Thursday, January 13, 2011

When You’re Snowed In

When you’re stuck in the snow, it’s time to clean (remove a mess) or create (make a mess).

I choose creating.  It’s more fun.

This organizer was a Christmas gift.  I love the features (and would highly recommend the calendar), but I didn’t love the cover.  I don’t know any of these people.  I don’t want to look at them 365 days this year.

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Since I had oodles of time, I braved removing the twisted binding thingy.

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Then I dug around in my scrapbook paper stash and prettied up the cover.

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All the papers and the days of the week stickers are from Creative Memories.  Stamps are from DD#2’s stash; I have no idea where they came from.

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I cut and taped a page protector over it to give it a little more coverage.

Now comes the part where I wondered what I was thinking.

Retwisting the twisty thing…

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and twisting…

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almost done…

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TA-DA!

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One beautified organizer!

I was so inspired, I used the leftovers to make a matching journal.

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Now if I’ll only USE my organizer instead of forgetting about it halfway through February!

(Today I really should clean.)

Be blessed,

Ginger

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7 comments:

  1. I think I need to unfriend you. This is insanity! ;)

    I might be a little jealous of your scrapbooking skills. :)

    Hope you get out of the snow soon!

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  2. Nice work! I will take one ;)

    I would take your snow! We're stuck inside with colds anyways :)

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  3. Wow! I would never have thought about doing that. It looks really great. Very impressed..

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  4. So cute! You are a fabulous cover-maker :)

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  5. That's a brilliant idea. And I adore the black and white and vintage vibe. Thanks for joining up to my new linky!

    Alison

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  6. This is very pretty and practical! You did a great job on this.

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  7. Cute idea! Our district is always giving us practical stuff that is often lacking the cuteness factor. Personalizing your organizer is a great motivator to actually use it! I would not have thought of this, so thanks for sharing.

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