So, here it is - the long anticipated blog post from Heather. I hope it lives up to your high expectations ;).
I have gotten deeper and deeper into the idea of upcycling. I think its kind of a stupid, cheesy term but the idea is sound for me. Recycling is fine, but if you can skip the step of processing packages that have been processed so that you can then reprocess them into a new package it seems that is to be desired. I've been rethinking the whole "reduce, reuse, recycle" slogan and how we as a society have sort of stopped worrying about the reduce/reuse part.
So, I'm making mini greenhouses out of milk cartons for winter sowing like this:
And, I've been admiring pictures of repurposed things like sweaters into pillows, booze bottles into cups and plates (you use something called "slumping" in a kiln to make them into plates - and I just happen to have a kiln in my garage at the moment), and other various items.
What I'm sort of struggling with is finding USEFUL and not ugly, trashy uses for, well, trash. My most common trash is paper (which I'm going to start shredding and using in my compost), cans from canned food (I still don't know what to do with these - I am NOT making a bunch of pencil holders), plastic bottles/containers like those in the pic above, and glass. I'm going to start saving the glass jars that I can use for canning, like some spaghetti sauce jars. There are so many cool projects for wine & alcohol bottles, that I'm going to start saving those, too. Plus, if my dear sister gets around to making wine, she'll have a slew of bottles from me!
And that brings me around to the title of the post. I'm starting to feel like a combination of our mom and dad. Hoarding things that most people throw away was definitely a dad thing. "I'll find a use for that dead blower dryer someday". And crafting and repurposing is definitely a mom thing (i.e. sweater buttons made out of cut pieces of antler). It makes me feel proud, crazy and creative all at the same time. Weird, huh?
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