Garden Tags

For the holidays, our family opted to exchange homemade gifts.  The children were more excited about giving their homemade gifts to others than they had ever been to receive a store-purchased gift themselves, watching with wide eyes and eager-to-help hands while their precious masterpieces were unwrapped.  Our hard work was deeply appreciated, and we were proud of ourselves for putting time and energy into thoughtful creations.  It was a far more rewarding experience than it would have been to walk through the aisles of a shopping center, aimlessly searching for the "perfect" (and probably unnecessary) gift to buy because gift giving is what we do.

This year, I made rustic tags for my mother's vegetable garden.  Chard.  Lettuce.  Peas.  Beans.  Okra.  Strawberries, and so forth.  I decided to use some leftover roofing scraps, copper pipe and beads to make some for our own herb garden.

I may have found yet another addiction.

These garden tags are a quick, simple, and inexpensive gift for the avid (or not) gardener on any occasion.