Colleen | December 16, 2009 | 7:15 pm
For a few Christmas gifts this year I’m making record bowls. Everyone can use decorative bowls for something like office supplies, wrapped candies, candles, or spare change & keys. Plus, I think this is a good manly gift for my brothers, who are very hard to shop for!
Supplies: a vinyl record (one that’s not valuable!), oven, oven mitts, oven-safe bowl, an additional bowl for shaping the record after it comes out of the oven, and a cookie tray. Read more »
Colleen | December 10, 2009 | 9:12 am
For my friend Megan’s birthday, I gave her these earrings I made. The background tag is a recycled cereal box, and “happy birthday” and her name are stamped.
Colleen | November 17, 2009 | 4:50 pm
photo credit: Post Punk Kitchen
I knew there’s a good reason I save old tea boxes! Here’s a cookie box idea from Post Punk Kitchen (via Readymade). They packaged homemade cookies into a recycled tea box and even placed a few bags of tea under the cookies.
I think this is a perfect gift for an informal visit with a friend or neighbor. It’s nice enough to be thoughtful, but it doesn’t have that “I owe you one” obligatory feeling that some gifts carry. So today I dug through my stash of recycled boxes & containers. Here are some favorites, and surely I’ll save more for visiting during the holidays. 
