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Green Gift Idea: Homemade Tea Bags

0 by Karen MacKay on December 7, 2011

Homemade tea bags are an excellent DIY project for foodies who love to craft.

Editor's Note: We're getting into the holiday spirit here at Crisp Green, which means helping you find the crispest, greenest, most innovative gifts for all the tech and design geeks on your list! This week we'll feature great ideas for "Gifts You Can Make." Catch up with last week's "Gifts You Can Grow" series here. Happy Holidays!

The official start of winter is just a few weeks away, so why not give the gift of comfort and warmth? Easy to make and requiring only a few supplies, handmade tea bags are an inexpensive but lovely DIY gift project. These are a few of our favorite DIY tea bag guides:

1. A great step-by-step guide for creating adorable tea bags using coffee filters can be found here.

2. Whether you are an experienced sewer or prefer a no-sew method, this blog offers two options for simple and elegant tea bags. Check out directions for these cloth tea bags here.

3. Bonzai Aphrodite offers a super easy, no-sew guide to making these little bundles of tasty goodness. Click here to get started!

You can find loose-leaf teas at your local farmers markets, health food markets and of course online. Make this gift complete with a jar of local honey!

Header Image Credit: Sayward Rebhal

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Karen MacKay is an industrial designer and glass artist currently focusing her work on urban agriculture solutions and habits for urban wildlife. Karen’s interest in art began as early as her first memories. Throughout high school and college she explored various mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture and glass blowing. In 2002 Karen graduated from the University of North Carolina Asheville with a BA in Philosophy and recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Master of Industrial Design. Since an early age, Karen has maintained a passionate relationship with both art and nature. She loves to spend time in the outdoors, usually with her dog Abbey. As a designer, her expertise in sustainable design integrates her passion for all things natural and her insatiable desire to create. Karen has worked as a sustainability consultant to various design and architecture firms and is currently continuing to develop a vertical farming device for in-home use.

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