Posts tagged ‘gifts’

Make a Record Bowl Tutorial
Colleen | December 16, 2009 | 7:15 pm

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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 »

Birthday Earrings
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.

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Cookies in Recycled Containers
Colleen | November 17, 2009 | 4:50 pm
photo credit: Post Punk Kitchen

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.  IMG_5097