Here is an early tip for this gift-giving season... Start saving produce netting now so that you will have enough to wrap and accent gifts. Produce netting is a creative, unexpected, and colorful material to use for wrapping and accessorizing. Use it to wrap boxes, gift toppers, or even wrap a bottle of wine. All you need is some twine and you are good to go.
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This is a fabulous example of beauty & function. Well done! I can't wait to get my next batch of tomatoes on the vine...
Simple and pretty.
I love this! I've been holding onto some scraps of plastic netting, but hadn't yet come up with a re-use for them. perfect!
I have also saved produce bag mesh to hold divided flower bulbs from my garden & give away as gifts. Very cute embelishment on these gifts!
That sounds wonderful! A friend of mine recommends using them as dish scrubbers too. You just fold the produce bag into a small pad and tie with a strip of the netting. I have made a few and love them.
Great idea! I have also been saving the numerous ribbons that my office uses for their innumerable party invitations.
I like using this mesh to help wrap fragile things like glasses, frames or vases for storage or shipping. Sorry to say that I don't love it used as wrapping embellishments - it just looks like the gifts are wrapped in trash to me. I might like them if they were made into bows or transformed into something a little more elegant than just rough-cut, uneven strips.
If you use it as in the picture, be sure to give the present to a fellow recycling fanatic. (Your grandmother might be somewhat insulted to get something that looks like that!)
I'm thinking most of the people I give gifts to (family) would think it was trashy. I save all mine for homemade scrubby sponges, a tutorial for which I found here.
Gotta chuckle at the comments. I actually love this look & have employed it a number of times. If I were the type to be easily offended (which I am not) anyone voicing his opinion re my trashy/creative/thoughtful GIFT would risk finding himself removed from my recipient list. Not my loss =]
Lovely post, btw.
I've always felt guilty throwing away those 'net bags' that my garlic come in. I always thought they could be use for something else but never could figure out what. I've tried using them when washign dishes, but they don't work well for me.
How sad folks think this is trashy. Everyone that knows ME, knows that I recycle EVERYTHING I possibly can so they would think this to be clever.
I do like it alot. Why pay so much for wrapping when all it's just going to go into the trash??? Even gift bags go into the trash. Not everyone is into recycling or upcycle. So Kuddos to you for this super idea!
Jeeze, i should have Q.A'd my comment before submitting...sorry for the horrific grammer! :o(