Document Your Days using Hand Made Calendars

Back before iphones and ipads, we used to use paper address books and calendars. I recently was going through some old bins and came across some of my calendars that I created using a few of my book binding skills.

For four consecutive years, I created books using different techniques and shapes. I designed each cover using images from the prior year and inspirational image for the coming year, a bit of a vision calendar. I would also sprinkle inspiring images throughout each month.

Thankfully I can write fairly small, so it was fun to go back and see my appointments and travel notes. In a few of them I kept lists of movies that I had seen and books that I had read, as well as phone numbers and addresses.

It is a great project to do at the beginning of each year and then document your year in little works of art.

You don’t need a ton of tools to create these and you can spend as little or as much as you want.