For the last couple of weeks my DH Gareth has been disappearing up the loft putting up shelves to store all our junk and finding anything worth selling to put on eBay. Despite his heroic efforts, the place still looks like a land-fill site so I finally agreed to get up there and do my bit. The vast majority of stuff is, after all, MY junk.
So I spent a back-breaking couple of hours yesterday morning sifting through endless lever-arch files and boxes, ruthlessly recycling and binning anything I could. While sorting through all the mess I ended up with a pile of bits and bobs that 'could be useful' - stuff too pretty or interesting or colourful to sling out. Like old birthday cards, bits of wrapping paper, even gridded paper from my old teacher's planners that would make great journaling spots.
I decided Saturday's page would be made entirely from stuff rescued from the loft:
The cardstock is an old subject divider. The pink and green strips and the elephant are from an Oxfam birthday card, handmade in Bangladesh using wheatstraw pieces. The flowery paper is a gift card from Topshop and the grid paper is from an old planner. I wrote the date on a bit of masking tape.
The photo was actually taken after all my efforts.. clearly there is still a LOT of work to be done - and maybe more little treasures to uncover?!
