the giftbox of biscuits becomes a useful storage box for craft materials. All the materials here are either from nature, used items waiting to be reporposed or items that are halfway made and include a stash of broken jewellery and other miscellaneous items my sister gave me. I've already made a necklace out of a broken earing and will post that probably in a week's time. I also have a box full of fabric scraps and a small box full of buttons.
There's something very satisfying about sorting things! Looking forward to seeing your latest project!
ReplyDeleteThats such a good idea. i'm quite loathe to throw things out that could e given a new life. Especially plastic! Right now, I've been decorating pringle style tubes. It gets addictive. I've een covering them with natural paper and writing or stamping poetry around the sides and then layering trees on top with transparent coloured tissue paper.
ReplyDeleteSo far i've done one for Rudyard Kipling - The road through the woods, and another for Davies - What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare...
How did you get that RSPB button on your top RH corner? I love the RSPB, I'd happily have that on my log too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because I just watched, "The Hurt Locker", (more likely the loose wires in the picture), but I fancied I'd landed on the unabomber's defunct website!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Mine will fill up with picture hooks, erasers, chair pads (for legs), camera batteries etc.
I use the baskets that strawberries come in under my cupboard to hold cat can lids and measuring cups.
Kat
I found this worked quite well, while I was young; now after a lifetime of living, my useful bits-and-pieces would need a pantechnicon to store them in, if I'd carried on saving everything useful!lol :)
ReplyDeleteJust thought of this: You know what really drives me mad? When certain produce can only be bought in those net bags—the ones that won't break down and can wreak havoc on birds and wildlife. I have a drawer where I keep them out of harm's way.
ReplyDeleteOver here, onions, avocadoes and oranges are all packaged that way. I do buy indiviually, but sometimes they are just not available.
How clever! One woman's trash is another's treasure. Packaging is such a waste.
ReplyDeleteIt's so nice to connect with you! Thanks for adding your blogging tip.
Jinksy - actually I need mroe containers than this, I've just been going through my craftign stuff and it needs a lot more work, so look out for more storage ideas in the near future!
ReplyDeleteJasmine - thanks for sharing your ideas for Pringle's type containers! See email about the RSPB button
ReplyDeletePoetikat - yes i hate those net bags too, try to avoid them but as you say sometimes they're unavoidable, I'm hoping to be able to use them for crafts
Sarah - thanks for visiting!
Very clever use of nuisance packaging!
ReplyDeleteCould you possibly come over and sort out our "making cupboard" please? It is, obviously, where all the old packaging etc. is "kept" for making things with. It is not a small cupboard. Or a tidy one.
ReplyDeleteI love the tins from Christmas biscuits, Juliet, I have one now ready for filling with bits and bobs in my workroom. Loved the biscuits too!
ReplyDeleteBoy - nary a biscuit crumb left in there! That collection will also be good to entertain little kids who like to dump stuff out and put it back!
ReplyDeleteBuy more cookies, eat them, then presto more storage. I like this idea a lot. I am going to buy cookies now, I need more storage, yep that's the reason.
ReplyDeleteI love how you've put your biscuit box to good use! I usually use mine for Christmas cake storage at Christmas time, but we were given a couple more this Christmas and I too would like to employ them well!
ReplyDeleteFunny you mentioned boxes of scrap fabric, I just posted up about my own, myself.
I like how you kept your train tickets for crafting - what will you be doing with them?
Not a lot of biscuit tins over here, but we do have several fruitcake tins used for storing various items. Since they are round without internal divisions, storing only type of item per container works best.
ReplyDeleteOne of the more unusual container recycling efforts I've encountered was done by our former veterinarian. Her husband traveled in Europe frequently and always returned with tins of expensive candies. She recycled the tins as "urns" for the ashes of cremated pets.