I used to be a Silpada demonstrator.   When my “kit” arrived with all the jewelry that would be my samples to get started it was very exciting.   All of the sparkling silver jewelry and gorgeous beads lay in front of me.    But I couldn’t stop thinking about the boxes.   There were many possibilities in those brown & black containers of various sizes.

So I started collecting them.   I used them for storing various things around the house, wrapped gifts in them and decorated them.   When I opened Jersey Made I took some there, covered them with wrapping paper and began giving them away with purchases.  The customers were very pleased and I was happy about my little recycled Silpada box program.

Well I started to run out….   Horrors!!!!    That just couldn’t happen cause I had been having so much fun with them!    So I called Debbie as I often did when I was doing Silpada and had a crisis.   Debbie wasn’t my upline but she was a great person.  She offered excellent training for her group and welcomed me to be included.    She was kind of excited by my request since she had a whole bunch of empty boxes and was glad to recycle them!!!

Last Friday Debbie arrived with 3 big containers full of boxes of all sizes.   I was in heaven.   Recycling boxes once again!

Of course she brought me in all of the brand new items so I could see them.  I still wear much of my Silpada jewelry – it really is awesome stuff and it goes well with my jewelry from Jersey Made artists.    You are welcome to contact Debbie if you want to see a catalog.   Make sure you tell her I sent you!!!     www.MySilpada.com/debbie.carter

Meanwhile I will go on to tell you about the boxes…..

On Saturday I started to decorate the boxes.   I had been using a map from Cracker Barrel for another project so I had some  leftover pieces.

There is a funny story about the large green box on the upper left.   When I picked up that piece of map I said to Tanya who was painting across the table, “hey look – it is shaped like Wisconsin and Wisconsin is right there on the map”.   We laughed and I quickly glued it down.     Later one of my regular customers came in and was interested to see all the boxes lined up.   So I told him the story of the Wisconsin box.   He laughed and said “yes but that is the shape of Minnesota”.    HAHAHA – joy is really in the little things that make you burst out in laughter!!!   I sent the box home with him since he really could appreciate the humor in it!

I painted a few other boxes green as well.   I added a paper daffodil for a box for a friend.   It really was a bunch of fun decorating boxes again.

I plan to use maps to cover more since Jersey Made sort of has that theme going on.   Always gathering more NJ maps.   Thank goodness a lot of my friends have tracking devices cause I have taken all their maps!

Loved the checkerboard on the barrel!   They really have these set up at Cracker Barrel but I never see anyone playing!!!

As the pieces of leftover map got smaller I just selected the little boxes!

So here they are – my reused recycled boxes.   It really isn’t hard to cover them and I have sort of gotten it down.   Perhaps I will post a blog on that sometime soon.

As always, thanks for reading.   I like comments!!!