The Craft / Idea Binder

If anyone knows me well, they know I love binders.  It makes everything so much more organized and neat.  For my weddings, I have each wedding filed nicely in a binder with tabs.  I also have a recipe binder with tabs.  It makes things easy to find... at least for me.  Sometimes my filing isnt always current. 

Anyway, I went to a garage sale last month and purchased 12 or 13 used Family Fun magazines.  Usually I wouldnt by used magazines just because they have other peoples germs on them.  (I dont really like germs)  But I think it was ok, one because I sort of knew them from around town, and two because they were ideas for kids to do.  So, I purchased all of them for $1.00!  Thats a steal in my book. 

Off I went to my home and started flipping through them.  They were full of millions of ideas!! 

Side note - I gut ALL my magazines.  I get 3 or 4 subscriptions to different magazines and once I read them, I gut them to keep the good ideas and recycle the rest.  So I guted all of those magazines. 

It went from this

To this

Once I was done gutting all of them, I decided to make a craft / idea binder to file all the pages into sheet protectors.  This will keep them nice and safe for a good long while.  I can keep coming back to the ideas and keep adding to them as I see something of interest.

I glued a little strip of my favorite ribbon to the end of it. 

It turned out super cute.

Making this binder,  made me realize how much I needed to redo my recipe binder.  It was way over stuff and all the new recipes I wanted to keep were just thrown in the front pocket. 

Come back tomorrow to see my recipe binder.  Plus I'll share a new recipe that jon and I tried over the weekend!