My Filofax collection has changed somewhat ...

Firstly can I just apologise for the rambling in this post! I'm just trying to get my thoughts in order ... At the beginning of the year I realised I'd aquired rather a lot of brightly patterned canvas filofaxes, a lot of which weren't being used. They did look pretty together on a shelf ... Here's a few of them ... Top left to right: Swift, Indie, Laurel. Bottom left to right: Petal, Spots, Metropol.

I also had a Fresco, green pocket Songbird and a purple pocket Songbird ... They were all nice in their own way but I ended up selling or giving them (I gave at least four away to family and friends) away as none of them were quite right for me. I've realised I really prefer horizontal card pockets, don't like mesh pockets, really like bright colour leather ... And so on ... Okay I'm actually quite fussy! At one point my collection looked like this ...

And today it looks like this ...

Still its not quite right as I only use five! The red personal Chameleon is my finance file, green personal Piazza is my journal, purple Finchley is my food diary, pocket pink Baroque is my health and fitness file and the mini pink Baroque is my daily carry-everywhere planner. So these are the filos I actually use, alhough the purple Finchley may be replaced by the pocket Aston in Orchid as the Finchley has both vertical card pockets AND a mesh pocket ...! Yuk!!

Which leaves these ...

I don't really know what to do at the moment. Mini Amazona (too dull), vintage pink pocket Malden (love the zip pocket, hate the vertical pockets), bright pink Opal (no pockets at all), and a BCC Lizard ... and probably the Finchley when the Aston arrives. Actually I may have a use for the Opal ... and I really do like the BCC Lizard even if it does only contain notepaper ... so that leaves the Amazona, Malden and Finchley to either find a use for or sell on eBay or Adspot. A serious think is in order! Its not good to see beautiful filos just sat on a shelf gathering dust! But can I bear to part with any...?

Maybe I'll just wait for Miss Pocket Aston to arrive first ...