Happy Happy Friday!

Well, as this post goes live, I'm probably on the boat coming back from a wonderful day showing some friends from Canberra the tropical island where I spent my childhood years. 

Heidi has a fabulous Friday Mashup challenge for us all this week along with a great sketch, she is challenging us to recycle and reuse.  I'm afraid that time was limited for me with visitors, so I've opted out for an easy one and used old buttons.  

 I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my grandmother (who is sadly no longer with us) cutting out zippers and buttons from our old clothes, the ones that were not good to pass on to charity or handed down to those less fortunate.  All buttons, zippers or hooks etc which were still good were put in the button tin to be reused and the clothes themselves were put in the ragbag and used for cleaning and dusting or out in the shed for greasy and oily things.

I think women of my Grandmothers time were the ultimate recyclers!  Somehow we seem to have lost that in our 'throw away society' although there is a resurgance and people are becomming more aware of reusing items.

I've mixed the sketch up just a little moving the sentiment over to another panel.  Hope you like my inspiration card.  Check out the cards the design team have for you at the Friday Mashup Challenge blog.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz