If there's one thing about me, that drives me nutty-it's not having something where I need it when I need it. Which seems to happen while it's late in the afternoon with two kids who've had no naps and are hungry and my purse seems to be a bottomless pit of diapers and fruit snack wrappers and I just want to cry and rip my hair out and throw a mini tantrum in the middle of the store.
A little exaggerated as that may sound, it sometimes does happen, at least to me. I always seem to forget to write something down or do write something down on a sticky or a paper that gets stuck to something else or lost in my giant black hole I call my purse or gets accidentally thrown away by my husband because "it looked like trash to me".
Or I go to the storage rental to pick up our boat and EVERY time I seem to forget our passcode... the list could go on and on.
These days my mind might as well be a bowl of cold cereal mush. Like the other day I had just got out of the truck and was looking for my little E. I soon became frantic because I could not see her ANYWHERE! One of the girls that I was with said, um, hey ash...you're holding her.
So back to the reason to help my madness:
a notebook to solve all of my problems...
oh how I wish.
It can solve a few tho :)
Here's how I made it.
- notebook-any size will do depending on what you need it for. I wanted one that is handy enough to store my info but small enough to fit in my purse. $1.88 at Wally {Walmart}
- cardstock
- scrabbook paper
- ruler or straight edge
- double sticky tape
- I took the back flap of the notebook and traced around it on cardstock so I could get a rough idea of what I was working with. And starting at the top I measured a 1-1/12" tab length and about 1/4" width. How many tabs you want and how far you'd like your tab to stick out depends on your preference.
- Trace your tabbed cardstock onto scrapbook paper {for a decorative flare}. I was working with scrapbook paper scraps so the cardstock is half covered which is fine for me since I won't be spending a lot of time looking at it.
- Adhere your scrapbook paper to your card stock.
- Stick your pretty cardstock inside your notebook to make sure the sides are squared away-cut away sides down as needed.
- Divide your notebook into fourths (for how many tabs you made) and double sticky your cardstock to a page.
- Label and voila!
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| On this page I have the bottom left as my first tab, flipped the page around and marked my second tab. |
Your very own tabbed notebook. With a personal touch :)
Also could use to to store
- thoughts
- funny things kids say or do that you don't want to forget
- menus
- favorite recipes
- passcodes or login information
- instructions (perfect for my MIL to help her remember how to import photos ect.)
- addresses/phone numbers
- wish list
- gift list
- to do list
- project list
What would you put in there?
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