The brown paper bag is a highly underrated household standby. While its everyday uses range from toting groceries to covering schoolbooks, its creative and decorative potential extends far beyond ...

Serves 3-4. Ingredients: 1 grocery-size brown paper bag; Parchment paper; 8 strips bacon (thick cut) 1 tablespoon salt-free spice blend; Directions: Heat the oven to 400 degrees F.

– Lunch-size brown paper bags – Rit dye – Rubber gloves – Scissors – Hot glue gun – Wood skewers. 1. Place the paper bags one at a time in a dye bath of about 1 part dye and 2 parts water.

Since Bloomingdale’s introduced the Big Brown Bag 50 years ago, it has become a totem of the store — as well as a mug, an umbrella and, now, a pickleball paddle.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Before Buddy Diliberto came along, brown paper bags held groceries, became art projects or covered the Led Zeppelin album “In Through the Out Door.” Diliberto spawned ...