RING IN THE NEW YEAR...

with a JUMBO RING.

does anyone else have trouble parting with christmas cards?

i think it has something to do with all those faces smiling back at me.

i love them.

i'm not a hoarder of many items,

but i can't part with these.

for years i've had this really fancy way of saving them.

it's called toss them all in the bottom of one of our christmas decoration tubs.

this year i finally implemented a new solution.

one day i was wandering craft store aisles for the four hundredth time

as i made plans for my favorite never-ending holiday,

it's called thanksgiving/grahamsbirthday/christmas/newyears/adelaidesbirthday.

suddenly, a bright and shiny ring caught my eye!

it was about 3" in circumference and cost less than two bucks.

i immediately bought two of these for my own.

then i became best friends with the hole puncher and we spent an evening on the couch together.

while evan watched guys punch each other on ultimate fighter,

i punched a hole in the corner of every christmas card i could find.

after that i put them on the ring by families.

it is already fun to look through and see how people have grown over the years.

and there's lots of room to add more smiling faces to them each year.

that's my kind of scrapbooking.

compact.

and easy-peasy.