Sneak peek! I’ve had this piece done for awhile now, and need to get it up soon. The chain is made of several (recycled) chains, and marks a new direction I want to try to go into: more remarkable chain components, and more recycled parts.
adventures in plastic bags
boy, it’s been awhile. i was on vacation [the kind of vacation that is spent at your parents house getting lots of invasive dental work done] for about three and a half weeks, and so did not do a whole lot of crafting. i made up a batch of a different, smaller variety of plastic bag heart pins for some of the ladies in my life for christmas. i was really proud of myself for the way i packaged them—i took one of those little flimsy plastic bags you put fruit in at the grocery store and cut it into rectangles. then i put the pins in and fused the edges closed around the pin with the hot end of a glue gun to make a little recycled baggie. i topped it off with a little folded over bit of newspaper. voila! i’m glad i did this because it presents an interesting solution to a problem i’ve had in the past—namely, how to package recycled things. putting a recycled plastic bag in a new plastic bag just seems…to defeat the purpose. hi, i’m going to toot my own horn some more. anyways. moving on.
i also went to a family friend’s partner’s school to talk to her classes [she’s an art teacher at a montessori school] about how i make recycled crafts. it was a lot of fun; the kids were just so full of creative energy. they astounded and inspired me. in the second group we went on an ironing plastic bag binge. the kids had so so many great ideas about ways to use ironed plastic bags. i don’t mean to be totally cheesy, but i think i was really the one who learned the most that day.
since being back i’ve mostly been doing things in the area of getting ready for the new semester. it’s my last, and it’s going to be a doozy, but i think it’ll also be incredibly worthwhile. maybe [hopefully?] my most worthwhile yet. i started in on a little crafting today while the homework situation is still tame. my big projects at the moment are finding more things to do with fused plastic bags, and creating a really intricate necklace made of bits of paint that have been peeled/chipped off of my apartment building. they recently painted it beige [gag], so there’s bits of the old eggplant and forest green laying around, in addition to a perplexing [but pretty] teal, and some beige. no photos yet! hopefully i’ve have some progress shots to add soon. if i don’t get completely obliterated by homework first. WE’LL SEE.
