Hi There! Happy Tuesday. Monday this week was tough for me — as I mentioned yesterday I was in Christmas Card mode this weekend and I stayed up until 12:30 in the morning on Sunday night making them with my niece. It was SO much fun, but I was really paying for it yesterday.
Today I’m a bit more rested, but still working diligently to get my holiday messages out to all my friends and family.
Today’s gift idea can help you stay organized in 2015. It’s a perpetual birthday calendar using the small grid journals from the Annual Catalog. Can I tell you how much I love these (I probably don’t have to since I think I’ve used them for three of my 12 Days of Gifts Series)!
I love that you can stamp directly on these books and they accept the in so beautifully. I added some birthday stamping using the Amazing Birthday stamp set, a little washi tape, linen thread and bling for the cover. Then I used the Project Life “stickies” from the Happiness Is Accessory pack on the pages to mark the start of each new month. It’s funny I designed this a while back because I’m really in need of one of these perpetual calendars so I can get back to sending birthday cards each month in 2015. Well, little did I know that Stampin’ Up was going to be helping me with that task next year with a beautiful new perpetual calendar kit in the Occasions calendar. I haven’t put it together yet (I can’t play with my new toys until I finish all my holidays chores: Christmas Cards, decorating, gifts, etc. It’s torture I tell you!), but I’m so in love with the samples I’ve seen so far and I can’t wait to offer it as a class in January. In fact, save the date of Thursday, January 8th. That’s the day I’ll be holding the class at my house in Harwich Port. Class cost will be $20 and include all the supplies you need to create an adorable little clipboard-style birthday calendar.
If you don’t live near me, but would like to make the perpetual calendar in January – e-mail me because maybe we can get a group of your friends together and I’ll take a road trip! Fun!
Anyway, back to today’s gift idea. This is an adorable way to keep track of birthdays as well because you can carry it with you at all times. You know how you’ll every once in a while learn about someone’s birth date in everyday conversation and then write it on a little sticky note. Then, you promptly lose it. What? That doesn’t happen to you? Well, if it did… this little book would be a great way to counter that problem.
So have you ordered your little grid journals yet? What will you make with them? So many options… so little time.
Have a great day and see you back here tomorrow for another installment of 12 Days of Gifts.
