((PKG)) CREATIVE RE-USE CENTER ((Banner: Creative Re-Use)) ((Reporter: Faiza ElMasry)) ((Camera: Adam Greenbaum)) ((Map: Paeonian Springs, Virginia)) ((Main characters: 1 female)) ((Sub characters: 2 females)) ((NATS: Jess walking, opening door and coming in store)) ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) It is a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging re-use in our community, providing affordable materials to artists and teachers and all creative minds in the area. ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) I learned about creative re-use centers over a decade ago and they really sparked something in me because I’d always been a creative re-use artist, but I didn’t know there was a name for it really and there is a community for it. ((NATS: Jess Old Project)) When I was a lot younger, one of the first inspirations that I had was someone was throwing away this baking tin. And I was like, ‘Don’t throw that away. I could do something with that.’ I didn’t know what, but we drove the hole in the middle and turned it into a clock. I called it my cupcake clock. ((NATS: CD Art Piece)) I like to do a lot of CD mosaics. I did a series of all of the local colleges that people seem to really like and it’s on an old pantry door that got discarded. ((NATS: Ripping paper out of map)) And I also make tiny little earrings out of paper like maps, music paper, old books, things like that. ((NATS: Car driving by)) ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) We’re just outside of Leesburg, Virginia which is kind of the keystone of Loudoun County. And it’s a wonderful community that embraces arts and small businesses. ((NATS: Unpacking donations)) ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) Donations come in very willingly, all kinds of things, fabrics, sewing nations, paper, office supplies, lots of creative things that kids like to use like pompoms and buttons and pipe cleaners. ((NATS: Cutting paper)) ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) All kinds of materials that might otherwise go to the waste, we take in and we try to find a new home for them. ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) Our center attracts a wide range of people, ages and coming for all types of reasons. ((NATS: Sonia & Jess)) Jess: Alright, Sonia, so what have you made today? Sonia: I made a house like with flowers and apples and cookies. Jess: Is that where the house would go? Sonia: Yeah, but it is a little big. ((Jess laughing)) Jess: I think it is awesome. I love the colors you used and how you used some of the flowers to decorate and the plastic bags to the windows. It looks great! ((Karishma, High School Student)) I found out about this place through Girl Scouts and with my mom finding it. And she’s like, ‘Hey, this is a good way to get stuff for Girl Scout projects at a lower price and also saving the environment at the same time by not using brand new stuff.’ ((Karishma, High School Student)) You create like little designs. Like, you can make them in key chains or if you want them really long, you can make them into this chain for a necklace or whatever. And you use craft lace and you like do a bunch of different knots and you create this. ((Jess Griffin, Artist, NOVA Reuse Center Owner)) So many things in such a small space that it could take you hours to see every little thing and I think that excites people. ((NATS: Sorting buttons in a drawer))