Pinterest Project: Quiet Book Lion

Zara is getting a quiet book for Christmas from her Grandma and Grandpa and I get to make it! I spent way too much time looking at quiet book websites, yes, they do exist and Pinterest looking for ideas and inspiration. I decided to try and make an animal book first. The first page is this little lion that has all different textures of ribbons for the mane. The pinterest version that I found doesn't actually link anywhere so I just used the image as a reference. I did some things differently than the picture. I looped the ribbon instead of having it lay flat, it seemed too time consuming to sew or melt all the edges of the ribbons, and I did some different stitches and also used totally different ribbons for the mane. 

Pinterest Project: 6/365

I saw a tutorial on Pinterest about how to make your own "You Are Special Today" plate and knew I had to try it out. It's from a new blog by Pottery Barn Kids that is pretty cute. Growing up our plate was red with white lettering and saved for special occasions and birthdays.

This project was so easy and fun! I took all the supplies to craft group with me last night, it was actually a craft group/So You Think You Can Dance finale party, and finished it in about 20 minutes then spent the rest of the time catching up and watching the show. This morning all I had to do was pop it in the oven to make the ink permanent. 

A Rotating Calendar

A couple of years ago my friend started this thing called a rotating calendar. I had never heard of a rotating calendar before but the basic idea is that you have a card for each day of the year and then every day you write down what you did and move that card to the back of the stack. You keep rotating through the cards each year. So, by the the time I fill up each card I will have a list of what I did each day from 2012-2024, or however many lines the note card has. I thought this was a pretty neat idea, so for one of my news years resolutions this year I decided I would give it a try, it has been fun to see what I end up writing down for each day.

It was pretty easy and cheap to make. I just had to buy 352 note cards and then I made some dividers for each month out of scrapbook paper. I had a hard time finding a box to fit the note cards so I hot glued some cardboard together and covered it in craft paper. 

One time the friend that first introduced me to this idea texted me, "Hey! This day last year we went to the book signing at West Elm". It was fun to remember that evening, and I definitely wouldn't have remembered it if she hadn't wrote it down for us :) I'm looking forward to next year and seeing what I was doing at the same time this year.