Can't Sleep So Sharing Stuff

When sleep decides it wants to play games with me, I usually pick up the laptop and start surfing around the blogs and sites looking for spiffy recycling artists and crafters. Since it is the Christmas season, I thought I'd try to focus on some of the things I found tonight that focus on handmade gifts created with found or left-over items.

At RecycleCindy's site, there's a nifty plam snowman. (Don't worry. If you don't know what plam is; I didn't either but there's a link on the site that explains how to create it. It's merely "yarn" made from those notorious plastic grocery bags.)

For the last minute decorations, Becky Striepe's blog features a video that shows step by step how to make super starts out of recycled cardboard -- that's the kind you get from cereal boxes and shirt stuffers and the like. It's a quick tutorial and should take not time to master. Beware, though. She introduces this blog post with a beautiful photo that will have you shivering.