We’re cleaning out around the house and there is just too much STUFF (reminds me of Georgie Carlin’s stuff routine). My husband took the kids to see WALL-E the other day and I think it scared him a bit. The fact that we are filling up our planet and our bodies to overflow is a pretty frightening thought. Ironically, they were giving out cheap-o plastic watches as promotional items for this movie. It is Disney, after all. It has occurred to me more than once that handmade might be better in some respects, but I am buying lots of fabric and supplies, likely made in an environmentally unfriendly way (in China). Oops, sorry to be a downer. So I’m going to start buying less, making more things myself and I’m finally going to start composting.

While we’re sorting and organizing, we have compiled a large box of kids’ artwork and hate to keep it in a closet.

Saw this idea on Design Mom last month and have been thinking about doing it. You can send your child’s artwork (25-112 pieces) away to turn it into a beautiful custom piece like this. They will be scanned and printed on archival paper. So you don’t have to decide which works to display. The Jan Eleni Collage is available from Love. Of course I would try this project myself in some form, but after I scan in the artwork I still think I won’t be able to put it in the recycling bin! So I’d still have a box of artwork, but oh well.