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This DIY was taken from Pinterest (and we all know how hard Pinterest DIYs can be to complete), I found out this one to be relatively easy and do-able. Although this DIY is slightly time-consuming, the product is extremely cute.

DIY: Heart-Shaped Papercips

Materials:

Paperclips (any color, mine are the standard silver)
Wire Pliers
Sharpies (optional)

Steps:

Take your paperclip and locate the longest end (shown by arrow above)
Use your pliers and clamp over the wire at the middle

You might have to fit the pliers in between two of the wires

Using your fingers, bend the two ends of the paperclip up until the paperclip resembles a heart

I'm not strong enough, so to make the paperclips bend the whole way, I used the edge of the table to help me.

These paperclips look adorable, and can also resemble a heart when you clip them. Although some of them may not clip easily, they are really cute to keep on your desk. Some of my paperclips also clip differently, which I found was really interesting.

Sharpies: Because my paperclips were silver, I decided to color them using Sharpies. It's harder than it seems, because your fingers get stained with the color, and within the first few minutes it's easy for the ink to rub off. It's also pretty hard to try to get the edges of the paperclip to make it entirely red, or else you'll see bits of silver poking out of the corners.

I originally wanted to create a binder cover with various tissue paper that I had slowly accumulated over the years. But after a few weeks of desperately taking photos and recreating the same one for my Spanish binder over and over again for a blog post quickly became old, I decided on a new idea.

Minimalist Quote Binder Covers

Materials:

Ruler (optional)
Fine Point Sharpies (in multiple colors)
Copy paper
Binder
Quotes
Pencil (optional)

I chose my Sharpies in complimentary colors, or similar ones so they would look better together. I also had some according to the design I wanted to make.

Any size paper is fine for this, but I used the classic warehouse paper. Make sure your binder has a clear plastic covering in the front so you can slip your cover in there.

Finding Quotes:
I chose four quotes; two song lyrics and two book quotes.

Song quotes: Go through your playlist, or a list of songs that you like and choose some of your favorites. I googled up their lyrics and chose a few of my favorite lines from each.
Book quotes: I went to goodreads and went through a bunch of quotes from books that I had already read previously.
Quotes from people: Try Brainyquote, Goodreads, or Great-quotes. Goodreads gives you a list of the most popular (or most liked) quotes on the site. Brainyquote and Great-quotes allow you to search through quotes at either people or topic.

It's pretty simple...

Take your paper
Smack your quote on it in fancy colors and fonts with your sharpies
Decorate around it
Done

Designing it?
I used my ruler as a tool to create cool geometric patterns. Both of mine were dealing with lines, but you can use triangles, oddly angled squares (for a more interesting effect), octagons, parabolas and anything else that you come up with.

Color Combinations that I used:
*Color names are not accurate.

Green:

Olive green, Forest Green, Light green, Lime green, Yellow

Pink / Purple:

Red, Pink, Baby pink | Purple, Light purple

Blue / Orange:

Light blue, light purple | Peach, Light Orange, Orange, Gold

Misc / Other Colors:

Silver, Black

Since I didn't have another blue color that went nicely with light blue, I chose a light purple and that definitely works. You don't have work with similar colors, you can definitely choose crazy, clashing colors.

You can go all dark colors, or all pastel colors too. Another idea, is making your cover rainbow.

My designs:

Thanks guys~

I hope this helped you a lot. I really loved these binder covers and I hope that you'll find them cute and usable too!

Lately, I've been on an organizing-spree to clean up my work-space. It's a strange thing, like a itch where I get annoyed when something is out of place. Even if my desk is still qualified as pretty messy, it's a kind of organized-messy that I can navigate through and work in.

Unused Mugs

If you have a bunch of unused mugs (I have a whole cabinet in my kitchen) you can use them to put your pens or pencils in them. I just used a bunch of old ones I dug up from the back and plopped some miscellaneous stuff in them.
You could put:

Gel pens/ colored pens
Expo Markers
Colored/mechanical/wood pencils
Sharpies/Permanent markers
Markers, Scissors, Highlighters

For more personalization, you could buy fancy mugs or flowerpots from Target or Walmart for more colors. You could also use sharpies to decorate them (I tried, but my Sharpie marks didn't last), or to one of those paint-your-own studios.

Post-it Notes

I've been using these a lot lately. I use them for everything: shopping lists, wish lists, homework, to-do lists. My favorite thing has also been the post-it note tabs. I use them to bookmark important things in the textbook while I'm studying and also to mark a place in a book where I liked the wording or a notable quote.

I have them on the walls, on my computer, and random places around my house. I doodle and write down ideas on them. They're just... useful.

Index Card Holders

I bought mine from Target for about three bucks. It holds a lot of index cards, comes with separate tabs and label stickers.

The only thing about Yoobi's index card dividers is that they aren't stuck to the case. So they can move around, be altered (which isn't exactly a bad thing), but they can also fall out. The button doesn't seem like it will hold to me, even though it hasn't failed me yet, but I'm constantly scared that my cards will fall out.

But this also gives me less stress! I have all of my index cards in one place, and I have two classes that require me to do flash cards for vocabulary words. I have five dividers and I separated them to: English, Biology, Personal Index Cards, Index Cards I Need To Finnish for Homework, and Extras.

Shoe-boxes

Obviously over the past few years, I have underestimated the power of shoe boxes. Mine were just tossed to the floor of my closet and left neglected.

I took two shoe boxes, cleaned them out and filled one with all my art supplies and stationary and the other one with miscellaneous books, then I shoved them in my shelves. It makes me feel better because it looks neat and compacted.

(Reduced prices because my parents are such great deal hunters.)

(These shoe boxes are not mine.)

Calendar

I put all my important dates on it. Birthdays, appointments, and long term projects are all smashed on the calendar in different Sharpie colors. Whenever I wonder about the date, I just spin in my chair and stare at the calendar.

Other Stuff:

Pencil Case: All the smaller things, such as pens, highlighters, glue sticks that I need for school are in there.

Phone: I don't have an exactly up-to-date phone, but you can put updates, alarms and notifications on your smartphone.

Planner: Like a calendar, but you have more space per day. I just put all my homework in it.

Weird basket thing my mother bought (most likely from Daiso): I put my umbrella, glasses and few items of jewelry in there. Whatever miscellaneous things that don't exactly fit in my office, but I would probably need just for convenience sake (like hair ties) are just put there.

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I have started to editing my photos! How do you like it?

Since we're approaching school (mine starts in approximately a month) I decided to put this up. I'll be going into high school, but this is what I'm planning to bring:

First of all. I carry a backpack. I don't know about where ya'll live, but here in the west coast we have girls who carry off-the-shoulder bags and little purses that can barely fit two notebooks. I've been planning to get a Jansport lately, but for the past three years I've been carrying around a High Sierra (no link, but it's white with birds and flowers).

I always have a planner. Mine is from Target for about six to eight bucks. I keep birthdays, dates, appointments and long term assignments in the monthly calendars. Everyday, I write my assignment for the class in the daily planner. My planner is from July 2014 - June 2015, so I won't have to buy another for a whole year!

My pencil case is always a must. My teachers never have jars of pencils on their desks for us to take, so we have to rely on ourselves to bring them. I do have a post on my 'Kawaii pencil case' here. On a regular school day, I would have a tiny eraser, ruler, pencils, pens, highlighters and a sharpie jammed in there.

Lately I've been on a spree for anything adorable and cute. So to match that, my folders are pretty adorable too. I believe I bought these in Japan Town near San Francisco for about a dollar to two per. You can also find them on Amazon for around three dollars.

Notebooks! I don't really prefer 'cute' notebooks because I find that most of them have flimsy paper quality, and covers that are easy to rip or dent. So that's why I gravitate towards Mead's notebooks. They have a durable cover, great paper quality and they last the whole year. They are a bit expensive compared to other brands, but it's worth it.

Other than that. I have my personal stuff. I bring EOS, my period items, and hand sanitizer.

Kawaii - ka-why-ee - Japanese for 'loveable', 'cute' or 'adorable'

One of my favorite things when I go back to school is to bring out my pencil case. Since I'm halfway through Geometry, I thought it would be a good time to bring up what I bring to summer school on a daily basis.

Pencils - A staple in any pencil case for sure. I have Pilot Dr. Grip Play Shaker Mechanical Pencil using 0.5 lead in Sky Blue and Grass Green. I just attached a panda and bear charm that I received as gifts. They matched the pencils pretty nicely. Behind those two is my Une Onde Coloree pencil I received from a friend. It's in this really adorable blue/teal color and it's eraser is shaped as a star!

Highlighter - I am absolutely obsessed with this one highlighter. I'm sorry, but I have no idea where I got his highlighter from. But I've used it so much that ti's color has become sort of dry/worn down so it inks in this lovely light blue color.

Pens - I use two pens during Geo. I believe they were bought from Daiso, and again, I don't have a link for you guys. They have this really cute artwork on the front and they are black on one side and green/yellow on the other. They came in one package as a set and I love them.

Case - This case was gifted to me from a friend who visited Korea. It has a butterfly charm attached to the zipper (not photographed). Along with those pens and pencils, I also bring a red pen (which can be seen at the top right corner in the picture above), a pack of 0.5 lead, a plain white erase, one Ticonderoga pencil (with pencil cap), a pencil sharpener, and a compass.
*Lip Balm - Eos - Passion Fruit

Along with these things, there are certain things that I don't keep in my pencil case. Like my calculator (and old Casio one that my mother bought back in the 1990s), a protractor, a folder, and my notebook. I keep it all in an over-the-shoulder green canvas bag with buttons all over it.

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