DIY Life

Are you looking for last minute ideas for gifts, or party and wedding favors? Or perhaps you never have a piece of paper in your purse or briefcase when you need it.

Help is here, with this tutorial teaching us how to make sticky notebooks. Michelle made sticky note books for her daughter's kindergarten classmates, using 3M Post-it Notes in Ultra Colors, and scrapbook paper.

With a knitting needle, she scored the scrapbooking card stock so that it would fold where she needed it too. She placed the sticky notes on the card stock, taking off the last page so that the notes would stick to the paper. She then made circle closures for the notebook, closing the notebook with embroidery floss.

Customized to your specific needs with the appropriate paper and colored notes, these sticky notebooks could be used for grocery lists, notes to yourself (or family members), wedding and party favors, or even as gifts for the person who forgets everything. I think they would also be nice for little fingers to stay occupied on short trips.

[via: Whip Up]

Now that the holidays are upon us, it's time to start making our lists and checking them twice. Lists are important, as they help you stick to what you need. When you have a list, you'll always remember what you need, and that's exactly why I am always carrying stray pieces of paper with me. Having too many of them ends up being a cluttered mess, though.

Derek and Lauren on Design*Sponge help us make pocket notebooks to keep all our stray lists in one place, thus effectively ending that cluttered paper mess. Using three pieces of heavyweight paper, eighteen small pieces of scrap paper, and one piece of cardstock, you can construct three notebooks, effectively having all your lists handy in one place.

I think the notebooks are perfect to give as a Christmas gift, or just as a gift for that special someone who never seems to be organized. The pocket notebook can be used for years to come, fits nicely in almost any size purse, and when it wears out, recycle it, and construct a new one.