A Fresh Workspace & Origami To-Do Notes
A New Year Begins
Colourful Stationery
A New Year begins with a blend of old and new. I decided to actually use some of the scrumptious stationery that I keep saving for a special day, a special project. Why not start the year by making 2010 special, I thought, and broke in my orange leather note and sketchbook with some sketches for fabric designs.
One of my Christmas presents was a new diary from Swedish Ordning & Reda, whose range of funky, colourful stationery make your eyes smile!
For daily use, I like the calligraphy pen and packs of gel ink pens from earth-friendly, minimalist and innovative Muji from Japan.
Origami To-Do Notes
The box of delightful origami paper has been salvaged from my collection of paper treasures and I’m using it for notes and to-do’s. It felt like a bold step, but I wasn’t prepared for just what a huge difference it makes to my days! It’s a simple technique. I write down one thing to do on the back of a piece of origami paper, and when the job’s done the origami paper goes on my notice board, creating a beautiful collage, and a rewarding, visual payoff. It’s so inspiring and tactile to handle and use these gorgeous origami papers daily, and in a casual way.
A Personalised Computer Desktop
Now that my desk has a little stack of purple and orange stationery to keep me inspired and on track, I cleaned up my disastrously messy computer desktop and populated my current projects with Luminous Purple and Orange Folder Icons. Then I weeded out my RSS feed, e-mail subscriptions and bookmarks to a minimum.
Now I feel happy and wildly virtuous, and I think I’ll put-off sorting out my e-mail and have lunch instead!
A box of origami paper.
Origami to-do notes.
Tags: carpe diem, ease, folder icons, getting organized, goals, Japan, motivation, organized, productivity, seize the day, simplicity, stationery, to-do list, workspace
Hi Kate! What a colorful start to a new year. I love those origami notes. They are so beautiful. Have fun with all your new year items.
Dear Kate, such gorgeous colors and a great way to start the new year! I adore your origami papers…and looking forward to see what you make! Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
Hi Kate. Happy New Year. Lovely books and origami paper notes. Love the idea of using them as to do’s and then pinning them up. I hope you show us your sketches for fabric designs. I would love to see.
Cheers,
Dana
Hi, Kate! GORGEOUS notes and books!! I’m a fan of anything paper related or stationery. I’ve kept a journal book for years, and always relish the first entry of each new year. I’ve been cleaning up my studio today too–time to get back to work! Happy Day, my friend :o) ((HUGS))
Such a great idea to use the paper as notes and then hang them up after. You are so clever!
…and I save all kinds of nice paper for special occasions, too. Maybe I’ll take a cue from you and just use it!
Please show us a picture of your notice board when it is all filled up with the origami paper!
What a wonderful way to light up the winter! Great idea :)
Hi Kate! It’s so nice to read your words again (and brush up on my basic arithmetic :)). I love your origami to-do notes. What a fantastic way to reward yourself for completing a task.
Warm wishes to you for 2010!
Hi there fellow classmate — so nice of you to pop into my blog to say hello. That was such a lovely surprise for me this morning. Thank you! I’ve seen you before somewhere but I’m not sure where. Are you on Etsy? Your profile photo is very distinctive {and pretty!}, so I remember you from somewhere. Anyway . . looking forward to the class and getting to know everyone. You have a really nice blog. I like the way you write. : )
Have a great day and see you in class Kate!
Hello Karla, it’s great to meet you too! I’m not sure where you may recognise me from, I’m still mustering up the courage to open a shop at Etsy so it can’t be from there…
Anyways, thanks for stopping by! :)
Now that a little more time has passed using the origami to-do-notes, I’m even more thrilled!
The visual pay-off is fantastic, and helps make all those “invisible” tasks one does feel like they count! Another thing that happened is that I put less on my to-do list! The origami paper is so beautiful and wonderful to handle, that I hesitate to use it for silly little things I can do at once! :D
The origami paper has a lot of great patterns and color schemes!