Years ago before the my two oldest kids were small, someone shared an ingenious pattern of making a skeleton out of 4 litre milk jugs and we spent a Saturday building it for halloween.
Even though I'm known as a fix-it guy, I have to confess - I've had a broken table leaning up on edge in the corner of my shop for nearly a year now. It was one of those fancy small round tables that was big enough to seat 4 people for tea.
My daughter asked me the other day if I knew how to make homemade paper. She has the idea that she can recycle some of the envelopes and other mail we get into personalized stationery for gifts for her friends.
I’m known as a fix-it kind of guy, so whenever something falls into disrepair in the neighbourhood, I’m usually the one that gets called. A lot of the time, things can be fixed, but there are those occasions that you can never really fix something back to the standard of what you’d like. In cases like that, it’s time to use your imagination and see what you can do to repurpose the usable parts of the item into something else.
There has been quite a campaign going on from our city to urge people to “store it, don’t pour it”, referring to cooking grease going down the drain. I know that years ago, people thought that it was fine to pour grease down the drain as long as you chased it with really hot water and maybe a little dish soap. I don’t think anyone even gave a passing thought as to what happened to it once it went down the drain.
I was just surfing around on the web on my favourite subject, whales when I came across a really shocking PSA (Public Service Announcement) about a whale swimming around in a sea of plastic!
At our last ladies’ night, Jane surprised everyone by insisting that the next get together be at her house. “I have something I can’t wait to show you all,” she exclaimed excitedly. Try as we might, we couldn’t drag it out of her what the big secret was.
Even though I'm known as a fix-it guy, I have to confess - I've had a broken table leaning up on edge in the corner of my shop for nearly a year now. It was one of those fancy small round tables that was big enough to seat 4 people for tea.
There has been quite a campaign going on from our city to urge people to “store it, don’t pour it”, referring to cooking grease going down the drain. I know that years ago, people thought that it was fine to pour grease down the drain as long as you chased it with really hot water and maybe a little dish soap. I don’t think anyone even gave a passing thought as to what happened to it once it went down the drain.
I have a sad story, but it has a happy ending. AND I found a way to reuse something too. My Mom says that reusing is the second best R of the 3Rs.
