Upcycled Paper Notebooks

As well as making the lovely paper bodice, Move on Up Learners made these beautiful notebooks to sell in the Children's Society Shop.

We used discarded and shredded papers from the office and the art cupboard, soaked them, put them in the blender and scooped them out with a mesh.  Then we used these handmade papers to make these notebook covers and guess what.......?

Well here is a note from the shop manager:

"Just to let you know that we have sold ALL your lovely books to one lady who will be giving them to all her family members as a 'HAG' project - which is .............. that they write down every day the following:

H - Happiness - what they are happy about

A - Achievement - what they have achieved that day

G - Grateful - what they are grateful for

So a lovely end to your project !"

So proud of all our hard working Move on Up class members!

Paper Bodice

I am so proud of the learners in the Move on Up class that I teach for adults with learning disabilities for making this brilliant bodice.

Currently on display at the Children's Society Charity Shop in Mill Rd, Cambridge as part of the CirculArt trail.  Made from used maths textbooks and Soduko puzzles which were donated to the shop but which were destined for pulping because the answers had been filled in.  So we could say that new life has 'blossomed' from old papers. (sorry)

Well done everyone, we had a lot of fun cutting and glueing - and what a great example of recycling at it's best!  Come and see it if you are in the Romsey, Mill Rd area.

Print Workshop - Norris museum

A fabulous screen print workshop today at the Norris Museum.  A group of adults with learning difficulties from CATS in St Ives came along, drew artifacts in the museum and screen printed them onto this tablecloth. Well, it will be a tablecloth when I've printed the museum logo into the centre and sewn it up. Brightly coloured so it won't show the stains!

This is the mammoth

and who remembers these telephones?