Thought this was a good example of how art seems to happen from my surroundings.     Jersey Made has a beekeeper.   He brought a jar so that customers could taste the blueberry honey and since then it has been flying out of the shop.   Customers seem to like the idea of honey from NJ.

So I have been trying to learn new things about honey.   On his last visit the beekeeper loaned me a book with tons of information in it.   She had autographed the book for him and inside wrote “bee yourself”.   Seemed like a great suggestion.

So when it came time to create a recycled project the inspiration was right in front of me.   I follow Create It Green on Facebook and she challenged us to make something out of a coffee cup lid.  The deadline was yesterday.

Just under the wire I stopped to get a hot chocolate on my way to the shop so that I could used the lid for the project.   Sadly they gave me coffee instead but at least I had that lid!!!  hehe

I used the paper bag from my donuts as the background, cut to a circle that fit on the inside of the lid.   I cut up the used lip balm packaging to get the words “BEE natural” and 2 little bees.   Then I drew myself a little hive.

It needed a little color so I add the plaid scalloped circle behind the words.   My inspirational hot chocolate lid is now hanging at the shop.   Sometimes I need a challenge to get those creative idea flowing – but I ALWAYS need a deadline.    At 4PM it was posted to the Create It Green page.