Day 257 and 258: I worked on the quilt that I have been slowly covering up with patches for the last couple of years.  This was also my project on days 114 and 115.  When I worked on it before, I mostly worked on one side of it.  This time, I almost finished covering up the other side.  Here is a close up photo so you can see all the little stitches from sewing them on by hand.

Day 259:  I made some more magnets from bottle caps.  I got this idea from a photo I saw on recyclart.  Check these out, here is the link! http://www.recyclart.org/2011/10/magnetic-bottle-caps/ (I like theirs better, to be honest, cause they have cute little pictures actually drawn on them.)  I used cut out pictures and words from magazines to decorate mine.  I like how they turned out, and I like that these are a simpler, less stinky version than the resin ones I made before.  (That resin stuff is really strong!)

Day 260:  I made a gift box out of a cereal box for a gift I bought.

Day 261:  I decorated a little box a friend gave me with a few magazine pictures.

Day 262:  I spent the day baking for my girl friend's birthday party.  I made a banana cream pie for the first time and it turned out really yummy!  I re-used an aluminum pie tin, as many of us do for pies.  This happens to be my project for the day, because I did make it, and it involved recyling!  I wasn't able to take a picture of it before it got eaten though.

Day 263: I started working on my Halloween costume.  I decided to be an imaginary insect, perhaps a robotic insect, if I end up looking metallic and engineered enough.  So far, I have a hat, and a shell to wear on my back.  I used the egg carton helmet I made on day 118.  I'm glad it finally has a real purpose.  I used egg cartons to decorate the shell too.

 Day 251:  I wanted to frame this picture I was given, but instead of getting a matt board, I used a piece of cardboard covered in foil.  I think it turned out well. 

Day 252:  I started another cardboard tube structure.  This is going to be another table eventually. 

Day 253:  I worked on my "freak" picture again.  It is almost finished!

Day 254:  I worked on a magazine collage that I started a long time ago.  I mostly just added the scraps of the black and white magazine pages.  It really made the whole thing look more finished and tied together.   

Day 255: I decorated another bottle lid.  One of these days, I'm gonna do another resin pour, and turn all these lids I've made into magnets.

Day 256:  I made some "drawers" for my daughter's cardboard shelf out of some pizza and cereal boxes.  She decorated the front of them.  I hope to make one for each space eventually.  Her room needs some serious organizing.

Day 241 and 242:  I make a bunch of these for the store where I work, but this particular bunch I am counting as my project on these two days.  I also spent several hours at the recycling center gathering tabs, and ended up having more tabs then ever before, because I had help gathering.  It was my first ever "date" at the recyling center, and it was a blast.  We were racing to see who could gather the most.  It didn't take long to lose track, but we had a lot of fun trying. 

Day 243: My weekly bunch of rolled magazine circles. 

Day 244:  Lately I have been looking up descriptive words that I sometimes get called or call myself.  So if I get called a nerd, for example, I'll go and get the dictionary and see if the definition really matches up.  I have an older dictionary, from the seventies I think, so newer definitons of words are lacking, which makes it fun.  I looked up "geek" and found out that it used to mean a carnival performer who would bite off the heads of chickens or snakes.  Then I looked up "freak" and decided that I most definitely am a freak.  So I decided to make some art honoring such a great word.  I painted over an old painting with black paint, and spelled the word "freak" out of magazine pages.

Day 245: Adding to the project from the day before, I am writing out the definition of "freak" with letters from magazine pages.

Day 246: I redecorated a card that someone gave to me.  It is a birthday card for someone I adore.

I did just the outside of the card so far.  I completely covered up the front of the card with magazine images and scraps of color.

Day 247:  I made the inside of the card.

Day 248:  I drew inside an old text book of mine called "Issues in Feminist Film Criticism."  What, did I think I would read it again someday?  Even though it does interest me to think about and dialogue about women's roles in media and pop culture, I barely made it through the book once before.  I found it very scholarly and dry.  So, it's now my sketch book.  My first drawing in it is a picture of a big white Ford that I was parked next to.  The really sweet thing about this is that I haven't sketched much in the past couple years.  It was fun to draw something again.

Day 249:  I drew another picture in my book.  This one is far less interesting to me, and didn't turn out as well. 

Day 250: I glued some magazine scraps inside my sketch book.  Don't know if any thing else will ever become of it, but I do like these two colors together.

Day 238: I took several of the food boxes I had hanging around and made them into little bags.  I thought they would be good gift bags.  I suppose you could use one for a purse too, especially if you want to attract attention.

Day 239:  I patched up a hole in my jeans.  This particular project was extremely important to me becasue these are, after all, my most favorite comfy jeans.

Day 239: I have to keep making these circles every few days or so, if I ever want to finish my wall piece.  This time I found a couple of bright pages, which made me happy.  The bottom picture shows how far along I am with the whole project.

Day 240: This piece of art is done on canvas, with acrylic paint, puzzle pieces and green tissue paper.   Its kinda cool, but needs something more. 

Day 231:  I made a whole box of magazine paper bows.  I think they are great.  I'm not into frivolously decorated gifts.  These bows however, I can dig.

Day 232:  I made a special request pop tab bracelet.  Similar to the all silver ones I've made before, but with a rainbow of tabs.  Photograph pending because I gave it to the person it was made for right away, before taking a photo.

Day 233:  I made another zipper flower.  This is a completely new version this time though.  It is a rose, with each petal individually gathered, shaped and added on. 

Day 234:  More rolled paper circles, these ones shaped around a glass.

Day 235: I made a mini magazine collage.  I like the hands sticking up on the bottom holding things like sissors, a ruler and a glue gun.  I think it is very appropriate for me.

Day 236: I made a wall hanging out of a bunch of CD covers.  I think it is a lot of fun because I love so much of the CD art that came with all my CD's that are slowing dying from misuse and abandonment.

Day 237: I took an emergency number magnet (like the one I used on Day 195) and I painted it black and glued on some pictures cut from a magazine.  It is a gift for a flower cutting bandit girl that I am extremely priveledged to know.

Day 225: I made some more rolled magazine paper circles, which I know might be getting uninteresting and boring at this point... but I don't care.  Just wait till it's finished, it's gonna be beautiful.

Day 226: I made some more zipper flowers.  I have tried up until this point to always either work on a piece of a bigger project, or try something new.  I try not to repeat things I've tried unless I'm doing a new variation.  Well, in some ways, each of these is unique, but I basically made something I've already made before.  My justification is that I have been not making these flowers, which I sell at the store, because I have been too busy with my 365 project.  I decided to allow myself to include some of my regular crafting, rather than not having time for it, or trying to do both.  The truth is, I'm still being creative and making something everyday, just not being as hard on myself about it.

Day 227: A few more zipper flowers...

Day 228: I took the cardboard tiles that I made on days 161 and 162 and started making a more permanent art piece out of them.  They kept falling off my wall (I had been using that silly putty kind of stuff to stick them up), and I never could get a good photo of them either, in that spot with no light.  They are being glued onto a larger piece of cardboard, with ripped magazine pages glued into the spaces in between.

Day 229:  I finished the cardboard abstract that I was working on.  After gluing on all the tiles, I added some black paint to emphasize the three dimensional aspect of it.  Then I added the words, "Not Suitable For Children," because those words stood out to me from one of the magazine pages that I was working with.  I think it has come a long way from the tiles I first stuck to my wall.  Now it is truly a piece of art.

Day 230: I revisited my project from day 131.  It took me a while to save up some more toilet paper and paper towel tubes.  It is starting to become very intriguing to me.  I like how it feels hanging on my wall, spreading out in random directions like some organic growth taking over my wall.  I think it will probably keep growing.  Who can stop these kind of things?

Day 220:  I added a whole lotta red tissue paper to my cardboard tube sculpture that I made on days 97 and 98.

Day 221: I sewed a little piece of scrap fabric around a scrap of wire.  It is not extremetly interesting in itself, but I like the idea of making more of them and having them all be part of a bigger piece that has covered wire twisting in different directions.

Day 222:  I decided that I want to make a large art piece for the wall out of magazine pages that are rolled into circles.  I'm going to try to get it done in time for the art show.  Here is what I did today:

Day 223:  I made a few more circles for my art piece.  This time I made a couple with an opening in the middle, by wrapping the magazine strips around a glass and a dowel.  I love them!

Day 224:  Once again I made some magazine circles, the biggest ones so far.  Here are all of them that I've made so far.  They are not glued together yet, so the finished piece might be arranged a little differently.  I'm loving it so far.

Day 215: I added leaves to my tree branch that I made back on day 127.  My tree is getting leaves just before the season where the leaves start to fall.

Day 216:  I nailed a bunch of bottle caps to an old board.  This was tricky because the nails I used had heads that were really too small and some of the caps started slipping off after I had nailed them on.  So being typically me, I didn't put it aside and go buy better nails.  I just started bending them over the tops to hold them on.  It is "interesting" (as in that tone of voice that people use for that word when they don't know what else to say), but I guarantee that I will add to it and that it will indeed be interesting some day.

Day 217:  I made a bow out of strips of magazine paper.  When the holidays come around I want to make loads of them for customers here at Seconds Eco Store. 

Day 218: I added onto my cardboard tube room divider.  Which was an "interesting" choice of a project being as I have an injured foot which I balanced on while holding the cardboard tubes still with the other foot while sawing them (the tubes not my feet) into pieces.  I was pretty sore the next day, but my divider is looking good.

Day 219: I added onto my journal collage again.  I want to put it in another art show that I am going to be involved in, which I think I'm more excited about than the last one, cause I get to have more art in it.  Before I started this making something everyday craziness, I had never really put my art out there.  I think the fact that it is getting more attention is because I'm giving it so much more attention myself, which I really owe to taking on this yearly endeavor.