How-To: Recycled Denim Ball
This denim ball from Joel of Made by Joel is a cool way to reuse scraps of denim fabric. And while it’s showcased as a toy for kids, I think the construction could also be use for creating a really cool throw pillow.
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Junk Mail Portraits
Artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold creates these stunning pop art portraits from junk mail. My work reflects our society’s obsession with beauty through advertising – and the endless images that bombard us daily. It is a purposeful intermix of images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces – images and text – from advertising that […]
Embossed Portraits on Disposable Aluminum Pans
Artist Idan Friedman painstakingly embossed faces from his everyday life into disposable aluminum pans. [via MAKE]
Old Books Make Room Dividers
This is a beautiful idea for a rather hidden waste problem. From London designer Lucy Norman: “More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. For example 10,000 books […]
Tree Lamp
I love this gorgeous DIY Tree Lamp over on Garden Design. The how-to looks really easy and accessible and what a beautiful and bold end result you get.
How-To: Bottlecap Candles
I just love these tiny bottlecap candles from Craftaholics Anonymous. What a fun way to reuse both the caps and the stubs of some broken crayons. I could see these scattered about a buffet table or grouped in a pattern to create a design of flickering lights.
Cork Monograms
I have monograms on the mind and came across this unique spin on the idea using recycled wine corks on this eco-friendly blog, Green is Universal.
