Watching

Planning programs in a public library means many things one of those is being bombarded with ideas. This is great because it makes coming up with your own ideas easier and the need to do so, if you don't want to, almost unnessary. While I constantly get new ideas from websites, confrences, magazines, listservs, books, and on and on they won't all work for the patrons I'm trying to reach. One type of program that I find my self going to over and over is crafting, especially crafting with materials that would otherwise be trash. I've used old t-shirt to create pillows and bags. That was great because it gave the t-shirts a new use but even if they hadn't been used in those crafts it's unlikely they would have ended up in the trash. Goodwill would have gotten some and so would home rag collections. What I don't see often enough is crafts with things that would truly become trash if I didn't find a way to repurpose them.