#queenofthelab

One scrap down, only a zillion to go!

Thank you to everyone who answered my question about what to do with our growing pile of e-flute scraps!

Below are the the replies that I have gotten so far.  These are all great ideas!  Keep ‘em coming!

@midwestconservator 

Good question! We use scraps to make spacers and dividers for archival boxes (both flat and upright), but we’re still up to our ears in scrap as well. What do you think, conservators and tumblarians???    

@conservethis  

1) Give them to your local artist, or art students. 2) Make a series of smaller and smaller boxes, and align them on your desk in descending order by size to impress your coworkers and friends.3) Teach a box making workshop with them, but have participants make pint-sized boxes.4) Locate a group of miniature books in your collection that could benefit from some housing.5) Make book cradles, wedges, or other mounts for an exhibit or your reading room.6) Use the skinny pieces to make dividers in boxes for groups of small objects, housed together. 7) Make a crown out of the scraps and declare that the conservation lab is now a sovereign territory, and you are its divine ruler and benevolent monarch.

@badgersnbooks