Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Easter Mail Idea

I saw this idea a while back on Giverslog and I knew I HAD to do it!  So i bought some Easter eggs at Walmart and I filled them with toys for my nephews:
 
and candy for my parents/inlaws:
I bought the really big Easter eggs that are sold individually and these ones originally had pop rocks in them.  I was going to use the regular sized ones but I needed to find a toy suitable for small children (both of my nephews are 15 months old) and those toys were larger so larger egg it was!  I put 4 stamps on my eggs.  I have no idea how much it actually needed - I was afraid to go in and ask the post office workers how much it would take to mail an Easter egg so I just added a bunch of postage, put it in my mailbox and hoped for the best!  And it worked!

PS: New Vintage Homemaker Ephemera Kits in the Etsy Shop.  Check them out!

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Monday, January 24, 2011

Organizational Tip to Inspire Creativity

A couple of months ago I bought some old muffin tins at an antique store planning on using them for storage of some sort (though honestly I was more likely going to store them in a pile with all the other stuff I collect from antique stores and thrift shops!). They sat there until last week when while cleaning up my studio I got this great idea to use those muffin tins to collect items of similar colors to create sort of an inspiration "board"/palette thing (I'm not sure what to even call it) Sort of a jumping off point for a project. I figure if I can organize the items into c