I still haven't seen it back in NYC yet, they're here somewhere, but apparently going through customs takes longer than shipping from CPH to NYC by boat. Eventually there will be a DIS show here at Pratt for furniture & textiles from this summer, so keep a look out for that too.
I finished my first jewelry project since high school! Surprise surprise, it's tree-shaped, just like everything else I seem to be making these days. Sustainability is kind of taking over my brain. Anyway here it is, in all its hours-of-sewn-on-paper-leaves glory!
In other news, CSDS is taking on a project through a green organization in NYC to work with starbucks about a paper cup uptake container, which will connect with an effort here at pratt to use paper cups and make styrofoam a thing of the past. After all, paper is only truly better when it's being used and disposed of correctly.
I'm also in the middle of working out a connection between CSDS and Sift, the new Pratt Sustainability newsletter. I'm not sure at this point if I'll be writing full-fledged articles, CSDS blurb updates, or what, but I'm now the go-between gal for these two wonderful efforts.
Etsy.com people came to Pratt yesterday and did a presentation about what Etsy is for, how it works, etc. and it got me (and I'm sure others) pumped to put up work and sell some things on Etsy. It really plays into the whole local-as-sustainability thing, as well as supporting green efforts. I'll probably set up an Etsy account next semester when I have more time to make things, such as my recycled plastic bag laptop sleeves.
Finally, I'm working on a sustainable, tree-based (in many ways) coffee table in furniture this semester. I don't have any pictures of that to upload just yet, though, so let me leave it at that for now.
