REALISATION: Blog entry 17

This morning I thought the glue had dried, so I took them outside to get some photographs; the gold one disintegrated before I even got to the bottom of the garden, and it turns out the black one has dried at a funny angle, and after a couple of photos, also fell to pieces. I bought glue for porcelain, I don't understand why it's not working. I have glued them back together (at the right angle, so they don't hang wonkey, like they do here) I'm going to leave them alone until the end of the week, hopefully the glue will have dried by then.

REALISATION: Blog entry 13 

Today I went to the garden centre to have a look at some of the bird feeders and packaging;

While at the garden centre, I found some recyclable feeders! and this has given me an idea, to do all the packaging for a range of recyclable, customisable bird feeders and seeds (for the urban sparrows). This is something that parents can do with their kids (customising) each pack can have information on how this attracts birds and helps the conservation effort...I think this is a really cool idea, but I need to do more research into recyclable/DIY bird feeders and houses/nest boxes.

 This is just a simple box and string, complete with food - made from recycled materials, can be used again, it's cheap. Would be really easy to make some of these, possibly using my  pattern on the feeder as well as the packaging?

 I also found this! I think this is brilliant! Its, cheap and simple, and uses recycled plastic bottles, they can be customised...I think a range of products like this, and some others (possibly 3 or 5?) could be a good out come to have for this project - or at least one aspect of it.

I think the project will split in to 2 parts - house sparrows and tree sparrows; urban and rural, the two RSPB projects (project house sparrow, and the friendly farming initiative) each will have its own set of things. the recyclable feeders will be for the urban sparrows, targeted at adults and their children in cities to try and persuade them to create a better habitat for house sparrows.

I bought one of these feeders to get a better look and try it out for myself (now I'm wishing I had also bought on of the box feeders too, maybe I'll go back tomorrow and get one..will possibly buy a couple of things from amazon later..)

Any way, I bought one for myself, and just fannied around drawing on the bottle just as a little experiment.

So! To do now;

-continue experimenting - pattern, textures, etc.

-research diy/recyclable bird feeders

-research product design (get some books from the library)

I also have to finish the first draft of my PPF by the end of the week.