Lookie What I’ve Found From The Net
April 29, 2009 | Random
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My Blog And Crafts Reviewed By CraftGossip!”
April 26, 2009 | Random
CraftGossip covers news written by craft people telling you about all the good stuff. They scour the net looking for the best craft ideas and projects and review them for you.
My 100% Recycled Material Tote is the first one they wrote. Here is what CraftGossip had to say about it.
Fishy Frame Clucth Purseis the second one they chose to write about!
Craft Gossip also covering topics ranging from knitting, crochet, bath and body, jewelry making, scrapbooking, sewing crafts, recycled crafts, needlework, edible crafts, indie crafts, stamping, lesson plans, glass art, quilting, polymer clay and felting.
You will find something to inspire you there, have fun!!!!
Tote Bag Made From Recycled Material
April 17, 2009 | Highlight, Recycle Craft, Sewing, Tote
See what I have made over the past few days…. a tote bag using all recycled material. This is what I called it TRULY Recycle bag!!!
Basically this tote is made from:
- Fused Grocery Platic Bag which I have shown you on my previous few posts. See the red patch with “Esprit” on it, I like this the most
) - My old soft jeans
- My old but seldom used curtain, blue fabric with diamond-shaped print on it
- Rice sack, the brown color fabric. You can use potato sack or peanut sack to replace it.
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Fabrics, Fabrics, Fabrics, I Love Fabrics
April 17, 2009 | Random
I love fabrics!!! The above 3 pieces of fabrics are my recent gifts.Left – from sumay, my lovely editor for this blog. This fabric material is popular in making saree, a tradition garment for female in Indian subcontinent. I plan to make a nice and elegant frame clutch purse with it. I like the tassel-like dangly bits on it and will definitely retain it on the purse. May be I will add some beads on it to make it more classy and elegant.
Right – a swap with Joanne of Ready.Set.Craft . I love the flower prints on it, I plan to make something denoting Springy season with it. Could be a tote bag, but I’m not sure yet :p
I love these fabrics so much so that I have to properly plan my work to ensure that I wouldn’t ruin them with bad designs
Right – a swap with Joanne of Ready.Set.Craft . I love the flower prints on it, I plan to make something denoting Springy season with it. Could be a tote bag, but I’m not sure yet :p
I love these fabrics so much so that I have to properly plan my work to ensure that I wouldn’t ruin them with bad designs
Orang Utan – The Endangered Species
April 15, 2009 | Random
(Photo courtesy of OrangUtan Outreach)
OrangUtan, the endangered species found mainly in the wild of Borneo, Malaysia and neighbouring country Sumatra, Indonesia, has been threatened to near-extinction caused by relentless devastation of their habitat to clear land for palm oil production and logging. I feel ashamed that this is happening here, and I am going to do something about it. I found this, an organisation to rescue and raise the awareness of the endangered OrangUtan, Orangutan Outreach. Orangutan Outreach is an affiliate of BOS International, with the main purpose to save and conserve OrangUtan in their native habitat, please click here to read more.
(photo from courtesy of OrangUtan Outreach)
Recently, there is a malaria outbreak in their Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation Center. It is very common occurence especially amongst the youngsters. This poor little toddler OrangUtan, “Angely” shown in the picture above is one of the victims who died recently. I was saddened reading this Orangutan Outreach is calling out to the public for an emergency appeal for medicine for the OrangUtan in Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation Center. They need lots of money to get medicine to save and cure the infected OrangUtan. I plead you, my dearest readers to donate to the foundation. I did it and I hope that you could do the same to save the OrangUtan. I also proposed to PlanetJune that she makes some of the OrangUtans for sale to raise funds for it. I will buy from her if she does. Money collected from the donation will be used for medicine, food, equipment, rescue operations, cages and hundreds of other items that are necessary to rehabilitate the orangutans and keep the projects going.
This piece of news was published a couple of days ago of about 200 newly discovered Orangutan “nests” in Kalimantan: Monday 13 April 2009 
Up to 5,000 orangutans from an endangered species could be living in Borneo, scientists say, after the discovery of over 200 orangutan “nests” on the island. The news raises hope for the survival of what was thought to be a nearly extinct species.
Recycle Your Grocery Plastic Bag
Do you have the habit of keeping your grocery plastic bags? I do, and have plenty of them in my carbinet. I know that I will find good use for them one day instead of throwing them away into the dustbin and loading the landfill.
I emptied them out on the weekends as there were too many to keep. Looking at them and noticing that some plastic bags are so beautifully designed, it seems like such a wastes, so I made this!!! Fused plastic sheet for various crafts, you can even sew on them. At this point of time the outlook of the plastic sheet doesn’t seems appealing to you but it will be a great art when you put them together with other material. I am going to use them to make a recycled tote bag!!!
Let me bring you to the tutorial on how to make these fused plastic sheets. I will keep the recycled tote bag for another post in few days time, so please come back and check for the updates.
Material
- 2 sheets of blank white paper,
- A pair of scissors,
- a thick towel,
- iron,
- plenty of thin grocery plastic bags, and
- a well ventilated room
Method
Cut the grocery plastic bags ….
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