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!

Watch me do a kindergarten-style “show & tell” in the video below, or go straight to the spool toy.