Tuesday | July 28, 2009 | 12:00 am
For 20 years I have kept a paper planner for my yearly calendar/schedule. This week, after some coaxing from others, I have been slowly converting myself over to a gmail calendar synced to my iphone. Although everyone tells me it’s so easy and so great, I will dearly miss the pencil smudges, eraser shavings and ink blots that were an extension of my personality in my paper planners. Each year I enjoyed choosing a calendar with a different theme….photos from Paris, Great Women in History, etc. This year I choose a Charley Harper calendar. As I say goodbye to one of my “old school” ways I decided it would be fun to create paper explorations using pages from my calendar. Afterall, it’s a part of me. It tells the story of my year, why not give those pages another life and another story to tell? If the idea works as well as I think it might, I may continue these paper explorations with other pieces of my paper ephemera: address book, sketchbooks, etc. Could be quite fun!

For 20 years I have kept a paper planner for my yearly calendar/schedule. This week, after some coaxing from others, I have been slowly converting myself over to a gmail calendar synced to my iphone.

Although everyone tells me it’s so easy and so great, I will dearly miss the pencil smudges, eraser shavings and ink blots that were an extension of my personality in my paper planners. Each year I enjoyed choosing a calendar with a different theme….photos from Paris, Great Women in History, etc. This year I choose a Charley Harper calendar.

As I say goodbye to one of my “old school” ways I decided it would be fun to create paper explorations using pages from my calendar. Afterall, it’s a part of me. It tells the story of my year, why not give those pages another life and another story to tell? If the idea works as well as I think it might, I may continue these paper explorations with other pieces of my paper ephemera: address book, sketchbooks, etc. Could be quite fun!