Our brown cardboard boxes are tied up with string.
Which means we get to play cat’s cradle whenever we want (whooop!).
It also means that you lot, who are terribly crafty and creative, have endless opportunities to crochet.
Here is Anne-Laure’s box string napkin ring.
Sylvy’s string bracelet is recycled and rather stylish too.
Claire creates a crafty crochet coaster for her cuppa.
Email us a pic of your box string creations, or post them on our facebook page (look to the right of your screen for the link).
Craft on!
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12 Jan 2011 at 13:45
And I thought I was being creative when I used mine to make homemade Christmas tags! No pics unfortunately as all tags were used.
12 Jan 2011 at 13:50
And there’s me being environmentally friendly and placing them in the box back to be re-used.
12 Jan 2011 at 13:55
Mine is safely stored and used as garden string, parcel string, daughter’s craft string etc, etc….and any left over is transported to Scotland to be used in my dad’s veg garden!
12 Jan 2011 at 15:19
I tied my home-made tree decorations to my branches of curly willow (what passes for a tree in this pagan household). All packed away for next year so, sorry, no pics. But they were lovely.
13 Jan 2011 at 10:04
We received a lovely tale from one of our customers, Pushka. ‘Just want to tell you of another use for your box string. Last year I found an injured sparrow an (on the vet’s advice) kept it for 6 weeks until it was able to go to a birdy half-way house. Anyway, I kept it in a cage and made it nests from tissue paper and your string cut up into small pieces – it was lovely and soft and Birdie-Birdie seemed to like it!! S now, in Spring, I put out lots of cut-up pieces of string for the birds to make their nests with.’
14 Jan 2011 at 13:38
Ours goes straight to our cats – they much prefer playing with your string than any of the plastic rubbish you can buy in the shops!
17 Jan 2011 at 10:06
I do as Shaun McD; I return the strings, assuming Abel & Cole would prefer to re-use them (like the boxes and the gel ice packs). A&C, what do you do with returned strings?
17 Jan 2011 at 11:41
Yes would you like your string returned, neatly tied ofcourse? And is it made of compostable recycled stuff or does it contain plastic?
17 Jan 2011 at 15:35
Like many others, I wasn’t sure if you wanted it back. Recently I’ve been using it to tie up the chicken’s greens – I’ll see if I can get an action shot as they attack.
17 Jan 2011 at 15:35
that should be chickens’ (there are three)
17 Jan 2011 at 18:30
I have used the string for making a washing up cloth –
crochet – it works well for washing the dishes ! lengths knotted together makes it easy to keep the crochet going.
18 Jan 2011 at 15:03
For those with a ‘returning the string’ query, A&C have a pdf explaining what they do and don’t collect, I just discovered it on their Facebook page:
http://www.abelandco…le.co.uk/content/aboutus/pdf/160810.pdf
I’d be interested to know what they have been doing with the bits of string that are returned by people…!
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