The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when
It took a while to collect enough can tabs for this frame, but it was worth the wait! This is an idea that I cannot take credit for. One of my college friends posted a picture of a vase that she made out of the tabs and I thought that a frame would look good too. The frame is just basic and was 1.49 at the Goodwill. Grey seemed like the best color to paint it to go with the can tabs. After that, I just started hot gluing them on in rows. The frame still needs a picture, but for right now it looks good without anything in it. There still are some tabs left so I am going to keep collecting them and see what idea may 'POP' into my head. Sorry, couldn't resist! There are so many possibilities for items that you can recycle. It is really fun to create something out of what others may throw away. 
My great aunt Marcie was a creative whiz, she made the most unique things. I still remember as a kid going to her house and seeing a Christmas decoration that she made out of a turkey breast bone. She had cleaned it all up and used it to make Santa's sleigh. I was really young when it was shown to me so recreating it isn't a possibility but it is things like that that make you inspired to recycle objects that can become great treasures.
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