I haven’t taken the time yet to fully explain where my homemade greeting card addiction came from. Let me start at the beginning.
I grew up in a small town in Connecticut with a lot of cows in it. The closest neighbors to us lived through the woods. Luckily, there were two lovely ladies around the same age as my sister and me. Sometime around their 10th birthdays I decided to make them extra-big birthday cards. I would go to the store, buy a piece of poster-board, spread out all over the kitchen floor with a bunch of markers and start creating. I continued this tradition for approximately 4 years, so approximately 8 cards – and then life got the best of me. Now I like to think that I’m doing that the bite-sized way.
One of the keys to all of these cards were that they were interactive – I can’t remember them all, but some of them were – playing a game of MASH, making a “fortune teller” out of the cards and matching games. (Wow, these girls have good memories.)
Anyway – it’s been years since I made one of these cards, but it was recently Sarah’s TWENTY-FIRST birthday, kind of a big deal, so I knew I had to go all out. So, what did I decide to do? I made a board game of our life together. Check it out.
the cover. (this is about 9″x12″ when folded)
the inside, with a little birthday note
the board game!
Some of my favorite spaces include “if you want to move from this space you must perform a dance move from Grease”, “advance ahead on bus 11″ (the bus we road to school every day in middle school) and “you’ve made it into Sacred Heart Academy, the person to your left needs to decide if you move ahead of back”.
It was one of the hardest cards I’ve ever had to send out (I wanted to keep it so badly!), but I found some dice, made some pieces and shipped it off to Boston. Totally worth it – it’s now framed on her wall. That’s what this greeting card thing is all about.
