If you’re one of the lucky people that has enough space in their house to have a craft/art room, like myself, then you know how quickly things can become messy and cluttered after you’ve been working on a project. Depending on if the project has a deadline or not, it can also mean that you might use methods and materials that you wouldn’t normally. After thinking about my art room, and how that was one room that I haven’t gone in and “greened up,” I thought I would share some tips and ideas I came up with when I go to tackle my creative space.
I recently found out about this great collabortive art piece called The Box Doodle Project. The idea is that you take a cardboard box that would otherwise be thrown out, and make art with it. Their tagline is “Make the most of the least,” and I couldn’t agree with that more. If you’ve got a cardboard box, some Sharpies or paint, and some bursting creativity, you too can be part of The Box Doodle Project.
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When I was in Highschool, there were a few scrapbooking fanatics that I knew and kept in contact with. They had “scrapping parties” and talked about new papers they bought and how many pages they had made. It seemed a kind of code, and I was not adept enough to break it. As I grew older, the amount of “scrappers” that I knew grew exponentially, and now I feel fully emersed in the language, the lifestyle, and worst of all, the ecological consequences.
I am all about making things last around my household. If I can turn a bunch of men’s ties into a skirt, I’m as giddy as a little kid on Christmas. Where one might see something destined to head to the landfill, I see a plethora of craft ideas just waiting for me to get started on.
My favorite double duty craft is the t-shirt quilt. I readily admit that I love t-shirts, and I buy a lot of them at any given time, which means that I grow out of them pretty quickly. I started saving shirts that I wasn’t going to wear anymore, and instead of chucking them out the door I collected them by theme and color. After a few months of this, I had enough to make a quilt! It’s super easy, and you don’t have to be a sewing master to make one. Here’s a few quick and easy tips, and you can be making your own t-shirt quilt.
