Too good to throw away

I have a fairly large stash of ribbons. If there’s a ribbon on a gift, I keep it. If there’s a ribbon decorating a product I’ve bought, I keep it.

While going through the stash recently I found some pieces of pink ribbon, each with a pretty button. They came attached to the price labels on some clothes I bought ages ago. I can’t remember whether the clothes were from Monsoon or Laura Ashley, but presumably the retailer wanted to use something other than plastic to attach the label to the clothing (good work!).

The ribbons were too good to throw away and so into the stash they went. They have now been re-used to hang Christmas tree decorations I’ve made from clay (see the tree on the left for the ribbon/ button combo I mentioned. The other ribbon came from the stash).

Here are two more examples. You can see that the larger decoration got a little scuffed-up after it’d baked, which taught me to be more careful with them! I’m not too worried though, as I doubt the marks will be visible when the decoration is on a tree.

I really enjoy making with clay and I hope to undertake some more projects soon.