Today I entered a giveaway on a lovely lady's blog, Scented Candles from the Heart. See sidebar. She asked us to say what recent change we had made to help the environment. This is what I entered.
Here in Ireland we have a chain store called Dunnes Stores and they use strong brown paper bags of different sizes when you purchase something. The bags have stripes and an old sepia toned photo on them.
I have started using these to package items I sell from my vintage website. It makes a lovely vintage style parcel, very suitable for the items inside. They are stronger than the brown paper I was buying for this purpose and are also recycleable at the destination end.
I have all my friends and relatives saving me their Dunnes Stores bags so there is no shortage of them. Have a look around and see if there is something right under your nose that can be used or repurposed in a novel way.
We have a green campaign going on here in Ireland at the moment called "The Power of One" that asks "What one change will you make?"
I'd love to hear of any ideas you have
What a perfectly lovely way to repurpose these pretty bags. I also like the way your saved the sweet little teapot...perfect for a little plant. You have a great blog and I've enjoyed going back and reading some of your earlier post...thank you for the visit hope to see you again. Hugs, Linda
Posted by: linda | April 28, 2008 at 02:30 PM
They look super! I also reuse paper bags & also old wrapping paper & leftover wallpaper for packaging items - the wallpaper looks pretty & is nice & strong too.
Posted by: Jayne | April 29, 2008 at 07:10 AM
What a good idea! I just have ordinary paper bags from the grocery store but they are brown so you can stamp them or otherwise embellish them. I did switch from plastic to paper because I can use the paper more often. I think today when I go to the grocery store i'm going to purchase some of those reusable bags. Keep up the good ideas and i love the teapot. I may use that in my garden too!
Posted by: Mary | April 29, 2008 at 07:36 AM
What a lovely idea to reuse these bags. I often find myself saving decorative bags but never thought of this idea. Well done.
Posted by: Selena | May 06, 2008 at 06:34 AM