special Guest Post: by Abbey Hendrickson (aesthetic outburst)
DAY 2: BEAUTY IN MUNDANE
You’re back! Today I wanted to share one of my other obsessions. My husband and I…okay, okay…I collect bread bag ties. Yes, bread bag ties. I came across a giant bag of them at a yard sale for 25 cents and then our friend Marcie found some and helped the collection along. I’ve been collecting them for four years now and love the variety of colors. Plus, anything looks better when you put it under a cloche, right? Carbohydrate intake aside, collecting something like this is based on my personal interest in finding beauty in the mundane. If we’re going to get more philosophical for a minute…just a quick minute…I think our generation is working towards teaching others to do the same (hello, DIY movement). Here are some examples…
from 2002ttorry
from tehqueen
by wardomatic
and from frankier27
aesthetic outburst
how now design
You’re back! Today I wanted to share one of my other obsessions. My husband and I…okay, okay…I collect bread bag ties. Yes, bread bag ties. I came across a giant bag of them at a yard sale for 25 cents and then our friend Marcie found some and helped the collection along. I’ve been collecting them for four years now and love the variety of colors. Plus, anything looks better when you put it under a cloche, right? Carbohydrate intake aside, collecting something like this is based on my personal interest in finding beauty in the mundane. If we’re going to get more philosophical for a minute…just a quick minute…I think our generation is working towards teaching others to do the same (hello, DIY movement). Here are some examples…
from 2002ttorry from tehqueen by wardomatic and from frankier27aesthetic outburst
how now design
Comments
-paint the paper towl/toilet paper cardboard and then tack them to a wall- they'd make an interesting undulating texture
-use them to make a massive cardboard mobile
-pile them in an empty fireplace- kind of like the logs in the Wood Piles post
-donate them to a children's art program for others to make beautiful things
-make kaleidoscopes
Does anyone else have ideas???
Just off the top of my head....um
1) window treatments - each connected - hanging over a window....ok ok - i know, you have to imagine a bit....
2) paper mache them together to create a sculpture
3) binoculars
: )
Anyone else?
Will work on both these ideas and let you know when there is a finished product.
-Abbey