Make Do ...or Do Without...
I love when someone prominent in any field (especially scrapbooking) is a proponent of the same ideals that I hold. It's like saying, "YES! Someone else gets it!" This week I love Heidi Swapp's blog posts on gratitude and on reusing material items that are already around us.
Here is Heidi's blog
http://www.heidiswapp.typepad.com/
and here is the post I love today.
http://heidiswapp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/10/fix-it-up-wear.html
It highlights an old saying from the great depression era:
"Fix it Up
Wear it Out
Make Do or
Do Without"
My great-grandmother Francis Meyer Gramlich was often known to say these four lines. I am so glad to hear they are resonating with a new generation in a new era. Americans do take up a very large footprint on the world of material goods. Perhaps we can minimize that impact --one home at a time. Let's use those Seven R's: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Refurbish. Redo. Repurpose and Renovate.
I love it. If you need a reminder to print and post in your home, Heidi has designed a lovely one! See the Make it Do sign it here:
http://heidiswapp.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/fix_it_sign.pdf
Get creative! As Tim Gunn says, "Make it Work!" ;)
Rock
Comments
I have a sign for my crops where we share and exchange our unwanted goodies...it says:
Junk & Jewels
FREE-Style
Sharing Table
Do you have something you’d like to
share, give, trade?
Embellishments, Stickers, Papers?
Leave your item here…
Take something you need!
These items are for the pages
you are working on today!
Whatever is left behind,
will return at the next crop!
In your scrap area, start with 4 bins/cans
(1) One for the trash recycling bin (2) one for non-recyclable rubbish, (3) one for your useable scraps and (4) a donate box/trade table
just my 2 cents!
Lizzy
Love your blog. hugs Mia from Sweden
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