Bury In Bloom community 2024

A huge thank you to the Theatre Royal for allowing us to kick start their Bloom and Grow workshops with art and crafts yesterday and a huge thanks to Maisy for helping and Jo for photographing.

Who would like to be involved in this years craft workshops.?

The theme is friendship and we are ‘making friends’ in the form of pot people!!

Please message or comment below if you know any organisations and community groups that may benefit from a funded workshop.

Exciting times ahead …

Thank you for today’s collection of glasses!

Back collecting again next weekend .

Old patterened material , glasses and coffee pods. 🦊

RECYCLING REQUEST

Can you help? Do you have?

Old glasses or sunglasses, no lenses, no problem!

Used colourful coffee pods

Patterned colourful material to make headscarves, or actual headscarves!

Please message me if you have any of these and leave out and I can come and collect from your doorstep. If not, you have a month to start collecting!!

Just a few places left on this wonderful workshop.

Come and get creative. Aimed at beginners but suitable for intermediate or advanced as after the initial tutorial you pretty much have freedom to create anything you want. We've had flowers, cats, trees, to name a few...

We have two wire compost cages to give to a community group, care home or allotment so please pm me if you would like me to deliver one.

The benefits of compost are huge so here are just a few reasons why you might wish to start up a compost bin in your garden.

Prevents Soil Erosion. ...
Assists in Stormwater Management. ...
Promotes Healthier Plant Growth. ...
Conserves Water. ...
Reduces Waste. ...
Combats Climate Change. ...
Reduces Costs. ...
Improves Soil Health.

I am so pleased to say the compost crowns went in today 🦊🌸 and we bumped into this motley crew from Sebert Wood who did the creature crown!!

So pleased with how this project has kept on giving

And will do next year when the compost enriched soil is used to feed plants in schools and community groups ready for next years judging day.

We will reap what we sow!!!

I am so chuffed with how the compost crowns look.

I do hope everyone enjoys looking at them.

I am so pleased to say the compost crowns went in today 🦊🌸 and we bumped into this motley crew from Sebert Wood who did the creature crown!!

Sneak preview of one of the decorated coronation compost crowns. Not quite finished but you get the idea…

Only 7 more to complete! Katie Copeman looks good 😊

We did it we made 60 can creatures in an afternoon.

Re loving re using and recycling your household waste 😊

I am so excited about this years Bury In Bloom project.

We are creating ‘Coronation compost crowns’ using recycled rubbish, allowing it to be re used and re loved.

All the items used in my art installation have been donated by members of the public. So we can all enjoy looking at the art in the knowledge it cost nothing for materials and at the end of the project all the ‘makes’ have been labelled so they can be given back to the creators.

I am so appreciative of the community for helping me with these sort of projects and because of kind donations I am able to offer the community workshops year upon year.

Hopefully this project will help spread the word of re cycling, re using, re loving and re distributing food and paper and card etc onto compost heaps helping produce rich compost to enrich soil in our gardens.

The mesh crowns will provide the perfect compost bin so that we can all try and get a bit crafty about how we reduce our waste. Starting with food, paper, cardboard that can all be placed in a compost bin.
I do hope you all enjoy the art installation and learn something new about composting

I will let you know when they are going up in Abbey Gardens

Today we were at Hardwick where they produced some beautiful crafty can flowers 🌸

Well we did it! We made crisp flowers and a mural

Enjoy our crazy Kings and quirky Queens. Made this afternoon in a coronation special workshops.

Our Collage compost crown will be in situ in a July in Abbey Gardens

The first of 8 workshops today on our composting theme

We made old sock caterpillars stuffed with ripped and broken carrier bags

Come and see them on their compost crown in July in Abbey Gardens.

Now off to Tollgate to make some crazy kings and quirky Queen collages

Ask… and you shall receive!

Thank you for my latest recycling drop offs

Workshops start next Friday so I will keep you all updated.

We are making Coronation crowns and as such are after cleaned out crisp packets, drinks cans rinsed out and not crushed, 50cl bottles rinsed out and bizarrely any tennis balls or colourful odd socks!!!

Please leave in plastic tub by my lock up
Unit 7 Brunel Business Court, Eastern Way, Bury St Ed’s, IP32 7AJ

I am creating more crisp packet art for bury in bloom. Could any cafes or schools or community groups save crisp packets for us please. Ideally kept flat after use. Or fizzy drinks cans rinsed out and not crushed, 50cl bottles rinsed out and bizarrely any tennis balls or colourful odd socks!!!

Please leave in plastic tub by my lock up
Unit 7 Brunel Business Court, Eastern Way, Bury St Ed’s, IP32 7AJ

I am a excited to share with you that we will be making coronation compost crowns. In celebration of the kings coronation and all things recyclable.

Each crown will be decorated in a recycled item and the theme will begin with the letter C

We will also be sharing interesting ‘did you know?’ Information about composting and some dos and donts.

Still need the following items if you can start collecting…

Crisp packets
Odd colourful socks
Coloured carrier bags
Chocolate and sweet foil wrappers
Drinks bottles
Drinks cans

Dropped in black storage box to side of Unit 7 Brunel Business Court BSE IP32 7AJ

I have been given the go ahead for this years project.

Community compost crowns

We will be turning compost bins into crowns and decorating them with recycled materials.

Each crown willl be a different design and the mesh compost crown structures will return to community groups, care homes and schools after the project ends to be used as actual compost bins.

Looking for groups to visit

You must be central to Bury St Edmunds.