My Thousand Gifts Smash Book...

I'm such a slacking blogger.

I apologize!

 

So, along with the rest of the civilized world I've been keeping my one thousand gifts.

 

I also happened to have a handy-dandy smashbook I had bought with no clue as to what to do with it.

My only thought was how they used Smashbooks in Sweet Valley High books, and well, I was a little past those stages ;)

 

So I turned my list of one thousand gifts into a smashing list!

I had NO plan {it's how I roll}, no preconceived thoughts as to how it would flow.  I just started writing, randomly gluing when the notion struck and came up with this.

She's not pretty or perfect.  Kids have scribbled, it's been left on counters where coffee has spilled.

I didn't keep track of how it would work out, but wouldn't you know?

My thousandth gift ended up on the very last page!

Here she is:

 

 

 

 

some pages are quite plain, some are chalk full of random stuff.

I printed out some of the things Ann offers on her blog and pasted them here and there. 

And I got some use out of my poor, neglected scrapbooking supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and now, I need to go buy another smashbook to continue my counting!

this one took slightly over a year of counting gifts.

so, there you have it. 

How did you keep track of your thousand gifts?

crafty goodness...

once again,

i give thanks to ms. sasha at

lemonade makin mama.

while i had seen this idea light years ago on etsy and meant to try it myself, i never did.

i'd think about it here and there, but sasha did it, and gave me the kick i needed.

mugs from target.

i, in typical fashion, was too impatient/cheap to order the correct marker from the company sasha suggested.

so instead i used a sharpie.

so far it hasn't come off, but i expect it will.

i'll go over it in a ceramic pen when i can...

also, in typical fashion, i did not take my time and try to write nicely.

i am simply to impatient to do things correctly/nicely.

speaks volumes about my character, i know.

but aren't these babies perfectly imperfect?!

{i'm all good with mediocrity.}

i can hardly wait to have a cup of tea!

the white mugs have sayings from Pride & Prejudice,

the aqua ones have lines from Anne of Green Gables.

this could seriously get addicting.

i'm thinking of all the other movies it'd be fun to quote...

which movie lines would YOU choose?

blessings,

mandy