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Category: Seasonal Crafts

February Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners
February Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Such As Happy Planner, Tul and Arc

Happy February, Crafty Friends!

In most of the United States, it’s cold and wintry outside. Even if you’re an avid gardener, gardening might be the last thing on your mind. However, this month is a fantastic time to start planning this coming year’s garden — and making a garden journal to track your gardening successes and failures. If you haven’t already started a garden journal, now is the ideal time to do it.

When I am actively gardening, I habitually make garden journal pages to keep a record of what I did well (so I can repeat those successes) and about what went wrong (so I can tweak my approach the following year and hopefully fix whatever went wrong). I also like to keep a record of what I planted where, so that I can be sure to rotate crops effectively the next year. My garden journal also incorporates to-do lists that keep me on track on what needs to be done in the future.

If garden journaling is of interest to you, I invite you to check out more of my garden journal pages and read more about my process for making them.

If you maintain a garden journal, I’d love to know more about what you record in it and how it has helped you achieve your gardening goals. What do your garden journal pages look like? The floor is open for comments, so please feel free to ask questions or share insights in the comments area below.

Thanks so much for visiting! I truly appreciate your presence here.

More February Craft Ideas

February Planner Layout Made Using Graphic 45 Patterend Papers from the Time to Flourish Collection
Posted By: Amy Solovay
February 2, 2024
February Crafts: Fun Ideas for Valentine’s Day Crafts and Other Crafts to Make This Month
February Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Such As Happy Planner, Tul and Arc

Happy February, crafty friends!

Are interested in finding creative, unique, engaging and useful craft ideas for the month of February? There are SO MANY possible things you could be making — and I couldn’t even begin to list them all here in this short blog post. However, I’ll offer an overview of the pages that my typical readers tend to visit most frequently in the month of February. These suggestions are the most relevant February craft ideas I’m currently aware of. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting me and the other readers here know about them.

February Holiday Crafts

Valentine’s Day Crafting in the Month of February

Need Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas? You’re invited to check out these free crochet patterns for heart and flower motifs.

Valentine’s Day is one of the more prominent February holidays on the Gregorian calendar. Many people celebrate this day by making Valentine’s Day crafts. It’s popular to exchange Valentine’s Day cards with your friends and loved ones; it’s also a day when couples take time out to spend a day, or at least an evening, together celebrating their romance.

Slimline Valentine’s Day or All-Occasion Card Making Idea Featuring Paper Flowers; the Flower Stamps Are Made by Gina K Designs

If you like to make fun Valentine gifts to give to your significant other or your friends / family, February is a fantastic time to work on these projects. You can tap here to find our ideas for Valentine Cards to Make, or tap here to find our main directory of Valentine’s Day craft ideas.

You can click or tap here to view our main directory of card making ideas.

If you want more info on how to make the floral slimline card pictured above, go HERE.

February Planner Crafts and DIY Calendars

If you maintain a physical planner, junk journal, scrapbook, or art journal, you might want to decorate your February calendar pages, journal pages or scrapbooking layouts with seasonal stamped images or embellishments. I invite you to check out the following pages for ideas:
- Garden Journal Pages: This page has information on how to put together garden journal pages like the ones pictured at the top of this post. I’ve shared the February pages here, but you’ll find inspiration for making your own pages for the other months beyond February, too.
- How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
- How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea
Winter Craft Ideas

We’ve put together a list of winter crafts that are seasonally appropriate for February crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

We hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your February crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!

Posted By: Amy Solovay

This page was last updated on 2-11-2024.
February 1, 2024
Craft Ideas for the Month of November
November Happy Planner Dashboard and Monthly Habit Tracker

Hello, crafty friend! I hope your autumn 2023 has been lovely so far, and that your November got off to an amazing start.

Are you hoping to find unique, interesting and useful craft ideas for November? If so, I invite you to consider the following suggestions:

We’ve put together a list of fall crafts that are seasonally appropriate for November crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

Thanksgiving is one of the more prominent November holidays on the Gregorian calendar in the United States. If you’re the USA, you still have plenty of time left before the holiday to check out our list of Thanksgiving crafts.

Pictured above is a monthly planner dashboard I made to track my November goals this month. I used supplies from several manufacturers to make these pages:
- The planner is a Classic Happy Planner with upgraded metal discs.
- The habit tracker page is from a Girl With Goals Guided Journal.
- I used embellishments by Graphic 45 to decorate these pages; the die-cut flower and leaves are from the PS I Love You Flower Assortment. Most of the other fall-themed embellishments are from Graphic 45’s “Time to Flourish” collection.
- A couple of the embellishments are stickers from a Happy Planner Sticker Book.
- The pens are Sakura Gelly Rolls.
November Garden Journal Pages

November Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Including Happy Planner, Tul and Arc

You can find bunches of other planner layouts and planner inspiration HERE.

I hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your November crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!

Posted By: Amy Solovay
November 3, 2023
Who’s Knitting or Crocheting Christmas Gifts This Year?
Kitchen Gift Set to Crochet for Christmas or Any Time

Are you in need of patterns for knitting or crocheting Christmas gifts for your loved ones, friends and colleagues? If so, our website is a great place to find project ideas, free patterns and recommendations for pay-for patterns that are truly worth the money.

Pictured above is a set that includes 2 crocheted potholders and one dishcloth. This set makes use of both Tunisian crochet and traditional crochet techniques for an interesting project that is as much fun to make as it is to give. I made my project samples in red, yellow and blue — but wouldn’t this set be adorable if you were to crochet it in red, white and green for Christmas? Or, you could re-color it into just about any 3 colors to match bakeware, dinnerware, kitchen decor, etc. If you have friends or relatives who like to bake Christmas cookies every year, this set would be a charming gift to give each of them.

If you aren’t yet familiar with Tunisian crochet, don’t worry; I’ve posted a free afghan stitch tutorial that will teach you the easy, basic stitch you need to know for crocheting these projects.

The patterns for making this set are free here on our website:
- Click here to get the free crochet potholder pattern.
- Click here to get the free crochet dishcloth pattern.
If you like this idea, but the set you see pictured above isn’t quite what you had in mind, I invite you to browse through our potholder patterns and dishcloth patterns to find more ideas. I’ve posted patterns for numerous other potholders and dishcloths that you might enjoy making — some of which are more “Christmas-y” than this set is. Here are a few highlights:

Christmas Crochet Potholder Patterns:

Striped Crochet Christmas Potholders: Free Pattern

Striped Crochet Christmas Potholders: Free Crochet Pattern

Snowflake Potholders

Crochet Snowflake Potholders

Christmas Potholders With Peppermint Stripes

Pictured at left is a red and white version of this potholder design, which resembles peppermint candy for Christmas. On the right we have the same design crocheted in variegated blue and green yarns — which are more of an everyday look.

Wonderful Knitting Patterns for Christmas and Other Occasions

Arne & Carlos Favorites includes Holiday patterns for Christmas, Halloween and Easter, plus everyday patterns too.

Arne & Carlos Favorite Designs: This is an AMAZING book filled with gift-worthy patterns for Christmas ornaments, knitted birds, toys, dolls, crochet blankets, knitted slippers, Scandinavian-style sweaters and bunches of other super cool projects. If you’re a proficient knitter, and you want to buy one craft pattern book that could give you patterns to use for making gifts for basically everyone on your gift list, this would be my suggestion for the book to buy. Most of the patterns are for knitters, with a few crochet and embroidery projects included as well.

If you need more Christmas gift ideas, I invite you to check out the following pages on our website:
- Christmas Knitting and Crochet Patterns
- Christmas Gift Ideas for Knitters and Crocheters — 2023 Edition
I hope you and yours will have a blessed holiday season this year!

Posted By: Amy Solovay
October 15, 2023
October Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners
October Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul
Happy October, Crafty Friends!

Are you planting a fall garden this year? Or, if you planted a spring and summer gardening, are you enjoying a bountiful harvest? Perhaps right about now you’re picking a variety of pumpkins, gourds, and other crops that required a long growing season.

To those of you who did plant gardens, I hope your plants flourished, and that you enjoyed harvesting a bounty of delicious, garden-fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs or a rainbow of delightful flowers — whatever it is you planted.

Have you been keeping a garden journal to track your gardening successes and failures? If you haven’t already started, now is the ideal time to create a garden journal while all the details are still fresh in your mind. By planting time next year, you might have forgotten some of the details about what you did and how you did it.

Sadly, I don’t have a garden this year. 🙁 But when I am actively gardening, I routinely make garden journal pages to keep a record of what I’ve done well (so I can repeat those successes) and about what went wrong (so I can try a different approach the next season). I also like to keep a record of what I planted where, so that I can be sure to rotate crops effectively the next year. My garden journal also incorporates to-do lists that keep me on track on what needs to be done in the future.

If garden journaling is of interest to you, I invite you to check out more of my garden journal pages and read more about my process for making them.

If you maintain a garden journal, I’d love to know more about what you record in it and how it has helped you achieve your gardening goals. What do your garden journal pages look like? The floor is open for comments, so please feel free to ask questions or share insights in the comments area below.

Thanks so much for visiting! I truly appreciate your presence here.
More Fall Crafts
Posted By: Amy Solovay
October 1, 2023