As you may have noticed, there's a lot of talk of being "green" lately (you know, green, like Kermit). So, in addition to having dutifully outfitted my living room with hideous florescent looking lightbulbs, I was thinking about ways to package the stuff I sell so its not so wasteful, since almost everyone throws the wrapping away anyways. The result is, I spent Sunday evening watching Harry Potter for the millionth time and trying to figure out how to make envelopes out of various random materials. Fortunately, the internets came to my rescue and
explained it (because when you want to make random crap out of other random crap, thats where you go). I settled
on old magazines, and immediately started lamenting the fact that I had just cleaned out my pile of magazines (see! this is why you should never throw anything away). But, there were enough, and actually, they're kind of cool. Here are the fruits of my labor... of course, now I'm all smitten and don't want to mail them to anyone, but I can only hoard so many envelopes (right?) so I'm sure I'll get over it soon enough...
As you may have noticed, there's a lot of talk of being "green" lately (you know, green, like Kermit). So, in addition to having dutifully outfitted my living room with hideous florescent looking lightbulbs, I was thinking about ways to package the stuff I sell so its not so wasteful, since almost everyone throws the wrapping away anyways. The result is, I spent Sunday evening watching Harry Potter for the millionth time and trying to figure out how to make envelopes out of various random materials. Fortunately, the internets came to my rescue and explained it (because when you want to make random crap out of other random crap, thats where you go). I settled 
on old magazines, and immediately started lamenting the fact that I had just cleaned out my pile of magazines (see! this is why you should never throw anything away). But, there were enough, and actually, they're kind of cool. Here are the fruits of my labor... of course, now I'm all smitten and don't want to mail them to anyone, but I can only hoard so many envelopes (right?) so I'm sure I'll get over it soon enough...
3 comments:
Those are very pretty ones - I especially like the bottom one. My MIL claimed my Little Prince envelopes so I was able to offload 12 at once! I still have tons of gorilla calender envelopes... being stored in a cleaned out Organics lettuce container. Reduce, reuse, recycle, right?
Running a shop presents so many extra decisions to create waste or to reuse. These are awesome!
field notes- Little Price envelopes???? ahh! I'm jealous :). Too bad I don't have any calendars at all, other than my planner... I did find some pretty awesome pictures in this (very dorky) magazine I had around, that are close ups of some bugs (sounds weird, but mainly they look like abstract colors). I figure since many of the rest of them come from a back issue of Glamour, it balances things out ;)
femputer- thanks! I'm excited about it! :) now, of course, someone needs to buy something so I can try out my recycled packing ideas, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
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