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I separated my life belongings earlier this year into 3 piles: 1) definite 2) maybe 3) donate ... with only part of one pile ultimately making it into my car for the move. The piles had little logic to them. Particularly in the fact that my big box of maps trumped things like warm winter jackets for the move to Alaska!
I've been collecting maps for as long as I can remember. I've got ski resort maps, maps of national parks, tiny obscure world travel destinations, water parks, college campuses, dream road trip routes, surf spots, entire continents, antique maps of Africa, topo maps of Alaska.... I can spend hours staring dreamingly at maps and never see the same thing twice.
This year, I decided that my home-made Christmas gift should make use of the map collection. I'll admit it was hard to cut up and part with some of them, but made for a fun rainy day project.
Map gift ideas:
1) Map wallets: made from duct tape and staples
2) Map passport holders: also duct tape and staples
3) Map coasters: birch trees, and mod podge
4) Map journals: quick and easy, bright duct tape to secure them to the inside of blank notebooks
5) Map wall art: mountable key holders
A few websites that inspired me:
Did you know that AAA members can take as many maps as they'd like from the store for free? I hope that they let me go back in there again, I nearly wiped them out.... haha.
Happy Holidays!
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| birch trees for a rustic gift for friends from Colorado |
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| wall art with mod podge and ski resort maps |
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| passport holder version II |
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| map coasters |
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| map journals |
