During the week hubby broke a wine glass (again) and blamed the dishwasher (again). It seemed a shame to throw away yet another glass so I decided to have a bit of fun.
About a week prior hubby had also broken a hanging terrarium in the bathroom. I had salvaged the cactus and moss and stones and had them stored in a plastic bag. So I decided to cut down the broken wine glass and create a mini succulent garden!
I cut the glass using a diamond rotary cutting tool on my dremel. Then I smoothed down the rough edges with silicone carbide paper in varying textures, finishing with the finest.
While the edges were smooth and not sharp they were a bit uneven – it was the first time I had used the dremel in this way. So I applied some copper foil used for leadlighting to the edge.
Next I planted my rescued cactus and moss, and planted a cutting of succulent from my garden. I think it looks pretty cool!
I find it important to recycle and reuse as much as possible, especially in the current political state of climate change scepticism.
I also consider it important because as a ceramic artist I do use alot of gas, water and electricity. My clay and glaze ingredients have a large carbon footprint also, in terms of miles travelled and mining.
I try as much as possible to offset this footprint by growing as much food as possible, composting waste, not using chemicals when cleaning, being a vegetarian, and of cause recycling as much as possible.
Apart from that I am also firing the kiln today. The kiln contains the set of custom bowls I posted about last week and some student works. Tomorrow I will be glazing the bowls and reloading the kiln for glaze firing. Hopefully all will be on track to post the order on Tuesday.
All going to plan I will post a pic of the finish bowls on Tuesday before I package them up.
Until then, have a great week!
such a good idea I have shared it to my Fb page, hope you don’t mind…
Posted by Anna | February 27, 2017, 11:27 amabsolutely – thanks – that’s what the www is all about!! 🙂
Posted by Dawn Whitehand | March 1, 2017, 1:18 amOf course w/ a title like recycle/reuse in it, I’d have to issue you praise! What a massively creative upcycle w/ your broken wine glass and the broken apart succulents! And the addition of the copper foil is super lovely. P.S. Sssshhhh told tell him I said so – but I have a hubby that breaks a lot of things accidentally around the house, too! 😉 Lovely post, Dawn.
Posted by artdoesmatter | April 8, 2017, 12:19 amhaha, yes I am forever buying (cheap) wine glasses! It is not very often, though, that I get a glass I can convert into something else! Thanks Patricia -:)
Posted by Dawn Whitehand | April 8, 2017, 12:40 am