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Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2012

These pillows started life as a cashmere or angora sweater

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I really enjoy thrift stores. I think it is about finding that useful bargain---or finding odd stuff I can re-pupose into something useful...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

a Christmas Elf trick : cashmere sweater repurposed into Panda Bear

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The Winter Holidays always make me think of toys! I have 3 wonderful Grandsons so let the toy making commence! here is the first one---a...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Re-fashioned, re-purposed, recycled sweater to hoodie!

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I have been "thrifting" wool sweaters...and I always throw them in the washing machine and dryer to felt them (ie. shrink them) o...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Cashmere and Lace Repurposed (Creative Every Day!)

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I love cashmere , but right now I can't afford the yarn---at least not enough to knit myself a whole sweater. I'm always looking at ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Sewing Paper Holiday Cards

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Take some nice deckle-edged paper, tear it to the correct size, sew on some (previously used) holiday postage stamps ---and Presto! a nice n...
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Monday, October 01, 2007

Sweaters "Repurposed" into handbag

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I buy wool sweaters at thrift stores or garage sales--throw them in the washing machine and dryer---shrink them to the max--and then have ni...
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I am an artist who was born and grew up in Alaska, as did my mother--my grandfather was a gold miner. I am recently returned from serving in the US Peace Corps as a volunteer on the Island of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean. Some of the tasks I did as a volunteer : I taught art at a primary school, helped the school with development projects, volunteered with a youth group, and volunteered helping to organize and produce a local literary festival. I also worked for over 20 years on commercial fishing boats in Alaskan waters and lived for over 18 years in the Alaskan "bush" with no electricity and no cars. Alaska has shaped my view of life and culture, but so has raising two daughters, a life of making art in many mediums, and owning my own Used and Rare Bookstore. I guess I am somewhat of a vagabond who has done many things in my life--deckhand on a fishing boat, bookseller, nanny, chef, administrative assistant in a college dean's office,mom (that is a job!) but I always come back to artist.
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