Saturday, July 24, 2010

"bibfolio"

At some point last year I gathered up all of my race bibs and put them on one of those 3" ring clasps to keep them together. I love looking at them, remembering all of the races and places I have run. It's a very simple sort of race scrapbook.

Then the other day in a running mag I saw something called the "bibfolio" advertised. What a great idea! Now, just putting the bibs on a ring is great, but the bibfolio inspired me to make "covers" for my bib collection, too.

I already had some of that black chipboard, and of course I had a bunch of running paper leftover from my running scrapbook, so it was easy to whip something up. I decided just to stick with the one ring -- my bibs are very differently sized, so I couldn't imagine getting them all to line up somehow.

It was a very easy project -- only took a couple of hours, but the result is absurdly pleasing to me. Yes, I'm a dork.

In other news... became obsessed with the idea of a "running charm bracelet". Someone, somewhere, mentioned it, and I thought it was a great idea. I picked up a very simple "premade charm bracelet" -- aka, a large-linked bracelet -- and tested my theory by actually attaching the charms that I had collected from our early life together. Let's just say that charm bracelets are AMAZING.

Might have gone a little overboard, picking charms to represent my different races.... and then also filling in the last few years of our travel history.... but now I'm pretty much "caught up", and the bracelets will be SO BEAUTIFUL.

Finally, and it's not really "craft" so much as "project" related, on Friday I bought some "wood wash", a stiff-bristled brush, a gallon of Penofin, and some rubber gloves, and yesterday I spent part of the day cleaning the back stairs. It's sorta icky how dirty they were, but they look much nicer now. This afternoon I'd like to start oiling them up. That's a huge project done.

The next project should be the front porch, but for some reason that just seems really difficult. So I might refinish the picnic table instead. Yes, it's a cop-out. I should at least commit to learning the steps of an exterior paint job.

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