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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  

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 -

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

Electric fryingpan lid: Kiwiana paua-chip plate: Kiwiana copper bird plaque: Aluminium frying pan with Tui beer-can label:

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

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

Earrings made from different "Scrabble" sets:

Earrings made from plastic tiki from the tourist shop at the bottom of Queen Street, Auckland:

Necklace and matching earrings from old computer keyboards: "High-Five!"

Pendant made from broken dinner plate, with found silver chain:

My two nieces came over before Lockdown with their Barbie dolls and had fun making trashion outfits for them from some of my collection of plastic rubbish: Coffee-cup skirt Skirt of rubber bands Gift-wrap skirt Plastic glass skirt Plastic bag dress Plastic lei dress Metal foil dress Pot scrubber dress Onion bag dress Aluminum foil dress Balloon skirt Plastic bag dress

The  "words" in this letter are made from pieces of white plastic strapping I found in the back-aaly behind New World Supermarket in Browns Bay:

Fish cut from jandals found on 90-Mile Beach:

Some of my beach-finds on display in my front room in Browns Bay:

Assemblage of plastic beach finds collected on Orewa Beach:

The plastic I collected on a walk on Browns Bay Beach during Covid-19 lockdown:

Installation of found objects in my front room: