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a busted-up binder

*Thanks to all of you that jumped in on my "guerilla goodness" idea. I just have to buy myself some fresh postage this morning and cards will be going out to all of you. I'm so looking forward to it!*

 

Good pillows

I don't know when it started exactly, college maybe? But I signed up for a subscription from Martha Stewart–but this one was a little different. This subscription was for "Good Things" cards–they came ever few weeks, in different categories from giving to homekeeping to entertaining. I'm suspicious I signed on solely for the linen-wrapped binder that came with your first set. Or for the "good mail", which doesn't come so often when you're in college. But those little bundles of cards kept coming and coming and coming….

 Eventually, I wised up and realized there was no end to Martha's Good Things and that if I wasnt' careful I was going to be bankrupt over this little collecting hobby. But the binder morphed into a place where I collected pages torn out of magazines–recipes, pictures of inspiration for my dream home, crafts, things I wanted to sew…

 Awesome door stops

The binder was overflowing at this point. Bursting at the seams. D-rings bent, barely holding anything together. It got tucked away, tied up, boxed and forgotten. A year or so ago, I uncovered it again when my husband threated to throw it out. Shocked by his suggestion, I grabbed it from his hands, clutching it to my chest. 

As I flipped through it contents, I had to smile at my unmarried, no children, living in a college-apartment self. More often than not I asked myself, "What in the WORLD did I like on this torn out page?"

 

Mamob

 But there still remained a few gems here and there. For some reason, these three got scanned and dumped on my desktop months ago. By no means the best of the bunch, but there are still little things about these images I love. I'm sorry I don't have a source, but you can probably guarantee it's either Martha Stewart or Country Home (a sadly defunct mag now.) 

 Patchwork blanket exposed seams

 I have to admit I like my old-fashioned binder. Like holding the pages in my hands. Flipping through. Spreading them out. It was my Pinterest. Pinterest, which has been getting a lot of flack these days. I have to be honest to say that I haven't taken time to really read and understand all that's going on. Privacy. Copyright. Rights. sigh

Makes me cling to my busted-up binder a little more….

*Thanks to all of you that jumped in on my "guerilla goodness" idea. I just have to buy myself some fresh postage this morning and cards will be going out to all of you. I'm so looking forward to it!*

 

Good pillows

I don't know when it started exactly, college maybe? But I signed up for a subscription from Martha Stewart–but this one was a little different. This subscription was for "Good Things" cards–they came ever few weeks, in different categories from giving to homekeeping to entertaining. I'm suspicious I signed on solely for the linen-wrapped binder that came with your first set. Or for the "good mail", which doesn't come so often when you're in college. But those little bundles of cards kept coming and coming and coming….

 Eventually, I wised up and realized there was no end to Martha's Good Things and that if I wasnt' careful I was going to be bankrupt over this little collecting hobby. But the binder morphed into a place where I collected pages torn out of magazines–recipes, pictures of inspiration for my dream home, crafts, things I wanted to sew…

 Awesome door stops

The binder was overflowing at this point. Bursting at the seams. D-rings bent, barely holding anything together. It got tucked away, tied up, boxed and forgotten. A year or so ago, I uncovered it again when my husband threated to throw it out. Shocked by his suggestion, I grabbed it from his hands, clutching it to my chest. 

As I flipped through it contents, I had to smile at my unmarried, no children, living in a college-apartment self. More often than not I asked myself, "What in the WORLD did I like on this torn out page?"

 

Mamob

 But there still remained a few gems here and there. For some reason, these three got scanned and dumped on my desktop months ago. By no means the best of the bunch, but there are still little things about these images I love. I'm sorry I don't have a source, but you can probably guarantee it's either Martha Stewart or Country Home (a sadly defunct mag now.) 

 Patchwork blanket exposed seams

 I have to admit I like my old-fashioned binder. Like holding the pages in my hands. Flipping through. Spreading them out. It was my Pinterest. Pinterest, which has been getting a lot of flack these days. I have to be honest to say that I haven't taken time to really read and understand all that's going on. Privacy. Copyright. Rights. sigh

Makes me cling to my busted-up binder a little more….

9 comments on “a busted-up binder”

  1. i had the same (though mine was a file folder). went through it a few years back and wondered the same – what was i thinking!? i kept the ones that still resonated, and scanning them is a brilliant idea – thank you. do you use evernote? i’ve been clipping things that way.

  2. Yes! I love evernote. Mostly use it for Babycenter stuff–especially when I want to save something privately–one of the things I wish pinterest offered.

  3. I kept mine in a file folders system. When we moved the last time, I “went thru” my system. I agree with you. I shook my head at some of my clippings. Yet, I also had a constant theme to mine which continues now.

  4. Mine are pasted into a record book. One of the entries includes ‘a dog called Mungo’, part of a wish list, rather than a cutting. And like much of what I pin these days, represents something I’ve never got round to. Maybe in retirement?

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