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A is for Armadillo

31 January 2012

I’m not too keen on February. It’s a rubbish in betweeny month mostly spent getting fed up with winter and waiting around for Spring and the good stuff to start happening. So February is normally a head down and crack on workwise month and I’ve decided this year should be no different, but I shall try to be more inspired and less… grumpy.

I’ve set myself a challenge to restock my rubbish pictures supply and to create something cool at the same time. I hope. My middle daughter recently was asked to find an animal for every letter of the alphabet. I can’t remember what the homework was in relation to, but I found her loopy doodled  list in amongst the tower of paperwork on my desk (in amongst my ‘ahem…. ‘important’ pile, no less) and I thought I would make good use of it. It’s afterall, a lovely thing. So rather than incoporating her list into a zebra, as I was about to – This February, I’ve decided, I shall make better use of it. I shall create an animal for every letter of the alphabet out of rubbish. That’s what I’ll do. February might be more fun than expected afterall :-)

I know it’s only January 31st but hey – let’s kick off anyway. Head start and all that.

Today I mostly made an Armadillo.


A rubbish Parrot

24 January 2012

The latest addition to my ever increasing library of ‘Rubbish’ Art (unique artworks created entirely out of discarded domestic rubbish) was completed this week and has already flown to it’s new home as a little boys first birthday present from his parents.

Pretty Polly was made out of Christmas wrapping paper, yo-yo dried fruit snack wrappings, a cereal box, 2 cinema tickets, a crisps wrapper, an orange juice carton and a page of the Yellow Pages.