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I Love Creating

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 by Alyice

As I was writing a post to an online mixed media group I belong to it hit me: I absolutely love creating! It doesn’t matter if anyone else likes what I create. It doesn’t matter if what I create ever sells—and I am sure some projects won’t. All that matters is that it feels so good to be creating again because there’s this amazing feeling of peace when I create and that peace is something I strongly need in my life right now.

Creating causes me to slow down and concentrate on one thing. Creating causes me to appreciate the here and now. Creating keeps the stress from life, the anxiety over having too much to do and so little time to do it in, the paternal worries, and even the depression at bay. Creating something with my hands even allows my mind to get a little creative as I daydream about the recipient opening up the gift that I’ve created and being pleasantly surprised.

I hope to one day develop a style people will recognize as my own. A style that incorporates mixed media and scrapbook techniques, painting, and photography. I’m not sure how it will all unfold but for right now I am simply enjoying the process.

Alyice Edrich, Editor-in-Chief

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Recycled Altered Glass

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 by Alyice

As Earth Day approached this year I was pleased to announce that I had finally found a creative use for all the glass jars that usually make their way to the city dump and I couldn’t be more pleased. Now, not only do I get to have creative play days, but I can do something better for the environment, too.

As you know, Americans are pretty good about recycling glass drinking bottles—especially since many states pay you cash for doing so. But how many of us actually recycle those glass jars used for pickles, mayo, salsa, olive oil, and other food products?

Copyright 2008, Alyice Edrich
My Repurposed Food Jars © Alyice Edrich, 2008

If you live in a city that has a curbside recycling program in place, it’s easy to stay earth conscious. Just sort your trash, place it in the proper trash cans, and wait for trash day. But what if you live somewhere that doesn’t have a curbside recycling program in place? Can you honestly say that you haul your trash off to the nearest recycling facility? And what if that recycling facility is an hour away? Do you make the trip or do you, like most of us, simply throw your trash away without a second thought?

While not all glass can be recycled through recycling centers nearly all glass can be repurposed or reused as art. All it takes is a little imagination.

Just check out what some of these companies are doing with recycled glass:

For ideas you, personally, can use for repurposing the glass in your home, check out DIY Network’s glass section at DIYNetwork.com.

And finally, to discover why Master Glass Artist, Erwin Timmers, says, “We’re at a point in our lifetime in our society where we really have to start making a change in the way we interact with our environment ” check out The Washington Post’s article titled, “A Glass Master Displays the Art of Conservation“.

Alyice Edrich, Editor-in-Chief

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