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7.28.2011

stuck on me

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!

15 comments:

  1. 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!

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  2. 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!
    pve

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  3. The magnets are cute, but your stationary is ADORABLE! Where did you find something so lovely?

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  4. So dang creative, I love it! And I agree with Brita ... could you let us know where the fabulous stationery is from??

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  5. You have the funniest posts!

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  6. Cute idea! And might I comment on he intensity of that glue bottle? GOO

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  7. 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;)

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  8. I want to see the hair that originally went with these beauties!!

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  9. Fancier and more meaningful than the magnets i made from our favorite beer's bottle caps! :) Love how you turned memories into magnets, awesome.

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  10. Awesoem DIY magnets!!!! gazillion menus huh? .. me too! I think Jillain woudl YELL at me too :)

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  11. Love the stationary. Fabulous idea.

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  12. April, sorry for the late response on this one- the stationery is from LLD designs- she is amazing!

    http://www.llhdesignsblog.com/

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  13. Love this idea. If only my grandmother's crazy costume clip-ons weren't falling apart.

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