(Note:  I am experiencing technical difficulties. Well, not me personally.  I have other issues that are not technical in nature. . . This post is.  I want to include two YouTube videos here but the videos are not playing nicely together.  I’m not able to figure out what is going on.  I’m seeing them in duplicate. I’ve checked the code.  It’s in there only once.  I’m probably missing a stinking semi-colon.  Errant semi-colons wreck havoc in code, ya know.  Plus, my brain is fuzzy — fuzzier than normal.  I didn’t get much sleep last night . . .  Plus, if you see misspelled words or if sentences are wacko crazy, I’m going to blame that on my sleep-deprived brain.  That’s the excuse — today — and I’m stickin’ with it!)

Last summer I wrote about creating a summer journal or a photo journal with your grandchildren.  I thought that I would embellish that idea.  My original idea said to just get a notebook for these journals.  My idea today is to cover that notebook so that it has a delightful cover.

First, I want you to watch a short video on how to create a book cover out of a brown paper sack.  This will show you the basic how-to-do-it.

(Can you see me throwing my hands into the air and saying four-letter words — like rats, drat, blah, jumpin’ Jehovastat?  Wait that wasn’t four letters now was it?  My bleary brain can’t find problematic code nor can it count.  Sigh.)

I give up.  I surrender.  I admit that PHP code reigneth supreme and I am lowly scum in the coding realm.  I admit defeat. So, instead of embedding the video, I’m merely linking to it. (By the way, if you’re on a Windows machine using Firefox as your browser, the YouTube videos won’t have controls to start the video. You’ll have to use a different browser . . . like the evil Internet Explorer . . .)

You can take that brown sack book cover and turn it into a colorful one by making a tie dyed cover.  (After you make your brown paper sack cover, you’ll start on step 8 of these directions.)

A brown paper bag book cover is, well, rather boring, isn’t it?  I’d say!  So, make one out of duct tape.

Since all of you are down-right creative, I’m sure you could figure out how to make book covers out of wrapping paper, gift bags past their prime, or scrapbook paper.

For all of you sewers out there, here are directions for sewing a book cover.  Or, how about making a felt book cover?

Now to shift gears somewhat.  (My kids call this getting sidetracked.  Whatever.)  I came across this fun, fun, fun video on making a weekly planner. (I’ve been trying to get organized lately.  The operative word here is ‘trying’ . . .)  Because of all of the delightful headache producing time’s today (Well, lookee here! A wrong use of an apostrophe.  What’s my brain gonna do next?) I’m having with these videos, I’m linking to this video, too. I’m tired of bashing my head against the proverbial wall.

If you are interested, here is the link to the template for the pages of this nifty little weekly planner booklet.

So the idea here is to gather your grand-chickabiddies around you and spend time making book covers or little booklets.  They are easy and fast — or as complicated as you and your grandchildren want to make them.

If you make some with your grandchildren, send me a picture so that I can share your creative endeavors here . . . if my brain’s working by then . . .

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