Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts

March 27, 2008

Bailey's & Coffee Please

One of the things Nick & I are planning for the wedding is Bailey's. I love to add a little Bailey's to my coffee. Doing something like this is so much easier when you're having a wedding at someone's house. I can't imagine the caterer at a hotel letting me throw Bailey's on the table for less than $10 each. Know what I mean?
Anyway, the idea was settled, but we couldn't decide what to put it in so people would know it's not creamer, hehe. Uh oh, Grandma's drunk! I've been searching high & low for some individual creamer containers that might be a little different. Then one day I was emptying my dishwasher and took a look at the little frappuccino bottle I'd just washed to use as a mini vase.

(photo tip, never take pictures next to a bright pink carton of grapefruit juice, baaad color)

Behold the perfect, yet affordable bottle. It's just the right shape, no? It looks like a mini milk bottle, which is just what I wanted. And, I get to reuse a bunch of old frappuccino bottles. Reduce, recycle, reuse! So now I just need to figure out the best way to label it. I had thought about a tag tied to the neck with ribbon, but that could get messy. Then I thought I could get some vinyl cut by an old friend and just stick on the word "Bailey's". Seems easy enough, but I can't make up my mind.
Here's where you come in. I've mocked up some rickety versions of 4 different ideas I have. #'s 1-3 would be labels, stuck right to the bottle. Version #4 is adhesive vinyl cut lettering. Please, vote for your favorite by leaving a comment!

(That fabric they're sitting on is what my table runners will be made of)

January 30, 2008

DIY Stickers

As much as I love to send out nice, clean boxes when I mail an order, I just can't bring myself to use a new box when there are stacks of them in my garage. So, I decided to make myself some recycling stickers for those reused boxes.

Step One: If the box has printing or labels on it, remove what you can then take it apart and reassemble the box inside out. It should appear clean now.

Step Two: Get yourself some full-sheet sticker paper at the local office supply store. I use this stuff for everything, address labels, logo stickers etc., etc. Very useful thing to have around.

Step Three: Go online and download some cool recycle symbol clip art from this site or this one.

Step Four: Lay out the clip art of your choice so that they fill the whole page, then print onto the sticky paper. Now cut 'em out.

Step Five: Stick one of your cool new stickers on your box and then proceed to feel good that you've reused a perfectly good box.

I honestly don't mind a pre-loved box if I've communicated that it's recycled.