My latest art piece, in honour of International Womens Day over the weekend. "The Horrors". Hand embroidered, on reclaimed lace handkerchief. #handembroideredart #artforartssake #protestart #dmcthreads #dmcembroidery #handembroidery #repurposing #upcycling

The ear piece on my #fairphone broke the other day. Three days layer the replacement part arrived, and using nothing but an old bank card for a spudger and a single screwdriver I was able to disassemble parts of the phone, replace the earpiece and reassemble it all. This is genius!

Also found out about #Citronics which creates single board computers using recirculated phone parts (has a deal with Fairphone company) which is a very cool bit of #upcycling if you ask me. :D

If you throw out clothes (and even sending old clothes to charity shops is often throwing them out) where do they go? El Pais tracked some https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html
#upcycling

Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a compact greenhouse on wheels. It’s almost entirely created from upcycled materials. Our neighbors generously gifted us with some plexiglass he had laying around.
As a result we are able to move the greenhouse depending of the sun‘s position. We have also started some growing some new seedlings, including corn, kidney beans, kohlrabi and radishes.

Just finished sewing together the tea towels for my bedcover project. 7 came from op shops and 2 from Mum. Because of the various sizes the arrangement options were a bit limited but I’m happy with it!

Now I will hunt through my stash of old sheets for some backing and binding fabric.