Thrift and Craft, reused, reformed into beautiful crafts
View allAll Photos Tagged Reusable
No plastic and reusable. Opening and closing can be done by hand as often as you like.
Kein Plastik und Wiederverwendbar.Das Öffnen und Verschließen kann beliebig oft von Hand erfolgen.
Whenever we go grocery shopping, I find that I look at the packaging our food comes in as a possible photographic subject. One afternoon my husband came home with a large bag of tangerines. I enjoy that fruit, yet the bag holding the orange orbs made me especially happy.
What do you do with an old copper bowl that has a hole in it? Some people might fix the hole.
Or, you can make the hole bigger and turn it into a small sink.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Love the guys hat in this previously unpublished shot from February 2018 - No. 4201 uploaded to my 'Black and White Streets' album. Enjoy!
My wonderful SIL created gift bags this year and mailed them early with requests to “open” them!! They are sewn from quilt squares and the back side is red felt— isn’t she clever? The next picture in the photostream shows some of the things that were in the bag!
ANSH scavenger4 something red
LCOF wrapped gifts
……💙 HLCoF 🎁💙
Fort Point has been called "the pride of the Pacific," "the Gibraltar of the West Coast," and "one of the most perfect models of masonry in America." When construction began during the height of the California Gold Rush 1853, Fort Point was planned as the most formidable deterrence America could offer to a naval attack on California. Although its guns never fired a shot in anger, the "Fort at Fort Point" as it was originally named has witnessed Civil War, obsolescence, earthquake, bridge construction, reuse for World War II, and preservation as a National Historic Site.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in January 2025.
Thank you for your comments and favourites.
Good news, my flare-up of severe Long Covid symptoms appears to have ended as suddenly as it started. Yesterday I actually felt 'normal' for the first time in just over two weeks. Just as the previous two occasions this has happened, the duration and severity of symptoms and the sudden onset and end are nearly identical. So bizarre. Hopefully it will be a few months before it happens again, like last time, though obviously I would prefer that it never happens at all.
Of course, the symptoms remain, but the difference in severity is enormous. I have to remember that while I 'feel' like I am back to normal, my normal now is not what it used to be and I have to be careful not to overdo it. I still have to micromanage my rest and recovery for everything that I do.
It's blissful not to feel and hear your own heart thumping irregularly and at just 30 beats per minute over and over again, non-stop, day after day. There must be a trigger to this repeating pattern of symptoms though. I just don't know what it is yet.
Take care everyone.
A fence I used once before. I use it again to christen a new lens, and because the fence pickings ain't so good in our neighborhood. Is anyone running fence tours?
HFF to all: Looking forward to seeing everyone's handiwork.
This is the Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge located in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Many years ago it was repurposed from a Rail Bridge to a walking bridge. In order to visit a family member, we drove from Digby, N.S. to Fredericton N.B.. We had reserved the 4:30pm Ferry but at 3:pm, we received an email stating the Ferry had been cancelled, and in fact never left Fredericton. Bastards!
We kept our cool and decided to make the 6.5 hour drive. We did however, enjoy the scenery along the way. My compliments to those responsible for designing the highway system in Nova Scotia. Other Provinces could learn from those engineers, and how to move traffic both effectively and quickly.
Seems right to put this out early for Earth Day 2018, with the lime light very much on cutting down the amount of plastic waste spilling into our fragile environment.
HMM
Alt title: 8 Heads are Better than ONE.
Alt title: Alani Visits the Head Shop.
At ReclaimIt! 1 Killingsworth Street, North Portland, Oregon. Summer 2022.
Lomo Color 800, Minolta SRT102. Processed and printed with sloppy border by Blue Moon Camera. Scanned print.
Beautifully shaped jam jars are saved and reused for homemade jam or jelly.
Wiederverwertbare Marmeladengläser
Schön geformte Marmeladengläser werden aufgehoben und für selbstgemachte Marmelade oder Gelee wiederverwendet.
Für "Looking close... on Friday!"
Thema "Reusable or Recycled" am 25.10.2024.
Have a nice Friday and a good start into the weekend. 🌸
Many, many thanks for all your views, faves and comments.
Everyday I remove the card from my camera and dump the photos on my computer, then put the card back into the camera for next day. So far just once did I pull out the camera to get the red flash of no card. The reusable card is also on my faux Autumn leaf that gets used each year for accent on mantel.
As individuals we need to stop using plastic that is single use, and manufacturers must stop producing the vast majority of it.
ANSH 123 (6) planet first for earth day
My DD was painting outside and used a plastic mini quiches container as a mixing pallet. It was left outside and various bugs wandered in and got stuck. The orange paint pot was the most popular…..
Anyhow I used my cloning skills in the app Retouch and made it prettier!! Will put the buggy original in the first comment box in a bit
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstadel
© Copyright 2016, All rights reserved. Do not copy or otherwise reuse my photos.
Available for licensing on Getty Images
Buy prints at photos.com:
Seen here in remarkable isolation on the remote Dengie Peninsula on the Essex coast, St Peter-on-the-Wall is widely regarded as one of the oldest surviving churches in England and one of the most important surviving buildings connected with the earliest spread of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The chapel was founded around AD 654 by Saint Cedd, a monk from the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, who had been sent south to convert the pagan East Saxons to Christianity under the patronage of King Sigeberht of Essex.
The location chosen for this early Christian mission was deeply symbolic. The chapel was constructed directly within the remains of Othona, a substantial Roman coastal fort built during the late 3rd century AD, probably around AD 280–300, as part of the Roman Empire’s defensive network known as the Saxon Shore forts. These forts were established to defend the vulnerable eastern and southern coastline of Roman Britain against increasing raids by Germanic seabororne invaders, particularly Saxons and Franks crossing the North Sea. The fort at Othona guarded the approaches to the estuaries of the Blackwater and Colne rivers and would once have housed a Roman garrison protecting this strategically important stretch of coastline.
When Saint Cedd arrived some 350 years later, Roman authority had long since vanished but the surviving stone walls of the abandoned fort provided an ideal place to establish one of the earliest Christian communities in southern England. Builders reused Roman bricks, tiles and stone from the ruined fort itself, creating the chapel’s strikingly simple appearance and giving rise to its modern name: St Peter-on-the-Wall. It stands as a fascinating physical link between the final years of Roman Britain and the emergence of Christian Anglo-Saxon England.
After serving as a place of worship for centuries, the building gradually lost its ecclesiastical role. By the 17th century, during a period when many older religious buildings fell into disuse, the chapel had been converted into an agricultural barn. Large doorways were cut through its ancient walls to allow the storage of farm equipment and crops, fundamentally altering the original structure. Fortunately, its immense historical importance was recognised in the early 20th century and in 1920 the building underwent careful restoration before being reconsecrated for religious use once again.
Visible near the coastline is the Othona Community, founded in 1946 by Anglican minister Norman Motley. Established in the aftermath of the Second World War, the community was created as a centre for Christian retreat, reconciliation, hospitality and reflection, welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds. The community remains active today and helps maintain the chapel as a place of worship, pilgrimage and quiet contemplation.
The surrounding landscape is equally significant. The Dengie Peninsula is a low-lying and geologically young coastal landscape formed largely from marine clay, estuarine silts and alluvial deposits laid down over thousands of years by tidal action in the North Sea. The extensive surrounding salt marshes, mudflats and reclaimed grazing marshes are internationally important habitats supporting migratory birds and specialised salt-tolerant plant communities. This exposed coastline, shaped continuously by erosion, tides and storm surges, would have looked broadly familiar both to Roman soldiers stationed at Othona nearly 1,700 years ago and to Saint Cedd when Christianity first arrived here almost 1,400 years ago.
Few places in England capture such an extraordinary continuity of history in one small landscape — from Roman military occupation, through the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, centuries of agricultural use, and into the modern era where this isolated chapel still stands as a living monument to nearly two millennia of human history on the Essex coast.
A closer look at the C. U. Williams & Son Building located on the south side of the 200 block of E. Washington St. in downtown Bloomington. Completed in 1911, the four-story building was constructed as an automobile showroom, garage and lodge hall. Of particular note are the large second-story showroom windows designed to display twice as many cars from the street.
According to the McLean County Museum of History, C. U. Williams and his son Walter sold the latest models from early automakers, including E-M-F, Chalmers, Moon, Stearns, Studebaker, Willys-Overland and Woods (the latter known for its electric cars). "The manufacturers that we are representing are all old and well-established houses - there cars are long past the experimental stage," was a C. U. Williams & Son promise.
The McLean County Museum of History article on C. U. Williams goes on to say that Williams & Son offered not only sales and maintenance, but auto painting, "livery" service (car rentals by the hour or day), storage (when home garages were few) and even a place to charge battery-powered cars.
In later years an office equipment company by the name of Paxtons occupied the building. The building is now the home of the legal offices of Wylder Corwin Kelly LLP, trial lawyers specializing in medical malpractice.
The C. U. Williams & Son Building, along with the Castle Theatre next to it and also owned by Williams, were designed by architect A. T. Simmons. Simmons designed the Lafayette Apartments posted earlier in this series, but is probably best known for his more than 71 Carnegie libraries in Illinois and a dozen other states, along with numerous courthouses, schools, churches and other public buildings. Simmons also designed most of the houses in the Cedar Crest Historic District of Normal, Illinois, the other half of the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.
Both the C. U. Williams & Son Building and the Castle Theatre next door are contributing architectural properties in the Bloomington Central Business District listed in 1985 on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The district includes roughly twelve square blocks of the city and encompasses 140 buildings, 118 of which are contributing buildings to the district's historic character.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, Country Financial and Beer Nuts. Illinois Wesleyan University is located here, while the neighboring city of Normal is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
It takes nearly one hour of walking to reach this wreckage of a DC-3 at the black beach of Sólheimasandur. However, for a special wedding photo, this effort seems to be acceptable.