GETTING ORGANIZED: FREE PRINTABLES FOR 2016

Well, folks, it's 2016 and that means it's time to get my butt in gear around here. I have gotten several pointed emails from dedicated readers (cough, mom, cough cough) asking me when in the world I plan to return to my O.I. duties. I think I have finally managed to settle into the routine of a full time job again, though (silly me) I have taken on a lot more side projects than I planned to . . . so free time is still a bit of a mirage.

Nevertheless, I am happy to report that I have accomplished one major to do list item in recent weeks: I have reworked my annual free calendar and to do list printables for your downloading and organizing pleasure (see 2014 here and 2015 here)! I know these yearly docs have some major fans out there, so I knew I couldn't let too much 2016 time go by before delivering them to you. So, without further ado, here are this year's offerings! (Click on the descriptive links to download.)

 . . . a weekly to do list and monthly planner in 8.5" x 11" format, ideal for desktop goals and big ideas . . . 

. . . a three month at-a-glance planner and goal list in 8.5" x 11" format, just right for getting through the semester (or just until the weather breaks!) . . . .

. . . . a monthly planner and goal list in 4" x 6" format (printable on blank index cards in your home printer!), just right for nailing down your #squadgoals and vacation plans . . . 

. . . a simple to do list (for daily, weekly, monthly or really any tasks) in 4" x 6" format; fits in your purse, need I say more?

. . . and, finally, a weekly planner in 4" x 6" format, perfect for storing in a notebook, sticking on your fridge, taping to your door or really anywhere that helps you remember the 8 million things you are supposed to be doing (basically, I am saying put them everywhere!).

Hope you like these guys! Let me know if there is anything else you would like to have in this group and I will do my best to whip something up. Here's to a happy, healthy and obsessively organized 2016!

GET ORGANIZED 2015: FREE O.I. PRINTABLES

Remember last year when I vowed to get organized and whipped up a bunch of cool calendars, to lists and other dastardly printable tools to keep me on track? Well I am back at it again with an updated 2015 edition! Hat tip to my favorite Austrian reader, Julia, for putting in the request for these babies and forcing me to get my butt in gear. So, let me present to you . . . . 

a monthly calendar and weekly to do list, 8.5" x 11" (download here)

a monthly calendar and master goal list, 4" x 6" (download here)

a weekly to do list, 4" x 6" (download here)

a master to do list, 4" x 6" (download here)

 . . . . and, last but not least, a flexible three month planning calendar, 8.5" x 11" (download here)

Hope you like these! Fingers crossed I follow my own advice and get myself back into the swing of things pronto. :)

In the meantime, happy weekend!

p.s. Notice how I am burning the midnight oil in the photo at the start of this blog post? I make up for late night with confetti, though, so it's all good!

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS: NYC SPRING AND SUMMER 2014

On Tuesday I gave you a quick rundown of the public art projects I am most excited about this summer. Today I want to share some of the museum exhibitions happening in New York in the next couple months that are highlighted on my calendar. Here's what I am looking forward to:

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective Exhibition, The Whitney Museum | June 27 - October 19 | "This exhibition will be the artist's first major museum presentation in New York, and the first to fill nearly the entirety of the Whitney's Marcel Breuer building with a single artist's work. It will also be the final exhibition to take place there before the Museum opens its new building in the Meatpacking District in 2015."

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, The Brooklyn Museum | April 18 - August 10 | "Ai Weiwei is one of China's most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. Featuring over forty works spanning more than twenty years, Ai Weiwei: According to What? explores universal topics of culture, history, politics, and tradition, showcasing the artist's remarkably interdisciplinary career as a photographer, sculptor, architect, and activist." (image from here)

Mel Bochner: Strong Language, Jewish Museum | May 2 - September 21 | "Across a selection of more than 70 works, Mel Bochner: Strong Language focuses on the artist's career-long fascination with the cerebral and visual associations of words. In his spectacular recent paintings, Bochner juxtaposes the vernacular and the proper, the formal and the vulgar, and the high versus low, using terms often appropriated from Roget's Thesaurus." (image from here)

Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988, Museum of Modern Art | May 10 - August 24 | "The Museum of Modern Art presents a major retrospective devoted to the art of Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920-1988), the first comprehensive exhibition in North America of her work. Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 comprises nearly 300 works made between the late 1940s and her death in 1988. Drawn from public and private collections, including MoMA's own, this survey is organized around three key themes: abstraction, Neo-Concretism, and the 'abandonment' of art. Each of these axes anchors a significant concept or constellation of works that mark a definitive step in Clark's career. While Clark's legacy in Brazil is profound, this exhibition draws international attention to her work. By bringing together all parts of her radical production, the exhibition seeks to reintroduce her into current discourses of abstraction, participation, and a therapeutic art practice."

13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair, Queens Museum | April 27 - September 7 | "50 years have passed since an up-and-coming Pop provocateur named Andy Warhol sparked a minor scandal at the 1964 New York World's Fair. As part of a prominent set of public commissions for the Philip Johnson-designed New York State Pavilion's exterior, Warhol chose to enlarge mug shots from a NYPD booklet featuring the 13 most wanted criminals of 1962 . . . . Later in the summer of 1964, Warhol produced another set of the Most Wanted Men paintings with the screens he had used to make the mural and nine of these are assembled in New York for the first time since their creation, forming the core of the 175 or so objects in the exhibition."

The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham and Günther Vogt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | April 29 - November 2 | "This installation by Dan Graham is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum's Roof Garden. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham's structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade. Viewers who enter the work are transformed into performers; in glimpsing their own reflections, they are also made acutely aware of the act of looking."

Which shows are you looking forward to? Anything I missed?

GET ORGANIZED: FREE O.I. PRINTABLES

Remember this post? Several weeks ago I talked about my goals for 2014. Like many people, most of those goals revolve around getting and staying organized (I am obsessive, after all!) and being more efficient and productive with my school work.

Mostly I have found that physically writing things down goes a long way in keeping things straight. So in early January I whipped up a couple of printable calendars, to do lists, and planners and have been testing them out to see how well they corral my hectic life. I am pleased to announce that they work quite well! With that in mind I thought it would only be fair to share them with you. :)

The free printables are divided into two categories: those that print on blank 4 x 6 index cards (just stick them in the photo compartment of your printer and use the settings for a 4 x 6 photo print) and those that print on regular 8.5 x 11 paper. The layout and usages for each differ, so pick what works best for you and print away!

Click on the links below to download each design. Enjoy!

download this daily to do list (4 x 6) here

download this weekly to do list (4 x 6) here

download these 2014 calendar pages and goal lists (4 x 6) here

download this weekly to do list and 2014 calendar pages (8.5 x 11) here

download this three month planner (8.5 x 11) here
Happy organizing!
(And if there is a specific tool you would like me to whip up for you—grocery lists, birthday calendars, etc.—just let me know! I am to please.)

HAPPY WEEKEND!

What are you up to this weekend? I am pretty much on lockdown here. It's supposed to rain in New York and I working on a two-week take home test for school—the last assignment I have to complete before I can officially call myself PhD ABD (all but dissertation).

Whatever you have planned, here are some fun links to tide you over until you can get them started.


Aren't the dominos above beautiful? They could make me pick up the game again!

I need to get myself a new coffee table/desk. Thinking this, this and this tutorial could be good.

How pretty are these dish towels? They would look perfect framed and hung on a kitchen wall!

Always looking for ways to keep track of my to do lists. This idea could be good.

I can't decide if these are totally cute or a little lame. I bet they are comfy though!

The perfect father's day present?

Totally making this tonight. Yum!

My college art museum is doing amazing things. I wish I still went to school there!

This is pretty funny. :)

A super fun DIY with spectacularly beautiful results.

How to conquer that email mountain.

I just started doing this yesterday. It's a doozy!

Simple, effective tips for better photos.

Just bought this top (not the bottoms!) and I am in love.

So excited to see this glowing review of a stupendous show. Bravo, Carter and Nick!


Have a lovely weekend! I will see you back here next week.