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Paper bricks

Do you use or have you heard of paper bricks?

It's where you recycle your old paper & make paper bricks for your fire.

So... I shredded up all our old bills and stuff.

And soaked them in water for a few days. 

I then filled the paper brick mold thingy.

I then squished it down to compress the paper 

and turned it out onto a cake rack to dry.

Once dry, toss it onto the fire....

And voila, something to warm your tootsies with!

On the hook....

So, today I felt like crocheting, but didn't want to pick up where I left off (of course!). 

So I started something new, I decided I wanted to use green cotton and then decided to crochet a business card holder. But then why do I need another card holder.  Hmm, what to do. Then inspiration hit.... I'll crochet a green square and submit it to the Envelope Project from Meet Me At Mikes blog.

So yep, I've submitted a green crochet square then cut out some adjoining paper dolls (recycled from an old envelope).
So, they'll be in the post tomorrow Pip!

Oh and by the way, for the first time in the history of Rie's crocheting.... I actually blocked the piece. - it had to happen eventually!

Having a peeling good time!

So yes, I'm still soaking stamps and am having a peeling good time doing it too - ha and yes, that's was an attempt at humour!

So it's soak, peel, dry and then knock over the table that has them on - sending them all to the floor! Then swear, delay picking them up off the floor then accidently forget about them & open a window and yes, then swear again cos you have realised that they are now everywhere - and sticking everywhere cos they are still wet!

My Creative Space

Today I am busy 'recycling' but I've never really thought of it as recycling as such - just using what was at hand without creating waste or spending unnecessary money.

As a child I remember collecting all the old stamps, soaking them and popping them into my stamp album - in fact, I remember that you used to be able to go to KMart and buy a pack of used stamps!  But not anymore, I have collected these from work (we get lots and lots of mail) and bought them home.  And yes, I did have to field those questions from my co-workers of ..... 'why are you ripping the stamps off the envelopes' and yes, they just sort of looked at me dumbly when I explained that I wanted to use them to decorate a table!  
So, today I'm soaking stamps. Fun!

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Waste not or what not...

Think hard, think long and hard.
You have seen this before, but where?  Perhaps you have one in your hand right now. Perhaps you go through 2 or 3 a day.....

Need more clues?

Ok, ok, give up? They are the wrappers around the disposable paper coffee cups that you get from your local cafe!

I was fiddling with one (from my hot chocolate) and then WHAM, it peeled off and then WOW, my imagination sparked into overdrive!  So I now have put them into my paper stash for future use! 
I'm thinking xmas card decoration or perhaps a future garland!

And how is this for sweet: Mr comes home from work today and pulls out his backpack - 2 red wrappers from his work day cafe! Who needs Valentines Day when it is quite obvious that Mr thinks of me during his day.... aww, sweet!

Paper cuts

I set myself a new task, a simple task, to cut up simple sheets of paper.  Easy right?  Wrong.
I pulled out my little board cutter, perfect for cutting the paper..... or so I thought.

But no, the cutter is too short for the simple A4 paper (which leads me to the question of why did I buy such a small one to start with!).

So it's back to the good old fashioned mechanical device, you may recognise them from your childhood....... scissors!

Ok, cutting up with scissors will be a breeze.... but wait, did you see how thick the stack is?

Oh and then there is that small fact, I can't cut a straight line to save myself (nor can I sew a straight line but that's getting sidetracked).

These scraps are just from one page of tidying up my wonky lines.... yes, from just one page.
This is going to take some time, some patience and maybe a few bribes to Mr to see if he will help!

A few days later and this small stack is what I have managed to cut up so far.  And no, Mr didn't help - he blamed bad lighting so he couldn't!

And these little springs are what I made from the scraps - which may explain why it's taking me so long to cut the strips (it's much more fun to get distracted!).