| I own a junk yard and a mechanic shop, and it has at | | | | Though I am aware that I won't make much of any |
| all times been to my advantage to find as many uses | | | | money doing this - right now we put them up for sale |
| for used car parts as possible. Even though both are | | | | for about thirty bucks per license plate purse, and that |
| profitable businesses, there is substantial overhead, so | | | | too we make only a couple a day - but for her the |
| the smaller amount of stuff I have actually store or | | | | money from the sales are great, and sure she gets to |
| throw away, the better that it is for me and my | | | | keep what she makes. For me, it's just a good excuse |
| business. Of late, I have discovered a novel idea. Not | | | | for us to spend time together. If I get to make a neat |
| that I thought of it, actually came from my crafty niece. | | | | looking license plate purse or two while doing it, so |
| She always had the talent to make quite a cottage | | | | much the better. Her license plate purses are a hit |
| industry out of bags from torn blue jeans, or interesting | | | | among her friends. In fact it seems like every other |
| bracelets out of scraps of things she finds around - | | | | license plate purse that she makes is actually a |
| that kind of stuff. So it was hardly that surprising when | | | | present for a friend. |
| she created a license plate purse out of a custom | | | | Ever since we started to work on the whole license |
| license plate from some old Corvette. It wasn't until | | | | plate purse thing, she has taken an interest into what I |
| then I had realized what a great idea license plate | | | | do, too. At first, she was not so in to cars, but she has |
| purses would make. | | | | always liked working with her hands, so I assumed that |
| So that's how it all started, I went into business with my | | | | she would be a natural. Sure turns out that I was right. |
| niece. Each morning, the two of us would meet up and | | | | The fact is she is every bit as good with a muffler as |
| make a license plate purse or two. Recently she has | | | | with a license plate purse. Shortly I'll start to show her |
| also figured out how to make other kinds of license | | | | the inside of an engine, and then we will be down to |
| plate hand bags, some of them made out of several | | | | business. Undoubtedly this license plate purse thing has |
| plates carefully folded over together to create a | | | | been the source of great things in my life. |
| seamless whole. | | | | |