Porcelain gift tags.
We made ornaments like this using labels decoupaged on blank porcelain gift tags found at the local fabric/craft store. Then I put the name of the recipient directly on the with a metallic Sharpie marker.
There is a lot of focus on “going green” and understandably so, considering how much waste is generated each year by the phenomenal amount of paper that is used when we wrap all those Christmas presents and put a tag on each one. Hey, look right here for the first in line to say how much we love wrapping up and making all the presents look so wonderful. We adore that part of Christmas - love it so much! But what an incredible waste. We actually have a running joke around our house … at the end of the present opening frenzy, we call what is left over the Mountain of Greed. The wrappings, the boxes and bags and ribbons and whatnot that is piled up waiting for the garbage bag…that is the Mountain of Greed.
These permanent gift tags are one way that we are trying to reduce the amount of waste that we generate each year. One idea we used for tags was taking the baby pictures of the recipient in place of the name. One side of the porcelain gift tag was decoupaged with their baby picture, the other side was my baby picture. It made it a LOT of fun to figure out who got what present and who it was really from. And because the gift tags are porcelain, we can use the tags through the year for a number of other purposes also.
Consider doing something like this in place of all the wasteful paper wrap and tags we throw away throughout the course of the year.
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