Plastic Bag Crochet

Plastic Bag Crochet - CRAFT Video Podcast

Last night I was looking around for recycling ideas and I found a way to recycle those plastic grocery bags you get from the store.  Instead of just throwing them away you can create things with them like you can make a more sturdy grocery bag by crocheting pieces that you cut.  I didn't cut mine in such big pieces but I did more thinner pieces but I was able to crochet a granny square (see below) to see how easy or hard it would be.

I think this is a neat idea if you are obsessed with recycling.  As you can see in this image I didn't finish the square but the amount you see is from exactly 1 plastic bag not including the handles.  But I did what the woman in the YouTube video (in the first paragraph) did by looping the pieces.  Since my pieces were much thinner they were also more fragile and I'm not sure how durable this square would be if I were to actually make something out of it.  I'm not sure if I turned it into a grocery bag that it wouldn't break since the pieces are thinner.  If I wanted a grocery bag out of it then I'd cut the pieces in 1 inch pieces like she did just for the durability.



Check this out.  These women in Kenya gather plastic bags that have been dumped and they clean the bags and dry them then they crochet them into different things.

Plastic Bag Crochet Project

Patterns

Ohio Mom Killed In Home Invasion

Ohio Boy, 4, Found at Rest Stop After Mother Killed During Home Invasion

Man held on $5M bond in slaying of Ohio mom  - Link to news story is broken.

This really gets to me.  This 22 year old guy in Ohio allegedly invades a home, ties the mother up and then shoots her before kidnapping her son.

"Authorities say he shot and killed the 29-year-old mother in her home and drove her son to an Interstate 70 rest area in central Ohio, where travelers found him wandering around."

This is really disgusting.  He apologized and said "my fault".  Pahleez!  I don't want to hear it.

This is what they are saying on Jane Velez Mitchell on HLN that the child was raped while the mother who was tied up was forced to watch.  But the 2 news stories above don't mention that part.

The poor kid is scared to death.  According to ABC he has no physical scars and he jumps at every little noise.

"Nelson said that while William bears no physical scars from the incident, he's having a hard time coping with what he saw.

"He's terrified," Nelson said of his only child. "Loud noises are just really disturbing to him."

When one of William's young cousins knocked a toy truck down the stairs, he "just from the noise from that, he jumped a mile."

This poor child.  I really feel sorry for him.  This 22 year old guy who did this will probably never see the light of day and he will probably be murdered in prison because the other inmates don't like people who harm children.  And if he did indeed rape this little boy they will indeed rape him before killing him.

PS3 Flower

You remember my video for Flow for the PSP?  Well, Sony has done it again but with a different theme.  This isn't about micro-organisms but instead about flowers.  It's the same concept though, you go with the flow but you are a flower pedal instead and you have to glide to other flowers to grow.  Then once you get so big you evolve into a certain flower.  Here is a video from YouTube.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BDG5ax_eTo&watch_response

Don't recycle paper?

Ok, I never heard of this but according to Penn and Teller, you don't need to recycle paper because it wastes resources to recycle paper.  So if you really want to recycle paper read my previous post about Bill Nye.  Otherwise just watch this video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqATKjAe91E

Bill Nye Paper Recycling Factory

Bill Nye and the Elmers company have come out with this product for kids (and older kids like me) that allows you to recycle paper. It's called Bill Nye Paper Recycling Factory and is currently for sale at Target.com for $25

You shred paper like newspaper, paper that you printed and messed up with or like notepaper that you don't need anymore etc.  Any paper.  Then you put it in this little bowl and mix it with water then put the lid on and crank it to mix it all up.

Once it's all mixed up you pour it into this mold and then you press it to squeeze the water out and shape it so you get a nice piece of paper that is the perfect size that you are looking for.

You can make it into card stock for greeting cards, small sheets for note pads and on the cover of the box they have a star shaped plate to make star paper.  I'm sure there are lots of shapes.

I think this is good for kids so you can have them make their own paper from your newspapers so they can color and draw on so you aren't wasting any more paper.  If they make a mistake, they can recycle that sheet too hehe.

I would like to get this to make card stock for making greeting cards.  I'm sure that you would be able to put this paper into your printer to print on if it is solid enough and smooth enough just like regular paper is.  And I'm sure you can add food coloring to it so you can have colored paper instead of just white.

Game Stop

I haven't been able to get to Game Stop yet to use my $25 gift card that I got from e-rewards because we haven't gone to the mall yet.  I don't want to make a special trip just for this.

I went to Game Stops website to check what they have and to see if it's in stock or not but I'm sure by the time I get there those games won't be there anymore.  So... I guess I have to just wait until we get there to see what they have.

I would like Untold Legends (1 of the 2) or Ratchet and Clank.  That game has a Daxter look to it, graphics wise that is.  I do plan on buying used though because it doesn't matter to me if it's new or used, they don't get scratched up like a regular CD or DVD does.

I was hoping that they would have either the GPS or the Camera available by the time I got this but even if it was available I don't have the money to cover the rest of the cost of it.  At least with used games I can get a couple, or a few depending on the cost.  And if it goes over by a couple dollars I can certainly cover that.  I wouldn't ever buy a movie only because I would probably only watch it once, there are only so many movies I'd watch over and over again.