I thought I'd pop on here today and share how to make a super easy, super quick Happy Planner sticker book. There must be a million different ways to create one but I wanted to use what I had on hand.

Materials/tools:

1" gold discs from Staples' Arc System

Set of 3 tabbed dividers from The Happy Planner

Leftover Happy Planner pages

Happy Planner sticker books

Glue or adhesive

Paper trimmer

I plan on using this primarily for the stickers I use in my social media planner so I went through all of my books and took out those individual sheets.  I also had some old unused pages that I removed from my planner. Using a glue stick, I adhered each sticker page to the planner page. If you line up the edge of the sticker sheet to the calendar lines, it works like a charm. Then a quick trim using your trimmer and you're done! 

Unfortunately I chose WAY too many sticker sheets so I could easily make 3 or 4 books. The best part of using a ring bound book is that you can easily take out the sticker sheets that are used up and add more.

Heart eye emojis all around.

You could easily use cardstock as the page base and use the Happy Planner punch but since I don't have one I figured using the old pages would work just as well.

Even though I'm using the dividers, I haven't quite grouped the stickers that well. Just trying to get them all in the book.

I did keep most of the phrases in the first section and might keep all of the boxes and arrows and such in the second part. Or maybe I'll just buy bigger rings and add ALL THE STICKERS!!!

This is SO much easier than carrying around all of the stickers books I have, and there are plenty!

Hope this inspires you to create your own sticker book!

Happy crafting!

And planning :)

These super easy, kinda quick Harry Potter house ornaments are a breeze to put together and you only need two things: cardstock + clear ornaments.

Michael's (or wherever you get your craft supplies) always has these clear ornaments around the holidays. I chose the plastic ones because, kids. 

For these you'll need cardstock in red, yellow, green, blue and black. I used my paper cutter to trim them to 1/4" thick, cut them into 6" sections and then wound each strip around a small wooden dowel. A pen or a pencil would work just as well too. 

Once you have your curled strips (I used 4 of each color), pop the top off of your ornament and slide the strips in. Replace the cap and they're ready to hang!

The only thing I worry about is the paper uncurling over time. But I could easily cut more strips if I needed to. I'm super happy with how these turned out and can't wait for December!

For those of you who are new here, I've decided to set up a Harry Potter themed tree in addition to my regular Christmas tree this year. This post will be one in a series of DIY Harry Potter ornaments that I have planned throughout the year.

I took a trip to IKEA a few weeks ago and scooped up a jade plant, a new pot and grabbed a small pack of "sea glass" from Christmas Tree Shop. (Surprisingly IKEA didn't have any.)

I knew I wanted to spruce the pot up a little bit and lately I've been keen on gold accent everything. Since we'll be moving soon, I've been wanting to use up (mostly throw out) craft supplies that have been laying around. Enter the metallic gold paint leftover from some craft last year. You could easily use gold spray paint as well.

These glass nuggets are pretty good sized. If you don't live near a Christmas Tree Shop, you can find similar ones on Amazon.

A little goes a long way with this pot. I started off with a very thin layer and worked my way around, alternating brush strokes. (First layer - up and down, second layer - horizontal strokes, and so on) I feel like it covered better that way and was less streaky. 

There was way too many of the glass nuggets so I used some for on top of the jade plant as well.

This is one layer of the gold paint. Just the right amount of shimmer.

And since we're getting fancy, I decided to paint the top rim as well. This took a little bit of patience as the paint seemed like it didn't want to stick for some reason.

Unfortunately this pot didn't come with a drainage hole so I made sure to add two layers of the glass so the plant won't be sitting in water. I'll take the inner pot out and place the jade plant in the sink to water, then place back into the outer pot once the majority of the water has drained out.

And tah dah! The finished product. Super happy with how it turned out. Now I'm traipsing around the house to see what else I can paint gold.

Supplies:

NYPON Pot from IKEA $1.99

CRASSULA plant from IKEA $7.99

DecoArt DA554-30 Americana Multi-Surface Metallic Paint, 2-Ounce, Champagne $7.07

Sea Glass from Christmas Tree Shop $1.69

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