Big City Pharmers

And my most recent project! I am super pleased with this one :) I have wanted a better way to store and use my recipes. Until now I would get one out of my book, put the book away, put the card on a recipe holder, and never put it away. So I would end up with 100 cards smashed onto my recipe holder. I would only put them away when I coudn't fit any more onto it! I was thinking a rolodex would be great. It would have been a little easier, but they are $$! Plus they are made for holding business cards. WAY too small to write recipes on. :( I plan on writing to the company to suggest my idea :). Anyway, I looked online for other ways to file recipes, and I found some inspiration! The one I saw was much cuter. But I don't think it could hold many recipes the way it was designed. It was a stand shaped like a T. The rings the recipes are on slipped over each end of the T. But, with the rod in the center of the stand, the recipe book couldn't swing. So if you were looking at recipe 1 of 200, the weight of the book would all be in front of the rod and seemed like it would topple over. Maybe the bottom was big enough to prevent it. I don't know. :)

But here is my design. I used an old picture frame. The frame was on a stand so the whole frame could swing like those old chalk boards. I took the frame out of the stand. Then I used an old necklace from my sister. I took the chain part and put it through a heavy plastic straw. Then fastened each end of the chain to the top of the stand. I have two small pairs of pliers for jewelry and that made this SO easy. It had perfect little grooves the chain could fit in. See? The picture isn't very clear, but you can see the chain in the groove. Then I wrapped the straw in ribbon.

I added the rest of the necklace as bling. And added some ribbon extras. I'm no expert on design, so this was the best I could do :). And I'm no photo expert either. Ignore the dirty desk in the back ground :)

Then I added divider cards and copied all my recipes onto 3x5 cards! It took a long time to do, but I did it all myself with my own ideas!! It's a big deal for me. These are only a few of the tabs I made.