Fare thee well, Clinton Starbucks!

My local Starbucks is closing this Sunday. While I make most of my coffee drinks at home, I still purchase my supplies from Starbucks and enjoy hanging out with friends over coffee in the store. Harriet and I met yesterday morning at Starbucks and when I bought my coffee supplies, they packed it nicely in a bag with tissue. I'm keeping the tissue and will use it to make tissue paper flowers and I cut up the bag and made a book out of it. I will fondly remember my local Starbucks everytime I use this book.

I showed my husband my book and told him, "I feel like Eve!"

He said, "Who's Eve?"

Then I said, "You know, Eve. My California friend. "

Silence.

Ok, whatever dude. It's obvious he doesn't listen to me when I talk. Let's move on.

Eve makes all these cool little books and last month she made a Starbucks book.

I messed my book up in a couple of spots but it's cool. When I get my grubby hands on another bag I'll chop it up and make another one. I used my SU tab punch and punched the tabs from the sides of the Starbucks bag. I went online and looked up coffee quotes and put a quote on the first page of each section. I briefly pondered spilling coffee on it and letting it dry so my book would smell like Starbucks but then I thought that would be like buying toilet paper in a rain storm...is that really a good idea?

I used 6x6 acrylic covers and the covers don't look as wrinkled in person. I ironed the bag but couldn't get all the wrinkles out. It's ok, I like the rustic look. I can always rip out the page with the typo but I don't want to.

One more thing...

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First Bind-it-all project

Ok, so this isn' t an elaborate project but when have you known me to do elaborate stuff anyway. Oh, and I case'd this sucker from Sherry Cheever. I do not have the Label 1 dies from Spellbinders so I used my Wishblade to cut the shapes. I really wanted to try the bind-it-all and this was my try it project. I blinged up the A with some fine glitter but you can't see it so well in the picture.

I'm going to make myself a password journal like I made for my daughter's teacher last year. See it here. I used a 5x5 art journal from SU for that project but since I have the BIA I'm going to make my own book this time.

Supplies: 4x4 coasters, PTI ribbon and cardstock in Aqua Mist, PTI Guide Lines stamp set, white and black cardstock, black ink, Wishblade.