I’m taking a buttload of seedling pots, flowerpots, and seedling trays to an independent nursery today. So much better to reuse than to throw into a landfill, especially since that stuff does not get recycled. Recycling of plastics is such a crock of shit. Nice to tidy up the gardening shed, too. It’s such a mess. #gardening#reuse
The guy at the baby plant place was very happy to get so many pots and trays from us. If you buy seedlings, save the pots and tetra-packs for independent plant nurseries. Help keep the plastic from the landfills. #reuse#gardening#plastic
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Czy ma może ktoś z was nieużywaną sprawną ładowarkę USB w okolicy 0.5A (Tak, dobrze widzicie. Chodzi mi o bardzo wolną łądowarkę)? Warunek konieczny, musi mieć gniazdo na kabel, a nie kabel na stałe.
Chętnie bym przygarnął, ewentualnie odkupił, choć patrząc na cenę na Allegro, to nie wiem, czy warto rozważać sprzedaż.
Tak, wiem, że mógłbym kupić na Allegro, ale transport więcej wyniesie, niż sama ładowarka, więc pomyślałem, że może ktoś na Dolnym Śląsku ma takową i planuje wyrzucić, to mógłbym pociągiem podjechać w weekend :).
We are proud to yesterday have been in the UK Parliament demonstrating repair and talking about #RightToRepair with MPs, allies, community repair groups from all over the country
@Archnemysis That’s very cool! I like that it started off from repurposed fuel tanks, then repurposed again later in life! If only we could make such efficient #reuse of other things!
I picked up this ca. 1997 Dell Latitude XPi years ago and sort of fell in love with its compact form factor, the keyboard feel, clickitty-clackity 1.2GB drive, and the awesomely awkward track ball. It could be a fun little console of some sort.
Its power supply was borken, though. Last night it dawned on me to crack it open and try swapping out some of the caps. Et voila!
Reviewing some content in this ante-penultimate (!!!) chapter of _Business Success with #OpenSource _ and suspect I may have been in an "I'm sick of this crap" mood when I wrote this.
I was rummaging through old photos and found this testimony of how I started (and then got hooked on) #VisibleMending. Moths had eaten holes in my favourite jumper. I was furious and swore revenge with a needle. Since I couldn't embroider properly or be accurate, I "needle-painted" yarn moths. Today, everyone thinks the jumper is an expensive designer piece. 🤭
It's made from old curtains, a stained table runner, unloved felt, and upholstery fabric. The stuffed crust is actually full of old tights filled with fabric scraps and offcuts from craft projects.
Each slice is held down with velcro (for tearing off and trotting off with) and the toppings are pockets for dog treats or kibble.
"How a City Agency Saves New York’s Discarded Objects for Art" by Lisa Wong Macabasco #ARTNews
"As New York’s largest creative-reuse center and a program of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts collects a boundless array of reusable materials from businesses and individuals that are then made available to nonprofits, schools, and other city agencies, thus diverting some 1.7 million pounds of materials from landfills in 2023.
The first donation Fremont received for what would become Materials for the Arts was 50 glass exhibition cases from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which to this day continues to gift materials to MFTA, like a large cache of recently digitized slides."
There are officially 200 community groups signed up to our #RepairReuseDeclaration (and 286 signatories total!)
Why not ask your local community group to sign? Or you can contact your local MP - we have an easy tool to do so at: https://repairreusedeclaration.uk/
Here was a Belgian Secret Stitch sketchbook I made for my spouse. I wanted to try making another one of these books because they were so much fun. I also experimented in using less sketch paper in each signature (bundle of paper) and it worked much better. I did the same on the smaller sketch book in the next post.
Here are two long-stitch books with different patterns. The first (the black one) is a long-stitch sketch book and the other is a criss-cross pattern. Both look awesome! The red threads on the second one at the top and bottom were actually to cover up the fact that I made the book too long for the paper and only realized after making the holes
This one is a variation of a Coptic Stitch and, though it looks really easy, it is deceptively difficult to make because you need to learn just how much tension to give the thread. It is one that I will be trying to do again when I get some new thread.
Finally, when I was making two of the books, I realized that I did not have paper big enough for the inside panel. Then I remembered that I had these old calendars from Paper Source. I had used some for covers but realized that they would be perfect for the insides!
Finally, I just wanted to thank you for reading this thread - I've enjoyed learning bookbinding and have enjoyed sharing my projects here on Mastodon with you. I've really appreciated all the encouragement!
Here are a few more projects I've done over the past few months: