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Christmas goodies, gift tags, decoration…and recycled “quality street”

Nothing should go to waste is my mantra and what a fun mantra to live by! It means I have to continuously think of clever ways to recycle everything.

♥ ♥ ♥ Recycling the quality street wrappers ♥ ♥ ♥

Sacha, my witty 9 year old daughter, loves “quality streets” and Christmas is the one time of the year when we buy a box of those delightful little chocolates (we have stick to xmas, otherwise Rob Sacha and I would descend into an uncontrollable frenzy of chocolate nibbling)…Over the years, she has taken to saving the wrappers and flattening them between the pages of her books. We got them all out and made these delightful Christmas tags that we hung on the tree. We will also use them as name tags for our Christmas lunch to indicate who sits where.

This one is for Sacha’s step-grandmother, Liz. What we did, is manipulate the chocolate wrapper foil to spell the person’s name and then glue it onto red card stock, finishing off with a splash of glitter and stars…pretty!

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♥ ♥ ♥ Recycling paper scraps ♥ ♥ ♥

We made these gorgeous name tags for each member of the family. Each tag is folded in half and hangs on the tree with a little cord handle. Inside, we glued a handwritten secret message especially for the person whose name is on the tag. finally, we cut out little Christmas trees and attached them to the card and splashed the lot with a dash of glitter and stars

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♥ ♥ ♥ Recycling twigs, garden wire and old beads ♥ ♥ ♥

I posted a detailed picture tutorial on my oh-so-fabulous Tutorial blog. If you fancy making those lovely little decorations, then click HERE, where you will find plenty of pictures and step by step instructions on how to make this ornament. My favorite bit was wrapping up in woolly scarfs and warm hats to venture out into our local park collecting bits of wood and twigs.