The Votes are in!
Rachel’s Coasters win with a whopping 53% of the votes!!!

Rachel gets the $40 in Spunky Cash
Katie gets a secret prize for taking the time to stop by the blog and vote!
Thank you all for voting. I love how so many of you care enough to take the time to vote and I hope you all are enjoying the recycle/reuse/save series.

More……
Spunky Club is open again.
Please remember that the day you sign up is the day you get charged every month. So if you sign up December 22nd then each month you will essentially be paying for your club a full month ahead of time.
What you are paying for now is January’s club, it will be shipped after January 20th 2009

Still More….
The girl’s holiday sweaters are almost done (buttons, I need to find the right buttons). I cut out the PJ’s and the stockings are ready to fill…… And I’m utilizing my easy take along knitting project for some comforting relaxing knitting

Let’s vote!

Annalea - and her Christmas Boxes
Amy’s Paper Doll Garland and Magazine bowl
Nadine’s Christmas Tree
Rachel’s Coasters

All of your stuff is just amazing. You guys did a great job coming up with something. Now comes everyone else’s job to pick a winner. I’m not voting. I’m just here to give out a $40 Gift Certificate to the winner. And a special prize to a random voter. But because the poll there doesn’t log names or addresses (it’s all anonymous) I need you to comment here after you vote (just comment that you voted) and I’ll toss your name into the hat to win a special prize.

Magazines.
They pile up and up and up. Magazines are plentiful all year long but this time of year it’s just downright crazy. We got in a glut of magazines the other day. All with Christmas ads. Magazines that will just end as fire starter or going to recycling. But there has to be a better use for some of it….right?

Right.
And you’re going to help me come up with creative ideas of things to do with all these holiday magazines. Why would you want to do that? The winner will get a $40 to spend at Spunky Eclectic. And you get to decide the winner.

Here’s the scoop:
Take all the magazines you have lying around and that you are willing to tear into and get creative. Do something good with them. Something decorative for the upcoming holiday season or something lasting, something that you can gift. Anything cool that doesn’t mean the magazines are heading into the trash pile.

Have it done by December 5th. Come back to this post and post a link to what you did. If you used a known tutorial please post a link to that tutorial. If you came up with the idea yourself, a tutorial would be awesome so we all can recycle too.

December 10th’s Want Not Waste Not Wednesday post will have a link to all the entries and a way for every one to vote. Why does anyone want to vote? One of the voters will be chosen at random to receive a prize as well! Everyone will get one week to vote and then I’ll tally up the winner. Not to get all sappy, but if we participate we’re all winners because we’re recycling.

Get going.
I wanna see what you come up with

Here’s mine (though my entry doesn’t count in the contest, I’m just bringing you some inspiration)
We cut out strips of yarn samples in yarn magazines:

Then we looped them all together in one of those chain garlands.

Miss 8goingon20 helped me put it together. It was a fun activity for the 2 of us to do together. Now it graces the doorway of my shop.

Waste Not Want Not Wednesday.

Let’s talk plastic. As in plastic grocery bags.

I hate these things. Loath them. They accumulate and breed. It’s amazing how quickly you can go from haveing one in the cupboard to 12. They’re faster than bunnies. This is why I use these:

I’ve made some and I’ve bought some. There are times when I forget them so I buy more. We have to have at least 20 or more different reusable bags lying around here.

But somehow, we still have bags.
• Reuse them until they fall apart.
• Use them as packing material (I don’t do this but I have gotten packages filled with bags maybe that’s where mine started to breed…)
• Knit, crochet or weave strips of them into a stronger reusable bag
• Use them as doggy waste baggies (hand if you live in the city)

What do you do with them to keep them out of the landfills?

Waste Not Want Not Wednesday…
I know it’s not really Wednesday the 22nd. I did have to check to just be sure but I know the day…barely. I got waylaid yesterday and completely forgot the day and that I was going to post here.
Leaves. Some people probably don’t need to worry about leaves and well, they’re basically free gifts of nature if you do have them.

So when they get to the point that they are a foot tall in your driveway and you need to get rid of them….

What do you do?