I’ve been thinking about upcycling and recycling projects in honor of  Earth Day.
Green and eco projects are always a good idea.
I wanted to celebrate Earth day by coming up with some fun ‘eco-upcycling’ projects that would be quick, easy and oh so friendly to the Earth.
I’ve made a few notes about a couple of them, and will be sharing them this week.
Today, a very very easy one  popped into my mind.
I was rummaging through a drawer and
I found a bit of  inkle weaving that had been left over from another project.
I thought… hmmm…. this would make a great bookmark!
Bookmarks are …read more

Terri posted a wonderful entry about Earth Day on Salt Spring Island: Earth Day Weaving
and mentioned to her mom about all the ‘R’ words that I used to use in the environmental puppet shows that I wrote, built and performed for 20 years or so….

A few of the ‘R’ words that I used to pitch like mad in the puppet shows:
Re-think: Has to be the most important as we Re-consider how we treat our beautiful blue planet.
Re – use
Re claim
Restore
Re-create
Repair
Renew
Reduce
and of course: Recycle
And, there are other earth-keeping words that begin with the letter ‘C’ …read more

Mercy! We have had a 4 day long blizzard.  We’re just emerging from it now (fingers crossed!).
It’s been the coldest, fiercest, longest April storm that has ever been recorded here.  Global weirding…….

We were snowed in yesterday… and the tractor cratered, so it needed to be re-invigorated, in the middle of the storm….

Our son and daughter-in-law began their morning by slipping off the driveway…

ugh

That’s me, fighting the wind to go to the woodshed for wood for the woodburning stove in the studio. The woodshed had been all full up with wood for -next- winter. Hah! It’s gone now!

The wind has been …read more

Springtime feels very far away…. we are in the middle of a FOUR day BLIZZARD!

We have received feet and feet and feet of snow since yesterday…. and we’re in for 2 more days of it.
Last weekend, we had summer.  This weekend…. well…..
it’s certainly a DIFFERENT sort of an Earth Day…..
eep.

We’re big ‘greenies’.  We always carry our own cloth or crocheted grocery bags.
So, to celebrate Earth Day, I want to invite people to whip up some market bags to be oh so handy while they take care of the earth!
The handles are neat because they are made from recycled wire coat hangers.

Here’s the link for the pattern: Green Market Bag 

Terri’s going to be facilitating the weaving of a  Saori peace banner on Earth Day on Salt Spring.
And, people are going to be bringing something special to the Earth Day celebration on Salt Spring….
Check it out…. it’s VERY inspiring!
EARTH DAY SALT SPRING

Last week, we went to an eco fair, and they handed out baby trees…..  and then it snowed like crazy. Nice.
But…. We suddenly had 2 BEAUTIFUL days this weekend, so we raced outside and planted 12 brand new baby trees.
We’re a pair of dyed in the wool ‘tree-o-philes’. Every year, we plant little trees and pat the previous year’s treebabies on the head.
We’ve lived here for many years and plan on moving in slightly less than a year.  One of the first things we did when we bought this place was to plant fruit trees.
What will one of the first …read more

I’ve been having a wonderful time, re-fashioning, reclaiming, re-using, recycling and eco-crafting up a storm in celebration of Earth Day.
I reclaimed part of old desk drawers to make bag handles:

and I took a broken loom and turned it into wonderful ‘eco-bracelets’:

I  have lots more eco projects up my sleeve, so stay tuned!

I am making a doll for my beloved mother-in-law.
It’s a ‘memory’ doll, and I am making it in the hope of bringing comfort to Mum as she struggles with the death of her beloved daughter, Patty.
I knew from the first moment that I started sketching the doll, that I wanted to use spoolknitting for the hair. Patty was born with curly red hair, so I wanted to celebrate that.

I wanted lots of spoolknitted cord, so I decided to use my Embellish knit spoolknitting machine.

I did a test swatch and decided that it was too stiff. I really …read more