Check out all the new items in the shop here!

One of our Forest Fables artist, Kristina Collantes is one amazingly talented artist whom we’ve admired for a long time. So when she emailed us last fall, we jumped at the chance to work with her. We love her beautiful landscape and fantastical landscapes she created for us in the wallets and mousepad.

For our Illustrated Interview series, We asked her a several questions and asked her to illustrate the answers and we got some interesting answers. See if you can figure out for yourself.

Check out her work for Poketo here.
Find out more about Kristina here.

Love, love, love these new goodies we brought in for the new year. All those NYE photos you took on your Diana or Fisheye, here are some unique albums to store those photos to surprise your friends. There are also photo album/planner combos along with new versions of some of our best selling planners. Scroll to see more or click here to see them all!

This one below is horizontally oriented, and holds up to 30 photos.

Love this new “Stand By Me” spiral bound planner with envelope pocket and enclosure on the outside cover! Bet you’ve never really seen this very much.

This one below is a monthly planner, but, the front cover has a slot that you can put your fave picture and switch it out anytime. The two pictures are ones that we took with our analog camera from Japan.

Like our best selling Travel Journal, this new “Stand By Me” Planner is the same size and shape… graphics just dialed back.

Desk-Its have been a runaway bestseller at Poketo. We’ve been shipping tons of them to customers all over the world, so it’s no wonder that we met someone who truly loves the Desk-Its.

Jen Giese is part of the creative team at Photojojo. Photojojo.com is the awesome photography community where you can find everything from gear, tips, and photography DIY projects from people all over the world. Since she’s been using the Desk-Its as part of her daily routine, we asked her to share a bit about herself and how her life gets a little less crazy because of these simple, elegant stick-ons.

Photo by Rachel Gant

Hi, Jen, tell us a bit about yourself.
I’m part of the super fun and creative team at Photojojo. I grew up in San Diego but I’ve lived in San Francisco for three years now — I wouldn’t trade it for any other city in the world.

You must love photography, what are some of your personal favorites?
I do enjoy taking photos! Kind of hard not to enjoy taking photos when you’re constantly surrounded by awesome photo stuffs.

I live in the western part of the city so a lot of my photos are taken in the Sunset or the Outer Sunset/Ocean Beach. Yes there’s a beach in San Francisco (many) and no they’re not always foggy.

Took this one at the La Brea Tar Pits (My Girl 2 … anyone?) It’s all about those geometric shadows.

These tights rule, that about sums it up.

You said the Desk-Its were lifesavers. How do they help?
I often catch myself trying to do a million little things at once. The Desk-It helps me focus on what’s really important. They force me to think about my time reasonably, and it takes a lot of weight off my shoulders when I’m trying to figure out what to prioritize and work on next.

Jen’s lovely desk with the Desk-It. Photo by Jen Giese.

Can you give our readers three tips on how best to organize their week using the Desk-Its?

1. Take the time to sit down and plan your week before it starts, before you start working on anything else. That last bit is important — you gotta plan before you do anything. If I don’t plan I’ll spend the entire morning hacking away at little tasks that make me feel accomplished (like emails) but in reality aren’t that important.

2. Stick to the list. You can make as many lists as you’d like but it takes discipline to actually follow them. Follow the list, don’t make exceptions.

3. Try to keep your must-do’s for the day under 5 (most of the time I try to keep mine at 3). Be reasonable with your time and start small. You want to actually do these things! You can always add more stuff later.

Those are great tips! The rule of threes sounds like it’ll save our sanity. Thanks, Jen!

Check out Jen’s photographs on flickr.