 |
|
|
Dishes, Broken & Intact
Whenever I chip or break a beautiful old dish it just kills me. The
waste! The agony! However, I recently realized that people far craftier
than me will take beautiful broken and chipped dishes (and sometimes
unbroken dishes, which they then break themselves! Yeesh!) and make
beautiful mosaics out of them.
If you are the crafty type, you can attempt this project yourself a la this page of instruction on making a mosaic mirror frame.
If you are not feeling so crafty, consider making donations to anyone who conducts a mosaic class near you.
If you are truly attached to your broken china, consider sending it to Linda and Tom Carrigan in Texas to make into handcrafted jewelry you can wear and pass on as a family heirloom. Their samples are quite pretty!
For dishes that are usable and intact, I urge you to donate them to
your local thrift store so that people can use them as they were
originally intended. There are plenty of damaged pieces to go around.
Leave the good stuff for people who need 'em!
If you must donate perfectly good china and dishware to be broken, at least type the maker name into ebay
and see what comes up. If, in your haste to destroy, you wreck a
valuable Shelley teacup or a Limoges plate, don't say I didn't warn you!
I'm going to start a list below of individual mosaic artists who have
told me they are interested in broken/chipped/intact dish donation:
Colorado, Denver: Brokentile.com
|
|
links
What can you do right now to help the environment? Drop a line to save some of nature's BioGems.
It happens to us all: you've got
stuff you
don't
want anymore, don't need anymore, or never liked to begin with. Whether
you're motivated by a natural sense
of thrift, an environmental conscience, a desire to help others -- or
all three -- here are some suggestions as to what to do with many of
your unwanted items.
Hope they help!
|
|
