Happy Arbor Day ....recycle a tree !!

Happy Arbor Day Blogland Neighborhood! In honor of the day, we just had to show you this beautiful tree in bloom across the street from MBIAJ Headquarters.

Also, in honor of Arbor Day and Earth Day/Week, we also decided to do a little recycling craft project to spruce up the "Paperwork Dept's" desk .... well, actually this is how it went .... info was copied onto some index cards .... info (phone numbers , addresses, etc) that needed to be within easy access ...so, the index cards needed to stay out on the desk .... so they needed to be contained IN something ....but what ?......should something be bought? ......hmmmmmmm..... nah.... must be something in a closet or cupboard or whatever that could be used to hold some index cards .... so, after scrounging around.....




....this is what we came up with ......yep, a box of multi sized tampons which come with these little divider boxes inside the main box. PERFECT .... well almost ... the little divider box was a little too tall, and DEFINATELY too plain .....so, we cut it down to about half the original size and then ......



.....spruced it up with some fabric, some ribbon , and a button! PERFECT !! Now it matches ....



....the desk lamp which started out as .....


....this .....WAY too bright when you're sitting in the desk chair and it's GLARING right in your eyes!





....and here they are together .... we think this little set looks cheerful and definately brings out the RED in our wax lips very nicely!!! (what .... you don't have wax lips sitting on your desk next to the paperclips and pens?) ....and yes, there's Kitty , still in her Earth Day outfit over seeing this recycling project .




....anyhow, even though we took (another) detour away from the fabric covered button and yo yo flower project, it doesn't mean we haven't at least made a teensy bit of progress .....



......we're getting there .... about as fast as molasses in January .... but we're getting there!

Be back soon!

Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)