A wintertime project to fight the blues...

I thought I would share a project that I started working on. I am a lover of those little mini cookbooks that are usually at the checkout counter at the grocery store. I have amassed quite a collection. I dont know what to do with them and yet.... I keep buying them! So I told myself if I am going to continue to feed my addiction then I need to pare down and organize it better sooo I came up with this system... First I gathered up my mini cookbooks...

 Then I used my old page protectors I had tried to use for my coupons but it didnt work. They are page protectors for photographs and work perfectly for the recipe cards in the books.

 THen I went thru all of the books and tore out the recipe cards I wanted to keep...

 Organized them by catagory.... breakfast, sides and salads mains with beef, mains with chicken etc

 A week or two ago I bought a binder at Target that was on sale and perfect for this project.

I started to put the cards into the sleeves....

 At first I was only going to put one in the sleeve so you could see the front and back but quickly realized this would have taken up way too many pages so I decided to go back to back. So you can see the picture of  a recipe on one side and then another picture of another recipe on the other side....does that make ANY sense???

Tada! My work in progress. Now I have en entire binder with everything organized and easy to find instead of looking thru (way) too many books. This would be a great way to keep other recipe cards like ones you use for christmas cookies or if you have a bunch from a bridal shower. Instead of putting them in a recipe box. I love that I can see them!