The entire month of July is a holiday at SuzerSpace.
We call it SuzerFest. Not so coincidentally, my birthday falls in the middle of the month 🙂 .
To get things off with a bang (see what I did there?) I thought I’d dress up the front door with some paper fireworks.
These are easy, and even kid friendly.
All you need is colored paper, toilet paper tubes, scissors and glue. I also used a little string and some ribbon finish it all off.
I have some very nice neighbors who live behind us, and the way our yards and fences are, we can kind of see into each other’s houses, but we aren’t full on exposed. Sometimes when I’m in the back part of the kitchen where I craft, I can see them in their living room, and they are usually doing something very normal, like watching TV or fetching something from the kitchen or letting their dog out.
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I wonder if they ever look across the way and see me scrunched over my craft desk (it faces the windows) sticking red letters on green paper and threading them with red and white twine, right there in the middle of June. I’m not sure that “crafting a series of paper Christmas ornaments” crosses their mind.
But sure enough, that was what I was doing. Because I decided that June’s Christmas Ornament project was going to be letters that looked like Christmas Sweaters strung into a garland.
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.
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.
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CHECK OUT THIS POST FOR ANOTHER USE FOR PAPER STRIPS!
I’m really a simple crafter. Upcycle projects make me happy. Kids crafts litter my Pinterest boards. And turning strips of scrap paper into Christmas Ornaments is my new obsession.
The possibilities are nearly endless – thicker strips make a more covered ball, while thinner ones make a more open design. Do them all in the same paper, or mix it up.
This is also a great craft for your little helpers.
