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The workplace, too, can be a great place to find supplies. The eco-minded Los Angeles designer Jesse Kamm repurposes her studio’s scraps. “Before I make silk screens, I have to print huge test runs on bond paper. I’m left with yards and yards of transparency paper that would otherwise be thrown away,” she says. Surely, Kamm isn’t the only one with a little extra paper — legal, graph, 11×17 — lying around. And there are always everyday household supplies to consider, like felt, cheesecloth, wallpaper, magazines, catalogs, fabric scraps, buttons, toothpicks. Not sure what to do with your leftover sample pots from Farrow & Ball‘s Blackened and Cabbage White look especially pretty with cardboard brown (apply a few stripes or an entire coat). Kitchen twine is an excellent substitute for expensive ribbon; colored rubber bands, even better. Fruit’s not the only thing that can be canned — jam jars make great containers for smaller boxes. So maybe most of us don’t have photo gels lying around oakley sunglasses cheap, but they’re an easy purchase on Amazon and they come in a ton of colors (as opposed to typical cellophane wrapping, which is very RGB). If you take a closer look oakley sunglasses cheap, you’ll see, there’s wrapping all around you.
Lucas Zarebinski
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