My little Memories

So I decided to do something a bit different, I thought long and hard about Zues and Zoe's challenge this month "The challenge this month is to create and journal a project about "life as it is now," the subject being "you as an individual."  This challenge is open to interpretation and you can add as much detail as you wish, and share whatever you wish to share about yourself. Hidden journaling for personal information is fine. There is one additional requirement for the challenge, and that is to incorporate the use of buttons into your creation." so I really wanted to do something about me and for me....does that make sense? good....I took Zues and Zoe's challenge and combined it with Lessology-"Are you a Cover girl [or boy]? Because we want to see you get creative with covers this month! It could be the cover of a box, the cover of a jar, the cover of a book....lots of possibilities for LESSology "
Now that that's out of the way....I am sort of a keeper...I keep little things that mean something to me, I have old movie stubs,notes,odd pictures ,my grandmothers cameo and even rocks....I have always called them my little memories,my girls used to love to dig through my drawer where I kept them and I would then tell them stories about each thing.  I had stopped collecting thing for myself after I had my first daughter I don't think it was a conscious thing I just didn't have a whole lot of time,I still kept memento's of my children but thats a whole other thing LOL..... I've noticed over the last couple of months that I've collected a few more but really had no place to put them.....so that leads to this project...

I took an old gift box my fiance got from his company for Christmas (don't even ask why I saved it because I have no clue) and decided to make a memory box where I can put all my little memories and leave it right on my dresser!

 I used Graphic 45 papers which I had to keep hidden from my daughter or she would take them...

 I love these buttons....we found them at the thrift store a whole jar full for like $2 and they had some really nice ones(that I had to share with my daughter Sam)

 I made a pocket for a tag I made with a picture of myself and on the back of the card is a bit of journaling about my little memories, I might add more later about what I put in the box.

 this is the inside of the top.....

and this is the inside of the bottom.....

Here is what the box looked like to begin with...

Thank you for coming to take a peek at my project!