Girl on the Rocks

The force was with me March 21, 2007

Filed under: non-knitting related — karrie @ 3:43 pm

Look who I found in downtown Berkeley today!

Carmen gave me a tip on where it was so I decided to stop by on my way back from the post office. The best part about the sighting was that I was by far not the most excited to see one. Right after I snapped a crappy cameraphone picture, the mail truck pulled up. I was feeling a little sheepish until I turned around and saw that the mailman was snapping a photo himself! Man was he excited. He explained that it was his first pickup at that mailbox, and asked if I would snap his photo. and i did. One for him, one for me.

Doesn’t he look excited?

Tags: mailbox, non-knitting related, r2d2, usps

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Priority mail clutch January 14, 2007

Filed under: Crafty — karrie @ 11:53 pm

I have always been fascinated with how tyvek gets softer and softer with use while maintaining its durability (kinda like leather?). I decided that a used Tyvek USPS Priority mail envelope wasn’t trash, but actually quite a lot of usable fabric. I have a habit of saving all kinds of fabric, yarn, and fiber scraps for use as stuffing, but some of the yarns are pretty on their own. So I sewed up a clutch using the material and decorated it with felt and yarn scraps.

It’s kinda fun for me to look at because I can recognize all of the yarns and I remember which projects they are leftover from.

I really wanted to add a zipper, but I wanted to try and use only recycled items and I didn’t have any zippers destined for the trash and I was really trying to stick to the rules. So I used a craft punch and a hole punch to fashion buttons out of a plastic lid.

This is my second entry in the Upcycle contest over at etsy. Unfortunately my first entry suddenly looks a little less original…. I’m supposed to be flattered though, right?