Coffee Bag Bag and the Bagging of Another

Day 7
5 hrs

It's really nice to have something(s) to show off. Today I whipped out my bag made of Starbucks coffee bags at Vessels & Jewels and Pete started flying off with ideas: "Longer handle, girls like to put bags over their shoulders"; "Tape some stripes of coffee grinds"; "Add an inside pocket." Pretty soon he'll be doing my work for me.... He got excited and retrieved the used grinds from Ellie's, the coffee-shop next door, as well as a larger coffee-bag that I will now turn into a black clutch (the little plastic freshener that is in every bean bag will be used as the button. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go look in yours).

In all non-modesty, the bag is super-cool. Rectangular with a metallic stripe across the middle and vertical strips of coffee grinds trapped under the clear packaging tape really makes the bag urbanized and artsy-fartsy.

I also put on the first coat of polyacryllic satin varnish on my cardboard chair. It's nice and glossy, a little yellowed from the wood-glue I used for the newspaper papier-maché. I'll do a second coat tomorrow.

The reason for the title ("Bagging of Another") is because I might bag the license-plate birdhouse or at least redesign it. I didn't plan very well and the plates aren't bending the way I want. I may have to incorporate other reclaimed items and make it more trashified.


All-in-all, fantastic day.
Soph