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December 05, 2006

Ribbon Tape

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Tis the season!   This week, I'll be posting an excerpt each day from my book SIMPLY GREEN GIVING: Create Beautiful and Organic Wrappings, Tags and Gifts from Everyday Objects.     The book is full of over 50 projects, 100 ideas and many resources to create beautiful gifts without any waste.

This is one of my favorite ideas.   We ALL have old VHS with no idea what to do with them.   Rip 'em open (I just throw it on the floor until it cracks open.  I know, not the safest idea, but it is the quickest).   Inside, you'll find an almost endless supply of black, shiny tape to use for ribbon.   It curls right up, too!  Just run the tape along the edge of a sharp scissor and it gets all fancy and curly. 

Go nuts on a package.   There's plenty of VHS tape to go around.

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Wonderful! I was just going to check out your site and ask about wrapping presents. I was going to get some calico to wrap with, and elastic to hold the pressies together with, and laminated gift tags - which can all be resused for birthdays and festivals etc - but I was wondering if there was anything else more enviro friendly that can be resused year after year. I'll keep checking in for ideas!

great idea.

Blogs are good for every one where we get lots of information for any topics nice job keep it up !!!


Blogs are so interactive where we get lots of informative on any topics nice job keep it up !!

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