Showing posts with label I found it by the bins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I found it by the bins. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 January 2016

I found it by the bins #2.

Bird garland rescued from a bin! secondhandsusie.blogspot.co.uk #ecoblogger #greenblogger #secondhand

Bird garland rescued from a bin! secondhandsusie.blogspot.co.uk #ecoblogger #greenblogger #secondhand
 
You can often find me wombling*.  A great place for finding rescue-able items was the communal bin area by my old block of flats, and that's where I found this pretty bird garland.  It was soaking wet when I found it, as it was raining pretty hard, but a bit of a clean and a dry later it looks good as new.  I think it looks lovely in my hallway.

Check out my other bin finds!

Do you womble?

*Definition of wombling:
"Collecting things out of skips, bins, abandoned flats and rubbish tips which can be put to good use. Named after the Wombles kids TV show, where the Wombles recycled things other people threw away. "
from urbandictionary.com


Sunday, 10 May 2015

I Found it by the Bins #1.




This big lantern was just sitting by the recycling bins, hoping someone would take it home.  So I did!  People are always leaving things by the communal recycling bins by my flat.  Sometimes it's just plain fly tipping, but sometimes there's treasure to be had! 

I don't know whether to use the lantern as a mini-greenhouse and put a plant in, or decoupage the outside of the glass with a patchwork of retro fabrics and put a candle in.  

Do you find yourself unable to walk past a likely looking bin or skip?  Or is it just me?!