sew is your face! » hang tag http://sewisyourface.com your baby is so cute... sew is your face! Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:58:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 today’s haul http://sewisyourface.com/2010/01/15/todays-haul/ http://sewisyourface.com/2010/01/15/todays-haul/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:48:01 +0000 micheLLe http://sewisyourface.com/?p=654 this morning, after our creative support meeting, my good friend ellen and i went to scrap to see what treasure we could find. scrap is an excellent resource for artists and crafters, especially if they are into reusing and recycling. today was a gold mine day for me. i went there expecting nothing and left feeling like i had just robbed the place! upon stepping ten feet into the warehouse, we found a bunch of really old games and puzzles that were in pretty good shape. after looking inside almost every box and contemplating what i could possibly use these relics from the past for, i came up with the idea to use some of the pieces as hang tags on my upcycled garments for sale. i mean, why spend a bunch of money on printing tags when these game pieces all had wonderful, colorful, childhood reminders in the form of illustrations on them? i figure i can either hand write directly on the back or print information (like care instructions) on stickers and stick those to the back of the pieces. either way, i think it’s a grand idea! here are some pics of the games and some of their pieces that i made off with:


oh, and did i forget to mention the GIANT pile of ties that i got for a price so low that i’m afraid that if i repeat it, they’ll come to my door and take them away from me!

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