Gi-gu-mongous Calendar How-To :)

As promised, though admittedly very late, here are the instructions for creating your very own massive wall calendar. As much as I would like to impress you all with my fabulous creative genious and tell you that I came up with this idea all by myself . . . that would be a big, fat lie. :) I came across this idea while thumbing through an issue of Cottage Living (thank you Thelma)! The link will take you to their very precise and detailed instructions.

I skipped many of the steps and eyeballed a lot. I was running out of ribbon near the end, so a lot of my bottom rows are pieced together from my scraps! I did use their numbers and day and month names - very neat and easy! I do not, however, have the cork-board base (although I think it would be very useful), I was using to tape and sticky tack for hanging all of our happenings.

Until - using ribbon, paper clips and mini binder clips - I added this new feature, inspired by The Nester:

I really like those hangy clippys :)

And no, I am not attending a baby shower on the 23rd, nor do I have a doctor's appointment on the 14th, but we did not have any "happenings" on the calendar yet, so I made some up :)

There you have it! (Aren't you proud of me? I'm already in July!??!)

Thanks for reading!

Clean Workspace!

Monday's challenge from 31 Days to Clean was to clean up our office/workspaces.

Here's what my desk looked like before:

And I don't like to think that I'm living in the past, but my calendar was still on

(which is so embarassing!)

But this morning, my desk looks like this:

And my calendar is doing its job

because we're finally in the present :)

Hope everyone has a happy Wednesday! Thanks for reading!