Recycle, eh!

This year I'm upcycling my cache of Valentine tins and boxes by transforming each one into a Valentine clock for friends and family. These heart-shaped chocolate boxes are too pretty to discard, so why not?.

Making a clock is easy if you use those quartz clock kits but I prefer to recycle old  parts from old clocks that I have or that I've found here and there. It's pretty simple to remove all the bits and pieces and put them back together again in a new way.

To present the clock in a pretty way, I also recycled paper shopping bags that I hoard by covering the store label with a photocopied print with a suitable text. It's a great way to gift something special without the cost of a store-bought bag (I even used recycled tissue paper!).

What sweetie could refuse this gift?