Do It Yourself Keepsakes

Luckily for me, my husband finds nostalgia in the same things I do. In our first house, we were renovating our bathroom - he went up in to the attic to install recessed lighting. He found an old Coors beer can from the early 80's. We kept it. Why? I don't know. It even made the move across state.

Then, while my husband was digging holes to place the foundation of a fence, he found some sort of tool. Who knows how old it is. We live in southern Georgia and am pretty sure our neighborhood was once farmed, yet we have wetlands in our yard, too. While clearing out our land (maintaining the wetlands ... ) we even found an old turpentine stump. Pretty neat. We left that, too. At any rate, we kept the tool as well.

So now we have two random mementos from someone else's past. This weekend, I decided to make them ours. I took both items and placed them in shadow boxes with matching matt. Then I labeled each piece with it's street address. I think they came out great - and we definitely have a conversation piece in our kitchen now!