Creative Time!

This is my current place for most of my creativity, it is an old desk I found garage sale-ing with my mom and sister, its in my bedroom, it faces the backyard, and it is basked in the most glorious sunlight most of the day during the winter. My other creative place, my sewing area is in the far north end of the house and looks out to the front yard. Its cold too (partly due to the fact that as we discovered recently there is no insulation in that part of the ceiling)! So sewing has not seen too much action lately.

So creative time! I decided this year that instead of buying a pocket calendar that did not meet my needs or was even remotely me that I would MAKE one! Crazy I know but even crazier is that I am not alone!!! There are a lot of other creative people out there doing the same crazy thing. Like this AWESOME gal! So I looked and researched and thought about what I would want exactly and then I went to work. First came the collaged cover with lots of meditative layering of modge-podge. Then how to organize the actual calendar part. I did not want a week by week, so I did months with enough space to write. Each month is blank so that I can fill in a couple at a time in whatever color or fashion I want. And spaces for notes, because I do that a lot and I did not want to fill in the margins with too many notes. I then  braved the cold north of the house and sewed a simple line down the center as a binding, easy as pie! Making time for a little creativity feeds my soul and soothes my spirit. Even better when I get to enjoy my creativity with something useful and used.

And so yes I now have 4 calendars (3 wall & one pocket), maybe I'll be on top of our activities more....or maybe not, I already forgot about a meeting this morning and ended up late! Oops!! 

Happy New Year!