Let’s learn creative ways to turn trash to treasure. Please do not ever take a day for granted. I know this may seem like a strange way to start this blog, but I am having a moment thinking about my family and issues going on health wise. It can be hard to watch our loved ones before us go through tough times. I like to have things to look through to bring up the good memories with my loved ones. It is a great way to reminisce and be grateful for what you have and how far you have come in life.

So what does this have to do with turning trash into treasure. Sometimes you do not know what you have until it is gone. So, what are some creative ways to preserve heirlooms, which may seem like trash to others. Sometimes, what may look like trash to you has great meaning or a story to others.

Have you ever been to Goodwill or Salvation Army stores. There are many different things in those stores, that you may not have seen for years. To some, the trinkets you may find in these stores are long lost treasures, to others they are things that just take up space in your home, or trash.

Sometimes when you look at something, you may say just throw it away. However for many pollution conscience, or the crafty types, they may say keep it and make something out of it that you would want to keep. Turn your trash into treasure.

With the increased use of social media and the internet, there are plenty of websites to find different ways to turn trash into treasure. If you are like me and hooked on Pinterest, you are doomed to spend an entire day looking at ideas. Check out some of our favorite suggestions of creative ways to turn trash to treasure.

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1. Preserve Old Jewelry

Instead of just giving away or throwing away your grandmother’s old jewelry, take a look at this creative idea. Put it in a picture frame to display on you wall. You could even add a remembrance quote below the jewelry that says something special about your grandmother when she wore her ring or necklace.

2. Preserve an Old Watch

 Don’t throw away that old watch, save it and turn it into something more meaningful to wear like a decorative bracelet. Wear it as something that can be treasured forever and remind you of a loved one who is always with you. Take out the clock part of the watch, and insert a photo in the middle of your loved one.

3. Preserve Old Wood Pallets

Every now and then I see someone post a photo of how to use an old wood pallet in a creative way. I am a sucker for DIY crafts using pallets. Check out this creative  idea. Use it to plant your herbs this Spring. What a great idea. Instead of just burning that wood pallet and making a bonfire, turn it into something usable.

4. Preserve Old Jars

Have you ever thought about the many different craft ideas you can do with old jars around your house? What if you used them as a conversation piece and put decorative ribbons, flowers, stones, or a candle in them? Check out another idea here. Each day your child, spouse, or yourself comes home from work, write on a small piece of paper a specific memory or thing that happened to you that day. Don’t forget to add the date. Then on New Years you can take the time to easily reflect on your year, by opening the jar and reading all of your comments. This is like a time capsule. If you want, you can also get an “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule here, and put pictures or artwork on the outside of the tin, then put in your notes throughout the year in it, to open at the end of the year. You can make a Family Time Capsule, Graduation Time Capsule, Memorial Time Capsule, Charity Time Capsule, or anything you want from the “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule.

Today is the day to get started and make trash more meaningful. You can even make your own crafts out of trash, and keep them in your time capsule. Show yourself how proud of yourself you were, years later, when you open your time capsule and see how you helped save the planet by turning trash into a treasured craft.

What trash have you turned into treasure? Share your ideas below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

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There are many different topics, hobbies, interests we all have. What would you make a time capsule about for future generations to learn more about what life is like now?

With Christmas coming and the new year approaching, what would you put in a time capsule to represent 2014?

There are many different themes or ideas you could make a time capsule for. Basically, anything you see pictures for on your cell phone you could probably create a time capsule for. See the suggestions below. Then read on about ideas of what to put in some of these topical time capsules.

Different Time Capsule Ideas

1. College years
2. School (elementary and high-school)
3. New Career
4. Business
5. Housewarming (Welcome Home)
6. Family
7. Pets
8. Clubs (boys and girls club, academic club, social club, etc)
9. Vacation
10. Youth Group
11. Military
12. Church
13. Anniversary
14. Seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter)
15. Memorial
16. New Years
17. Christmas
18. Easter
19. Thanksgiving
20. July 4th Independence Day
21. Valentine’s Day
22. Hanukkah
23. Any hobby
24. Farming
25. Sports
26. Any holiday
27. Baby Shower
28. Bridal Shower
29. Relationship or Dating
30. Bucket List
31. Cars
32. Music
33. Movie
34. Outdoors or Camping
35. Science
36. Nature
37. Eras (80’s, 90’s, or whatever you want)
38. Social Media
39. Best Friends
40. Adoption
41. Sweet 16
42. Quinceanera
43. Bar Mitzvah
44. Birthday
45. Over the Hill
46. Weight Loss
47. Inspiring Life Quotes
48. Self Help
49. First Car
50. Baby
51. Wedding
52. etc. (Other or anything you can imagine). The sky’s the limit.

What to Put in a Time Capsule

So what would you put in these “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsules? What items from your time period, are important to you? Make sure to include modern things and heirlooms of the past. If you include any digital or electronic items, make sure you also include the media to play your videos or audio recordings in the future as well.

•  Daily local and world newspaper
• DVD of family, friends, social events, etc.
• Television guide
• Favorite magazines
• Event programs, ticket stubs, or passes
• Pictures
• Receipts from events, or daily life (like the cost of gas at this time)
• Popular toy
• Items (heirloom and new) that show significance to your for a specific subject or event.
• Floor plan or first key to your home
• Popular music recorded
• Menu from a favorite restaurant
• Daily calendar showing your life in just one month
• Drawings or messaged from friends and family sent by cards, email, text, etc.
• Current currency
• Year in Review worksheet filled out
• School, work, or club rewards and certificates.
• Message to the Future letters from friends and family
• Bottle of your favorite candy or drink.
• Fashion Catalog
• Travel pamphlets
• Current ads
• Papers written
• Party trinkets
• Souvenirs
• Favorite quotes or sayings
• Cards
• List favorite books, authors, etc.
• Top 10 movies or actors
• Future goals
• etc.

Talk with your friends and family for other ideas of what to put in your “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule. Get your time capsule today at http://www.timecapsule.com/product/milestone-collection-any-occasion-diy-time-capsule/. Also check out the other helpful ideas from Mashable listing 13 Must Have Items in Your 2014 Time Capsule.

What are some other items you can think of to put in a time capsule?  Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

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“Do you want to go camping?” – Mark says

“Um No. It is cold. It is Winter.” – Marcie says

“I know. I have an idea” – Mark says

“That is never a good thing” – Marcie Thinks

Next thing I know, I have a tent pitched up in our living room next to our fireplace.

“Awe. How Romantic.” – Marcie Thinks and says.

Are you running out of ideas of how to keep their spark going in your marriage? Are you frustrated by the mundane nights spent in front of the television? The internet is filled with ideas of how to help marriages. Thank you for reading our article or blogs.

As a counselor in the past, I have worked with many young couples, frustrated in their marriage. I also have a love for DIY and craft projects. I learn something new every day about my husband. How about you? The key is to be open-minded to learn and listen for something new, about each other.

Creative Communication

A great way to communicate your thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams, can be through a fun crafts. Be creative and create memorable milestone moments in your marriage. In counseling, I would teach couples how to create a decorative jar, they make together, and then fill with slips of paper with a few word phrases or sentences of topics or ideas to talk about or do, nightly at dinner, or at least once per week. You write the topics or things to do on small pieces of paper, then fold them up and put them in the jar. Then, just like drawing numbers from a hat, draw a piece of paper from the jar, to have an idea of what to talk about or do together that night, bonding you closer to each other. When you write ideas of things to do, make sure you choose projects or things that do not take more than one week to accomplish. You do not want to get overwhelmed and quit this bonding activity to strengthen your marriage. You could even have your guests at your wedding reception; use the guest book area to write down ideas on slips of paper to put in the jar, as a guest sign-in project. How fun is that?

Marriage Conversation Starters

When you fill out your slips of paper, you are discovering the “story of us” or you as a couple. Growing closer in any marriage takes work, but you can make your work fun. Another creative idea is to put your slips of paper or projects you have done already, in a decorative wedding time capsule. Then years later in your marriage, open the time capsule and look back at what all you have done together and how far your marriage has come since then. This alone, will be a touching and loving milestone moment together as you reminisce about what all you both have accomplished together in life.



Similar Creative and Helpful Ideas

Check out this similar idea of how to create a similar way to stay attracted to your spouse. Make a “Can of Dates,” with helpful tips from http://www.mycreativestirrings.com/2010/05/creative-wedding-gift-idea-can-of-dates.html. You can also get a list of 240 starter questions or topics to put on slips of paper for your jar at http://beautyandbedlam.com/conversation-starter-questions/.

We hope we could help you today with this blog. Now, do not put off tomorrow, what you can start today. Your first strip of paper you pull from our jar of help, is to make your jar together, today. What is the first idea you would write on a strip of paper, to put in your jar? Comment below to share your ideas with others. Let’s help each other, create better marriages in their world.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

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