Recycle, reduce and reuse, that is the message

I think that's a great idea. Takes me back to "Blue Peter" and "take one egg box and some sticky back plastic and make Aunty a dressing table" etc. LOL. Good to see you again by the way.

the most wow one that i came across a few years back was a woman that made skirts and waistcoats from neck ties., she only used silk ones, and the natural shape of the tie once unpicked just sews up to make a flared skirt.. they looked awesome, and all silk wonderful.. she used to go into charity shops to get the ties cheaply and obviously re cycling in style... i am a creative person myself and love it when a light goes on in some one to become creative and your project sounds fun, maybe you could e mail instructions then the rest of us can have a go too.. enjoy your time with your children and creating happy wishes x

i check out a website that usually sparks my imagination. your idea sounds great!

I'm not into crafting anything out of recycled products but it's a good thing that you are as a lot of people are into that kind of thing. I bet those wallets looked really nice. I am into recycling though, big time. Where I live we recycle almost everything. I have a cupboard in my kitchen that things fit under and out of the way from the traffic in the room. So I keep a box under the counter for my recyclable things that I empty into a big blue bin we got from the city, with things like paper and cardboard and soup cans, that type of thing, Then I have a another box just in front of that one that I put in my returnable items that I get money for. Like milk jugs and juice boxes and pop cans and such. We get paid pretty good for those things when we return them. I end up returning about 5 green garbage bags full every two months that I get around $30 for. I also have a garburator in my suite so most foods that would get thrown out in the garbage gets crunched instead. I now only have half a bag of garbage every week for the garbage men to pick up and my big blue bin full of recycleables that they also pick up.

Hi Humbug, How are you? Long time no see :) On holidayfrom the 6th August so if you still have that flower covered car might be able to catch up with you on the roads of the SW lol. I would really know how you made them as that sounds great!!! I recycle a lot but would love to be able to make something creative from the goods instead of just taking up to the recycling centre. Huggles. Ellie :D

A wallet made from old milk and juice cartons sounds weird by creative. I liked hearing about the girl that made designer style purses out of the leather from car seats from the cars that sit in the junkyard and rot. You could not tell the difference and they were beautiful. She won an award for it. So keep up the recycling idea. they could get famous for some creative recycling idea like her! lol

I thought I was. My cousin had a purse made of newspapers...so I tried one and just couldn't get it right. So my daughter is visiting right now....we're going to try to make one today to see if we can work out the design. They are so cool!

hi humbug oh I love the kids programs that the libraries have. I worked for 23 years in the Tustin Library on the kids side helping the children's librarian teach those craft classes and I was astounded at what could be made out of the oddest of materials. I actually learned some interesting things while watching to see that the children were all busy having fun and not being naughty.lol.

Well haven't been wowed by anything creative yet, becuse its pretty easy for me to make stuff but I'm sure I will be wowed someday soon because there's so meny things to create and so meny talented people in the world I'm bound to see somthing amazing and differnt.

We need to pay closer attention to recycling rules. The more we take care of recycling, reducing and reusing, the better off we will be. The care we take of our planet now determines the future of this planet for us all.

Wow that's really a great thing to do.. Aside from having a bonding with your children, you get to teach them how to be responsible with the environmental. Recently, there was the very same session on the municipal gym but we just learned about it after the event. Too bad. Anyway, I can actually learn these skills on my own with just the internet at home it's just that i dont find time. maybe i need to really spend more time on stuff like those on the internet than spend time playing online games or chatting.

Making a wallet like that cool it's the first I have heard of that, but hey anything to save the planet earth right. I think that everybody needs to recycle in order for our planet to survive more we are responsible for it after all because we live here. That's why I love earth day. Awww your kids gave them as gifts to their teachers I wish I would be that nice to my teachers back then, but I wasn't. I have actually never made something like that though, but I think I will find out how to make a wallet out of old milk and juice cartons and hopefully it will turn out ok. Anyway way to go to save the planet.^^

I have never seen a wallet made out of milk and juice boxes, but I have seen a duct tape wallet and even a purse! It was neat! I'd totally love to learn how to make wallets out of recycled items. I'm currently trying to learn how to bead jewelry.

Some guys ,made a ship out of old plastic bottles and stuck them together with sugar and cashew and used it to sail across the pacific ocean. The boat was made completely out of recycled stuff. Really Cool

Is this the new new thing in fashion? Hmm. I remember seeing somebody post in a forum a photo of a handbag made from recycled stuff. It looks nice and classy. But I'm not sure if women will go for it.

Hi Humbug25 What a wonderful ideal. I have never hard of making wallets from milk and juice cartons. That's simply amazing. Take care snow