Customizing a Calendar!
I like to have some kind of calendar up in the kitchen, so both of us can see at a glance our big picture schedule. I've gone through a few different iterations of chalkboard monthly stickers, but late last year decided to cut out the middle man, and just drew it on the fridge, after testing the markers to make sure they came off, which they did. Unfortunately, I drew two months at once, and left them up for even longer than two months, after which point the marker did not come off the fridge - whoops! I then switched over to drawing up two months at a time on my large roll of craft paper, but it was quite a bit of work. I found a free downloadable calendar online (from This Little Street), which printed out one month each on 8.5x11 sheets of paper.
I played around with just taping them up as is onto the fridge, but the spacing wasn't quite right, as the last three months would be partially covered by the trash can, and i wanted to get the whole thing up at once. I then had the idea to cut off the patterned edges (which weren't exactly my style anyway), and tape them onto a backing of my craft paper, to make a larger calendar. It looked a little whimpy, so I added a sharpie border around each one, and voila - a custom calendar for my fridge that I don't have to update all year! Well, except for actually filling it out, that is.
I played around with just taping them up as is onto the fridge, but the spacing wasn't quite right, as the last three months would be partially covered by the trash can, and i wanted to get the whole thing up at once. I then had the idea to cut off the patterned edges (which weren't exactly my style anyway), and tape them onto a backing of my craft paper, to make a larger calendar. It looked a little whimpy, so I added a sharpie border around each one, and voila - a custom calendar for my fridge that I don't have to update all year! Well, except for actually filling it out, that is.
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