Tag: Recycling
Keith’s Bottlecap Trivet
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!
Posted: December 29th, 2008 under Craftivism, Tutorials.
Tags: bottlecaps, projects, Recycling, trivet, upcycling
Comments: 1
Upcycled Shrinky Dinks
[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 [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Sustainability, Tutorials.
Tags: Crafting a Green World, plastic, Recycling, Tutorials, upcycling
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Mask Making
Tonight, our pal Davis is playing a masquerade ball! Obviously, this meant we got together with some friends and made masks for the occasion!
To make the masks, we drew the shapes we wanted with marker onto two pieces of cardboard. You could really use just one piece, but gluing the two [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Mission: Possible!.
Tags: Atlanta, Recycling
Comments: 1
Mission:Possible!
The rest of Supercute! and some of our fabulously crafty friends had a mission:possible craft night last night. The theme was homeade cleaning supplies. Shannon from Indie Craft Experience started things off right by showing up with a batch of mojitos, made with organic mint from her very own garden. You know crafting is always [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Mission: Possible!, Sustainability, Tutorials.
Tags: DIY, Recycling
Comments: 2
Packaging peanut recycling
At the last craft night, we were discussing those annoying packaging peanuts that seem to come with everything. They get everywhere and stick to everything (my poor cat), and you can’t recycle them.
Or so we thought.
The Plastic Loose Fill Council (PLFC) was founded in 1991 to develop, promote and implement the original use and [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Recycling
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