An Organized Library

Kathleen from Twig & Thistle posted the greatest idea/project I've seen in a very long time: A diy library kit. 

The templates are colored with brown, but I'm pretty sure that if you printed it in black & white that it would look pretty as well (I'm not a huge fan of brown -- I've always been a b&w girl, myself).

She has graciously provided pdf files with very detailed directions on how to do this project yourself.  I think I'm definitely going to have to do this for my library.  I've been wanting to make some bookplates for a very long time, but I like the idea of the library cards much better!

I'm going to assume that folding all those little card holders is going to be pretty tedious, but luckily my library is relatively small!

Purple Heart.

 

I've been wanting to do a project like this for a long time, but didn't have the vintage stamps with which to do it.  Finally, I came across Verde Studio, an Etsy shop loaded with tons of vintage stamp collections.  The thing I love about this shop, is that she sells color blocks of stamps.  She sells both used and unused stamps, so if you're looking for some cool vintage stamps for your correspondence, check it out.  

Anyway, this project was a piece of cake.  I just arranged all of my stamps on a piece of paper to get a shape I liked, then glued them all down and put it in a frame.  Simple.  It seriously only took me twenty minutes, max.  I did use acid-free glue, so that it won't damage the stamps, if I decide to keep this piece for ever and ever (unlikely).  I love that the stamps are used, so they have all kinds of postage markings on them to make it a little bit more interesting. 

I think I got this idea from somewhere, but I can't remember where I saw it... 

Sneak Peek

While I haven't exactly been the most active blogger recently (ha!  what an understatement), I haven't just been sitting around the entire time doing nothing.  I have been working on a project with a very good friend of mine that I'm just about ready to share with everyone.  I'm far, far behind on the project (what's new?), but still feel that all this work should not be left unnoticed.  I'm really excited about the results, so here's a peek at something I've been working on, rather diligently I might add, for the past few weeks:

Hopefully, my broken camera will magically turn itself into a brand new DSLR, or begin to work again, so I can take some photos of this project!!