Posts

Trash show-and-tell

Image
Last Wednesday I presented a show-and-tell for children at the local Browns Bay Library in my guise as "The Professor of Garbology". Below: a clock made from a frissbee - Below: an apron made from a coffee bean sack - Below: a broken kete handle replaced with a bicycle innertube-  Below: the Prof ponders a recycling query - Read more of my adventures in dumpsterdiving, upcycling, recycling, and  freeganing at: The Adlington Post www.martin-adlington.blogspot.com  
Post a Comment
Read more

The PM gets hip!

Image
Below: the NZ Prime Minister models earrings made from knitting needles: "Stick to your knitting indeed!" Below: more knitting needle earrings - Below: bracelets made from knitting needles -
Post a Comment
Read more

3 upcycled clocks

Image
Kiwiana trout-fishing souvenir (Lake Taupo): "Palm" corned beef tin with fork pendulum: Metal frying pan out of a shearing shed in Taranaki:
Post a Comment
Read more

4 more upcycled clocks

Image
Electric fryingpan lid: Kiwiana paua-chip plate: Kiwiana copper bird plaque: Aluminium frying pan with Tui beer-can label:
Post a Comment
Read more

8mm film earrings

Image
Below: earrings made from 8mm movie film. The production is the Hollywood Irving Berlin musical "Easter Parade" starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. Last century commercial movies were copied to 8mm film so that people could run the film through their own projector - and watch home movies! An early (1930's?) 8mm film projector
Post a Comment
Read more

16mm film earrings

Image
These earrings are made from pieces of 16mm colour home-movie film. The images are of people on a skiing holiday: A 16 mm home-movie projector
Post a Comment
Read more

Scrabble jewellery

Image
Earrings made from different "Scrabble" sets:
Post a Comment
Read more