Monday, January 16, 2012

Yet Another Green Creation - Making a bag out an M&M wrapper

Since I started sewing, I now observe the world with a new perspective - thinking to myself, "now, I wonder what I could make with that?"

I discovered that by wrapping newspaper or wrappers with contact paper I could transform them into "sewable" materials. My latest creation involved using the wrapper from a 1lb bag of holiday M&M's. I cut the bag in half and sandwiched each half with clear contact paper. I then lined each half with felt and then sewed parallel lines to give the bag a quilted look. Add a zipper and sewed the two pieces together and Wa La - an M&M bag!!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Green Creations

 The gel box. Notice the bubbles for the current. It's working!
When life hands you lemons... The making of the battery.



Lemon juice IS acidic!
The lab made a gel box out of reagent containers from an Antibody supply company (who will not be named since they did not chose our creation to win the competition). We powered our gel box with a lemon juice battery! Science is fun!!

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