Craft ideas sprinkled with money saving tips!
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tiny happy people mini albumOriginally uploaded by udandi
It’s my weekend to work which means I’m at work six days straight until my next day off so weeks like this I need to make something in order to stay balanced. I don’t know what other public service library workers do, I have to be creative!
I pulled [...]
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Vacation is all fun and games until:
A) you scare the wits out of your sister with the wall decorationsB) the kitchen shelf finally crashes down under the weight of the ticky-tacky plasticwareC) Your gashed up toe (courtesy of your pool tricks) keeps sticking to the shag rug in the kitchen or the matching one in [...]
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vanity sizingOriginally uploaded by udandi
I was looking through the October 1966 issue of Family Circle reading the advertisements looking for something to add to my projects when I saw this ad.
The daughter wished her mom was slim but didn’t say anything because she didn’t want to hurt her. But she let them use that [...]
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recycled chipboard photo albumOriginally uploaded by udandi
Continuing to recycle cardboard from cereal boxes rather than buying chipboard albums from a retailer, I made this album of friends’ engagement party photos.
I used scrapbook paper to cover the cereal box printing, but then some pages were left blank and left the kraft-color cardboard as the background. I [...]
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icyOriginally uploaded by udandi.
Yesterday afternoon we got a wintery mix (switching between icy rain and snow) so I took this photo on my way to chiseling out my car for work.
Work closed 20 minutes early, which was about how long it took me to chisel out my and my coworkers cars [...]
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This photo illustrates why I love my digital camera so much. I have 3 boxes of prints, negatives and photo CDs from the days before I had a digi-cam. In my continuing effort to declutter my life, I have weeded them down to 2 boxes. The piles on the left are [...]
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