repurpose.remake.reuse.reclaim

My creative husband who was born and raised in San Francisco has been on a hunt for quality vintage replica of the City's trolley route signs.  But to no avail.  They were either reproduced poorly or sold outrageously expensive ($1,000 range!)   The idea of recreating his own was within reach but time-consuming.  With his workplace sponsoring a fundraising effort for Haiti Relief, he took on the challenge and intricately reproduced the bus route sign he took as a young boy. He individually designed each type to match the original artwork.  He's a perfectionist and cannot tolerate bad typography.  After laboring many hours, it was ready to be printed on high quality canvas. After the ink has completely dried, he crumpled the beautiful 26.5x66" piece of art for an authentic look!  Ugh...I couldn't stand it being beaten up.    I was hired to punch the holes.  Not the most exciting job, but someone's gotta do it.  A...

The word that is heard perishes,  but the letter that is written remains.  ~Proverb What do you do with those old wall calendars, old magazines, scrapbook paper with really nice images, or just plain nice quality paper.  Well, here's one way to revive them. Make envelopes.  Just open up any used envelope for a template.  Trace and cut away. You can bring this project anywhere...while waiting in the car or at any sports practices/events. Before you know it, you have a dozen made.  Just enough to have a stationery set to give as gifts. To go with the envelopes, TC did a calligraphy for one of her dearest friends' birthday with her initial, "L". She scanned and we resized to fit 2-up on an 8.5x11 cardstock. Final touch: tie the cards and the envelopes together with ribbons from my recycled stack. Black lace looked very elegant, don't you think? And off it went to Lee-Anna for her birthday whom TC regularly corresponds via let...