Getting Organized With Melonheadz!

I’m linking up with Tara for Monday Made It 🙂

Another busy and colorful week:

It seems like this summer my creative mode has been all about organization! This has been my goal for a long time but I’ve always had so much going on during the summers (masters program, summer school, committee work) that I didn’t have time to get it done. This year I decided to have a free summer and it’s been great having all this time to relax, create, and get organized!

One of the things I needed was a planner. I’ve gotten the Erin Condren planner for the past two years. I loved it, but I realized that all I ended up using was the monthly calenders. So the weekly spreads went unused. Something else I really needed was more note pages. So I went shopping and found one at Target. It wasn’t very cute though and the boxes didn’t give me much room to write in. I figured there was no other option, but then I ran into The Colorful Apple’s Instagram and one of her images caught my attention. It was a picture of the calender set she created. So I purchased it and I made my planner.

I love my new planner! The cover is from Schoolgirl Style’s I Love School collection. I have a thing for wide horizontal stripes.

Everything else is from The Colorful Apple. Below you can see that she includes a year long calendar for future planning. I printed it to the back of the cover so and then laminated it so that it couldn’t get damaged.

Then there are the monthly spreads. I like blank spaces but Sara also includes lined spaces for each day.

While at meetings, I enjoy having blank paper so that’s what I put in it my planner for notes. Before binding them I trimmed about half an inch off each of each page so that there would be room for the tabs and this way they won’t show when it’s closed. Doing this also prevents the tabs from getting bent and destroyed. The tabs were created using this paper punch. There are a different number of pages for each section depending on how many would be needed for the year.

On the back cover, I printed my school’s year long calendar. This always comes in handy.

The back of the planner looks similar to the front and includs the year for future reference.

I love that I was able to create it to fit my needs! Now I can keep all my notes in one place instead of looking through different notebooks for specific notes. You can find this Calendar Notebook here at The Colorful Apple’s Store.

Made It 2 is something on my to do list from two years ago. I’ve been thinking on how to save my commonly used resources. This summer I finally purchased a few sets of Melonheadz kidlette clip art and it inspired all sorts of stuff. A couple weeks ago I made my subject drawers and it hit me that I could finally create my subject binders with these cute kidlettes too. Here they are:

I had to have spines too so that I can go right to the one I need.

The middle one is a different size binder, so the label is smaller. I’m hoping to find an orange or yellow binder for it. If any of you know where I could find one, please let me know 🙂

My copies for units such as worksheets, lessons, and craft examples are located in these. It makes it so easy to plan!

I also created a bunch more so that I can use them as parent
communication logs, individual student portfolios, lesson plans, CCSS
paperwork etc. I’m so excited about these!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Binder-Covers-Melonheadz-Edition-1299356

If you are interested in these, you can pick up a set HERE.

Finally, still on the getting organized theme, I finally created a desktop organizer that everyone is using. I wish I would have taken a picture of my screen beforehand, it was a disaster. There were folders everywhere and I couldn’t find anything when I needed it. So I whipped up an organizer using my Melonheadz kids once again 🙂 Here is what it looks like:

I posted this on my Instagram and had requests for a tutorial. If you would like to see it, click on my videos tab to check it out.

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