My Earth Day Project
by Cecile Cinco
Yesterday I wanted to go to the Cultural Center of the Philippines to celebrate Earth Day with everyone else concerned. There were several interesting programs I’d like to see especially the recycling stuff…but I Continue reading »
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Crafts, Export, Recycled | Comments (2)Collapsible Multipurpose Side Expander
by Cecile Cinco
Have you ever needed a deep bowl for grapes or berries but instead you just have a plate which is not enough to hold everything in?
When you have finished off the grapes or berries, would you rather have your container collapsible to save on space? Isn’t collapsibility great especially when you have to bring them along like in picnics or just let it stay in your bag so you have something to pull out at the time needed without even taking notice that it is in your bag?
Introducing, my new creation, the Multipurpose Side Expander.
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Crafts, Export, Recycled | Comment (0)Multipurpose Woven Basket Made Out Of Glossy Paper
by Cecile Cinco
I’ve been busy with many stuff including crafting. One that I’ve done is this Multipurpose Woven Glossy Paper Basket.
I’ve been keeping several pages of 18×24 inches of rejected glossy uncut brochure for about 2 years. When I got hold of it, I thought it would be best to make a basket which is very good for grocery shopping or for traveling. You can also put packed lunch or toys. Put some floral foam inside and you can arrange flowers for stage display. Put some marbles and artificial flowers to decorate your home. A lot of things can be done using this multipurpose basket. Best of all, it’s recycled. You can make this a project for those who go for a home health care agency.
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Crafts, Export, Recycled | Comments (2)Women’s Club Learned How To Braid Simple Basket Out Of Old Newspaper
by Cecile Cinco
Last June 14, 2008, I was asked to be the resource person during our regular monthly UCG-Manila Women’s Club Knowledge Channeling the next day. I asked if they were interested with making backdrops out of styrofoam. They were, but the next day when I was preparing my stuff, I found out our styro-cutter was malfunctioning so I had to think of another. I asked our President to bring some used newspaper. Solved.
Below are pictures I took (except for the first one, so I can be in the picture). I can say it was a successful crash training.
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Crafts, Export, How-To/Tutorial, Recycled | Comments (8)Recycled Tetrapack Wallet
by Cecile Cinco
For the past 3 days I was on a project. I was thinking of making a sewing kit of some sort out of tetra packs but laid it aside when I was almost halfway. I saw a problem with the design so it’s almost like redesigning it later on. Since the design’s purely in my head (no drawing effort), it’s ok.
Instead, with the same tetra pack collection (Chuckie Chocolate Milk Drink), I made a wallet. My Nescafe wallet is over a year old (don’t know when I can make one of its kind again) so I wanted to make something I can use…or sell.
This is pure handcrafted. No sewing machine involved. Blisters emerged at the tips of my sewing fingers, sewing through the tetra pack. It’s 3-partitioned with the upper portion for cards (ID, credit, etc.), the middle part for paper bills and the lower zipped part for coins and other small items that need to be in closed (zipped) location.
Below are more pictures with and without the contents. Continue reading »
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Crafts, Export, Recycled | Comments (7)Laptop Bag Made Out Of Rice Sacks
by Cecile Cinco
Did you know that rice sacks are not only for holding rice and later for trash? I used to make it as my base for almost all my sewing craft products because it makes the outcome tear-free, especially when I’m using snack foil and tetra pack. Rice sack alone is also good but it’s more costly since I use the design of the sack to make it artistic and at the same time, functional, while being eco-friendly.
Below is the pics of the step-by-step process of the laptop bag I created (the only copy of such design) which was sold to a chat friend in the US for $80 in 2005, if I remember right.
In case the pics don’t show up, you can see them at picasaweb.
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Crafts, Export, Recycled | Comments (4)Welcome!
by Cecile Cinco
This is basically a craft blog and store at the same time.
I am a crafter in my own right. 99% of my crafts are original and each has no replica because I craft direct from how I perceive it in my imagination to the creation. I am no pattern-maker so I have no pattern for whatever I have created. Also, since I am a recycler, most of my creations are from recycled stuff like juice foils, tetra packs, noodle packs, coffee sachets, tarpaulins, etc…which are detrimental to our environment if we just burn them up. So I design something useful…functional…so that instead of adding to the incinerator, it will still continue to do service to the globe and its inhabitants to make it better by not making it worse.
Having been involved with the Talitha Foundation, I have tried to teach its beneficiaries some of the stuff I make for them to have extra income. Their living conditions are worse. Every money then can earn is an opportunity they will grab. Although we have tried to export, those helping us can no longer do. The Foundation being broke, with too much personal expenses and love from its founder, Ofelia Pantino, the exporting Continue reading »
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