In the Craft Room

I’m pretty embarrassed that it took me so long to realize that what my planner/bullet journal hybrid really needed was a set of custom index tab dividers.

Embarrassed for two reasons –

1) I consider myself a pretty organized person, and the key to organization is everything needs a place, and labeling the places is most of the fun!

and

2) I work at a company that specializes in index tabs, binders and presentation folders.

I think the saying is the cobbler’s children have no shoes?

Anyway, once I realized I wanted tab dividers, I had two choices – have someone at work make them for me the actual professional way, or make them myself.

Not wanting to waste a work favor, I decided to make my own.

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I’ve been completely addicted to making little birds out of watercolor blobs for weeks now. Each weekend I’ve been working on my watercolor skills by working through a new tutorial I find. And then, invariably, I end up making a few new versions of little birds to always be sure to end the craft day on a high note.

I’ve shown little peeks of them in a monthly roundup, and a post on how to make a simple paper frame.

I totally did NOT invent these. I saw them here and was instantly in love. But unless you were searching for them, they might be tricky to find, and since they are so sweet and simple, I thought I’d share the process here.