March "Junk"le Bells Reminder

These are my "raw materials" for my March "Junk"le Bells project.  I'd love to have you join me during the last week in March to post your own project!  You can read about  "Junk"le Bells here.  

Check out the  past projects here and here.

Trip Down Memory Lane

I have four projector screens.  Yes, four.  They sell for .25 at auctions and would be "no bids" if I wasn't there.  I can't leave them.  I don't know what I'll do with them, but they are simply wonderful.  Then it hit me, why not use one as, well, as intended?!  There's an idea!

I borrowed Mom's very old slide projector and her slides of my family growing up.  I've only gotten through a few of them so far, but I'm loving it.

I wish you could hear the hum of the fan and smell of the warm metal.  Viewing images from long ago,  so very nostalgic and certainly a gift.

Here is my Mom in 1961,  (Before I was born) and today, is her birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mom!!

This is a perfect post for my first time to link up to Tuesdays Unwrapped: at Chatting at the Sky

"Yook" Before You Miss It!!

Leah is having a big blog party week celebrating her birthday--***interruption to my blog post--my 3 y/o just ran up, saw the computer, and said, "Yook, we have that at Grandma's house!" Ok, she said, "Look...." but it almost sounded like 'yook' .  We had Leepin' Letters as kids and it's still at my Mom's***

You can buy Leah's greeting card here.  How fun is that?!

But, even more fun, will be her party that's she's celebrating over here!

She's a Nebraskan!  and just lives "down the road a spell" from me.  "What is she giving away?" you ask. Well, that's to be determined.  Today, a cookbook plus surprises.  Keep checking back to her party to see what she comes up with for the rest of the week!

BTW, that magnet is found here in her Etsy shop.

Go! it's sure to be a R.A.R.P  (Rock And Rollin' Party)!!!

Hyvee and Old Navy Recycled

Inspired by this publication....

and this article by Alisa Burke....

and this clutch by Alisa....

I made this clutch out of Hyvee and Old Navy plastic shopping bags!

It was a multi-step process as you might guess, but really, incredibly fun!  It began by fusing the shopping bags together with a hot iron, adding paint (I used ink), scraps of paper, journaling, and lots of stitching.  There were instructions on how to fuse the bags together in the magazine article, but I know you can also find those directions all over the web.

Yes, it's another burned flower!! This time out of plastic bags instead of fabric.  Let me tell you----the plastic was far more flammable than any of the fabric that I've used yet!  I really had to be careful to keep it just close enough to the flame to melt and not burn.

The only supplies I used that were new were the waxed cord that winds around the vintage buttons to close the clutch and the ink I used to paint on the fused bag fabric.

 Alisa also has an Etsy shop with wonderfully bold art pieces!

This project was far more bold and bright than anything I've ever done before but I loved stepping into a different style.  I know there will be more....here's what I could see though as a problem.  I have lots of plastic shopping bags, but most of them are white with just a little coloring from the store name.  I don't get to a lot of different stores.  Will I now take bags from a store instead of saying, "No thanks, I don't need a sack.",  just because I see that they have a plastic bag with a great color or lettering on it?!  Kind of defeats the whole recycling thing, huh?!?!  Will I buy something from a store that I don't need just because I see a great sack to melt?!  I don't think so....but, I'm not sure I'm completely above that!