The Postcard Collection...

Every time the hubs and I take a trip, even a day trip,

we try to purchase a few postcards, to send home before we leave.

The hubs sents his to me, I send mine to him.

We each write a line or two about our favorite parts of the day or trip.

I slap a stamp on them (I keep stamps in my purse)

and we mail them home before we leave, so they are postmarked

from wherever we were.

We don't peek at what the other wrote...

A few days later, it's really fun to receive snail mail, that we have

usually forgotten about and then to read the highlights each of us wrote about.

We started doing this in 2010.

I was keeping them in a long glass container but I really wanted

to make them into a book,

here's what I came up with!!

 I used wood for the covers, so the book would stand up...

I inked the exposed edges of the wood, just to give it a little interest.

 For the covers, 

I just decoupaged one postcard on both the front and one on the back cover.

  Lining up the postcards, I punched 2 holes in each postcard...

 and used binder rings (I purchased mine in Staples) to hold it all together.

This way, it is easy to view both the front and back side

of the postcards, so we can easily read what we wrote.

 I tied a bunch of pretty ribbons to the binder rings..

 which easily open up, to accept postcards from future trips!!

This is the back of the book.

Super easy and now displayed on the coffee table, 

where we can always look back and remember

all our fun trips!

Sharing today with 

Stephanie at the Enchanting Rose

stop by and join in the fun.