Rubbish Revamped: The Blog

Wishing everyone a very merry festive season and a happy new year.
Remember to save your favourite Christmas cards and ribbons for revamping at our session on 21 January!
More info on workshops page.

Great day at Manchester Future Fest, making juice carton wallets, Christmas card globes, button bracelets and lots more with many lovely visitors of all ages. But, oh calamity, Woolhead the sock monster, whose role was to be a friendly face propped on a sign outside the craft room, was AWOL at the end of the day! Gone but not forgotten, Woolhead is famous for his appearance this year in the How to Make Monsters & Monkeys book.

Gone but not forgotten...

Making juice carton wallets at Future Fest December 2009

Setting up stall at Manchester's Future Fest event Dec 09

We’re not moaning minnies when it comes to Christmas. We love it – the eating, drinking, presents and of course dressing the house up. Enjoy getting ready for the festive season with our special workshops.

From Random Rubbish to Festive Hangings invites you to make card hangings so gorgeous you’ll want to keep them up all year round.

A small selection from the Christmas crafts programme

Don’t miss our Saturday guest workshop with local textile artist Liz Cooksey will be making Wacky Wire Fairies to perch on your tree.

Booking information at http://www.rubbishrevamped.org.uk/booking.html

Just in case y0u’re not on the mailing list and haven’t received the newsletter – here’s the November issue. Do ask to go on the mailing list by emailing Carol and Danielle at rubbishrevamped@googlemail.com.

Rubbish Revamped gift vouchers now available

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.