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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have an over load area in my shed where I keep lot of stuff jars, old saucers, all sorts of boxes even have a metal one that was used for morphine in the war (not by me ) . I often get moaned at for keeping bits and bats . I think it comes from childhood like a lot of people after ww2 we didn’t have much , so we used to make out own bit to play with and save stuff for future use .  It actually good fun finding a use for thinks especially when the people who moan have to admit that keeping it was really after all a good idea . 

Sylvia Evans

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Brilliant all you hoarders and recyclers out there.  I wonder if it’s an artist thing ...cos it might come in useful. .? . 
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Michael Edwards

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I keep wood off-cuts which I use for small sculptures - in fact I even go out scouting for them in field entrances and building sites not that you can get in many of them these days - health and safety and and all that. Any old pieces and the broken ones are the best - smashed by lories etc - they make great textural sculptures.
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Helen Martell

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I've got plastic containers full of bits of crockery, dug up from the garden. 'One day' I might make a Gaudi-esque mosaic wall. And have a sack of wine corks (drunk over many years, not just lockdown 😂), which I haven't decided what to with yet. Plus many bags full of beer bottle caps, which a couple of weeks ago I decided that I'm going to make a big mural with. So spent many hours sorting them into colours, and many more hours planning the picture and how many bottle caps it would take. (Thousands!). 

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Marjorie Firth

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This is getting to be like the Monty Python sketch....." you had it hard? You were lucky, I was brought up in a cardboard box!" or something like that.
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Linda Wilson

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Good idea Helen.  Perhaps I might make a mural out of my box of buttons.  It would save painting the garden walls.  I have heard of people making bath mats out of corks.

Sylvia Evans

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I only said I used my bird food bucket lids as palettes Marjorie...a storm of brilliant ideas.  Yea Rollover Monty P .

Sylvia Evans

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Catch up on this post.   Have also discovered that they clean with a bit of a scrub.  Anymore arty recycling tips ?
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