Ever made one of those mistakes that just makes you groan at your own stupidity? I blame this one on the lateness of the hour and the pressures of Christmas shopping.
I am one of those mental people who does the late-late-late night shopping each year (you know, when Chermside has the 24-hour shopping just before Christmas). Nuts, I know, but it's a real experience to have as long as you actually need to find things for a change, and to have almost everyone you see in a good mood.
At about 1am, I thought I'd make myself useful and pick up a few things needed for the office as I was in the newsagent anyway. Now, we have 2 of these at work...
which need refills each year. However, the refills I picked up without thinking were these...
See the issue?
Most people would notice that the holes going down the side of the refill were not going to match up with the clips on our stands, but not me. Not that night, not when I unpacked them and put them on my desk. Not until I had unwrapped one from it's cellophone on the first day back at work did I notice. D'oh!
Anyway, it was too far to go all the way back for a couple of $3 items several weeks after the fact, so I did this with them...
I used some scraps of chipboard to make sturdy covers and glued the first page of the calendar onto the front ones, using a hole punch to cut 3 holes in the covers to match the pages...
decorated the covers with some pretty bits and pieces I had left over from other projects (you don't need much, as the covers measure just under 8x10cm)...
and loosely tied ribbons through the holes.
Voila! Useable (and pretty) calendars for this year.
Yeesh.
P.S. 'The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.' Edward Phelps
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