Homemade Thank You Cards

I needed to give some thank you cards to some friends last week. I did an internet search for some easy ideas. Everything in my search looked like something I was not capable of making. So I came up with this.

Use card stock and cut it with a exacto-knife to get clean lines. Cut the short edge at 1 1/2 inches. Then cut the long edge at the same measurement. Cut the remainder at 4 3/4 inches, which makes two pieces the same size. This allows you to get 4 cards from 2 pieces of card stock.

Use paper punches and scissors for decoration.

Glue on 1 1/2 inch strip from contrasting color. Use a glue stick that dries clear, and you won't have to worry about the spaces from punched out areas.

Fold card so that card color shows at the bottom of contrasting strip. If necessary, you can tidy up the sides with the exacto-knife. I experimented a little with different sizes, but this is the one I like the most. Easy as pie, even for people like me who are not very crafty.

Protecting Blueberries

I suspected birds were the problem last year when I only got a few blueberries. This year, I put large tomato cages around a few of the plants. I covered them with an old sheer curtain. I put on clothes pins when the wind kept blowing the curtains to the ground. This also made for easy harvesting.

This was at the top under the curtain. I think the birds still get in the sides, but these at the top were safe. I saw a chain link cage on someone's blog. Might be a good idea.

Later, I was at the other end of the driveway, when I saw a mockingbird go into the tomato cage to look for a snack. Just what I suspected. A larger sheer curtain might be in order.