Summercrafter

Jar lids come in all shapes, sizes. They are found on jars from spaghetti sauce, pimentos, pickles, salsa etc. Since they are so perfectly round, I thought they would be great for ornaments and crafts; so I started keeping them instead of throwing them away. I even have my students bringing them in for a seasonal craft. It started when I decided to piggy back on a magazine idea for "repurposing" Christmas Card photos to give as mementos back to the families. But the possibilities are really endless; once I started working with them, new ideas keep coming and I haven't preserved any Christmas Card photos yet. And I guess great minds think alike because I also saw them used on the ornament girl blog, if you google it, ornament jar lids, you will get hers and a ton more! I just did it! See no idea is really new!!  DISCLAIMER: I generally like to come up with my own crafts and use my own brain and devices. I  prefer not to copy and don't use Pinter...

I really enjoy wrapping paper. When I was poorer, younger and had more time, I used to love wrapping gifts in brown butcher paper and painting on them with all sorts of paints and use thick wired or fabric ribbon to wrap the gifts. Who cares what was inside!  They just looked pretty and old fashioned like they should be sitting under a natural pine tree that was dragged in from the woods just behind the cottage in my imagination.  This cottage, of course, would be nestled comfortably amidst a sparse forest of trees whose leaves make that lovely swishing sound when the wind blows. Then outside the window you would see the sloping green grass that went down to meet the embankment of a creek or babbling brook. SIGH! But I digress. My favorite kind of wrapping paper was the kind they would sell through fundraising catalogs with the neat samples in the middle. This was the real thick wrapping paper that was like $7.00 a roll, about 20 years ago! I haven't...