Arts and scraps

This past Saturday, D and I went to do some volunteer work at a craft store in Detroit. The store has some sort of sentimental memories to me because my dad used to take me and Tim to this kind of craft store when we were little. Basically, they get tons of donations of overflow materials from all kinds of companies (like sponge pieces, bottle caps, buttons, unassembled paper milk cartons). Then, you can get a small paper bag and fill it up as much as you can for a few dollars, and voila! A bag of artsy materials for a kid to create to his or her heart's content.

Tim and I used to "invent" all kinds of things. I remember one time, I filled my bag up with green nail polish remover sponges (the kind you stick your finger in and swish around), and I glued plastic eyeballs on them and yarn mouths on them and stuffed the little whole with cloth for the nose to make little characters out of.

Anyway, despite how cold and early it was, it was actually a lot of fun! We organized, cleaned, fixed, and decorated their "utility" room (I think that's what it was called). It was a room purely for all their die cut machines and book binding machines. I guess during the summers, they have day craft camps for kids and these are some of the stations provided to them.

Here is a picture of a box I made into a holder for all their scissors, markers, pens, and miscellaneous stuff, and the other picture is of a die cut machine with a handle that Dusan fixed.