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Cherrywood Art Festival (Dec. 10-11)

Cherrywood Art Fair features 100 juried local artisans specially selected for quality and uniqueness. There's music all day, food vendors, and a wonderful vibe. Oh, and Cherrywood's proceeds are used for charity, funding the wonderful Little Artist Big Artist program.

Articulture will be there with floating worlds, terrariums, and other one-of-a-kind arrangements.

WHEN: Sat & Sun, Dec 10 & 11, from 10am-5pm

WHERE: Maplewood Elementary School, 3808 Maplewood Ave.

HOW MUCH: Free admission.

This is always a super cool event with great artist.  Make the time to check it out.

collapsible soft sculpture crochet basket

 The basket collapses flat but can be filled to stand seven inches high and 18 inches across the bottom.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/Badart



This collapsible soft sculpture crochet basket is made of recycled fabric.  I used a torn pale blue cotton table cloth  mixed with t-shirts in grey and a white poly fabric.  I got the white fabric in rolls from a friend.  It is very strong and I’m unsure what it was used for.  It was left over from an art project and would be in Austin’s land field had I not rescued it.        

Recycle Your Foam Egg Cartons

Egg Cartons
I want to recycle  a box of egg cartons.  We usually purchase the 18 pack of eggs so I have 12 green Styrofoam cartons.  I have recycled plenty of these carton but need  a place to send the extras. 
I found a gentleman named Enno de Kroon’s who paints the two dozen egg cartons beautifully.  Not helping me but very cool.

  Recycling Options
There are many resources to help find out how to recycle.   1-800-Recycling.com has a super resource to help with common items.  They make it very easy. In Austin, Texas we have Ecology Action of Texas   who does not take egg cartons.   However, they do take lots of waste you can not place at the curb.  Further, they have lots of cool volunteer opportunities.  We are lucky in Austin to have single stream recycling at the curb.
 Recycle Foam
I did find a company Dolco Packaging who recycles clean foam egg cartons.   The cartons can be mailed to them at one of seven locations.  I am very happy to have made the connection and will mail may cartons there from now on.  It would be nice if egg producers could use products that were more suitable for recycling .  But I am glad Dolco is recycling foam waste.
See Change?
12 cartons fit perfectly in a small uhaul box.  It will cost about $6.00 to ship to Dallas.  All this has made me rethink my egg purchases.  Actually, if I can’t find  a local recycling spot this  adds fifty cents to each egg purchase.  Mmmmm,  at that price I should be buying local eggs with no carton?badartworld.com