#recycling bags

[starblaster]

(since no one is reading my tags or other reblogs): this post has an addition. the addition is specifically about co-mingle recycling in most usamerican cities. always check your local guidelines for recycling. the point of this post was not to tell you what you can or can’t recycle, anyway. the point was that a lot of recycling gets thrown out because it’s fucking contaminated. if you can’t clean your recyclables to keep them from contaminating a whole bin, just put it in the trash. you don’t need to feel guilty about it... that's it. that's why i wrote the post.

[chessboxingstreetwear]

GYUHAN LEE x McDonalds (upcycled paper bag lamp)

[hekateinhell]

achilles/patroclus (to me)

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[buboplague]

Hello, those colourful sketchbook drawings you posted are so vibrant and beautiful! I was wondering if you have any favourite crayon/pencils to use for sketching?

Also wanted to say that your art in general is very inspiring. I love how fluid it is.

Hello! Thank you for your kind comment. I'm always touched if someone feels inspired!

Those were done with Caran d'ache Neocolor II, and the gold (which just looks plain yellow in the photo oops) is a marubu crayon. I really like them because they're not crumbly like oil pastels, but look similar. I want to use them more often but I suffer from "I struggle to justify using my nice art supplies" syndrome

I can't think of any specific stand out favorites, but lately the things that I grab for often are: - random ballpoint pens - gel pen or felt pen - fountain pens (not pictured because they're in my work bag) - kaweco clutch pencil (which I named "bananecil") - blackwing matte pencil - pentel brush pen EF - zig clearcolor brush pens - misc colored pencils or markers for some pops of color - I was gifted these random clearance zebra metallic brush markers that kind of suck but I also kind of like them? Complicated relationship

Here's the stuff in my bedside pencil bag

I want to try one of those multi-colored lead pencils someday soon

[nym-wibbly]

I thought Sir Terry was making the snail thing up for funsies...

[bentothuglife]

The culture clash between the rural can-crusher and the urban can-returner

[rathenarts]

Once upon a time, when I was only about ten, my parents bought me a little waterproof backpack for our family hiking days. I used it for a while, then it ended up in my closet being used to store random things, and then many years later I needed a backpack and pulled it out and started carrying it again. I kept carrying it until the zips broke and the lining debonded and the waterproof fabric tore, and at that point it was about thirty years old and officially very dead.

But I happened to need a new wash bag. So I cut that faithful old backpack up into the biggest pieces of waterproof outer and lining I could salvage, pulled the last working zip from one of the pockets, added a carabiner clip from one of those reusable water pouches that had also died on me and a D-ring that I literally found in the street on my way to the corner shop one evening... and I've been using this for about three years now and it works great.

(Plus it makes me smile knowing that my old backpack that went on so many adventures with me isn't just disintegrating in a landfill somewhere. There are no downsides to upcycling! ^_^)

[borninwinter81]

Replacing my bag strap

Unlike many of my clothes and accessories this bag isn't thrifted. It's a bag by Jawbreaker that I absolutely love the look of, it has multiple pockets, tons of space inside, and is clearly great quality as I've had it for over 10 years and it's almost good as new. It's the only handbag I own, and I've no desire to get a new one.

However the one bit I've had to replace multiple times is the shoulder strap, since that's the bit that gets most wear and tear.

It originally had the kind of strap which clips on, but the problem with those is that after years of metal rubbing against metal, eventually it wears away to the point where the clip is thin enough that it snaps. Last couple of times I just put a new clip on, however this time not only were the clips worn away but so were the d-rings you're supposed to attach them to, so I did a more thorough job.

First of all I unpicked the stitching attaching the d-rings to the bag and replaced them with these large rectangular ones. I always save metal hardware from clothing items I mod or that are finally old and worn enough to be thrown away, and I think these came from a skirt. Happily I had two the same, so I used bits of the old strap which weren't too badly worn to make loops to sew them on.

I sewed them by hand with thick top-stitch thread doubled over, and I even did those criss-cross stitching lines to make them extra secure.

I then went to a nearby charity shop hoping to find a cheap bag I could steal the strap from, but even better, I came across this belt, the construction of which was extremely similar to the detailing already on the bag. It was £1, way cheaper than a replacement strap from ebay, which I have also bought in the past.

I didn’t want to cut the buckle off because the belt fabric would fray, so I unpicked the stitching around the buckle instead, and put the buckle away in my crafting box to hopefully reuse in the future - like I said, I save everything.

I wanted the eyelets on the belt to be visible as they match the rest of the eyelets on the bag, so I put the belt through the rectangle and folded it over as far as I could while still showing all the eyelets, then sewed it shut. Again, I did multiple rows of stitching to keep it secure, and I also oversewed down both sides.

I don't have a sliding buckle that would enable me to adjust the strap length, but I never adjust my bag strap anyway, so I just put the strap over my shoulder, adjusted it to a length that I liked, and sewed that end together too. This was a long belt so I ended up doubling it over quite far, but that's good as it will make this section of the new strap extra thick, so hopefully it's extra strong.

And there we go, it looks as if I bought it like this!

[imhereonthekitchenfloor]

You know that universal experience of having a plastic bag full of plastic bags? And then eventually you have too many so you throw it out because they aren't normally recyclable?

Well guess what? They are!! If you have plastic bags or other plastic bag like products look for this symbol

Notice that "store drop off" in the middle? What you are supposed to do is store up a lot of bags and then bring them all into a grocery store or stores like Target and Walmart. The special recycle bins are usually in the front of the store. Here's what it looks like in Target.

All you have to do is drop off your plastic bags at your local store and they won't be clogging up landfills anymore!!

[chessboxingstreetwear]

GYUHAN LEE x McDonalds (upcycled paper bag lamp)

[naturedways]

im always trying to reuse my trash in my art, and ive collected like 100 of these tea pouches😩 so let's start using them shall we?

I'm making ATC's with them 🥰 (artist trading cards!!) and sending them to people! the bags are still functional as bags, so I'm thinking of adding something in there too. maybe some stickers, or what have you?

first time creating a set of items. it's actually a lot of fun to do the same things slightly different! I'd suggest you give it a go if you haven't yet 💘

thanks for looking at my art! I appreciate all the interaction with my posts, friends😊

[cottonkhaleesi]

Today I woke up and decided to make folding shopping bags out of (yet more) stained bedsheets. Left is the pattern, right is where I made some adjustments.

[silvirub]

One last dip.

[noperopesaredope]

People be out here saying "don't get the free plastic bags from the store, just buy reusable ones!" as though my parents haven't been using the same 10 free plastic bags for the past seven years.

Most things are reusable if you have enough determination.

This is a shitpost I support environmentalism and also people who need disposable shit for health reasons I just thought this was funny please don't hate me-

[ryllen]

just a walk