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Learn how to make beautiful hooked rugs with burlap rice bags and cut-up t-shirts or wool clothing. Get tips on how to make avoiding wrapping paper, including sewing fabric gift bags and furoshiki or Japanese fabric gift wrapping. Find out how to make a family comic book as a holiday gift, which involves the creative reuse of family stories.

Rug Hooking Links:

• Hooked Rugs I have made as gifts
• Rug Hooking Tool
• Rug Hooking Instructional Video by Deanne Fitzpatrick, one of my favorite rug hooking artists

Gift Wrapping Links:

• How to sew a fabric gift bag instructional video
• Furoshiki folding – great infographic by Treehugger
• Furoshiki folding instructional video by Recycle Now

My husband and mom showing the finished family comic book

Family Comic Book Links:

• Andrew and Violet: The Story of My Grandparents by Gloria (Hellier) Brown
• How to make family comic books (previous Trashmagination blog)
• Training by Trashmagination on how to make family comic books

Trashmagination Quotation

“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential” – This quotation is something to keep in mind when you are doing your holiday shopping.

Related Links:

• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor

Please send listener questions to trashmagination@gmail.com.

Transcript of Trashmagination Podcast 2

Thanks to my husband Bob Welland for sound editing assistance.

The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade.