There are a million things I should be doing instead of making notepads. I have my last SnapShop of the year this weekend and a bunch of fun things coming out on the blog starting next Friday. My to do list is getting so out of control that I can’t fit it in my MomAgenda, so I decided I needed a new list…one I could mark on and throw away. So instead of marking things off my ‘to do’ list I decided to make a cute one.
Supplies: Graph paper, glue, masking tape (the cuter the better), exacto knife, scissors, rub on stickers, clothepins
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Step 1: Cut your paper to the size you want the list. Graph paper makes it easy because you just cut on the lines…
Step 2: Tap down paper so you have one end that is level
Step 3: Clamp paper using clothes pins
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Step 4: Apply a thin amount of glue all over the edge
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Step 5: Using an exacto knife trim any edges that stick out
Step 6: Wrap the end with masking tape, folding and cutting it so it is neat…kind of like wrapping the end of a present
Step 7: Apply your rub on stickers
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My ironing board became my desk….which either means I am trying to do too much at one time or that if my computer processes pictures SO SLOW that I can iron a dress while I am waiting – I need a new computer. Steve Jobs…are you reading? Please send me a new laptop pronto.
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Maybe if I stopped making cute ‘to do’ lists I could clear off the kitchen table so my son could eat in a chair instead of on the floor.
But he’d just drop cheerios on the floor and then I’d have to clear the table and sweep the floor. I’ll stick with 5 minute diy projects.
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Happy Friday!
Hollie - Oh yes, I will be making that. Way more fun than the cleaning and laundry I should be doing!
Sarah - very cute! i’ve never made a note pad before and i never knew how easy it is! would make cute teacher presents for christmas this year too. thanks! hope you get to check off lots on your to-do list this weekend!
Shannon{photos by shannon} - Great idea!! Very cute.
Renee - OMGOSH…I love this idea! It’s just perfect! And, your life seems to be like my life right now…your picture of the ironing board cracked me up! 🙂
amanda torres - If you never made this cute to do list, you’d never know what needed to be done. Time well spent. Plus, clean clothes are overrated.
Lori K - Move the beach to the top of the list for me, please.
Love the idea and I think the ironing board desk says it all. Women – we can do 20 things at once. I always make two lists. To Do & To Don’t…I have to remind myself what is important and what really matters in the big scheme of things.
giozi - This DIY is ideal for me, well you know that I really love all. Ro, my husband, spent time bound, he did quite, well the truth that instead hooks of clothes, hahaha, he used something like a press that he done.
Oh, Ashley, what level, your child eating on the floor, hahaha. My son can go to his company, not just eat with him on the floor, He like eat like him, and even the food in the ground.
I get home. Mornings are crazy for me, I have a small relaxing time, until the chuckys get up and put the house upside down.
My daughter’s birthday is next month. I’ve done a few things for the hair as favors, but I need ideas for snacks bags. If you want an inspirations …. and if you want a do more DIY 😀
Happy weekend
Jess - What a great little project! Definitely using this for stocking stuffers this year!
PS~ Loved seeing the computer on the ironing board, because I am currently typing from the same spot!
Amy - such a fantastically easy project everyone can do and use! i just love reading this blog, we have a lot in common, you write about so many things that after reading i think “phew! i am not the only one who does/think that! or i couldn’t agree more” – case in point, ironing board as desk 😀
Leanne - I love that to do list idea! thanks for sharing!!
Monique - Frankly I’m just impressed that you iron at all 🙂 A couple years ago I came across this miracle called “REvive” wrinkle relaxer and have not ironed since!!
Jen - Adorable as always. (And if you get a response out of Steve Jobs send him my address too please. 🙂 ) Only one question… I’m sure you’ve featured it before but the AWESOME quilt in the background of the ironing board shot… is that one you made/a gift/purchased? I love it.
Brooke - I was at the store today and badly needed and wanted to make a to do list, but I had no paper. I thought of you…and thought that I should have taken advantage of my time yesterday to do this 🙂 Hope you have a spectacular weekend!
amanda torres - Well, well, well…I sit down to my Saturday morning paper and coffee and who’s ideas do I see right in front of my face??? So excited for you. You’re big, big time now. Before you were just big time. Big, big time is a whole new realm of awesomeness. You should make a shirt that says, “I’m big, big time.” I’ll be looking for it on your next DIY.
Kristi James - ha ha ha ha… I LOVE THIS POST!!! It’s so very true!! Love the To Do list! I agree about the eating on the floor 🙂 And as far as a new computer…i just got one and it’s still pretty slow sadly 🙁 I love that your Mac is as dirty with prints as mine is 🙂 Makes me feel better!! LOVE READING YOUR BLOG…You are truly and inspiration to me!!!
Amnah - You, Miss Ashley Ann, are just too cute. I would totally make this if it weren’t for the fact that my husband always uses my to-do list sheets to practice his signature leaving me to write my lists on half colored and discarded coloring pages. {sigh}
That zig zag quilt is to die for. If I ever sum up the courage to attempt a quilt, it shall be that one. Have you blogged about it and I missed it? Is there a link out there on how to recreate it?
Juliette - Such a nice and easy idea, I definitely have to try it. I just made a ToDo list, but it’s one of those I will lose in the middle of other 3000 things.
jessica h - what a cute, easy peasy project! I have to say, I am a HUGE Big Lots fan–(thanks to my Dad!) I always pop in there and find all the materials you are using in your projects, even though I’m halfway across the country from you now!!
kate - i love your little to-do list! i just made a notepad with some scrap paper, and Mod Podge worked beautifully as a binding. i didn’t even think of elmer’s!
tracievw - Love it! p.s. I’m so glad someone else’s MacBook looks smudged up. I’m constantly trying to wipe it off…..but now I’m thinking: wHy?
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