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Simple idea #5: cute & inventive storage
Old boxes, new tricks
I have a thing for collecting lovely old boxes and tins for re-purposing. It’s clearly in my genes – when I was young, we had to clear out my great-grandparents’ farm after they died, and found decades’ worth of odd vessels hoarded in the outbuildings. From those once used to store gramophone needles or ointment, to liquor and denture cream(!).
Give me a sweet tin from Provence to store random bits of jewellery in any day, I say. Or a wooden camembert box for my rickrack. Here’s some ideas for recycling like Grandma used to.
Brightly coloured bias binding
Monsieur camembert loves to rickrack
Are they sweets?
Not quite, but almost good enough to eat
A cigar tray of Japanese insect brooches
Once Voluspa candle box, now a box full of string
Sugared almonds in a cut crystal sugar jar - as was intended
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