Holiday Gift Wrapping Dilemma #4: How to make gifts look pretty without sending wad after wad of paper (not to mention cardboard rolls) to the trash? This year I used peppermint themed dish linens. They’re bright, colorful, and help cushion breakables during shipment. The giftee can use them in the kitchen, or wrap a gift in [...]
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The Attack of the Peppermints (I ran out of Wrapping Paper Again)
Posted in Bauble Garden Creations, environment, Packaging and Gift Wrap Ideas, tagged alternative gift wrap, cocoa, dish towels, eco, environmentally friendly, gift, green, holiday, hostess gift, mix, peppermint, wrap on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Flying Chicken Box
Posted in Bauble Garden Creations, environment, Packaging and Gift Wrap Ideas, tagged alternative, box, cards, chicken, craft, flower, gift, origami, paper, project, recycled, repurposed, sustainable wrapping, tiny, wrapping on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
GIFT WRAPPING DILEMMA #3: TEENY TINY BOXES FROM OLD GREETING CARDS Unable to find a jewelry box small enough to fit my Sweetheart Necklaces, I crawled the web in search of the perfect origami box pattern. After testing eight different patterns, I found these adorable little flower boxes. For my purposes, it was necessary to adapt the original [...]
Holiday Gift Wrapping Dilemma #2
Posted in Bauble Garden Creations, environment, Packaging and Gift Wrap Ideas, tagged Add new tag, alternative, gift wrapping, gift wrapping ideas, green wrapping paper, holidays, magazine pages, recipe pages, repurposed items, wrapping paper on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You are out of wrapping paper. Or, if you’re like me, you just refuse to buy it because it takes a chunk out of your gift budget and usually ends up wadded up in the trash can only moments after being torn ruthlessly from your carefully wrapped gift. I sometimes wonder why we bother wrapping [...]
What’s Green at the Bauble Garden?
Posted in Bauble Garden Creations, environment, Packaging and Gift Wrap Ideas, tagged gift, gift wrap, green, holiday, packaging, re-gifting, recycled, sustainable, wrapping on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finding ways to be environmentally conscious can be difficult in a product-driven world. And let’s face it, I love products. Who doesn’t? I’m a designer, and it’s my job to create, whether it’s nature inspired jewelry and gifts, an urban park, or a simple stone wall in the landscape. All of these things consume resources and [...]
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