Allow me to share part of the earworm I’ve enjoyed all month long! Tra la! It’s May! The lusty month of May! That darling month when ev’ryone throws self-control away. It’s time to do a wretched thing or two, and try to make each precious day one you’ll always rue! [Read more]
Last week, instead of teaching something specific, I let my upcycling students “shop” from what I’ve collected in the Creative Reuse Center and come up with their own projects. The creativity and chaos that followed drew some attention from students passing by our room on their way to other classes.[Read more]
Do you save your old spice tins? For the longest time, I’ve coveted vintage spice tins I see in magazines and online, used to organize art supplies or as a home for tiny succulents. It turns out what I was really coveting was their exterior, because the spice tins in[Read more]
Too many things are keeping me from writing a nice leisurely post, but it’s rare that anything can keep me from doing something creative each day. So, here’s what I’m working on now: I call them mini masterpieces. I’m painting on paint chips (is that considered irony?). Every year I get a[Read more]
Teaching a weekly class on The Art of Upcycling is really 20% instruction and 80% planning, practicing, and making samples of what I’ll teach others to make. You know I love living in that briar patch, spending time every week practicing what I’ll preach, er, I mean teach. Pinterest is,[Read more]
Below are fliers for what, where, and when I’m teaching others how to make something of it. Almost anything I teach can be adapted to suit a different group, location or amount of time. For example, the summer camps I’m teaching for “young upcyclers” (grades 4 through 8) could become[Read more]