Recently I've taken an interest in learning about recycleable items and incorporating them into artwork. For example, I'm currently attempting to work with plastic bottle caps, collecting them to create a larger piece. I have a huge collection that I started in order to donate to "Caps for Chemo," until I heard it was a hoax. So now I have a few bags under my bed filled with these caps that I will be adding to in order to create a project inspired by Christine Destrempes's "13,699, shown below.
That won't be for a while though, but hopefully it will incorporate Christmas lights as well. I guess now would be the best time to get those on sale at the Dollar Store.. if only it would stop snowing!
But anyway, yesterday my best friend and I went shopping and I bought a box from Earthbound made from recycled magazines. It is so cool! On the inside is a recycled movie poster from Juno, which makes it about a thousand times better. So today since I am stuck in the house watching the snow fall, I am going to try and make one similar to the one that I bought, considering it was $25 in the store and I have at least a bajillion magazines somewhere in my basement that I could make one from.
Check out this page from How to Make and Do for a tutorial on how to make bowls out of recycled magazines. They are really cool! Hopefully I can come up with my own instructions and photos next time!
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