I don't know if this qualifies as a creative craft project or just some cute craziness. Earlier this month I saw an interesting idea for a
perpetual calendar-journal. I thought I would try it out, but I didn't feel like cutting up index cards or looking for a basket. Instead, I decided to use a composition notebook and divide it into months and days. Because the composition notebook has only 100 pages . . . and because I wanted to have one page per day . . . I decided to make this book just for winter. . .
Of course, I can never do anything simple and efficiently. No, no, no. I have to cutify everything I touch . . . so the first pages are a winter collage made from my stash of Mary Engelbreit (the queen of cute) calendar pages. I divided the book into three sections for the three winter months: December . . . January . . . and February.
I even made spiffy tabs for each section!
The plan is to write a couple lines each day all year. Then next year I will write a few more lines underneath the 2011 entries. . . and so on and so forth. I'm hoping it will be fun to read about the past years at the same time I write in new stuff. And if it works, I plan to make a book for the other three seasons, too. Most likely, it will be so dumb I will want to do what my Mom attempted to do with all her diaries before she died--toss them! Oh well, it's more fun than putting away the rest of my Christmas decorations which is what I should have done by now.
I don't know if this qualifies as a creative craft project or just some cute craziness. Earlier this month I saw an interesting idea for a perpetual calendar-journal. I thought I would try it out, but I didn't feel like cutting up index cards or looking for a basket. Instead, I decided to use a composition notebook and divide it into months and days. Because the composition notebook has only 100 pages . . . and because I wanted to have one page per day . . . I decided to make this book just for winter. . .
Of course, I can never do anything simple and efficiently. No, no, no. I have to cutify everything I touch . . . so the first pages are a winter collage made from my stash of Mary Engelbreit (the queen of cute) calendar pages. I divided the book into three sections for the three winter months: December . . . January . . . and February.
I even made spiffy tabs for each section!
The plan is to write a couple lines each day all year. Then next year I will write a few more lines underneath the 2011 entries. . . and so on and so forth. I'm hoping it will be fun to read about the past years at the same time I write in new stuff. And if it works, I plan to make a book for the other three seasons, too. Most likely, it will be so dumb I will want to do what my Mom attempted to do with all her diaries before she died--toss them! Oh well, it's more fun than putting away the rest of my Christmas decorations which is what I should have done by now.
what a cute and creative idea. It would be fun to read the previous entries for each year. That might be something fun to try, especially with little kids. Hopefully next year on this day I won't be writing about eddy and toilet training.
ReplyDeleteI love it Mom! And I agree with Betsy, it would be really fun to do with kids...maybe I'll have to make one for Wade.
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