Tag Archives: recycling

Snowflake!

18 Jan
Front view, on a black background, of a six-points snowflake shape, made out of slices of toilet paper cardstock cores, glued in three rows: six form the center, glued to each other for about one third of their sides, forming a six point star. Then, six pairs of slices, also glued to each other for about one third of their length, are glued in between the first six, which forms a twelve-pointed star. Another six slices are glued to the Vs formed by the second row.

Each row has rolls of rolled up t.p. cardstock or brown paper bag strips, forming circles glued within the slices. Small purple plastic beads are glued to the smallest of these circles, also in three rows. The edges of the design are colored in a light metallic blue.
Measures about 8.5in (21cm) at its widest point.
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A cat bed

2 Dec
A dark tortoiseshell cat in loaf formation with eyes half closed, cozily settled inside a round bed with a flat-topped dome, made by weaving unpainted thin tubes of rolled up newsprint in the manner of rattan..

No, it’s not the angle of the photograph, it really is this lopsided.

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Crafting v recycling

3 Nov

I rant occasionally on social media about crafters (used to be bloggers, now it’s YouTubers–and likely instagrammers and TikTokers, but I don’t use either of those, so), tagging their projects with the “recycling” or “reusing” labels as a way to greenwash their content.

But here’s the thing: very few crafters produce actually useful items.

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