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Keith’s Bottlecap Trivet

Becky — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:00:11 +0000

At this point, our beercap collection is pretty out of control, so you can imagine my joy when Jenny Ryan over at Craftzine posted about this awesome trivet made of bottlecaps and yarn scraps.

[photo by Morgan]

Check out the knitting pattern over at My Amphetamines & My Purls!

Ten Holiday Uses for Wine Corks

Becky — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:12:30 +0000

[Image via Re-Nest]

We’ve written about recycling those wine corks before, so you can imagine my delight when Re-Nest posted this awesome round-up of 10 projects for reusing those corks I’ve been saving! I especially love the idea of wrapping them in twine as a gift adornment!

<3,
Becky

Newspaper Snowflake Garland Tutorial by Maya*Made

Becky — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:35:28 +0000

Here at SuperCute! headquarters, we love a good upcycled craft project. Check out this awesome tutorial for turning discarded newspaper into a lovely newspaper garland! I bet it would work well with other paper that would otherwise head straight to the recycle bin. Junk mail, maybe?

Via

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Becky

Upcycled Shrinky Dinks

Becky — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:34:38 +0000

[photo by SEWphisticate used with permission]

When my friend Genevieve from SEWphisticate wrote about turning #6 plastic into shrinky dinks, I couldn’t resist covering it for Crafting a Green World! I really want to give this a try with the food containers from the Dekalb Farmers Market. I love their prepared food area but hate accumulating all of those plastic containers!

<3,
Becky

Reducing and Reusing Junk Mail

Becky — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:28:08 +0000

I wrote a post over at Ecolocalizer on quick, easy ways to reduce the junk coming to your mailbox. In researching ways to upcycle the junkmail that inevitably makes it your door despite your best efforts, I found this awesome project on Craft:. That got me thinking about how there are probably tons of other ways to turn junk mail into something useful and cute. You could do Lori’s bubble mailer project with catalogue pages instead of magazine ones. I also found a post about turning magazine pages into gift tags that would probably work with junk mail.

Do you guys have any projects that use up unwanted catalogues and whatnot that clutter your mailbox?

<3,
Becky