The Skip Sisters go skip-diving en masse, build dolls out of pianos and never let a good piece of rubbish go to waste
The best thing about skips? You never know what youre going to find, the Skip Sisters tell me about their upcycling, waste-salvaging, eco-arts collective. For the past eight years, the group of five friends has been delving into skips, rummaging through rubbish and looking for potential treasure left on the street. They then get together with their finds and transform them into anything from lamps made from old Bisto tins to cushion covers, cake stands and jewellery.
Edori, Julia, Pia, Lizzzie and Helen all live within a few streets of each other in south London. Their now grown-up children went to school together, and the women discovered their shared interest in craft at the school gates.
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