Blog Action Day

Today is BLOG ACTION DAY !

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know --although I write primarily an art and crafting blog---I care passionately about our Mother Earth and how we treat Her. You may even know that I spent the first 6 months of this year following my pledge to "buy nothing new for 6 months" which impacted my habits and thinking about cultural consumerism--and my own consumerism.

You may also have seen my posts here on creating my own grocery bags (BYOB = Bring Your Own Bag) and using recycled sweaters to create handbags. I love to see the creative ways artists and crafters use recycled materials.

Here are some of my favorite online Earth loving and environmental blogs, artists concerned with the environment, and resources ---do check them out today.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (just a daily reminder of how beautiful the universe is)

Art For Housewives (great links to many artists using recycling in their art)

Ideal Bite : "Ideas for Green Living"

Quaker Earthcare Witness

The Compact : Buy Nothing New

The Garbage Day Project

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (great humor!)

Step It UP!

Treehugger

Grist (environmental humor and news)

David Suzuki Foundation

There are--of course many more--and over at the Blog Action Day blog I see that they have tracked more than 5000 blogs participating and writing about the environment today--so far--(and it is only 9:30 am where I live)--POWER to the internet!

Yet Another BYOB

In keeping with my penchant to be a multi-crafter artist, I continue to create BYOBs (Bring Your Own Bag)--despite how many of these we have around the house--I still find myself without one some days when I want to stop and just pick up a few bits of nice looking produce on the way home--I am still working on cultivating a habit of not leaving the house with a cloth bag in my purse or backpack.

I already had the lovely pink mola, and was pleased to see this polka dotted fabric (purchased on sale at a wonderful local fabric store--which is --sadly--going out of business) matched the pink mola so nicely. The mola is a traditional textile art form made by the Kuna People of Panama. Molas are hand made using a reverse applique technique. Several layers (usually two to seven) of different-coloured cloth (usually cotton) are sewn together; the design is then formed by cutting parts of each layer away. The edges of the layers are then sewn down; the finest molas have extremely fine stitching and are made using tiny needles.


and here is the back of the bag--which is lined with a nice bright green---all the fabric is heavy cottons, so the bag is washable.



TODAY'S QUOTE :
"Art will never be able to exist without nature." ---Pierre Bonnard