Coffee cup paper making

[surlymonkey]

For all you coffee drinkers, here's a great way to make your own paper. Link leads to Instructables Living: http://www.instructables.com/id/Coffee-Cup-Papermaking/

Btw, this is a great site for recycling virtually anything.

[Treelover]

i reuse old envelopes to make my own paper; great project with kids. and my frame and deckle are old picture frames with net curtain stapled onto the deckle [which method i also use to make a screen printing frame]. i have made paper from first principles from grass, sweetcorn husks and banana skins and i do NOT recomment the last; it stinks to high heaven and takes months to dry out properly and is brittle even so. haven't tied nettles yet - haven't woven with them either - because the nettles the butterflies don't use i tend to eat, at least while they're still tender. old nettles are no use to man nor beast except as liquid fertiliser.[did you wonder if i was having a nettle problem?]