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Bangor Craftivist first open get together, making re-useable shopping bags. Six of us met at the Greenhouse community centre and had an enjoyable evening of crafting, tea and cake :)
We all put slogans and logos on our bags which inspire us and make a statement that we feel is important to share. When we are filling our bags with shopping, or using them for our swimming kit(!) they will remind us or someone else who sees them, and might spark some interesting conversations!
For more information on Mooncups go to www.mooncup.co.uk
Inside my room. I wanted to show you all how to build an amazing toy corner with secondhanded, recycled and old toys!!
300 millions de paires sont jetées chaque année. 40 matériaux rentrent dans la composition de la plupart des chaussures, d'où la difficulté à les recycler.
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St Peter, Cambridge
I was chasing the ghosts of my ancestors in the villages to the west of the city, but I had arrived in Cambridge at eight in the morning and did not want to get to the village churches before they opened. So I cycled up the long former Roman road which cuts right through the centre of the city to St Peter. This is a Churches Conservation Trust church now in the care of the Kettles Yard gallery next door. The church is beautiful, a tiny stone-built church with a tower and stone spire set on an ancient mound at the foot of Castle Hill with rows of cottages about, a rural moment in the heart of the old part of the city. The nave and chancel were demolished in the 18th Century and replaced with a small Georgian box, only the late Norman doorway being retained.
Cambridge grew up as a major town long before the University arrived because it was at the crossing point between two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The tower and the spire give St Peter the style of a midlands church, and it is tempting to think this may be because the church sits 200m north of Magdalene Bridge over the Cam. Thus, more than a thousand years ago it was the only Cambridge church in the kingdom of Mercia, whilst the other medieval city centre churches were in the kingdom of East Anglia on the other side of the river. Obviously, there have been lots of rebuildings since. But still...
My great-grandparents Tom and Alice Reynolds moved to Shelley Row just to the north of this church in 1916, and lived there for forty years. But my High Church great-grandmother walked past the church every Sunday on her way to the Anglo-Catholic delights of St Giles, a Victorian church directly across the road from St Peter.
The bright misty early morning light and the red leaves in the churchyard were just right, so I photographed the exterior of this tiny church. I came back later in the day on my returning orbit from the villages to a delightful surprise - the church was being used for the installation Unearthed - In Memoriam by Issam Kourbaj, a Cambridge-based Syrian artist, which consists of hundreds of book covers, each representing a person he knew in Syria, some of which are painted across with red and black to denote that they have been killed in the current conflict. It had a strong resonance with our own current remembering of the First World War.
The installation had required all the Victorian benches to be removed, leaving the font in splendid isolation. The font is a poorer version of the one at Anstey in Hertfordshire, with mermen holding their tails. My Great-Aunt Lon was grudgingly baptised in it in 1916, this being technically the family's parish church. It was good to see it again after thirty years or so, and the installation was moving too. It seemed a shame that they would need to put the benches back.
And then I headed off along King Street and Newmarket Road to visit my mum and dad.
Reuse, Recover, Repurpose, Bottle Cap Bugs and Festive Flowers, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
~ Issey Miyake
Saori style handwoven wrap created from reclaimed fibers..
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We were given two free reusable grocery bags at the Giant in Columbia Heights today. I think we're going to leave them by the front door to remind us to actually use them, in light of DC's new 5 cents per platic bag tax. We already have reusable bags but forget to bring them with us half the time.
Blogged:
dendroica.blogspot.com/2010/01/dc-bag-tax-reducing-plasti...
www.welovedc.com/2010/03/30/dc-bag-tax-nets-150000-for-an...
blog.liveserramar.com/go-green/byob-bring-your-own-bag/
www.digitalpicturezone.com/featured/11-eco-friendly-techn...
dcist.com/2010/11/sen_chuck_schumer_calls_for_reusabl.php
dcist.com/2011/02/survey_says_bag_tax_not_harmful_to.php
dcist.com/2012/01/those_reusable_bags_can_kill_you.php
www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/03/05/pri...
I dropped off our recycling today and grabbed this shot.
One man's trash is another's treasure. Make a photo of something discarded or abandoned today.
Bangor Craftivist first open get together, making re-useable shopping bags. Six of us met at the Greenhouse community centre and had an enjoyable evening of crafting, tea and cake :)
We all put slogans and logos on our bags which inspire us and make a statement that we feel is important to share. When we are filling our bags with shopping, or using them for our swimming kit(!) they will remind us or someone else who sees them, and might spark some interesting conversations!
super interesting to se where these things end up.
www.ehow.co.uk/facts_5728909_shipping_-receiving-clerk-jo...
quartet shipping boxes pic.
Made for a friend from some home decorator fabric I bought on sale and didn't know what to do with. :)
Tengo una impresora-scanner malograda (regalo de mi tío) y la uso para poner mis cosas cuando leo o veo alguna película en mi computadora.
I have a damaged printer-scanner (a gift from my uncle) and I use it for the stuff when I read or watch a movie in my computer.
Another corner of my craft corner. I made this fabric strawberry mobile some months ago & plan to make new ones for my shop. (August 18th 2008)
(see notes on the photo itself for details)
these are a few more experiments with a curved paper background and white bin-liner to diffuse natural light from a window. as with the last, I think brighter lighting would be better. You can see a grey spot from some issue with the lens I'm trying on these too.
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The ancient site of Tanis lies in the north east of Egypt's Delta region and dates back to the 19th Dynasty, later becoming the seat of power for later pharaohs during the 21st and 22nd Dynasties.
Many of the monuments here are inscribed for Ramesses II but are believed to have been transferred at a later date from his former capital 'Pi-Ramesses', modern Qantir, (one of the nearby villages we travelled through en route here) where little remains today. The cities in the Delta were built along the many branches of the Nile that bisect this region, but with the silting up of some branches over time such settlements became vulnerable and were abandoned, as happened at Pi-Ramesses and later its replacement Tanis in turn.
The site today is located near the modern village of San el Hagar and the surviving ruins largely consist of isolated inscribed blocks, scattered obelisk and architectural fragments and pieces of large scale sculptures. It is nonetheless an impressive spectacle and a great site to explore, the almost caramel colour of the stone and desert adds much to the atmosphere.
More complete are the tomb structures of the 21st & 22nd dynasties, the tomb of Shoshenq III being complete except for its roof and filled with reliefs and sarcophagi. The tomb of Psusennes I (along with Amenemope and Shoshenq II who were also interred there) is located nearby under a surviving section of the ruined plinth of the former temple of Amun, but the tombs themselves can only be glimpsed through openings. These tombs yielded intact treasures when they were investigated by Pierre Montet in 1940 and the contents are now on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
My first encounter with Tanis was of course via one of my favourite films, Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which it is the setting for the stunning 'Map Room' and 'Well of Souls' where the Ark of the Covenant is found in the film. Of course none of it was filmed here (or even in Egypt itself) but I was intrigued to see broken obelisks like the one that led Indiana Jones to the target! But the film's claim that the city had been lost up to that point is pure myth, it has been investigated frequently since the early 19th century.
Our trip to Tanis was slightly complicated by the security situation, it is quite remote and the closest we got to the trouble spots in the Sinai, thus we were held back at Tell Basta until an armed escort could accompany us. This didn't cause alarm, being something we had experienced already elsewhere, and a sign of how seriously Egypt takes the safety of its visitors. Nonetheless it was quite humbling having groups of guards making a special trip at short notice just for the two of us!
We didn't spend more than an hour on site here (despite having a very good local guide who was willing to show us more if we'd stayed) as it was getting late and we didn't want to keep our generous escorts waiting.
Mais duas meninas que vão ter um lanche mais alegre todos os dias!! :)
Além de estarem já a contribuir para o ambiente com sacos reutilizáveis...
The Helms Bakery on the border of Los Angeles and Culver City, California, was a notable industrial bakery of Southern California that operated from 1931 to 1969. The buildings have now been adapted for reuse as retail shops, restaurants and the interior design trade showrooms and the complex is part of what is now called the Helms Bakery District.[1] In 1926, Paul Helms of New York took an early retirement for health reasons and moved his family to Southern California and its mild climate. Helms started construction on a building between Washington and Venice Boulevards in 1930 and, on March 2, 1931, the Helms Bakery opened with 32 employees and 11 delivery coaches (trucks).
By the next year, the Helms Bakery had become the "official baker" of the 1932 Summer Olympics when Paul Helms won a contract to supply bread for the 1932 games in Los Angeles. His slogan was "Olympic Games Bakers - Choice of Olympic Champions."[2] Four years later in time for the 1936 Summer Olympics Germany asked Helms for his bread recipes to feed to the German Olympic team. His relationship with Olympians continued in later years, the U.S. teams at London and Helsinki requested his bread be served.[3] Early Helms vehicles sported the Olympic symbol, and it also appeared on, and was mentioned in, the Helms logo on the bread wrappers,[4] the company logo and sign.[5] Despite never being sold in stores, Helms baked products soon became known to millions of consumers. The Helms motto was "Daily at Your Door" and every weekday morning, from both the Culver City facility and a second Helms Bakery site in Montebello, dozens of Helms coaches,[6] painted in a unique two-tone scheme, would leave the bakery for various parts of the Los Angeles Basin, some going as far as the eastern San Gabriel Valley. This is remarkable because the network of freeways had not yet been built, so the trip might take an hour or more. One of each of these coaches is on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles,[7] Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, and the LeMay Car Museum in Tacoma, WA. In an apparent tribute to the Helms Bakery, a churro cart ("Willie's Churros") in Disney California Adventure is styled and painted to resemble a Helms delivery truck.
Each coach would travel through its assigned neighborhoods, with the driver periodically pulling (twice) on a large handle which sounded a distinctive whistle or stop at a house where a Helms sign, a blue placard with an "H" on it, was displayed in their windows.[8] Customers would come out and wave the coach down, or sometimes chase the coaches to adjacent streets. Wooden drawers in the back of the coach were stocked with fresh donuts, cookies, pastries and candies, while the center section carried dozens of loaves of freshly baked bread. Products often reached the buyers still warm from the oven. Helms Bakery coaches were originally manufactured by Twin-Coach, a delivery truck firm in Kent, Ohio, and were designed similar to that firm's buses, only smaller. In the 1930s, the Fageol brothers merged Twin-Coach with Divco, another delivery truck maker based in Detroit, Michigan. Until WWII both Twin-Coach and early Divco vehicles were manufactured by the merged Divco-Twin Truck Company in a new factory opened in 1939 on Hoover Road in suburban Detroit.
In 1937 the firm had introduced a new, very modern looking (for the era) snub-nosed delivery vehicle based on a design similar to Chrysler's Airflow, which by WWII had captured most of the market for Divco. Trucks made with the older Twin-style bodies were discontinued when the factory switched to military parts in WWII, and were never resumed. The Twin name was dropped from the company at the same time. But Helms still wanted the older design which had become iconic to their home delivery business, so they bought unfinished snub-nosed chassis from Divco and had them finished with newly made older style bodies by several local California Truck body manufacturers. An example of this style truck may be found at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Helms' later Divco chassis coaches were powered by various engines, including motors purchased from Nash and Studebaker.[citation needed]
Paul Helms died on January 5, 1957 at age 67, but the business continued to operate, run by family members. Its delivery network gradually grew to include Fresno to the north; San Bernardino to the east, and south to Orange County and San Diego. In the company's final year of operation, a clever marketing campaign netted Helms a contract to furnish "the first bread on the moon," via the Apollo 11 space mission. The San Bernardino facility was located on the northeast corner of Mt Vernon Avenue and Birch Street. After Helm Bakeries closed that location, it was taken over as a small warehouse by FEDCO Corporation, which has since gone out of business as well. The building in San Bernardino is still there, housing a mattress and home furnishings business.
Although popular, the Helms method of neighborhood delivery was doomed both by the expense of sending their coaches hundreds of miles each week and by the advent of the supermarket, which stocked products from other (less expensive) bakeries, which delivered once or twice each week. The Helms company ceased operations in 1969. The Marks family purchased Helms Bakery in the early 1970s and since then, they have completed a rare feat in Los Angeles - successful transformation and adaptive reuse of a historic structure. Covering the 11 acres, the many improvements include restoring original neon signs on the roofs, creating two historic murals, installing two large photovoltaic solar arrays, restoring the Zigzag Moderne detailing, reinventing retail, home furnishings and eateries, as well as creating a home for top-flight media and arts related companies. To honor the history of the bakery, a small museum was installed inside one of the retail stores.
The closure of Helms Avenue to through traffic created a new pedestrian plaza giving the neighborhood a much deserved community space, Helms Walk. The closed portion of Helms Avenue has been developed with trees, lawn areas, a water feature, free Wi-Fi, music and basalt pavers creating a new found space – a meeting place to sip coffee, chat with an old friend or simply “remember the day”. Helms Bakery's most recent addition closest to the Culver City station on the Expo Line is the newly created Helms Design Center. Featuring five to-the-trade contract showrooms with well-known brands such as Vitra, Louis Poulsen, Adotta, Bolon, Snowsound, and The Splash Lab, the center is a destination for commercial architects and designers. Lastly, a 200-car automated parking structure has been constructed, a first for Culver City, and in its making the bakery building continues to be a leader in civic mindedness with an eye to technological advances and innovations to the built environment and urban fabric. There are several retail stores now located at the Helms Bakery District. There is a Helms Bakery Collectors Club, established as a resource for Helms fans to obtain literature, memorabilia and even Helms Coaches.