 Hey guys. All right, so this is sort of an episode junk and art So if you've been watching my channel for a while, you know, I do things like the little art paper clips and other Mixed media things and I'm frequently either making marks with garbage junk Or I'm actually using it in my artwork. Let me get you a couple examples. Hang on Okay, so if you've been following me for a while, you know, I do art paper clips and things and Here's one Can you spot the junk? The is the pull tab and this is the little plastic thing from your loaf of bread. I Save all kinds of thing. Here's one. It just has stick. I use popsicle stick and another bread tab See you don't have any more in here. I just grabbed one bag of paper clips Or bin, sorry. There's some old thread. I was just like old thread off the end of a spool This is Bits and pieces of technology salvage an old pair of dead headphones and things I took them apart and took the guts out So I save all kinds of weird garbage things you most normal people would throw away. I Don't know what so the only problem with that is I have a Wooden tray at the end of my table. That's usually organized It's not so much right now. It does tend to be a dumping ground and I pile stuff on there And at some point it gets to be too full and I can't find anything which it is right now So we're gonna sort of go through it put some things away I'm gonna talk about what I've kept and why and what I've kept it I don't know why and Hopefully it gives you some ideas of things that you can do with your junk in your art Here's another one It's old cardboard pull pull tab. This is the that Blue thing the blue line. That's a metal bobby pin The plastic that the word the word is on the quote is on is plastic packaging so Junk in art. I use a lot of junk. Let's see what's in the tray this month And let's see how we can clean it and straighten it and make it so that I can organize it Let's get rid of the things that aren't gonna serve and Make it so that we can maybe make some more paper clips and things. Yeah, all right. Let's hang on Let's go to the table. I'll be right back Okay, this is just the pile of stuff that was on top of said tray That was causing it to look completely unorganized And not that there's not things over here that I couldn't still get rid of but let's start with this. Shall we? I recently ordered some fat quarters to replenish some of my fabric stash because All the fabric stores are closed right now We're in the midst of the pandemic. So they wrapped everything up one of the companies wrapped everything up really nicely. It's Murdoch Textiles and They wrapped it with this nice string and a card with a thank-you note I'm gonna actually keep the string and I'm gonna keep it on the thank-you note I'm gonna use the card like a bobbin like that Because I can use that string on a paper clip or something So I'm gonna use a piece of scotch tape to secure that down like that. So I'll set that aside. I Have this tassel. I must have bought somewhere. I don't remember buying it, but I'm sure I bought it recently So we're gonna take that off the packaging So the packaging away Grab the garbage can you're gonna need it Neighbor I watched her dog for her and she brought me back this beautiful sort of seaglass pendant from Florida And it is by Can't get the card out Holy cow Inspired by the sea seaglass and coastal boutique in Englewood, Florida So I'm gonna keep this. I don't need the packaging I Have plenty of these little haggadoss things and the spoons. I don't need to keep anymore I bought myself some new sunglasses. I'm notoriously bad about Destroying sunglasses. I don't need the packaging. I also have a ton of these asparagus little things I don't need those either This is leftover from an unsuccessful mold making adventure with some silicone mold making compound and I Don't need to keep this. I Just I don't need to keep that These are some dried glitter glue, which I want to save. I actually have a jar of them in the tray I'm gonna go put them in the jar This is some Tim Holtz ribbon some from some bundles of Tim Holtz fat quarters Do I want to keep these? I have so much ribbon and stuff. I mean, I know it's just nice Grow green ribbon. You could probably print on the back or something. You know what? I don't need to keep them They can go away Here's some stickers that my husband got in junk mail. I think I'm gonna keep those and use those on something Piece of newspaper that can go the trash pieces of tissue box maybe Napkins I put some napkins out of my stash that I want to use those are over here intentionally This is a piece of painting paper. I did recently that I want to save and use on something Scraps that we're gonna just get rid of these I use because these are bits of Tyvek envelope Friday mail envelope. I use them on the back of the paperclips. So we'll save those Different little pieces of paper with images on them. I thought were interesting That I could use on paperclips and a bunch of magazine pages I'll look at those in a minute. So I think these are all smaller images that I can use on Paperclips for the most part, so I'm gonna put these in the tray section for images magazine images And I'm sorry about the loud banging noises. My neighbor is doing some construction if you can hear that Anyway, my daughter and her fiance bought a house recently and there was all these like little magnets and things left in the house and I found this little like evergreen or a Christmas tree charm thing These are from my grandmother's antique punch bowl These I found later on in the kids new house in their garage, they're from a level So I want to keep some of these things and Keep them in the tray. So I think we need to Let's see Look at what else is over here So one of the organizers in the tray in the tray is a muffin tin I have things organized in different kinds of tins or baskets You have to organize your junk You don't have it organized and you can't remember if you're like me then you can't remember what you have so In this one I have This this is a shot glass. It's a vintage shot glass. It was my grandmother's and That's where the dry Glitter glue is Can go away. That's just can all be trashed What's in here? Some of what's in here has been in here a while and the rule is if I haven't used it in a while Then it has to go back in its space or it has to just go away And so we need to look at that today Okay, and you can really see all the crazy junk I keep All right, so the first thing we're gonna do is take some of our like jewelry findings. I'm gonna put those in one section I'm gonna put I have sort of things to make shaker clips or shaker cards with So they can go in another section Including these little teeny tiny empty bottles. These are from like nail glitter and things Okay packaging we have some packaging this is a dried up tube of watercolor paint This is from the wrapper from a pan a watercolor half pan These are some of those I showed these in a different video. These are from some Christmas lights Some packaging And then we have some more bread tabs and a bottle cap so that'll all go there See what I mean about all these spoons. There's some more bread tabs Can't get that one can't pick it up. Okay another bottle cap I need a chair Okay So we'll put these in here There's a bread tab over here. I can see it Okay, I don't know why some of this is in here game pieces wax seals on the trash This is the heart off of the top of a Southwest Airlines Toothpick stir thing put that there these here. I just knocked over all of our glitter pieces I'm you know, I'm about done with these dried glitter. Maybe these all need to go away I'm thinking to do So sometimes you save things that you later think why didn't I save that? I don't need to save that. I need to let it go and that's okay um I save things for a little bit thinking maybe I'll use it But then if I don't I don't need to hang on to it for eternity I always have like a miscellaneous container and maybe we'll use the shot glass for that Oh, or maybe not. Do you have another section over there? Okay Um, let's see I have a couple more containers. This one has like brads and stuff in it So let's put some of these in here And there's a seat loan sequin loan seashell Get rid of the eraser We're gonna put the little Christmas tree charm thing with the jewelry pieces I've got some glitter glue here Yeah, those can all stay I've got some more packaging these tea yellow tea bag labels. I'm gonna put them in with the other packaging So you see hopefully you're getting an idea of how I organize things um in um My tray that's on the table. I do have I do have a lot of like little bits of what most people would call junk laying around I use all of it in my art at some point and If I don't it goes away I don't keep things forever And if I've accidentally thrown something away, I think I want to use later Well, it is junk and I can probably get anyone. I think that works for me. I need to keep that All right, hang on one second Okay, I have a couple things that I don't want to get rid of but I need to put away in my Bank of small bits that don't live at the table Because I'm not going to use them right now, but I don't want to get rid of them Everything else is now more neatly organized in my tray, which is over that way And I will get you a picture of it that I'll insert right about here Um, I do think I have a video on it somewhere if I can find it. I'll link it Uh in the meantime, I'm going to show you now how I use some of these small bits of garbage um in my Art and I'm going to make a paper clip Um an art clip and I'm going to use this old gift bag that somebody gave me and This is a piece of a tissue box Old piece of cardboard And a little image out of a magazine a Subaru ad um, and so we are going to make a Paper clip and I'm going to speed forward through my process and I'll be right back So In short if you're a mixed media artist It's not junk or garbage. There are parts um To most people they're just trash But I love to reuse and recycle things in art And even those small bits that I sometimes can't use For something like this or in an art journal page I do something like this with them. So these are some coasters That I did yesterday And they need another layer on them because they're not um Flat on top These are some just old floral and seashell pieces From back in the day when we used that kind of thing in our arts and crafts. I had a bunch of them And I had some old resin this literally this one is literally junk. So I've been making um face masks because of the My asthma and the situation with the pandemic that we're um experiencing right now And I just took all the little clipping corners And I put him in some resin again. I have to put another coat on it. There's a few air bubbles. It's not perfect But it's okay. It makes an interesting conversational art piece So Before you toss it out take a second look at it and see what else you can do with it. I guess is my Lesson for this month um So yeah, I I can't even sometimes manage to throw Fabric scraps away every month. It's going to be a little different some months I'll show you what i'm using and will you do it in a journal page some months will do another paperclip But every month the parts i'm actually using will be a little bit different I would love to see what kind of junk or garbage you're using in your art What are those little pieces you just cannot manage to throw away That you're saving to use an art and that you've been using in your art for me One of the biggies is the plastic bread ties. I just don't ever seem to manage to throw them away I am amassing a lot of them, but I do use them. So I guess that's good Anyway, that's it for today Don't forget to like share and subscribe. Leave me those comments down below about what you can't seem to manage to throw Wait, what kind of junk or garbage are you using in your art? Are you saving everything from cardboard and plastic packaging to those little plastic bread ties and tea bag labels? I you know What is it for you? 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