Blog Action Day (a little late!)

What is Blog Action Day you ask?

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

I found out about it on my friend Erin's blog Blossom Creations. Pop over to see what she has to say about this too.

As for me well I began my little business (as diverse as it now is) by creating greeting cards and hand made paper items with a focus on using recycled materials.
My whole life I have been exposed to recycling in some form or another as my parents owned a second hand and antiques business when I was a child and Dad was always very talented at turning old bits and pieces into something new and I kinda followed on in his footsteps using my natural creative instincts to re-do old furniture and bric-a-brac to decorate my home.
When I got into childcare, we recycled stuff to create the children's art and I guess it was a natural progression to do so in my own art.
When I began recycling old paper into new stationery It really made me sit up and take notice of how much waste our society produces. Just for our little household alone it is incredible how much paper passes through our hands. We have also begun to make changes at home to do our bit for the environment. Changing lightbulbs to energy saving ones, using recycled paper, turning old food containers into works of art, collecting water in buckets in the shower and when it rains to use on the garden and potplants....the list goes on.
You know ...it's amazingly easy once you start doing these things....why don't you give it a try?
Take care and keep smiling :)
PS: Those hail photos are still coming :)