 Hey guys, we're here for my creative year My muse for September. What is driving my muse crazy right now? So many things. He's right now. Oh, yeah, yeah, so one of the things that's driving her crazy, and I've been post I did just posted about it today on social media I Just lately have trouble seeming to be able to throw things away so These are little Holographic and metallic bits of product packaging. These are I don't know if you're going to be able to tell or not, but there is definitely a rainbow reflection in them So probably I would call that hollow Christine over at Simply Nailogical would be the better one to judge But I think these are the end of toothpaste tubes Coal gate to be specific and this is just a metallic silver Box top to my night cream. I Know these should just go in the trash, but you see the bright shiny metallic thing and my muse goes Oh, wait a minute. And so then I End up saving them. Let me go get something and show you guys Okay, so these are the bits and pieces. I just showed you a minute ago So this is a blue plastic Vintage I guess you call it vintage Gerber Baby foods bowl. Are we? This was in my grandmother's things when she passed away. It's something that she fed all of her grandchildren out of as We were growing up and There were a number of them and each one of us granddaughters and my daughter actually we each took one and So I keep these crystals here in the kitchen window And these these two rocks this one looks like a musket ball, doesn't it? I Would think for crystals and stones. That's for another video, but anyway, they're all over the place and When it sits in the kitchen window sill and it was intended to just hold my collection of rocks and crystals I wanted in the kitchen and slowly but surely as things come up And I'm going through things in the kitchen or throwing things away. I see something. Oh, that's interesting It goes in the ball and then you know, I think oh wait, that's interesting So by the end of the week usually the dish looks something like this and I just can't seem to help myself. So right now my muse is just all about saving weird bits of things that Normal people would throw away and I don't these are from Ice cream so Haagen-Dazs has these little tiny baby ice creams that you can get they're just enough for one serving they actually come with a little spoon in the lid and So I've been saving the lids and the spoons and actually I've saved a couple of the bottoms too I'm going to try since they're wax coated on the inside I'm going to try washing them out and see what happens, but and they're in the sink right now But or they'd be in here But I just thought this was an interesting shape and it sort of reminded me of like a vase So the flowers coming out this end So I might at some point use it on a journal page or a paper clip So look for that and then of course as we were eating ice cream You know, I just can't help myself and then at some point. I was like, oh, maybe I should just save the lid Maybe I can do something with that. So, you know, it just goes in the dish now. They're up here So I should just keep them up here So and This is just I had a little baby quiche for dinner last night. This is the I do have a few of these around This is the round Label nutrition bit and directions from the bottom of the package about They make actually a good Stencil or you know circle pattern you can trace around it to draw circle shapes Things like that. So anyway So right now my muse is all about trash Evidently, let me just zoom out for a little bit for you guys. Oops wrong way So right now my muse is all about trash saving the trash Using it in my artwork if you follow me on social media and you've seen any of my paper clips, you know That I used lots of recycled bits in them I'll insert a couple of pictures here for you all a lot of trash if you will end up in them and I just find it interesting an interesting sort of source of art bits So right now Repurposing and recycling what I can and creating art with it. I'm all about that in fact Here's two more pieces that came upstairs recently This is an empty jar of puffy eye cream that it's actually a glass jar I probably could recycle it, but it's a cute little glass jar that would make a good a little jar to put some Pig mix and pigments in or something and then this jar actually this is the lid it had an insert though And this jar does the lid doesn't have threads on it. So the lid doesn't actually Fit but I thought I should be able to do something with that. So trash saving trash What weird bits do you all save? I'd love to know if you're part of my creative year let's start a thread about it over there and Let me know What sort of things you can do this month with the theme of atmospheric and the challenge of Sorry atmosphere and the challenge of confidence and Involving your trash If nothing else are you confident enough in yourself and your art and your abilities and your creativity to admit? I saved trash and I use trash in my art. There's nothing wrong with that. Don't be ashamed of it So I'd love to know where you can take this if you're not part of my creative year and you would like to be The link for it and my other Facebook art groups where does find me and stalk me as my friend Shannon green would say on social media Where to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the art groups All of that can be found in my link tree list of links, which is in the description below along with my Happy mail address and any other relevant links. So check it out and Above all Take I was gonna say something else, but take a second look at your trash and it is interesting enough for you to maybe do Something with it in your art. I'm not saying fill up your art space with trash You don't need more than a few of this and that don't save 20 million Bottle caps because you think you can do something with them. I'm guilty of that I have this bag of bottle caps in the closet. I've got to do something with Meaning that I'm gonna sell them in the Etsy shop or something Because it's just crazy and ridiculous Anyway, don't clutter up your art space with trash But save a few interesting bits and pieces and what can you do with them and use them up and create some interesting art with Them, I'd love to see what kind of bits and pieces you're all finding and what you're doing again Say something over in the Facebook group my my creative year and share with all of us what your thoughts are on the subject and What you do this month with atmosphere and the challenge of confidence have confidence in your work have confidence in yourself and have confidence in your journey Don't forget to like share and subscribe and leave any questions comments or concerns down below I will answer them. I check my comments every day and above all go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys