Planning Pages

Love all things "prim"? Our friend Melinda does--and her Christmas notebook tour shares several cute, country printable cover pages for your Christmas planner.

An organized touch: download your favorite printable Christmas planner cover page for 2008, 2009, or 2010.

This thoughtful addition makes it easy to create Christmas planner notebooks to give as gifts this year. Shared with a sister or a friend, you'll get ready for Christmas, 2009, together!

Thanks, Melinda ... nice work!

Melinda's Christmas Notebook

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

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

Organizing blogger Meck Mom weighs in on getting organized for Christmas with these free printable organizer pages for your Christmas planner.

With a fresh and sprightly design, they're a nice addition to any letter-sized Christmas planner. Choose from a holiday budget, gift planner and weekly Christmas planner page. (You'll want to select the download links for blank forms for your own use.)

Meck Mom: Get Organized for Christmas With Printable Planning Pages