Since I showed you what I like to do with tissue paper that's been wrinkled or crumpled (gently used), I thought I'd show you what I do with tissue paper that's been torn (well used).
Some of it gets folded up and wrapped in piece of copy-weight scrap paper and fed to the shredder (of course, I save the pretty yield).
Some of it gets torn into smaller pieces which can be used to decoupage just about anything.
Some of the tissue paper which I rescued from the recent baby shower was glued to a scrap of white card stock to make this mailing label.
When I sent off a lot paper birds recently, I filled the bottles with some of the shredded paper and added one of these labels to the outside.
The bottles of birdies which I sent for Me Darlin' Mither included a photo of one of the paper birds on an unexpected perch in my home and a slip with this blog address, per her request.
Perching the birdies in unexpected places makes me look at some old things with new appreciation.
Here is the photo which was inside the bottles.
Some of the shoots' artwork from school days is hanging in the upstairs hallway.
It's natural to stop seeing things after you've looked at them for years, but I appreciated this art work all over again when I stopped to perch the birdie on the thermostat this spring.
The drawing above the thermostat is a Miss Mary Mack original and it reads "To mom and dad and my hole family".
Love it.
Sometimes it takes shedding a new light on something in order to notice it at all.
But the little birds which were so carefully placed...
...on the little hands of my favorite Little Man...
...gave me the most pleasure of all.
Life is good with little men and little paper birdies in the world.