Besides doing my small amount of recycling, I've been trying to find ways to be creative through recycling and reusing. I have done a few small creative recycling and reusing of items I already have or I've found used. I have a few more on my list of things to do. Today, I'm going to share a quick snap of one of my favorite ideas that I actually thought of on my own. Go me! I've been wanting to send some letters to my family and friends. I have some cards, which my lovely grandmother made, so I used a few of those. But I still had more to send.
I wished I had stationary, but I left a lot of that kind of stuff in Kansas or have used it up... I didn't really want to go buy more paper, so I put it off. Good thing too, because I found a way to use something I already had! A while back, I had picked up a few old books from some one's stoop (LOVE free stoop finds!) They were old art books, the one I have been using the most is about landscape art. My reasoning for picking them up, originally, was to use them for art journalling. I have yet to do that, but instead have put them to use by pulling out some of the pages with light colored art pictures and using them as stationary to send letters to all my lovely friends.
I've done a few other things with the pages of this book. I've made birds (similar to the ones at the bottom of this post) that hang in across our living room window. I've also used them to decorate the fronts of moleskins. I have a few other ideas for the pages of the book too!
Here are a few more projects I want to try (or a variation of the projects):
- Magazine Jewelry (Check out the last name of the contributor on this one...)
6 comments:
very cute idea.. and earth friendly =]
great earth-friendly post!
i'm going to walk around on this great earth of ours today. that's my plan. it is sunny (although still cool), but very nice out.
i think i will walk around taking pics and appreciating the good things on this earth.
happy earth day!
I love your blog and the idea of using pictures as letters. I'll keep that in mind next time I write a note :)
Thanks all! Hope you had a wonderful day of the earth! :)
I love that you use the pages from an art book for letter writing. (Heck, I'm glad to know someone who still likes to write handwritten letters!) It reminds me of our last art teacher, who used old hard covered books for an art project. He did some incredible things with them. He loved picking up old yearbooks because he liked the covers of them.
loved that by the way...i might steal the idea because i thought it was fan-tab-u-lous!
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