Lemon Tree Paper Creator

Spent lovely afternoon in garden tearing up recycled paper Acquired a second hand vintage blender Slowly added paper strips The mixing into a pulp was good fun Spread very thinly onto tea towels, am more happy with this result.   

I made a screen using small chicken wire and a old picture frame.  I used packing tape to secure the edges. I used recycled newspaper, after squeezing out as much water turned the paper onto a tea towel Leaving to dry overnight on a window ledge.  The paper was thick and brittle and very grey. The deckle that I had made broke and I was not impressed with the thickness of the paper or the look and feel.  It was back to the drawing board to try something else.  

L itter picking on a local beach is really where my journey began.  I decided to volunteer with primary school children to collect discarded plastic and the like.  I felt really proud of myself.  I had always wanted to operate a litter picker.  I really didn't expect to find much as I frequented this beach on many occasions and had never noticed things that weren't supposed to be there. W ithin the first few hours we had managed to fill so many bags of rubbish that the local Council sent a vehicle to pick the waste up.  I found a sharps container full used syringes, so many plastic bottles and discarded balloons, bits of plastic that I was shocked. I grew up with the Wombles of Wimbledon, who were ahead of their times.  Picking litter of Wimbledon Common, public funded signs and message telling you to take your litter home.  Under no account drop litter in the streets.  The one items that was commonly seen everywhere was discarded pull ...