Hankering for Yarn

April 23rd, 2008

Earth Day - puppets and words

Terri posted a wonderful entry about Earth Day on Salt Spring Island: Earth Day Weaving
and mentioned to her mom about all the ‘R’ words that I used to use in the environmental puppet shows that I wrote, built and performed for 20 years or so….

A few of the ‘R’ words that I used to […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Earth day 2008 - Blizzard -2

Mercy! We have had a 4 day long blizzard.  We’re just emerging from it now (fingers crossed!).
It’s been the coldest, fiercest, longest April storm that has ever been recorded here.  Global weirding…….

We were snowed in yesterday… and the tractor cratered, so it needed to be re-invigorated, in the middle of the storm….

Our son and daughter-in-law […]

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April 20th, 2008

Earth day 2008 - Blizzard

Springtime feels very far away…. we are in the middle of a FOUR day BLIZZARD!

We have received feet and feet and feet of snow since yesterday…. and we’re in for 2 more days of it.
Last weekend, we had summer.  This weekend…. well…..
it’s certainly a DIFFERENT sort of an Earth Day…..
eep.
Tags: Earth Day

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April 16th, 2008

Earth Day - Crocheted Market Bag

We’re big ‘greenies’.  We always carry our own cloth or crocheted grocery bags.
So, to celebrate Earth Day, I want to invite people to whip up some market bags to be oh so handy while they take care of the earth!
The handles are neat because they are made from recycled wire coat hangers.

Here’s the link for […]

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April 14th, 2008

Tackling the Floss Mess Monster- 2

In part 1, the Floss Mess Monster was beaten into submission, leaving behind it an almost closed box of squished(but color separated) embroidery floss:

and this ’snubble’ of floss womitt:

We won’t discuss the dis-embodied little hand….

See the previous entry for an explanation of that!
Anyhow…. because I am a fanatic well meaning and never over the […]

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April 14th, 2008

Tackling the Floss Mess Monster

We’re in count down mode in getting ready for a big move.
So, we’re sorting and sifting, cleaning and clearing.
Whew! what a honkin’ load of work! Now, don’t get me wrong…. it’s really satisfying to get things cleaned up, but hefting all that junk good stuff around wears me right out!
Over the […]

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April 13th, 2008

Inspiration - Earth Day on Salt Spring Island

Terri’s going to be facilitating the weaving of a  Saori peace banner on Earth Day on Salt Spring.
And, people are going to be bringing something special to the Earth Day celebration on Salt Spring….
Check it out…. it’s VERY inspiring!
EARTH DAY SALT SPRING
Tags: Earth Day, green projects, peace weaving, Salt Spring Island, Saori weaving, Terri Bibby

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April 13th, 2008

Earth Day- Baby Trees

Last week, we went to an eco fair, and they handed out baby trees…..  and then it snowed like crazy. Nice.
But…. We suddenly had 2 BEAUTIFUL days this weekend, so we raced outside and planted 12 brand new baby trees.
We’re a pair of dyed in the wool ‘tree-o-philes’. Every year, we plant little trees and […]

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April 10th, 2008

Eco projects to celebrate Earth Day

I’ve been having a wonderful time, re-fashioning, reclaiming, re-using, recycling and eco-crafting up a storm in celebration of Earth Day.
I reclaimed part of old desk drawers to make bag handles:

and I took a broken loom and turned it into wonderful ‘eco-bracelets’:

I  have lots more eco projects up my sleeve, so stay tuned!
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April 10th, 2008

Eco bracelets-3

I’ve been having a wonderful time reclaiming and re-using and recycling old bits of wood from a broken loom and a broken desk.
I made bag handles from the disintegrated desk:

and ‘eco’ bracelets from the schmooshed loom:

And here’s how the open sided bracelet evolved:
I cut it out from the lower part of the little keel loom:

and […]

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