At the beginning of the month I finally replaced my aging computer. I’d been thinking about it since January or so, but the weekend before I wanted to do something simple and it took so long to start up and then crash that I finally realized it was time.
Also at the beginning of August, I started a new bullet journal.
How are these two things related, you ask? I’ll give you a hint – SuzerSpace is a craft blog.
If you have bought any Apple product in the last -cough-cough- three decades, you know you get at least one Apple sticker included in the package. Fun fact – I actually own an original rainbow sticker from my first Macintosh, the one I bought in 1988.
My new computer came with two stickers, and I tossed them in the pile and once I got everything set up (man, that was easy – I am a big fan of the Apple Migration Assistant), I turned back to setting up bullet journal spreads for the first week of August.
I like to put a sticker on the front of each book, and for the first half of the year I cut a nice little double circle with an “S” in it.
Well, wouldn’t an “S” look awesome in the middle of an Apple sticker for my second half of the year book? Yes, yes it would.
I know Silhouette has a fancy mat that you can use to line up artwork, but I went the old school way.
I positioned the Apple sticker so that the center was aligned at cross hairs of the 3” mark across and the 2” mark down on the mat. And then I measured the approximate height and width available for an “S’ in the center.
All I had to do was set up my letter at that same spot on the “mat” on the screen. You can either eyeball it or use the X and Y positioning at the top of the Silhouette tool bar.
I had a feeling it wasn’t going to be perfect, but Apple gives you two stickers so I used the first as a tester, then moved the artwork over slightly and cut my second one right on the money.
And now I’ve got an upgraded digital and analog setup!
