Necklace Organizer from Cutlery Tray
Laughing Daisies shows you how to recycle a cultery tray and turn it into a necklace organizer.
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HOW TO – Make a Chipmunk Softie from a Glove
Learn how to make a chipmunk softie from an odd glove over at The Storque. The pattern comes from author Miyako Kanamor who wrote Happy Gloves: Charming Softy Friends Made from Colorful Gloves. via Whip Up.
HOW TO – Coffee Sack Bulletin Board
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Maya*Made shows us how to turn an empty coffee bean sack (ask for one at your local roaster!) into a rustic and stylish bulletin board.
HOW TO – Egg Carton Pendant Light
Folding Trees links to this recycled egg carton pendant light tutorial on Addicted 2 Decorating. Thie would be fun in a kid’s room–I like that it looks like lilacs.
Sustainable Wooden Jewelry
Collin @ MAKE writes: In this installment of Etsy’s Process video series, Shawn Taylor shows how she goes about salvaging materials and crafting a wooden bracelet/cuff. Great to see someone so knowledgeable and appreciative of materials putting otherwise discarded wood to good use! – Process: Sustainable Wooden Jewelry by PrasseinDesignStudio
Keyboard Keys make a TEXTile
PT @ MAKE points us to Jean Shin’s TEXTile: In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making. […]
DIY Shutter Earrings Display
CasaSugar transforms an ordinary shutter into a stylish earring display in her how-to. I love how she used wallpaper as a design accent to cover the edges of the shutter.
