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Summary: Learn how to use an old tin as a great way to hold a gift for recycled gift wrapping in this free how-to video on gift wrapping using recycled and household items.
Karina Fraley is a safety expert and the official mom for mommywood.com. In addition to her work for Expert Village, she is also working on a documentary about food allergies, as well...read more
"Hi. I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and today I'm giving you some ideas on how to use things that you have laying around the house. How to recycle them so that you can gift wrap or package your gifts. Things that you really don't need to use anymore but they're just kind of too good to throw away. Waste not, want not. So, this little tin I received several years ago. It had a little stationery kit in it. And I'm going to reuse it because I haven't used it in a long time. I'm going to reuse it to package a gift. You can go to the store and pick up a lot of different little, little items, and piece them all together and create a really little, a really cute little gift set. So I chose some hand lotions. A hand treatment set that I'm going to use. And I'm just putting these all in like this. And then I'm going to put in a pink towel because I think the pink coordinates nicely with the green. And you have a very lovely gift. Later on I'm going to stick a certificate in there for a manicure and I'm probably going to put some cellophane if I find it lying around the house. If not I'm just going to leave it as is. And it's a really great presentation for a gift set."
eHow Article: Using an Old Tin for Recycled Gift Wrapping