It's All About Me

Natasha Burns is hosting this fun event today. She asked us to create something just for us.






while back a friend of mine asked me to design a book like this one for them to keep track of their etsy customers and blog swaps. It is so hard to keep track of addresses, because I don't look up people by their last name. If it is an etsy customer I alphabetize by the last name, but if it is a blogger friend, then I alphabetize by the blog name. Several times customers have ordered something from me and I didn't recognize the last name, only to find out that they were a blogging friend.



There just isn't enough room on a normal address book to squeeze in the address and name of their blog and etsy shop, web site and blog address.



So, I came up with this design.



I loved it, and it was one of those books that I didn't want to give away. I thought about designing one for myself, but never gone around to it.



Then when Natasha came up with this idea, I knew just what I wanted to create.



The cover says



The Blogland Diaries, My favorite Blogs and has my print of Elizabeth Wu's painitng.



Ofcourse there had to be pretty with a bit of bling.



I love black and white patterns, so I trimmed the book in several mix and match patterns.



Inside there is a spot for pockets to keep Thank yous to my customer, business cards etc.



There are alphabetical dividers that I created myself out of black chipboard.



Each page of the address book is designed according to how I look things up.



By Blog Name or by last name.



I have a spot for the mailing address, but also their etsy name and address, web site, etc.



On the inside of the book I put a spot to hold a note pad.



I love this big fat binder too, because it can hold a host of things in the pockets.



I designed it so that I can stand it up like an easel, and flip through the addresses.



hank you Natasha, for giving me the excuse to create something that I have wanted for a long time.



Well, here is my gift to me, and you can see many gifts that each artisan has created for themselves, if you click HERE and follow the link to Natasha's place.



The song for this post is I Could Write A Book.