Instead of tossing this away, we'll turn this blah...
...into a Tada! I cut out the "month" from the calendar and
glued them on the cover of these
little blank notebooks (I got them at Muji).
glued them on the cover of these
little blank notebooks (I got them at Muji).
I assigned a date on each page of the notebook by gluing the "dates" from the old calendar.
I did the same on all pages of the journal,depending on how many days each month has.
Now I can personalize the journal basedon how I'd like to use it; for example:
(1) daily schedule for appointments
(2) headings like "A.M" & "P.M." or
"Morning", "Noon" & "Night"
(3) leave it blank for quotes, ideas,
gratitude & doodles
I made 12 notebooks for each month of the year. Now I can't wait to fill up each one!
I still love youre blog! The idéas the creativity! Super wonderful, keep it up :D It´s really inspiering.
ReplyDeletevery cute, claire!
ReplyDeletedid you completely make the journals yourself? or did you purchase blank notebooks and then add the numbers, etc?
my verification word is 'luchi'. i think that's funny.
Hey Claire - I've been following your blog for a while now and I have to say: "WOW!" You have such brilliant ideas for recycling and reusing. Fantastic! And the phrase "blah to tada" has kind of crept into my vocabulary, too... Keep it up, I love reading your posts!
ReplyDeletePS: Ansolutely adore Muji, myself... got some great origami paper there recently and covered some "blah" notebooks to make them look "tada" - here: http://craft-werk.blogspot.com/2009/11/notebooks-before-and-after.html
Hello and THANK YOU for your comments Jeanette, Susan and Sonja!
ReplyDeleteJeanette, your moral support has my head churning with many more ideas for 2010!
Susan...Luchi! Heehee, that's funny! I got these journals from a lovely store called MUJI.
There's a link above :)
Queen Sonja, thanks for cheering me on! I really appreciate it! Hooray for MUJI!
These are wonderful!
ReplyDeletethose look amazing! great idea for repurposing the calendar and your timing is wonderful as I just saw another 09 calendar in our home yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting Sara & Lisa! Happy New Year :)
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolutelyfantastic idea! Something other than making envelopes and writing paper from all the graphics on the old calendars. Great job.
ReplyDeleteThank you dear Cindi!
ReplyDeleteI love them, they're so cute! I bet you can't wait to fill them up! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Sooz! I like making lists (things to do, buy, fix, etc.) and these journals are quite handy for the task :)
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