We recently had a prep day for the Harrisville Old Home Days event on July 9th. Lucy and I went to Price Chopper at around 9:30 to get granola bar ingredients, then we went to Walmart to get earring hooks and links. I couldn’t believe how cheap they were! Using the shrinky dink method of recycling certain types of plastics we could make adorable earrings (very chic and summer-ish) at a minimal cost. Then, if we were to sell them for at least $5, we would be making a huge profit! I love when we recycle and profit from it, it’s so exciting!

On this day, Laura brought templates for making envelopes from magazines or any kind of paper. Although at first I thought it was a great creative idea, I had doubts on whether we could sell it or not. I had often used an envelope template myself to make original ones out of scrap booking paper, but I didn’t think they would be much of a hit… BUT IT WAS! I guess people liked the abstract idea and they just go for the creativeness of them. Another hit item created that day was the cards. We had previously made beautiful paper from sheets lying about the house, and with those we made cards. They could be greeting cards, birthday cards, get well cards, or anything else you can think of. They were waiting to be bought and written on. We made so many and only a handful were left over from Saturday, they are definitely worth making again. So, the moral of this blog is that when you can recycle (whether for a fundraiser or not) do it!

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