Toilet Paper Tube Yule Log
Lori at Pretty Little Things shows you how to make a yule log from a toilet paper tube and a couple of egg carton cups. It’s a great way to package stocking stuffers!
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BIBI, the “plastician”
BIBI is a French artist who almost entirely uses trash plastic in his art. He calls himself a “plastician.” [Thanks, Karen!] BIBI, Plastician Artist
Recycled Paper Tree
Learn how to make this recycled paper tree using old magazines, packaging, and old phone book pages by Jodi from the creative JAR. This tutorial was created by Jodi for elementary students on Lockeland Spring. See these recycled paper trees being made by kids all over the world. Below is Ms. Hahnel’s class in Australia.
How-To: Newspaper Dress
Instructables user prixprix went as The Old Gray Lady (a nickname for the New York Times) for Halloween this year. In her tutorial, she shows us how to pleat and sew newspaper by machine to make this newspaper dress.
Sculptures from Packaging
Kazuma Takahashi made these little sculptures out of common packaging materials. [via BoingBoing]
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors By Wendy Tremayne With more people recognizing the value of scrap materials it can be hard to find great stuff in the waste stream. These days I rely on the surplus store as much as the curb. Surplus stores often carry industrial waste materials: tough, oversized items […]
How-To: Create Faux Porcelain Pottery
P.S. I Made This shares a brilliant transformation of old vases, bottles and cans to faux porcelain pottery with the help of a little puffy paint and spray paint. [via @thingswemake on Twitter]
