Art Sunday; recycled art

RECYCLED ART

I HAVE JUST BEEN LOOKING AT A SITE WITH LOTS OF IDEAS ON HOW TO RECYCLE AND REUSE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING

http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/about

THESE ARE SOME OF THE CREATIVE IDEAS FEATURED ON THIS SITE

 

 

 

 

AND HERE ARE A COUPLE OF VIDEOS SHOWING HOW TO MAKE FLOWERS FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES AND PLASTIC BAGS

 

 

Been a very busy bee recently !!

Been a very busy bee recently

We have had some very good weather recently and consequently I’ve managed to make a little progress on some of my garden projects. I still haven’t bought a new camera, so yet again these pictures are poor quality mobile phone pictures…….oh how I miss my camera.

Remember the pile of rubble I was left with after having my garden shed door moved??

I seem to remember Diana saying I could make it into a rockery. Well……………..I managed to ‘hide’ most of it and what was left, will indeed make a very nice neat corner rockery, thank you Diana.

Remember the complete bathroom I had dumped in my garden by well meaning and thoughtful daughters??

They intended to remove my green bath, toilet and sink and replace them with the cream ones.

The well meaning and thoughtful daughters never did plumb in the new cream bathroom and it has sat in my garden ever since. The bath became scratched and the grandchildren were getting very fed up with it being in their way in the garden. I decided to keep my aged but serviceable green bathroom and hired a little man to dig a hole and ‘plant’ the other bath that was sitting in the garden. This time next year this bath will be my wild life pond, we will have frogs and toads and dragon flies and lilly pads!!

 The earth from the hole was used for the new rockery and, once the bath was out of the way I moved the toilet and cistern and filled them with more of the earth from the hole. They are now ready and waiting for their plants.

The sink and pedestal will stay where they are until I paint the shed wall, then they will be fixed to the (newly painted) shed wall and be full of hanging plants………….it will look lovely I’m sure.

Painting all fences, gates, walls and generally anything that doesn’t have plants in it, is my summer vacation task.

The rest of the garden doesn't look too bad at the moment and I'll have the whole of the summer holidays to play in it and make it even more beautiful.

Garden recycling continues.

It may be winter, there may be snow on the ground, but still I recycle in my garden. The composter remains in the corner and is fed with veggie peelings, coffee grounds and used herbal tea bags. The unwanted CD rack, which has been cluttering up my hallway for weeks, has found a new home nestling in between the Jasmin.

This can now be used as a frame to fix winter protection for these fragile plants and as an anchor for the trailing shoots as they grow in the spring. 

reduce, reuse, recycle

a motto to live by