It's a planning calendar and gifts-to-make list in one: a handmade gift planner/2008 calendar combo from craft blogger Cindy from SkipToMyLou!

Use this free printable form to set deadlines for handmade gifts and record ongoing projects. It's a great addition to your Christmas planner!

While you're there, don't miss Cindy's creative ideas for handmade holiday gifts. She's covered a full range of easy to make, easy to give ideas for holiday projects. Get inspired!

Print a Handmade Holiday Gifts 2008 Calendar/Planner

So you think a creative Christmas planner means a pricey outlay at the crafts store? Think again, with this paper bag planner tutorial from blogger The Fine Art Of Rambling On.

With step-by-step instructions and clear photographic illustrations, this excellent scrapbooking tutorial will have you planning for the holiday season in high style--in no time! Get inspired to create an unusual, inexpensive Christmas planner:

Christmas Planner Class - Paper Bag Book

We love this hand-crafted Christmas planner, built from a small notebook!

With divider tabs, stamped cover and a bookmark, holiday lists will be close at hand.

Nice job!

Holiday Planner

Scrapbooker Kristin, blogging as Artfully Inking, shares a very creative Christmas planner with this notebook tour.

Using trimmed, oval-shaped Christmas Countdown forms from OrganizedChristmas.com, she's crafted pretty chipboard covers and dividers for a custom, one-of-a-kind creation.

Love it!

Kristin's Christmas Planner

Calling all papercrafters! Looking for something a bit more luxe than our three-ring binder version for your Christmas planner?

Get step-by-step instructions to create this standout Christmas planner from the Di Oliver's Make Me Creative Blog. With an embellished velvet cover, decorated dividers and colorful receipts envelope, this Christmas planner would make a perfect holiday gift:

In addition to the detailed instructions and photos, the site also includes a link for right-sized printable Christmas planner pages to fill out your finished notebook:

Great job!

Traditional holiday meals cross cultural boundaries, but each celebration has its own unique flavor.

Get organized for Rosh Hashanah with this simple printable meal planner from Jumping Frogs.

Wishing you health, happiness, prosperity and peace for the coming year:

Rosh Hashanah Menu Planner

Getting organized for Christmas with a notebook-based Christmas planner sounds good, but your organizing tool of choice is an index card. Whether you're a S.H.E. or a devotee of 43 Folders, you're looking for a holiday planner in a cardfile, not a binder.

We've got the creative solution for you: ScrapHappy's holiday organizer. With a complete photographic tutorial and how-tos, it's easy to make this pretty, functional index card organizer to simplify your holidays:

Index Card Holiday Organizer

For Thanksgiving dinner--or any holiday meal--a countdown checklist can be a lifesaver. Get going on a back-to-basics turkey dinner for Thanksgiving with this printable Thanksgiving prep checklist from RealSimple.com.

Part menu planner, part meal preparation checklist, this form simplifies and streamlines creating a holiday meal. Add one to your Christmas planner and get cooking, for a great holiday meal:

Thanksgiving Prep Checklist

Pretty, shmitty: you want holiday planner forms without all the colored ink and graphic foo-foo? Here you go: a set of six basic holiday planning forms from D*I*Y Planner reader shris.

Downsized and created in greyscale, these printables will appeal to folks looking for a no-nonsense, downscaled Christmas planner. A bonus: included source files allow users of Open Office to edit these planner pages.

Check 'em out; in black-and-white and sized for 8.5-by-5.5 planners:

Holiday Planning Set from D*I*Y Planners

Even during the busy holiday season, the family's got to eat. When the question's "What's for dinner?", the answer is a printable weekly meal planner.

Check out this printable from the Unclutterer blog; it's a basic, no-nonsense menu planner for a week's worth of meals. With dedicated space for notes and a grocery list, it's a powerful planning tool for an organized home ... any week of the year. The meal planner is offered in your choice of Excel spreadsheet format or as a printable .PDF file:

Creating A Weekly Meal Plan