How to give your jewellery packaging a second life :)
My jewellery comes in a slim, unbranded box decorated with hand-cut chiyogami paper. These fine papers are pieces of art in their own right: each pattern is silkscreened by hand, one layer of colour at a time.
If you're like me and can't bear to throw these kinds of things away, here's how you can use your jewellery packaging again :)
** These tips work best for the necklace box pictured above. My ring/earring boxes are very small and usually best reused as travel jewellery storage!
Friendship gift
A lot of nice things fit surprisingly well in these miniature boxes. Fill it with something sentimental and give it to someone you like! Small, flat things work the best, such as photos, stickers, or cards. If I were to create a gift box for someone, I might fill the box with sample vials of indie perfume :)
Travel storage
The necklace box can also be used to organise loose items for travel. I find it especially useful for storing personal care or cosmetic products such as:
- Cotton pads
- Cotton buds
- Hairpins
- Hair elastics
- Bandages
- Acne patches
- Tweezers
Bits and bobs
At home, I like to reuse high-quality packaging to store small, handy items like:
- Rubber bands
- Twist ties
- Paper clips
- Safety pins
- Buttons
- Matches
"Red" envelope 🧧
This is the easiest thing you can do — put cash in the box and use it in place of hong bao (红包) or lai see (利是).
A red envelope is traditionally given to children during Lunar New Year. You can also give it to adults on special occasions like weddings, graduations, etc.