Do you use a blog planner? I've been planning my blog posts in a spreadsheet, and to be honest, it wasn't working for me. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE spreadsheets, but I needed something versatile that would be in my face all the time. I could print my blog planner out, but then as posts changed around from day to day it would be scribbled on, and who want's that mess on display? Not me.
Recently we completed part 2 of the office makeover, (more to come!) and during that process I unearthed this lovely picture I'd been hanging onto for 20 years. It was given to me as a joke, I don't know why I kept it - not even my kids like it. It was very easy to spray paint though.
I was so eager to paint this white that I forgot to take a before photo, but if you look closely you can still see those cheery dinosaurs frolicking happily about. It took a bit to cover them, I ended up using the dregs of 3 spray cans of white gloss, so the whole thing cost nothing. My favourite kind of upcycle!
When the paint was dry I free handed a grid in some leftover paint (Nippon Deep) and used some pretty post it notes to firstly put the name of the day and the post category across the top, and then used a different coloured post it to place planned posts through out the month. It's nice to use post it's because they come in different shapes and colours, and are very easy to move around. Eventually I might paint in the days of the week and the categories, I want to make sure I am comfortable with them first. The grid is roughly for 1 month at a time, with 7 days and 4 weeks; I'll just have to deal with it when we go over 4 weeks per month!
While I was in the mood for painting, I painted the frame on my notice board and finally hung it on the wall. It's been leaning against my desk for ages! I also gave it a good declutter, but I've got a feeling it will fill up again fairly soon...
Ta-da! My finished work space, complete with a half eaten bag of dry roasted almonds. What do you snack on while you blog?