Showing posts with label reuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reuse. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Recent Finds


Among Alameda, SCRAP and Center for Creative Reuse, I've stumbled upon quite a few treasures...




I love this oil painting... slowly growing my collection


Ribbons, velvet, and antique whites..


A girl can never have too many vintage tea cups.



athough these are new, I love the simple blue and white.

Monday, August 16, 2010

A Few Good Finds...

Went to the Depot for Creative Reuse after work. This place can sometimes be one of my favorite places to pick up treasures. Sometimes, its just a mess with no finds and rude employees, but I had a good day today. I bought many things, but loved these rolls of bias tape that I use for wrapping presents or tying up fabric. I also had an incredibly serendipitous find later in the day, but I'll post about that later :) Happy hunting!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Spring Window

Better Pics! Here is a better look at the Spring Window. They look even better in person if you can make it down to the store!




Sunday, January 17, 2010

Spring Window is UP!

Excuse the poor pics form my phone. I will be posting better images this week!


Hundreds of reused plastic water and soda bottles became this spring sphere of flowers!!!!
The Atrium features this sphere, which is 92" wide and two others, one 72" wide and a baby one about 48" wide. All the flowers are strung on thread running floor to ceiling. I used over 2000 yards of thread!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A Venture to Scrap in SF

Went to Scrap this afternoon to check out the offerings. I've heard a lot about this place, and wanted to see what goodies I could find there. Some have compared it to Berkeley's Urban Ore, but it was more in the flavor of Center for Creative Reuse...a place for raw materials and whatnots instead of furniture and architectural salvage.

Scrap has a shelves of paper, rows of bindings and fabric remnants, and much more. Among my favorites, were the spools of thread and old sewing patterns.




We found a couple of good things, but there is lots of promise for finding treasures at a place like this.