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Small, sweet and colorful, we love this crafty ring-bound planner from craft designer Erica's Doing Something Else!

Erica used commercial scrapbooking products to create her little planner. With simple ring binding, pretty dividers and a free printable for small-sized planner pages, it packs a lot of organizing power in a tiny creative package.

Better, this would make a great "scrappy" project to use extra chipboard and bits and pieces of holiday-themed scrapbooking paper to good effect. Add some down-sized planner pages from Organized Christmas, and you could create your own planner for pennies .. or less!

Nice job!

Erica's Christmas Planner

It's a binder. It's an accordion file. It'll supercharge your Christmas planner to create a place for receipts, recipes and tear files along side your gift lists and menu plans: the Duo 7-Pocket Accordion File Binder.

This bright idea combines the efficiency of a standard three-ring binder with the convenience of of an expanding accordion file, making it perfect to house your Christmas planner.

Whether you're stowing receipts or checking your gift list, this binder is a one-stop option to get organized for Christmas. Two elastic closures keep papers secured, but give easy access to either notebook or file as needed.

Transparency note: the folks from Duo Binder sent me one to evaluate. And I fell promptly in love, thereby breaking my personal rule about not writing product reviews. But when you get something that is just this useful, it's time to share!

Check it out ... to stop the Christmas paper chase cold!

Duo 7-Pocket Accordion File Binder