Look At What I Made Jill Today A Scrap Paper Storage Solution

I am certain that Jill and I are not the only two people

out there who are constantly wondering

What on Earth do I do with All this Scrap Paper?!!

It just keeps adding up...Overflowing baskets, bins, file folders.

This week as I was making a concentrated effort to purge the second floor

landing of my accumulated (junk) treasures The Martha Stewart Living

Magazines bit the big one...As I sorted thru them one last time

I came across one of her craft projects.

Envelope books.

Wow...it was like a light bulb went off in my head.

Puuuurfect solution to those pesky project scraps....

or even accumulating pieces for a project.

After hunting down some really bright Martha Stewart Paper Tape

I was set to go...The instructions call for book binding tape

but since I was impatient to make a couple of these

the paper tape was what was used.  It works really well

so far...Once I find some binding tape it will be interesting to compare.

Anyway....Off to my favorite Goodwill for envelopes.

My favorite clerk there Eva is always raising her eyebrows at me....

What on earth am I up to now..lol

So..after sorting out 10 envelopes that are all the same size I set to work

shading them a little, and adding a punch so that the pouch can

be identified...

Next I bound them all together with the tape (ha...Yes I know the tape color

does not go with the whole project at all...but you should see

the rest of them in the  pack.)

Cut a piece of card stock for the outside, scored it with my bone folder

so that it formed a book...taped all that together.

The image on the front is one of Jill's newest creations.

She is edged in gold and has gold highlights on her crown and jewelry.

Next a few of my calling cards tucked in for fun.

I think I am going to add some stamping on the inside and back

flap.   This is pretty simple to do, and I left the outside mostly undecorated

because I think they will be handled quite a bit

So I did not want bits and pieces to be falling off here and there.

I plan on making about a dozen to have on hand for projects.

Hopefully I will get it to her tomorrow. We have

a craft day planned...But

My new printer arrives tomorrow and I want to

be here to get it.  (Yeah!!!! a new printer)

Don't worry...there is nothing

wrong with your computer...I added a watermark to

Jills image

Amazing Friday Garage Sale Discoveries

Wow...It has been such a beautiful day today.

The plan was to work on the Junkin Gypsies note cards for the store.

Then take my son to my folks

so he can mow their lawns (his summer job)

So...As Jordan slept in (cause I am a softy mom and there was no

school today) I had coffee and worked on the

cards.  Getting them assembled so that

Jill can take pictures.

I just snapped a few so that I could show them off here.

Tomorrow they will be in the Junkin Gypsies Etsy store...

They are all Jill's original artwork

I really love her art and these cards are like little paintings.

So while Jordan was mowing the lawns

my dad suggested some garage sales around the

neighborhood I might be interested in. 

Oh Yep Yep

Now don't I keep saying.  No More Books!?

Ack...It is my addiction

Books.

today I found something so fantastic for a moment

I could not believe it was for sale.

A  log book

for Columbia Harbor No. 22

Leather bound...12 inches x 20 inches

With the name Alice Mae Endicott on the front

The first 38 pages have been removed..And the rest of the log 398

pages are empty.

There is some writing in the back for a wedding

It is too big to scan..so tomorrow in the sunlight I will take pictures of it.

It amazed me that I got it for a buck.

A young man moving and selling everything...many of his books

looked like family books. Another one I got there was

from 1905...Engineering Drawing.  I scanned a couple of pages to share

And last

A book on Aubrey Beardsley

This was a fantastic find...I have always liked Beardsley's work

but have never explored him.

This book is too large to scan properly..so this image

is a bit crooked. 

So...Yes..more books.