 With a couple new things from the last batch and the last batch I just took the dry pine cones that I collected from outside. These are from the woods next door to my house. I Wacked them with a hammer and stuck them in a blender, which I'm going to show you that part too, but The trick with any paper making is to get the pulp ground down as fine as you can if you want a really smooth paper While I like the rough texture of the first batch of paper I'd like to see if I could get it smoother. So I've got these giant metal snips. I have no idea if they'll cut pine cones or not But we're gonna find out The answer is yes So we're gonna cut our pine cones. They're in a bag in a grocery bag actually two bags, I've layered them and I'm not gonna Cut them super small. I just want to break them up a little bit and then we're gonna still whack them with a hammer So we're gonna do that the smaller I can get them even if I can only chop them in half before I whack them the easier the Chopper thing will have in Getting them ground down to a fine pulp. So you want to really like kind of Work at it oops Also, the drier your pine cones are and the less fresh Probably the easier they're gonna break Oh, there we go. So I'm gonna cut all my pine cones at least in half and I'll be right back They're all broken at least in half I didn't use my nippers and also I got a pair of pliers out and that worked now. I'm going to lay them on the concrete ground I'm gonna whack at the bag full of pine cones a few times with this four-pound mallet If you're bringing these back in the house to continue working on when you're done smashing them like I am get in fresh Bag and put the other two bags of the pine cone bits in them in another bag because smashing them They're sharp and pokey. It puts a bunch of holes in the bag and you'll just trail pine cone bits and there's some moss in there In between the pine cone things anyway, you'll you'll trail it through the house. So don't do that Get a fresh bag. I'll be I'll be back. Okay. Once you have your thing from nature Pound it up cut up smaller. You're gonna want to chop it. So I have this inexpensive Ninja food chopper thing Get don't spend a lot of money on this because you're probably gonna burn it out pretty quickly if you make a lot of paper It's good for chopping up paper pulp and something like this But I would get it at like the thrift store or a grocery outlet type store don't spend too much money on it You're also gonna want an empty jar and going to Oops, and I already cut myself, you know I'm gonna put all of my Pinecone bits into here hopefully in here was hopefully without making too big of a mess So let's see how good I do at that Sometimes it doesn't like it when I try to chop things without putting water in there But I would like to have the pine cones just be dry for right now because I want to just have some jars of just pulp pulpy things dried paint bits Dry, of course the dried pine cones and stuff like that because I'm gonna be putting all of them in paper and that reminds me of that paint Dried paint bits around here somewhere. We're gonna grind those up today, too. All right, hang on Let's try this and see what happens that being said you want to before you start putting them in the blender because It is hard for the blender to chop them Otherwise it's not impossible, but it's hard and you also don't want to put too many in the blender when you do do that You'll notice my blender is full of dirty water And I have this cookie sheet here and no that's not all pinecone So what I do is I don't waste the paper towels I've used to sort of keep my work area clean That's just pulp for the paper that I'm gonna make and they're stained the paper towel gets stained with the color from the pine cones and or the dirt that's in the pine cones so I just Grind up my pine cones as fine as I can. I usually I'm gonna be I think leaving them a little bit chunky If you want to you can grind them super fine and get something that's kind of sandy But most of the time When I'm doing it, there's gonna be bigger chunks in there I don't know if you guys can even see the difference between that on camera So here's the one that's finer and this one's got the chunky bits in it this is sort of a Paper pulp. This is gonna be a paper pulp sheet and I'm going to it's in a cookie sheet I'm gonna let it dry if I'm gonna make paper with it right away Then I can just go ahead and do that but I'm not gonna be making paper with it right away So I don't want to fix stick this in the jar while it's wet I want to let it dry and then break it up and stick it in the jar if I do want it to wet It's just gonna get moldy And then when I go to make paper with it I can take a few of the small bits out of the jar and I can put those in the blender and then Regrine them again with whatever I'm gonna add to it. So what I'm gonna do here I'm not sure you're getting it on camera. I guess you're getting some of it I'm just mixing the pinecone bits with the paper towel So it's sort of semi Evenly distributed It's kind of fun. I got to be honest. It's you know kind of fun to get messy And I am puppy sitting and she's out in the hallway and I'm not think she's so sure what to think about the blender Then I'm gonna spread it out thinly on the cookie sheet um, I Do have a funnel and a strainer mini strainer I Think I got the little strainer at the dollar store. It's either from Dollar Tree or it's from Daiso But I think it's from Dollar Tree. They're free or sink. So they're in the kitchen aisle And I'm gonna use it to drain off a little bit more of the water that's in here Just a little bit more Without a trick is doing it without dumping all the pulp that you just created all over the place You know huge mess and then I can also Kind of do this and take handfuls of it and dry it off that way. I don't have anywhere to put that now That's actually a good idea. So by the way, then you just have a ball of pulp And my hands are filthy we'll see I'm gonna just put it over here in a rag you don't want to do that to start with because There you're gonna end up with way too much water in here in it And you can't really grind up the pinecones without water You're gonna burn out your blender. It's not gonna be happy about that. It it's just too thick for it to blend So you have to do it with water. I Suppose if you had a spice grinder or a coffee bean grinder, you maybe could do it Have one of those handy that's for the craft room. So Did you see my clip go for it? The reason I have the strainer in there is so I don't want to lose any more of these bits And I have to because it took too long to make them. So when you do it this way you couldn't save any Small bits you can get my cookie sheet pretty dry Which is great the dryer you get the cookie sheet when you put the pulp dough so to speak back in it the Last time it'll take for it to dry out and the less chance you have of it getting moldy So now I can put my pulp dough balls back in here and spread them out Over the spring I'll be Gathering some moss from our local Area or surrounded by woods and wet protected wetlands So I'll be playing with some of that along with like dried foliage and things not only from my yard But stuff I know I already have in my stash. All right So let me clean my hands off and I'll show you our Pinecone pulp. It's not paper yet. It's just pulp. It's ready ready for adding to other things to make paper So I'll be back here is our pinecone and paper towel pulp that will someday be paper When it dries out, I'm going to put it in this empty gelato jar here So that's one thing that I'll be adding to my mixture in the little ninja blender to make paper There is another one and I'm you know, the whole idea behind this is not only to make some paper That's interesting and these are the two sheets that I have made yesterday It's also if we reuse and repurpose and keep out of the landfill things that we can and So yesterday, I realized when I was getting ready for today that the little metal strainer in my Bucket where I drain all my dirty water. I'll show you in a minute That I could maybe pick out some of the dried paint chips and Paper pulp and things out of the strainer, which I did and They're gonna and I also have dried paint blobs, you know from the top of your paint tubes So those are that's all going to go in another jar and I'll probably have one jar Or stack that's just white paper and I'll be able to pick from my different jars when I want to make paper and Just pick different things to put in the paper Of course, you can also you put glitter and things like that in but the point is to make paper out of things It would normally go in the landfill Let me go show you what I mean by my metal strainer hang on the bathroom, which it doesn't look like this and we have guests But in between time though, so if you are a guest here or going to be this is what it looks like and when you're not looking this is my pile of stuff that's drying that I've rinsed off or washed and This is the sink. I usually use I do I'm trying really hard not only to keep things out of the landfill But to keep the sink clean and keep it from getting stained This house wasn't built with a utility sink. So I have to make it work Which I think I do I Have my jar of Murphy's oil soap and water over there for the paint brushes I've got a rag. I can wipe my hands on and not use the nice guest rag And get that all marked up This is what I actually wash in so I have this in the sink I wash the brushes or whatever in here and then periodically dump this bucket in Here so this is a five-gallon bucket with a lid and I cut a hole in the lid and I put this dollar store Metal strainer in the top. I usually line it with a coffee filter And then all the water goes in here I let it sit for a little while and the water will separate from the heavies the solids and the sludge and solids will sink to the bottom and I can drain off the water that's at the top down the toilet or Something like that and the sludge just lives at the bottom and as soon as we it warms up outside. I'll be taking Like a cardboard box and putting a black garbage bag around the outside of it and dumping the sludge into the cardboard box Out and leaving it out in the sun somewhere to dry And disposing of it safely that way But what I was noticing is if you notice on the strainer It's got water in it right now, but this is like pinecone bits and it usually has pinecone bits or Paint chips or something in it So I will be taking those out and I'll be adding them to our jars of things to make paper with our pulpy things So that's going to be pretty cool, and I'll probably be taking the coffee filters and grinding them them up, too So paper-making adventures. This is just part one. I'll be back in part two and You know, we'll do a more in-depth thing with regards to my Disposal system and what I'm doing to be keep my things clean, but also be more environmentally conscious On a different video I do want to get a second one of these buckets so that I can have one that's outside in the sun and the other one That's in here being used So that's I've got to go back to Walmart and get another one That's where this is from by the way, but you can get them at any hardware store. Just make sure you get a lid, too All right, that's it for right now. Don't forget to like share and subscribe support the free content here on the YouTube channel By using my link tree link you can find my Etsy shop my Amazon store Where to buy my book my patreon my tip jar all that stuff and all the places to stalk me on social media as my French Anna Green would say So use that and don't forget the most important thing Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. 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