Making Pretty Binders

A friend of mine shared this with me and Im hoping to do it as soon as the weather cools a bit (I don't know why, but I love sewing when the weather is cooler for some reason). You take fabric and cover a binder making it look pretty, cool, or whatever. I am thinking what a great way to take my shopping binder and kicking it up a notch to not just functional, but attractive!! Im also planning to get fabric each of my kids like and covering their school binders.

There are many instructions out there for this simple project, but I like this one, especially for my shopping notebook, because it has little pockets right on the outside of the binder-convenient for coupons, pens, or even bills that I might be taking with me that day to drop off at the post office :) But, you could also do this with your Household Notebook.

I know many of us use those binders with the covers you can slide a decorated paper into. I love those, and all our notebooks have that, but after a while, these binders can start to split. By doing this method, you can cover those splits with some duct tape (maybe you can find colors to match your material ;) and then, make your cover for your notebook.

Recycling-Reusing? Well, either way, nice for the environment!!

Here is the link for the instructions my friend sent-
Lola Again-Binder Cover Tutorial   (and please check out Lola's purses-SO cute!!)

And here are some other instructions I found online-
Free Pattern & Directions to Sew a Binder Cover

Beat Up Binder Make-over

Holiday Fun!

Bored kids? Exhausted all your fun ideas for the summer or just need something else to do? How about wanting to go on vacation, but your budget won't allow for all the expensive gas? Well, how about celebrating a Holiday? None right now? Well, sure there are!! Why not a Wacky Holiday?! This month has such fun holidays as National Milk Chocolate Day (July 27th), National Get Out of the Doghouse Day (July 21) or National Ice Cream Day (July 20th-also National Lollipop Day so pick both if you want ;). There are many more, as well as whole Monthly Observances such as Blueberery Month, Cell Phone Courtesy Month...you can use these observances as days to have a fun wacky time, a quick field trip (like an ice cream shop on ice cream day) or learn something new (for instance, teach your kids about cell phone courtesy). Here is a great link for each month of the year-you can carry this on after school starts to help add something new to school days. Or use them during school breaks :) Whatever-just something different and fun! Enjoy!
Official 2008 Wacky Holidays