Divider Fail

Last month of the year.  Last "special" divider in my journal.  I thought this would be the best one yet.  I thought there would be great fanfare.  But instead, I've struggled with it.  And I'm not even sure I like it.  My original plan was to make a stuffed fabric tab like I saw in that book I mentioned by Ruth Rae.

But I didn't want my December tab to be long and skinny and stick out that far.  So I made mine more vertical than horizontal.  And I sewed three sides in preparation for stuffing it with fiberfill.  Then I held it to the page to see how it would look.  Hmmmm.  It still stuck out farther than I wanted it to, so I removed some of the stitching from the top and bottom, and removed some more stitching, and removed some more... until it stuck out about the amount I wanted.  And then I realized there wasn't a lot left for stuffing.  So that idea went out the window.

Instead, I took some of my painted fabric scraps, cut fabric circles, glued them front and back to some small tags, stamped the letters for December (front and back), and tied them to the page.  (The stamping seemed a little faded, so I used a marker to outline the letters.)  I have not tightened the knots or snipped off the excess thread.  I'm still not sure I'm crazy about the way this looks, so I can still opt out!  But, I wanted to get something in the journal before the month is half over, so timeliness won out over the wow-factor!

[P.S.  I added a couple more pictures to that last post about the Christmas tree card, for those asking questions.]