Packrat under glass:
June 23rd, 2009For the rehearsal dinner picnic the night before our wedding, my mom had two cases of Jones Soda made with a photo of us on the labels. For almost four years now, I have kept two full bottles, always displaying them somewhere in our kitchen. As part of my new year’s resolution I did the unthinkable one week - I decided to recycle them. My intent was to peel off the labels, keep the caps (which have fortunes on the insides), and do something crafty with the two. After various ways of trying, I realized I was never going to get the labels off in one piece - the glue was just too hardened and the paper was flaking off. Not to be deterred, I photographed them instead. After drinking seven bottles of cream soda looking for a cap with a fortune appropriate to life / a wedding / whatever, and having my best friend mail a bag of the wine corks she’d saved from our reception, I put together this tiny 4×6 shadowbox. Much prettier than a couple of glass bottles of dark vanilla soda - I don’t know what took me so long :) We’ve never really had much from our wedding displayed - one framed photo on my dresser and our funky cake servers hanging in our kitchen - so I am happy to finally have a wedding-something all prettied up, and not as ho-hum as one of our invitations in a boring silver frame.

Also, a quick thank you to tldg rainwear for featuring my little pink umbrella studs in a treasury last week - and for letting me know, since I never remember to check :)

That’s it, folks. I’m going home to WV - and to various places from there - on Saturday. Won’t be back here until the first week of August, so no updates for awhile!
























