Frugal & creative gift-giving aka the post that disappeared

I've only now geared myself up to retype this post after blogger lost it over a week ago.

So Jan was the month of mini-books, Feb was the month of mini-cards, March was the month of the clothespeg and April was part canvas and lots of photo.

(May is a hodge-podge (I nearly wrote mod-poodge LOL) of washi tape, canvas, photo and buttons)

I wanted to finish showing you these clothespeg pins (I abandoned the magnets - too much schlep to keep them from curling - and these are much more versatile). I made about 40 all in all and gifted them all except for this jar I have and a few blue ones.

 

these were my favourites - I love this happy Spanish fabric

I gave these to M

Louisa and Cat both got these

Here is the back - see how you can really use all the tape so nicely. And it's just because I'm showing you that you can see it this clearly - it's almost invisible to the naked eye :)

if I'd had lots of these tins, this is how I would have packaged them

see how nicely they fit 6 to a tin

for this set, I put them in a little cellophane bag and closed with blue baker's twine

So there you go - a gazillion clothespeg clips.


Have you made some yet?

You can use them for:

1. clipping paper together (this is the main purpose for me - I think I have about 5 on this desk and at work)
2. closing open chips, biltong, peanut bags
3. pinning photos or children's artwork to a piece of string

How would you use them?

Linking to these crafty parties