Some family members have Christmas gifts sent to them. I like to make or re-purpose things. They must be able to fit into a large letter size bag to save postage. No point making something only to spend £3 per gift to send it!
One year I sewed defunct tea towels into vegetable storage bags for the fridge. I have crocheted dishcloths. This year, still adjusting to having Ruby with us, time ran away with me. After a bit of a rummage and a think, I made labels for presents. I picked some bay leaves from the garden to dry. Using a glue gun and adding a slice of dehydrated orange to an address label they turned into these:
Then walking at Wells one day, we came back through the woods and found thin chips of pine bark lying on the floor:
There were just 4 slices left over and as I had made enough labels to give away, added a star anise to each one for little decorations for the dining room:
There is enough room to write on the bottom of each label and the dining room shelf smells wonderful with the star anise and orange slices.
Oh I love the tags...how practical and clever and beautiful. Did you use a dehydrator?
ReplyDeleteThanks. No, not this year but I have dried them in the past.
DeleteNice way to recycle. You did very well.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Thanks, got to get my thinking cap on earlier next year.
DeleteI absolutely love them. Wish I was so inventive!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Needs must!
DeleteSimply beautiful.
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Thanks. Hope to be more creative next year.
DeleteThey look wonderful, I wish I could smell them.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly have a nice smell to them.
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