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Day 15 – Origami bowl using fused recycled plastic bags (Taken with instagram)

Making things out of fused plastic has been more and more difficult.  One reason is that plastic bags (except for the crappy grocery store kind) are harder to find.  Most stores just don’t use them any more.  That’s great for the environment, but lousy for those of us who love to make things with fused plastic.

I actually find this bowl to be really ugly, in part, because the only plastic bags I found were some small trash bags. Really difficult plastic to fuse. It took me over an hour to melt them flat enough to create a usable sheet of plastic. My original idea was to make a prototype of an origami box lamp.  But the darn thing would not stay folded.  So I let it pop open and filled it with cookies. Voila. An ugly plastic bowl. If only I could make it out of stainless steel. Now that might be cool…

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I’ve hit a wall already. Making something worth sharing every single day no longer seems possible. I generally have between 2-5 hours to devote to any creative project each day – including design and preparation. The purpose of my challenge is to push my skills and my creativity. My hope is that I hit upon an idea worth pursuing further – whether it be art or a consumer good. So I feel I need to modify my challenge of 365 days of crafts. There will not be 365 individual crafts – only a promise to spend time crafting every day. I’ll post images of projects when they are complete, or maybe in process if it is interesting enough. And I’ll post a note each day listing what I’m doing, just to keep me motivated.

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Day 10 – Altered XXL sweatshirt into a tunic with flared body and sleeves. I love this. I’ll be making more. (Taken with instagram)