LeafClutter

Thanks to all the folks who submitted photos of their collections to earn a girl

scout “The Collector” badge. Here are a few highlights…

I have stumbled upon a stash of vintage girl scout “The Collector” badges. So. I have an idea:

EMAIL ME a photo of a collection you create and I will send you one of these special badges to commemorate your gathering. (Email: lea@leafcutterdesigns.com. I have only 20 badges available. Include your mailing address in the email.)

You need not follow the original girl scout program to earn the badge, but isn’t it fun to see?

Here are two examples of collections. The first is my collection of vintage feature matchbooks. Feature matches are ones where the matches themselves are printed, often in very imaginative and sweet ways.

Second is my small collection of postal related items. Mostly vintage. The paper truck and mailbox are made from scans I took out of an old magazine. And notice the girl scout epistolary badge? The three tiny birdies with even tinier letters in their beaks were a 30th birthday gift from my mom last year: one for each decade.

What do you collect? I’d love to see!

Game bag made out of my favorite old shirt.

Inside the bag you find game pieces made out of clothes tags with the shirt material hand-stitched onto the tags for the reverse side.

Lay out the pieces tag side down to play. It works just like those old memory cards!

If you turn over two clothes tags where the garment was made in the same country, you get to take that pair and keep it in your pile. You also get to go again whenever you make a match.

Take turns finding matches, or missing them, until the board is clear. Whoever has the most clothes tags in their pile wins! (Of course, winning is really beside the point.)

If you want to play, but aren’t up for all the sewing, just cut a bunch of tags off of clothes and use them as is. It’s fun to really search so you get a rich collection of different countries represented in your game. If you make a set to play with, please send me a photo!: lea@leafcutterdesigns.com.

If you really dig clothes tags – like I do – check out the rest of my Changing Clothes project, including the tag exchange: http://www.leafcutterdesigns.com/projects/ccexchange.html