Recycled Greeting Cards ~

I had so much fun making these tiny little houses that I wanted to share them with you. A couple of years ago my cousin gave me a box full of my late grandparents 50th wedding anniversary cards. She knows I love all things vintage so I was thrilled when she passed them along. They just sat in a box for several months while I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with them. I wanted to share them with other family members somehow, but wasn't sure exactly just how I wanted to do that.

Then one day I found a tiny house ornament pattern in a magazine and knew instantly that is what I would do. I made several houses, embellished each one with glass glitter and then packaged each one in cellophane tied with a ribbon. I also included a picture of our grandparents in each one and a note telling that the houses were made out of our grandparents 50th anniversary cards from years past.( I also glued a tiny paper to the bottom of each house describing what they were). Then I handed them out to family members and everyone was just delighted to receive them. Enjoy ~

I hope this has inspired some of you to get out those old cards and make some goodies. I know I can only store so many things in my house so this was a perfect solution.

On another note, I about panicked this morning when I took out my camera and it would not work. I kept getting an E18 error and I have heard horror stories about that! I got online and found a couple solutions and tried one. It worked and so I just pray it keeps working because I feel like I am lost without my camera! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with blessings