How-To: Blossom Lampshade
I love simple yet time-consuming crafts I can do in front of a good movie. Meg from Decor It Yourself shows us how to revamp a tired old lampshade with this structural blossom look.
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How-To: Reclaimed Leather Leaf Cuffs
Maya of Maya*Made shares how she made these delightful cuffs from reclaimed leather from a thrift store purchase. I love the shape of the leaves, but as Maya mentions, all kinds of shapes would work in this application and the possibilities are endless!
How-To: Custom-Fit Reversible Coat
I’m blown away by Instructables user analogcatastrophe’s design for a custom-fit reversible coat, made from two fleece blankets she thrifted. The project came in under $5! Cute photo trick, too.
Flashback: Reclaimed Vase
This month, with our UpCraft theme in full swing, we’ve seen a lot of really clever ideas for refreshing the old while keeping the landfills light on materials that can be reused. I love Natalie Friedman’s crafty project from CRAFT Volume 09 on how to transform a detergent bottle destined for (at best) the recycling […]
How To: New Journal from an Old Book
Transform a musty old tome into a cute and useful new blank book.
DIY Scraptacular at TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop in NYC
Tiffany Threadgould writes in: TerraCycle has a green up store in Port Authority during Earth Month in April. Every Thursday we’re hosting fun, free events. On April 8th we’re having a DIY scraptacular! Green-Up Shop vendors, RePlayGround and Garbage of Eden, along with craft superstar Megan Nicolay of Generation T and the supercrafty Etsy crew, […]
How To: Make a Tangled Basket from Recycled Wires
This video from youtube user pixelcutter is rad. It is beautiful to see what a pair of human hands can create with straight-up tangled trash.
