Rubbish Revamped: The Blog

 We’ll use heat to fuse plastic bag remnants, fruit netting and sweet wrappers to make a funky desk-tidy. There will also be a choice of creating everlasting flowers, mini wall hanging or a greeting card. Warning: Preparing your rubbish may be arduous, demanding sweet and chocolate consumption in order to produce required materials. Places limited to 6. Cost £15.00 Sorry fully booked; please express interest for future sessions

Pots and flower made from fused plastic bags, nettings & chocolate wrapping

Much excitement and nervousness at our first ever sales event at Didsbury Arts Festival. Usually we hold stalls to promote the workshops – and we’re often asked if items are for sale. Today we decided to bring a bit of dosh in to support Rubbish Revamped developments. Sock monsters and monkeys, greeting card gift boxes and buttons bracelets flew off  the shelves. We’re feeling a bit traumatised to see some of our old friends go. Jean-Francois the sock monkey was amongst those leaving for pastures new. Listeners of ALL FM’s Eco-Lounge will have heard him accompany us on shows. Here he is in the studio.

Sock monkeys 'Frank' and 'Mad Eyes Stanley' going to a new home. Draught excluder Sid the Snake (crafted from old ties) in the background

Make your own sock monsters or sock monkeys at a workshop.

Thanks to everyone for a fun evening on our first Thursday workshop back since the summer. We were pleased to welcome Dionne from ALL FM radio’s Eco-Lounge – and her mum!  Little wire button hearts were followed by tea and chocolate cake and then we got stuck into beading with buttons to make unique-looking bracelets.

Buttons galore - and Sidney the tie snake ssssneaked in too.

Rubbish Revamped were asked to hold a stall and run a little workshop at the Communities for Change event on 12.9.09. It was a great opportunity to meet lots of friendly green community activists. Here’s Carol by our stall with a studious little group of junkmail jewellery craftsters.