I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed the extra day off for the holiday. I got a chance to go to the gym, spend time with my mom, nap and even craft.
Over the weekend I took out one of the bins I have where I collect paper scraps left over from other projects and I got to work on making collages. I finished four tags in no time, just need to add some ribbon or yarn to these and they’ll be ready to be shipped out.
Bookwise, we did spend a great afternoon at Barnes & Noble on Saturday. I found the latest Paper Art magazine. There was an article about paper flowers made out of crepe paper and that totally took me back to when I was a kid. My abuelita used to make beautiful crepe paper flowers that she turned into wreaths. I remember her selling those and she was especially busy during the Dia de los Muertos. I helped her a little bit but because she was working with hot wax I didn’t do too much. I mainly helped cover the wire stems of the flowers.
Anyway, reading that article brought back fond memories of my grandma and certainly helped fuel my creativity to make these tags.
On the book front, I have a crisis… my library card expired and I can’t renew any of my books or place new holds. So I’m making it a priority to get to the library this week.
Let me know what you were up to!
Hey, did you see that the APL lets you renew your library card online now? I saw it in the ‘notices’ part of the website. Not sure if you would qualify for whatever they consider protocol, but you might try it. Glad you had a good weekend. I’m ready for some cool. Guess we’ll still have a wait a bit.
What wonderful memories, Iliana! Thank you for sharing. It sounds like you had a nice weekend. Ours was a bit on the lazy side, although we did get a few much needed errands run.
Your library card expired? Horrors! ;D Hope you get it renewed soon.
Love the tags, and I think they are even more fun that they are made from scraps. I have a thing about saving scraps and get so much pleasure from making something new from them. We had a great Labor Day weekend in the country–so nice that our temperatures were a lot cooler. Yay, for creative grandmothers who continue to inspire!
Oh no…I hate it when my card expires and I wasn’t prepared. This year the library has started to put a little “notice card” at the top of your online record, so when it displays (when you’re renewing anything or borrowing ebooks, for instance) you can’t help but see it, for almost a month in advance. It’s soooo much better!
Kay – I did, that’s new isn’t it? Unfortunately, I had a fine so I couldn’t do it online. But also noticed that now we can have up to 7 holds. Woo-hoo!
Literary Feline – Reading that magazine brought those memories rushing back. My grandma was so crafty, I must have gotten my crafty spirit from her!
Lark – I know right? 🙂 All in good standing now!
Jen – I totally agree! I need to incorporate more “found” pieces of paper too. I should have done it with these tags but I was trying to use up some smaller pieces of paper. I tried to limit myself so I could see what I could make with a what I had on hand.
BuriedinPrint – That’s a great idea that your library does that. My library did send me two email notices but I just never made it out on time to take care of it. Rats. Anyway, all good now and ready to check out books!