Blogging as Child's Play!

Blogging can be extraordinarily stressful and discouraging at times. Any one with multiple social networking platforms knows how it hectic it can be posting on a blog, a tumblr, tweeting, uploading photos on flickr, maintaining a myspace...or any of those hundreds of websites out there that can be personalized. It's crazy enough finding enough good material to put out there, making sure each one gets equal attention is pure insanity.

Which is why I've come up with this handy (and fun!) post counting calendar. All you need are a few simple materials you can get at most arts and crafts stores and a little bit of time. You'll end up with a great looking cloth and felt board that will help you visually understand your posting trends and remind yourself to post when and where. Let's get started.

Step 1 Materials

Materials Needed:

• felt in the colors of the blogging platforms you want to keep track of
• felt in red and black for your weekday x's (I find red particularly reminds you to cover it up!) and yellow for your weekend x's (if you blog less on Saturdays and Sundays)
• sticky back Velcro in a strip
• wall hangers
• 2 18" stretcher bars and 2 12" stretcher bars (or whatever dimensions you want your final board to be)
• a piece of cloth large enough to cover your entire frame and have an extra 1 1/2" to fold over the frame. The piece of cloth shown here is about 22" x 15"

Comments

[scoochmaroo]

Wow, can I hire you to manage all my blogging and social networking? I'm terrible at it!

[charisp]

I wish I had the time to do more than my own blogging and social networking which is pretty much completely time consuming as is! I'm sure you're not actually terrible : )

[scoochmaroo]

Oh yeah, I was also gonna ask if the velcro is really necessary. As kids, we used to have these felt play boards, and it was great because all of the felt shapes stuck to the other felt on its own! Might be one less step you have to worry about.

[charisp]

Actually the velcro is a cautionary measure. Felt does in fact stick to felt which is what makes those kid felt boards so much fun (also where i got my inspiration from). However, how well it sticks together depends on what kind of felt you're using. The common felt found in crafts stores is acrylic felt which smoother and less like velcro when compared to wool felt (slightly more expensive). Skipping the step does save time, but I would test out your felt to felt stickiness first!