💜I have spent countless hours combing through THOUSANDS of old books-a real treat for me-because I LOVE OLD BOOKS-to find those offering the most useful information. There was a time in the not too distant past, when people went out on their own, chose a different path, learned new skills, made a new life. Lots wrote books on what they learned. I would LOVE to OWN ALL THESE BOOKS in hard copy, but as I am not a millionaire, and they would never fit in my tiny mountain cabin-I must accept that thought as a fantasy, and choose another path. So I Have built an AWESOME DIGITAL LIBRARY-that I WILL keep adding to all of my days. EVERY YEAR I WILL Pick my Favorite Digital Old Book Treasure and print it. So Every Year for my Birthday I get an Amazing Old Book-and I help to preserve a bit of our past💜

♥ THANKS SO MUCH for NOTICING & APPRECIATING my crazy upcycled packaging. I spend thousands of hours a year trying to be green. Making & re-using as much of my necessary packaging as I can. All just for a smaller footprint on this lovely Earth. My friends think I'm NUTS. So many hours just to save a few bucks at the dollar store-but that is not why I do it. Why waste perfectly good paper that comes in old magazines/fliers/calendars, when you can re-use it with just a little effort. If everybody did it, think of how many millions of trees could live longer lives as trees, cleaning our air & enriching our soil, instead of the millions that just become single use paper/packaging. So in my world, there is no such thing as single use/disposable paper, just trees that deserve more :) ♥