At school, I used to look forward to our woodwork classes. I loved the process of being given a brief, producing a design, then making something with your own hands – Mum still has the wooden clock I made. But we didn’t seem to do woodwork for very long; it was the same with our metalwork classes – the only thing I remember making is a small metal whale which did nothing useful, whatsoever!
I think by now we all know that plastic pollution is a huge world problem and the effects on the environment and marine life are horrific.
It’s hard to know what you can do as an individual and it’s easy to feel powerless. The way I feel is that while my family is four people in 7.6 billion, we can’t sit by and do nothing at all. In the words of David Attenborough following Blue Planet II, “…if we start doing those small steps that are easily achievable, we can, before long, really have an effect.”
I live in Ely which is home to around 20,000 people, and the city is on a mission to reduce the number of single-use plastic bags used in our shops. It’s something everyone can get involved in and I’ve made my small contribution 🙂
I’ve wanted a new upcycling project for a while and when I spotted a photo of a wall mounted jewellery holder on Pinterest (where else?) I knew I’d found my project. It seemed like a pretty easy way of making something functional and unique. On Day 9 of #100DaysNoTV I turned a small wooden box into a pretty holder for my jewellery.
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