It may be true that one man's trash is another man's treasure...
It's been just over two months and counting that I have made honest on my commitment to stop buying new clothing. I even side-stepped the mall last month and opted to make my friend, Jacqui, a recycled gift rather than throw money down on something new.
No, I'm not talking about a re-gifter closet...
I made Jacqui a gift out of recycled materials. I got back into my sewing groove and designed a couple throw pillows for her living room made from vintage cloth and pillow forms I scored at ValuVillage.
About four hours later I turned a heap of someone's fabric scraps into these little gems.
Pier 1 charges about $40 a pillow, the materials in mine may have run me a whoppin' $3.50 each. I enjoyed the process, designed something entirely to suit her (she's a little bird crazy), and saved more "junk" from entering our overflowing landfills. We're such a wasteful culture, but I am convinced that with a little work we can learn to see beauty and possibility in things that we consider trash and stop thinking that everything must be "new."
6 comments:
yay....my pillows! i LOVE them...and they're definitely worth more more than $3.50 to me.
jacqui
i'm very impressed. well done.
The one with the little white figure with what looks like bamboo...wow. You impress me, Mrs. Martens! Good on you for sticking to your goal.
Love.
i like the buttons on the peacock pillow :-)
i have a living room and my birthday is in september.
...wait, even better: wanna hang out one day and you can rub some of your domesticity off onto me? :) that'd be swell!
Hello talented.
My pillows would not turn out like that....but something in me wants to bring back those skills that 'I' apparently had in Grade 9 sewing as well now....
Hhmmm....
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