Making beautiful, functional, and/or fun things for your home yields a great deal of joy and satisfaction. It also yields a bunch of left over material--scrap, if you will--much of which is just too good to throw away. So you keep it, just in case. At least I do. And so the pile grows, along with the premise that someday we'd find a use for it. Who are we kidding? We're really just pack-rats, right? Well, maybe you're not, but recovering pack-rat that I am, I still struggle with wanting to keep even the smallest sliver of wood or snippet of yarn--you guessed it--just in case.
Instead of beating myself up over that ever-growing heap of scrap in the storage room, I decided to take a more pro-active approach: designing things that can be made specifically with items from the scrap pile. In this way I can reduce the pile and create more cool things for my home. Don't you just love those win-win situations? I sure do.
To keep myself on track, I'm going to document each item created in a series of blog posts titled Got Scrap?... I'm really excited about this, and already have several ideas jotted down. The first item I'm creating will be perfect for holiday decorating and useful all year long. It's extremely simple to make and very Zen, so keep an eye on this blog for updates.
Gotta run now! The holidays are upon us...Get Creative!
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2 comments:
Well, I'm excited so don't you dare let me down!
Wouldn't dream of it, Madam.
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