Some more...

...recycling.

The desk at work where I sit for part of the time is on the sunny side of the building and as such, the blinds are closed when the weather is nice otherwise you can't see the screen of the PC because of the glare.

This makes things very miserable as we are either shut off from the world to stop the glare or can only look out when it is dull or after dark.

I decided to cheer my desk up with a visit to the silk flower section in Poundland.

As I don't have any vases at work, I rescued an empty one of these from the bag that was...

 ...destined for the plastic recycling and went to work armed with...

...my bow maker, scissors and some ribbon.
This was the result...

...and as you can see - the background is still a glare nightmare even with the blinds closed.

The 'vase' was easy to make - if you look at the first photo above...I measured about an inch above the label on the bottle and cut the top off. I then removed the label and wrapped some plain white copier paper around the bottle keeping the bottom edge level with the desk and folding the excess over to the inside of the bottle to give a smoother edge around the top. Some ribbon to decorate and make a bow, then it was just a case of arranging the flowers.

Some of the flowers had stems that were way too long but rather than throw away the off cut, I made some ribbon picks to add to the arrangement.

Flowers - £6, Ribbon - £1(for a 50m roll of parcel ribbon), bottle & paper - free.

I used to use these 2litre bottles a lot for this kind of thing - a piece of pretty wrapping paper can help to colour co-ordinate and they are also great for real flowers as they will hold water.

Not a bad way to spend 10 mins of my lunch break..................................................................