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Ladies of Shakespeare Altered Tag Piece

Hello! How was your weekend dear friends?

Or rather…

Hark!  How’est thine past days hence favorable fortuners?

Er something like that.

Italics do make everything sound more theatrical though, don’t you think?

I hope you had a wonderful one.  I got to play a little this weekend and put together the above project using the Tea and Crystal Light dyed tags [...]

Tags Dyed with Tea and Crystal Light

Why?

Because I was curious.

And happen to LOVE the results!

I bought a pack of pre-cut stark white tags at Michael’s on clearance awhile ago, figuring I’d use them some day for something (ah… craft shopping), but every time I picked them up their bright white color just kind of turned me off.

So, I had heard of dying [...]