Trash to Treasure Decor
Over the summer, my kids started bringing home these fun plastic doohickeys. And since they look a lot like the expanding atom toys I had seen in the Discovery Channel store as a kid, I often wondered why they were squandering their allowance on these babies, especially at their ages. So…I asked them. (Disclaimer: these particular items only apply in Korea, or similar locations)
Turns out, they had been “cleaning up” after lucky litterbugs who discarded them after winning prizes from claw machines in several local game rooms. Then when they really began to pile up and clutter their room, it dawned upon me that these discards were far too pretty to just throw into the recycling bin. So…..
I turned to a string of old half-working Christmas lights already dangling from the curtain rod in their room, and decided to string ’em up into an origami-like garland. Then, for further psychedelic splendor, I wrapped another string of last year’s lights around the finished garland. And I must say, IMHO, the results were, well, blog-worthy!
I hope you enjoyed this posting! And to my Korea-based readers, please try this at home. It’s fun, and it’s free!
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