Living a sustainable life is truly astounding.

It's the foundation of my passion for creating sustainable art.

I've been an avid treasure hunter for years. I especially loved this hunt with my sister. She is a creative force to be reckoned with and together we have made some mighty incredible art and useable masterpieces. We have loved the hunt through thrift stores, garage, estate and warehouse sales and storage facilities.

My life has gotten even deeper into sustainability through the years and my sustainable existence blessed into high gear through @quinneaker's vision of the sustainable life at the @gardenofeden. I have foregone the sales of all kinds and use my thrifty nature to find my own materials without making a financial investment. I continue to utilize "trash" to make my art--and since my life is art--I use reclaimed treasures in many facets of my reality. I love that things have history and that we can give new life to them by using our creative minds. What was once created for one purpose can be transformed into something completely different. I love how that works!! And with every new item comes a flood of new inspiration of uses for those materials. Sometimes I'd like to clone myself just so I could actualize more art through my personal perspective!!

I presently have a series of my TrasHart displayed (and offered up by donation) at the Avoca Coffee Shop on Magnolia Street in a historic district in Ft. Worth, Texas, some of which is offered up by donation on PeerHub.

Along with sustainable art to hang on the wall,

Textured fabric scrap collage art on an old spring and chain, nature's twig, and coffee and tea stains.

I have also made floors

Cross-cut branches from an old elm tree that fell on our land ...

Grouted with sawdust.

Recycled fence panels delivered for free from a fence company and other recycled lumber that otherwise would have have been thrown in the dump with a fee.

fabric, clothing,

Rusted metal vinegar transfers, coffee stains and recycled paint.

quilts and afghans, rugs, pillow, curtains, baskets,

Hand-crochet edged linen baby blanket with a hand-crocheted blanket package! All materials salvaged.

picture frames, tables,

A table top made with colored Easter egg shells, moss, hand-sculpted clay and other nature finds.

room dividing screens, lamps, jewelry,

Hand-hammered copper wire wrap around rose quartz I made for my son.

Earrings made from telephone wire, reclaimed beads, and orange tea bag wrappers.

garden trellises, chicken coops,

The first chicken coop outside walls made from crates, shutters, a scrolled piano decoration, a recycled door and recycled wood frame, pallets and screens.

Our new chicken coop from pallets, bamboo pegs, reclaimed wood, door and shutters, decorated with bark, roots, random wood, metal lettering, a grapevine wreath, and a patchwork ceramic chicken, all saved from the trash.