Each Friday I select an item created by a member of the Rochester NY Etsy Street Team(RNEST). What criteria do I use? I look for great looking items that I think are well made offered for a great price!Do you smoke? No. Neither do I. Did you play with old cigar boxes as a kid? For some reason I did. And I'm not a pyro, but matchbooks have always fascinated me as little miniature works of art. It was once a very common everyday item, which we don't see of much today as public smoking is banned in most places, and th
e lighter is now the tool of choice for most smokers. These vintage matchbooks have faded away, like the 8 Track Tape and the Polaroid camera.Have no fear, Carol of Buenahelena is here reviving this old art form with a new twist, the Matchbook Notepad. Move aside 3M post-it notes. Step off mobile phone. Get old school cool with one, two, three, or even four of these little gem's. As an aside, I am super envious of that tricked-out cigar box she uses as a display....wicked.
I love all the different covers, and I can't wait to see the look on somone's face when I whip out one of these to write down a phone number or website! Priceless.
Wow...that King Edward box is in MUCH better shape than mine is! I have one that used to live in my grandmother's attic and used to belong to my mother when she was a kid. The inside of the lid apparantly was the place of choice for testing out markers.
ReplyDeleteI love cigar boxes. Don't have much love for cigars, but the boxes are awesome!
I actually got that box from Marie/MF Crafts. They housed a lot of the great matchbooks she sold me that are now notepads. I thought, why not use it as my display at markets?
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