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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 493790" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Lisa, 8 years is NUTTIN to us. My mom and one aunt finally retired a single piece of wrapping paper after 25 years! I was 5 when it started and it has gone back and forth since then. It is a little heavier than paper was then (MUCH more than it is now) and it just got a teeny bit smaller and smaller until it only wrapped a little tiny box!</p><p></p><p>Jess and I both came up with some awesome, cool new ornaments with-o spending much if anything. She got some of teh craft foam that is glittery on one side. She had it in red, green and silver. She cut 2 large stars and one smaller one and them strung them with a bead on the top of the stack (stacked flat on top of each other like book pages, not end to end), then she just curled the edges up. Sounds odd because I am not explaining it well, but they look super cool.</p><p></p><p>I have cut up a TON of our old clothes to make dishcloths, gift bags, etc... and often had long thin strips where I cut off a seam. Those pieces, or just long strips the same width (1/4 to 1 inch wide - just the same width for all the strips you are using for the ornament) got rolled up into a flat coil using a bit of fabric glue. I just added on another strip with-o overlapping when/if I needed to in order to get the right size coil. Once that dried, I used those squeeze bottle dimensional paints to put trees, snowflakes, whatever on the flat part. I was super suprised because they look really really nice.</p><p></p><p>I haven't done much shopping yet because I had some kind of bug, but hopefully will get out tomorrow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 493790, member: 1233"] Lisa, 8 years is NUTTIN to us. My mom and one aunt finally retired a single piece of wrapping paper after 25 years! I was 5 when it started and it has gone back and forth since then. It is a little heavier than paper was then (MUCH more than it is now) and it just got a teeny bit smaller and smaller until it only wrapped a little tiny box! Jess and I both came up with some awesome, cool new ornaments with-o spending much if anything. She got some of teh craft foam that is glittery on one side. She had it in red, green and silver. She cut 2 large stars and one smaller one and them strung them with a bead on the top of the stack (stacked flat on top of each other like book pages, not end to end), then she just curled the edges up. Sounds odd because I am not explaining it well, but they look super cool. I have cut up a TON of our old clothes to make dishcloths, gift bags, etc... and often had long thin strips where I cut off a seam. Those pieces, or just long strips the same width (1/4 to 1 inch wide - just the same width for all the strips you are using for the ornament) got rolled up into a flat coil using a bit of fabric glue. I just added on another strip with-o overlapping when/if I needed to in order to get the right size coil. Once that dried, I used those squeeze bottle dimensional paints to put trees, snowflakes, whatever on the flat part. I was super suprised because they look really really nice. I haven't done much shopping yet because I had some kind of bug, but hopefully will get out tomorrow. [/QUOTE]
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