Please make time to watch this. What Sir Sam O'Hare has done is magical.
 Love LOve LOVe LOVE this video!  This is STOP MOTION, all photographs!

I surfed the web and found a few inspirational pieces. I love when artists can look at something in a new light, and find a new way to approach something. Three of these pieces represent recycled art: the book, the matchsticks, and the styrofoam cup. Makes you realize how beautiful something mundane can be. The porcelain wall paper and the grass sculptures are taking something familiar (wall paper, and grass), and reusing it/ re-interpreting it in a new way.
What a valuable skill, learning to look at the World in a new way. I have links below leading to more info about the artists. 

links:
sitckinsects, book origami, styrofoam drawings,
porcelain wallpaper, growing grass sculptures

INSPIRATION/ THRIFT FINDS

I got this awesome book Flea Market Style for Christmas and I absolutely LOVE IT! It gives some great inspiration on how to re-use things in an aesthetic way.
I love this page about arranging and displaying little kitschy knick-knacks. I've been collecting a few items for Bug's room and I haven't known how to create a home for them. Now I just need to construct this shelving unit and align the back of it with some vintage paper.
All the lovelies below are thrift finds. Whoever thought Kitschy could be Beautiful? I did.

Ode to Mr. Barney. You're the reason I love photography and the reason I went into art. 
(If you know him that well, you'll understand the photo.)

OH MY! I loved past videos done by these guys... but I can honestly say, THEY OUT DID THEMSELVES. I watch this and think AMAZING!!

and while I share that.. I might as well share this!

..and this :)

what the heck, one more doesn't hurt.