In order to capture some of the memories of these visits I created my version of a guest book. I was first inspired by a guest on the Nate Berkus Show. (I heart Nate!) She was talking about putting family pictures in bowls on display throughout the house...a quick and totally informal photo album. I thought the bowl idea was great so I ran with it. I also then ran around town collecting postcards. Wisconsin postcards of course. I put them in a bowl and there it was, instant guest book.
What is that you say? A bowl of postcards does not make a guestbook. Oh, have a little fun with me. Once you add some instructions it makes a great guestbook!
The instructions say:
Send One, Leave One
Send a postcard to a friend.
Stamps are in the top drawer.
Leave a postcard note for us to remember your visit.
After a few more visitors the bowl will be full of postcards written to us by friends and family! And all I have to do is keep buying postcards!
Details of this project are very simple. The bowl is a blue mixing bowl from my kitchen. I reused a frame I already had. I spent 69 cents on a piece of decorative paper at Michael's to use as the background in the frame. I printed out the instructions on my computer. 10 minutes, maybe 15 and my guest book was complete! Can't wait for you to come visit!
