Tag: upcycling
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
Ten Holiday Uses for Wine Corks
[Image via Re-Nest]
Posted: December 10th, 2008 under Craftivism, Sustainability, Tutorials.
Tags: cork, reuse, upcycling, wine cork
Comments: none
Newspaper Snowflake Garland Tutorial by Maya*Made
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?
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Posted: December 8th, 2008 under Craftivism, Tutorials.
Tags: garland, project, upcycling
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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
Comments: none
Reducing and Reusing Junk Mail
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 [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2008 under Craftivism.
Tags: Ecolocalizer, junk mail, upcycling
Comments: 3

