Love Pink

Packaging is a passion of mine. Whenever things come beautifully wrapped, they just seem so much better.  Under my bed is a Tupperware box filled with paper shopping bags and tissue because I have a hard time throwing them away. Some of my favorite packaging is the striped bags and girly pink tissue from Victoria’s Secret.  I have been working on a creative way to recycle them for a while.  I love the little balls covered with flowers that people hang to decorate and wondered if I could make them myself with roses made from the tissue paper.  This is the result: delicate pink rose pomanders (the official name for these flower balls) to hang in a doorway.

I cut my stash of pink tissue into strips then twisted it into little roses. Twenty six roses were attached to a 1½ inch Styrofoam ball, making the finished product about six inches in diameter. A twist-tie hot glued to the Styrofoam ball makes a great loop for a hanging ribbon.  I untied and ironed the ribbon handles from Victoria Secret bags to make the bows.  Twisting roses was very time consuming, but otherwise, this project was surprisingly easy.  The pink is such as sweet color.  When looking at them, I think about cake or candy.  It’s great that something so pretty can be made out of materials that normally end up in the trash.