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Magazine Paper Roll ProjectSo, here we go. Back in February, you may remember a FB
post that Natasha put up for a magazine rolled bowl...

Ana and I thought how neat it looked, we just had to give it a try. With Earth Day (or week) celebrations coming up this April, we figured why not attempt to

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make something ourselves using that post as our inspiration, if not the bowl itself, but put our own spin on the concept.

Thanks to Natasha, who procured old magazines through Freecycle, some glue and skewers, we were all set to start. I have to admit, once we started rolling the magazine pages (again, see the link on how to roll the pages properly), we just couldn’t seem to stop, just wanting to see how many more pages we could add to make more concentric circles of rolled paper.

At first, we both were just using any page we came across to make our rolls, until we started to see how certain pages, when rolled, created wonderful colour combinations and patterns. At this point, we hadn’t yet decided if we were making a bowl as in the original idea or something else, we were really having fun just rolling. After some time we found ourselves with a number of rolls of different sizes and colors.

It was difficult to choose only one project, our imagination was bursting with ideas of what to do with these rolls! We contemplated making something functional like coasters, decorating a photo frame or lining a wood tray and setting them under some epoxy. In the end, we opted to make some wall art to hang. Ana had an old painted canvas she wasn’t using. Arranging the rolls into something we both liked was tricky as Ana preferred a more abstract, free form design while I leaned towards a more structured one. After much deliberating, a design seemed to emerge from the inspiration of the Truffula tree that is featured in the movie about Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax”. We glued the rolls and added a broken twig from the ground onto the canvas…and voila! Seemed just befitting given the message about our environmental impact on our Earth. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, it’s a treat for all ages with an important lesson. In the end, Ana couldn’t resist herself and wound up making a necklace as well. The result was a bohemian chic, casual necklace made up of all-natural materials with a paper roll pendant, discarded wood beads and some braided leather string.

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