All of this brings me to the current week: a grocery bag of stuff to ebay (mostly camera equipment), two to goodwill, *altoids tins repurposed into Etsy shipping material, three old phone chargers finally went to the reStore after being moved from place to place in this house since November, and I sorted out a pile of my stuff at my parents’ house to go to goodwill.

*Remember when I washed out all of those altoids tins during a snow-in? I have been experimenting with packaging and shipping since then. Shipping out Etsy orders has always been the bane of my existence. I’m very fickle about how it looks, I don’t want to be wasteful, but I also don’t want to spend more time making recycled mailing materials (as in my cereal box mailer obsession, which lasted most of the winter… as in sewn bubble mailers, which were amazing and I should make more because they didn’t take that long) than I do making product to sell. I finally put my foot down and made myself come up with a packaging and shipping method that looks cute, involves a bit of upcycling, and will hopefully lend itself nicely to reuse or recycling on the other end. Have you ever heard the statistic about how many estimated bubble mailers went into landfills during the first five years of ebay? I can’t bring myself to bulk order a giant box of bubble mailers, and I don’t want to jack up my shipping prices to compensate for nicely recycled & recyclable ones. So until I can figure something else out: a plain brown paper envelope with contents wrapped in a neatly cut to fit sheet of bubble wrap. As long as my dad keeps me in altoids tins, this works perfectly. In the meantime, I am still on the lookout for a giant paper punch that’s the size & shape of the top of an altoids tin, because I’m not totally overjoyed about how they look…

Listening: Billy Bragg & Wilco
(I am) Reading: Last Child in the Woods and The Midwife
(Hazel is) Reading: The Family Book
Working on: some custom stuff; some destash sorting; in the mood to sew some more Oliver + S skirts today. Alice also needs some new clothes. hmm.