I began yesterday by creating some space by going to yoga – always helps to clear out the week’s jumble.  I am moving soon and hoping to clean out / use up a ton of art supplies so I don’t have to pack it. To that end, what I created in a physical sense was a few more pillow boxes. 

One is big and whimsical – love these polar bears!

And the other is more elegant and subtle with orange, green and white on light grey. I wrapped one up as a gift for a friend’s birthday – there was something inside it – and she loved both the inside and outside.

I should also mention, because it is absolutely affecting how much time I have for our dear Thing-a-Day, the reason I am moving is I have a new job that is over an hour away from where I live. Since I live in Southern California, this is a daily schlep that consumes both a ton head space (when to leave to miss traffic???) and a ton of my energy. So, I’m here and making things daily, and giving it the 100% of what I have to give right now  

Hey y’all – apologies I’ve gone kind of quiet the past few days. I’m not sure what’s up with my internet but it’s been intermittent at best until this afternoon. So, I give you Friday’s creation, or planning of a creation more specifically. 

A friend at work who’s mostly awesome has this moleskin-like book with loose pages inside of it so he can draw and photocopy easily. I only realized on Friday that he made it himself. Here it is without the pages, you can see the grommet that connects the elastic band that closes it all up. 

Once I got a look at it, it’s a simple and ingenious construction with book board lined in contact paper, I believe he said. Then in the inside, he also inserted a book plate that’s pretty cool too. I studied it a bit and noted down ideas for making my own. This weekend was too packed for an involved project, but one of these weekends, I’ll give it a whirl.