Ceramic Braces Update- 3 Months

I finally got my braces tightened! In this short video, I talk a little about the tightening process and what problems I’ve come across with ceramic braces! 🙂

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Ceramic Braces Update- 3 Months

I finally got my braces tightened! In this short video, I talk a little about the tightening process and what problems I’ve come across with ceramic braces.

Decorate Your Own Composition Notebook

I can’t believe it’s almost the end of summer! It’s time to start buying all those school supplies and finish doing that summer homework you probably haven’t even touched yet! I have a whole bag-full of untouched composition books waiting to be used for this school year, but they all look so boring and bland. So I thought, “Instead of going out to buy some expensive composition book with cute decorations and all that, why not decorate my own?” And that’s what I did! It might not look as professional as the ones in the store, but it’s original and my own! 🙂 Here I’ll show you how I made my DIY composition book!

Supplies you need:

• origami paper
• composition notebook
• scissors
• glue stick
• stickers (optional)
• masking tape (optional)
• printout of a character of your choice (optional)

Step one- Plan your design: Before you do anything to your composition book, think about how you would like to decorate your composition book. What theme would you like it to be? Cute? Silly? Inspirational? There are tons of endless ideas you can use, so plan it out carefully so you don’t mess up later on!

Step two- Snip, snip, snip!: Now that you have a design or theme in mind, it’s time to cut out all the shapes and backgrounds you would like to put on your composition book! Since I am using origami paper, I took advantage of all the different colors and patterns I had and cut out many different small rectangles.

Step three- Placement: Now that I’ve cut out my rectangles, it’s time to place them! Play around with how you want your layout to look like! I tried to keep mine nice and simple and created a tile pattern with the rectangles I cut out. Don’t forget to snip off the excess paper that may be hanging off your composition book!

Step four- Glue time!: After you know your layout, it’s time to glue those suckers down! I think it’s a lot easier if you put glue on the composition book first then place the rectangles, but that’s just my preference. 🙂 I also cut out a small printout of Rilakkuma and glued him on my composition book!

Step five- Stickers: I had so much fun decorating my composition book, but I felt that it still needed a little more detail here and there. I used some stickers I had lying around and placed them all over the cover of the notebook!

Step six- Lamination: Since I don’t carry around that expensive lamination paper with me, I use masking tape as an alternative! It might now turn out as clean or smooth as real lamination, but I think it’s better than nothing! I placed the tape in vertical strips along the front cover of the composition book, then did the same to the back!

And… Voila! Here is the final product:

I forgot to laminate it with masking tape before I took the picture, but this is what the front and back of my new and improved composition notebook looks like!

I hope you liked this quick walk-through of how I decorated my composition notebook, and keep your eyes open for more blog posts!