Spring Shutters: Reduce, Reuse, Resign

Reduce, Reuse, ReSign! 
In this hands-on workshop, participants will create decorative signs using plastic shutters salvaged from Rummage Rampage in Ames. This project highlights creative reuse and practical upcycling, showing how salvaged building materials can be transformed into functional décor. The workshop blends crafting with sustainability, offering participants an engaging way to keep materials in use while rethinking waste.

Meet the Instructor!

Shelene (Shelly) Codner has been with the Iowa Waste Exchange, a free, confidential and non-regulatory program of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for 23 years. Prior to that, she served as the Director of the Butler County Solid Waste Commission. Currently she serves as the program manager and as an Area Resource Specialist for Area 2, which includes 16 counties.

Shelly is an award-winning writer, published children’s author and contributing author to the New York Times best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Shelly also serves as volunteer regional editor of Green Teacher magazine based in Toronto. Aside from reading and writing Shelly has many hobbies and interests, sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting, crafting, gardening, cooking, baking, photography and spending time outdoors and with family, Shelly’s favorite pastime by far is being with her grandchildren.

Shelly lives on a farm in rural Iowa with her husband of 38 years.

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