A few weeks ago I was helped my parents clean out their attic. Basically my Mom wanted to clean out my entire existence and toss anything that was there. Her thought was, if it's there I must not want it. Umm, HELLO Mom those are my precious memories from growing up, you will NOT be just tossing them out.
So enter the 2 days of cleaning. Blah. My boogers were black from all the dust up there. I should have been wearing a mask.
Anywoo- that's besides the point. I got my stuff cleaned up and found a few treasures in the process. One of those being a box of awesome 80's earrings!
Oh the possibilities!
I decided to be boring and make some new magnets for our ugly apartment grade white fridge. Lipstick on a pig?
Here is my trusty glue
I think I got this kind because it said "non-foaming". I liked the word foam. Weird?
I got to work ripping the earring posts off the backs, and after I was left with pretty 80's jewels that I could add magnets to.
Its really hard to let it just sit there and dry. I won't even tell you how many times I though it was dry and starting playing with it, only to find the magnet pop off in 2.2. Pea-brain.
FINALLY all dry.
And here are 3 of them in action.
cute note, I know. To be honest I didnt know what else to use for these photos. If I showed you the 234,906 take out menues that are usually up there you might call Jillian Michaels on my ass.
And to end my magnat post, here is a magnet montage
Happy Thirsty Thursday people!
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This is perfect! Finding them is amazing enough and then to turn them into fridge magnets!
I remember one particular pair of my 80's "dangle" earrings very well: dark pink, almost magenta, shall we say, feathers. Not actual feathers or fake feathers, a pair of plastic molded renditions of feathers.
Oh the 80's. Great post!
I keep telling my Mom to keep those circa ice skates and ballet shoes....now I am thinking of what I can create with them!
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The magnets are cute, but your stationary is ADORABLE! Where did you find something so lovely?
So dang creative, I love it! And I agree with Brita ... could you let us know where the fabulous stationery is from??
Cute idea! love the stationary too!
You have the funniest posts!
Cute idea! And might I comment on he intensity of that glue bottle? GOO
Thanks for the walk down memory lane . There was a Christmas that my mom got me every color earring imaginable Grey was the hardest to find and I wore them constantly;)
I want to see the hair that originally went with these beauties!!
good point Stephanie! :)
Fancier and more meaningful than the magnets i made from our favorite beer's bottle caps! :) Love how you turned memories into magnets, awesome.
Awesoem DIY magnets!!!! gazillion menus huh? .. me too! I think Jillain woudl YELL at me too :)
Love the stationary. Fabulous idea.
April, sorry for the late response on this one- the stationery is from LLD designs- she is amazing!
http://www.llhdesignsblog.com/
Love this idea. If only my grandmother's crazy costume clip-ons weren't falling apart.
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