Alright boys and girls, here’s an original, totally Tally craft idea directly inspired by my conversion to West Coast use-your-trash Hippie-ism. As opposed to Midwestern donate-your-yogurt-tubs-to-local-kindergarten-art-teachers-and-throw-the-rest-away-cuz-the-recycling-companies-don’t-function-properly-out-here-ism, I suppose. But I digress. Next week, remind me not to write blog posts after a couple glasses of wine.

Thanks to making all those ribbon roses last week, I finished off a couple spools of ribbon and was left with the empty cardboard frames. I was about to toss them in the paper recycling bin when my hippie/pack-rat instincts kicked in and screamed, “Wait! I’m just sure you could use those for something!”

I also snitched a bunch of gorgeous little fabric scraps from my boyfriend’s mom this week. Put the fabric and the spools together and you get… beautiful new jewelry out of totally inexpensive materials – my favourite! Observe:

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