Recipe Box Wedding Gift

Coming to you from Portland

Hopefully Mo and Nora have already opened their wedding presents, because I wanted to share this project, but I don't want to spoil the surprise.  They registered for a Martha Stewart recipe box at Macy's and I wanted to include Martha recipe cards, but I couldn't find any.  Instead I just bought some rainbow colored index cards from Fred Meyer that fit perfectly.  The colors are a good way to sparate the recipes between the different tab categories that are included in the box. 

I picked about a dozon or so of my favorite recipes and copied them onto the cards to include with the gift. 

Then I made all of the recipes, and took a picture of them to print off and put on the back of each recipe card.  I know I am much more likely to make something if there is a picture of it so I thought those would help.  I'm always looking for a way to do something beyond the registry and this was a really fun way to personalize and put a little extra thought into something they asked for.  Michelle did a great personalized gift for them as well using her magnent idea that she posted about before. 

Fall Minibook update - finally.

Coming to you from Pullman

I worked like a mad women into the wee hours of the morning for almost a week straight over Christmas break getting my minibook together.  it ended up being too full so i might have to break it up and it's still not quite finished.  some of the pages are incomplete and i did not complete Christmas break, but I threw in what I had.  i'm not sure how i feel about the minibook.  I think that if i had time to stay on top of it, it would be a nice little photo journal for me - it's not like i display my photos in any other fashion.  I enjoy making them, but it is a lot of work and i think the only way that I could have a second installment is if i promise myself to do it as i go.  that way it is also more meaningful as i can include thoughts in the moment.  also, i should take more vertical pictures, or make a horizontal book...word.  see the beginning of this minibook here.

i love my fold out page!

didn't quite get the half circle insert down on the first try. 

 i had more success on my next coupletries as you'll see below.

 it's hard to see, but i made a transparency!  I couldn'tfind very

 many transparencies at the craft store thati liked so i decided

 to just make my own.  this onewas "orange grid".  i made some

circle ones that arepictured at the bottom.  I really like the affect.

notice anything funky about the picture of Julie?  If you've spent a lot

of time in the Starbucks on Stadium way you might notice it.  Answer

at bottom!*

 had to put the monopoly board in there because

i worked so darn hard on it.

 unfinished "Thanksgiving Break" page

Paint by numbers Ellie!

Our Christmas card!

the minibook really encourages my hoarding tendencies.do i really

need the packaging from my christmas presents?  probably not.

i realized later that Amanda had this exact same cut-outfrom a

Burger King bag in this post.   

the "end"

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These are the other transparencies that I made.

  I just made the design in Microsoft word, and

 then went to Staples to get them printed out on

 transparencies for pretty cheap.

Projects I'm going to start this weekend, maybe...

both from elise of course AND a new journal cover

AND maybe some other "mantra" art work...I want to

start off the semester strong!

*Answer: I inversed the picture of Julie so that it would look like we were looking at each other.