[ November 14, 2009; 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2009
WHERE: Krankies
TIME: 4:30p - 6:30p
WHAT: Bring the clothes and music that you no longer want and get some stuff that you do!
Bring your clothes, music and a friend and leave with someone else’s pants!
One Man’s Trash … (read article)
By KATE MURPHY
Published: September 3, 2009
To Dan Phillips, who constructs low-income housing in a town in East Texas, almost anything discarded and durable is potential building material.
[ September 13, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] This Sunday at The EM Gallery inside Krankies, there will be a daylight art opening (3:00pm-5:00pm) for “Found Objects, Recycled Materials and Pastel Paintings” art by Ralph E. Calhoun. If you can’t make it on Sunday, then it’s not too late—the show runs until October 3rd. Go check it out!
I was reading a magazine today and there was a feature about doing good things for other people. A couple of the suggestions mentioned two organizations that I thought were doing exceptional work and were worth writing about.
CARE (www.care.org) is a humanitarian organization that assists poor women of the world so that they can become educated, [...]
A local Girl Scout from Troop 213 is promoting her project of re-purposing an old t-shirt into a recycled tote. It’s easier than you think and a great way to hold onto that t-shirt that you can’t, yet can’t throw away.
Interested in trying this out? Download easy-to-make instructions here.
I found this great recycling crafting site. Check it out!
This tutorial is awesome if you have some unused paper back novels lying around. Check out the tutorial on crafster.org!
Have a ton of plastic bags lying around? Try melting them and making cool new bags! Here is an awesome tutorial on fusing plastic bags.
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Cool Blog post about reusing old clothes for something new
Check it out here
