Clothespin Calendar
Well, anyone who knows me knows I'm relatively organized and sleep with my agenda/planner beside me (that's an exaggeration but I really do carry it with me everywhere) and don't know what I'd do without it.
When I saw this neat advent calendar on http://www.consideringcampbell.com/2011/11/pinterest-challenge.html, I thought it would be a great idea to make something similar but use it as an actual calendar and hang pieces of paper on it with events under each date in my office (a stylish way to stay organized!)
When I saw this neat advent calendar on http://www.consideringcampbell.com/2011/11/pinterest-challenge.html, I thought it would be a great idea to make something similar but use it as an actual calendar and hang pieces of paper on it with events under each date in my office (a stylish way to stay organized!)
Now I had leftover "popsicle sticks" from a previous project (which shall remain nameless for Christmas present purposes), so I decided to use them to create the backing for the calendar rather than the large piece of plywood.
Materials:
Materials:
- Craft sticks (pack of 100 for only $2 at the dollar store, with plenty leftover, hence this project)
- Clothes pins (pack of $50 for $1.25 at the dollar store)
- Spray paint (two colours)
- Scrap paper
- Hot glue gun
So I lined up the sticks (one higher then the other in a pattern) out on the ground. Then I took other sticks, put tons of hot got on them, and then simply put them overtop of the sticks to stick them all together rather than hot gluing each and ever stick to the one beside it. I let the glue dry and then spraypainted the front side with white spray paint (my office has a black and white damask theme as opposed to the turquoise and blue feel of the rest of my apartment). I then spray painted all of the clothes pins black.
I used the hot glue gun to glue on the clothes pins to the wood sticks. I then cut out little pieces of damask paper I had lying around from a scrapbooking booklet of paper and cut them into squares for the numbers (dates) for the Calendar. I also had some cut little accents from a scrapbooking bag I had lying around and used that to spruce up the sides of the calendar. I then glued everything on and this was the final product:
I used the hot glue gun to glue on the clothes pins to the wood sticks. I then cut out little pieces of damask paper I had lying around from a scrapbooking booklet of paper and cut them into squares for the numbers (dates) for the Calendar. I also had some cut little accents from a scrapbooking bag I had lying around and used that to spruce up the sides of the calendar. I then glued everything on and this was the final product:
I still have to add the pieces of paper as dates clipped onto the clothes pins, but I think it's a cute little decorative piece to have in the office :)