So essential to maintaining sanity and spirituality in a busy family-centered home… I started and abandoned mine last fall when I was pregnant with Louis. I found it very overwhelming, and in my delicate state, wanted to wait until I could devote my undivided attention to this most important task. I saved Elizabeth’s post until I could go back to it. It’s full of wonderful ideas and pretty pictures. I, like Elizabeth MUST have pretty. I won’t touch it otherwise. I’m going to start with a plastic binder, but am thinking about switching to a very nice recycled paper binder as soon as I can make room in the budget for a case of them (so that we can replace all of the plastic binders). These paper ones can be covered in batting and fabric, or decorated with pretty scraps pasted to the front cover. They come without the printing on them, BTW. I know, I know… I’m asking for trouble if I don’t make a waterproof binder. Probably. But I love the feeling of real paper. Or, I might use a post-bound scrapbook that I bought on a whim. It’s covered in denim. Ver nice, indeed!

I’ve collected my papers, binders (I bought a larger scrapbook for recording lovely moments along the way. The papers coordinate. Both books will be very “me”!

I’ve tooled around looking for schedules, forms, etc. to suit the way I work. I must be very unusual, because very little was ideal for me. However, this site has some fairly good basic forms. And Lesley has some beautiful papers. I found I needed forms that functioned a little bit differently, and looked as beautiful as Lesley’s do. I borrowed ideas from each and have been designing my own sets of forms, using favorite graphics and pretty fonts. Ive already designed some forms and copywork pages for the children.

Posted: 08|16|07 at 10:39 am. Filed under: from my desk.
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