found it, friends: About a 1/2 cup of frothed real milk (Ive used this frother for years) and a spoonful of actual maple syrup. I know, I know, I'm basically Elf. But it's delicious!
Nancy and I both read The River is Waiting and it tore our hearts out, but was also one of those that stays with you and makes you think. I also finally read The House in the Cerulean Sea and I'd just like to read that one over and over again thank you oh so much. Lots of underlined quotes from that one.
I'm considering switching my beloved and ridiculously expensive face cream that I'm embarrassed to even name here for this Bonjout one that my friend raves about. It ain't cheap, but it doesn't even hold a candle to what I've been using. I know. I know. To be fair, I am called "the bougie one" so....
Nancy (aka "the creative genius"):
Me and the rest of the world are OBSESSED with this book.
I can't stop eating these olives. And they're in every grocery store so easy to stay stocked up!
Also still obsessed with Laurel Denise Sunshine Picnic stickers, I love my May spread so much!
Jenn (aka "corporate jenn"):
These pants in raspberry sorbet are my new obsession (got them in tall size obvs)
Flameless candles with a timer setting for my back porch. Nathan said he tried to blow them out because he didn’t realize they were fake.
Runebreaker by Mila Finch was my gateway into fae world. Read it in two days and could not put it down!
Sharon (aka "customer service queen"):
Living off of Haribu Sour Gummi Bears. No apologies.
The new-to-me curl cream for my curly hair is a dream!
Using this desk fan to help me survive the desert heat this year!
some of these links might be affiliate links. probably the amazon ones? because we aren't actually influencers and that's the easiest platform to link from? but not all of them. and we don't share them unless we truly have tried and love them. okay byeeeeeeeeee.
MAY 01, 2026