How-To: Hardware Store Jewelry
In this episode of Threadbanger, Abigail shows us how use hardware store finds to make your own city-inspired jewelry, and Corrine rounds up a bunch of prom-friendly accessory ideas.
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How-To: Recycled May Day/ Mother’s Day Baskets
Our Save My Oceans contest is well underway, and we’re excited to see all the upcycled projects you’re making for your chance to win an iPad. Are you needing inspiration for your projects? Check out these fun recycled May Day/Mother’s Day baskets from Macaroni & Glitter. Can you guess what they are made from? Check […]
How-To: Small Bobbin from Plastic Straw
The wikiHow tutorial of the day is this clever idea: use a plastic straw as mini bobbins for a travel sewing kit!
Christopher Paul’s Rad Upcycled Plates
Atlanta artist Christopher Paul has a wonderful vision of infusing the old with new, style-filled life. Pictured above are only a sampling of his lovely upcycled plates (great prices too!). But plates aren’t all Christopher upcycles. He’s got a great collection of furniture and wall hangings. I love this one, made from an upcycled frame […]
Revamped Vintage Plates
In honor of Earth Day last Friday, Whorange included a neat little compilation of “vandalized” vintage plates. The plates in question have been augmented with images from Star Wars, choice descriptors/cuss words, and pinups. These are step beyond the layperson’s way to salvage chipped and cracked plates that we’ve previously shown you how to do.
Fisheye lens from decapitated soda can
San Francisco-based camera hacker extraordinaire Bhautik Joshi just posted a how-to on making your own fisheye lens using a soda can. From his site: Built using a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body (!), this attaches directly to my SLR camera. For well under US$20, […]
Embroidered Speaker Bird House
Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching points us to this rad speaker-turned-birhouse complete with an embroidered front. It’s part of a project called Learning From in which Nora Korn and Christoph Köhler spent three months collecting bulky trash and the converted it in to new objects. I’m now eyeing the speakers in our house in a […]
