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Recycled Barbie and Friends

July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Up for an indie recycling art show?
San Francisco’s 5th Annual Altered Barbie Show, “Out of the Box: Reclaiming and Recycling Barbie,” features 75 artists and vendors celebrating Barbie’s (and Ken’s and Skipper’s) second life. The art show, which runs Aug. 1-19 at Age Song (580 Hayes St. at Laguna in San Francisco) and Market Street [...]

Jul

29

Vinyl Sign Jotters

July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Leslie Herger of Comfortable Shoes Studio upcycles colorful and funky vinyl signs into one-of-a-kind covers for her delightful — and very reasonably priced — handmade jotter notebooks. She gets her sign vinyl from a grocery store chain where she works her day job and says that businesses are typcally more than happy to [...]

Jul

28

Three Phone Books Too Many

July 28, 2007 | 7 Comments

Yet another phone book company delivered a book of “friendly” yellow pages to our front door this month — for a total of three giant phone books from three different companies — for our two-person household. I don’t remember the last time I used a phone book (poor l’il archaic thing), but we tend to [...]

Jul

27

Carpet Sample Transformation

July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interior designers and architects receive a fair share of carpet samples and then discard them the next year when they receive the latest-and-greatest shipment of samples from the same carpet manufacturers. This year the Ample Sample Design Contest challenged designers to make use of yesterday’s samples.
This high-design Care-E Purse, designed by Jonathan Knodell [...]

Jul

26

Stay Cool and Crafty

July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Trying to stay cool this summer? Fellow CraftGossip editor Sandra sent me this great helpero link on how to make a USB-powered personal fan from a used CD. It’s more techie than crafty, but it definitely would make your co-workers green with envy. Just don’t get too close to the fan in motion or you [...]

Jul

25

Baking with Blue Jeans + Procrastinators Wanted

July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Old denim has been repurposed into many crafty things, but these simple pot holders by Canadian crafter Lise Farynowski caught my eye (OK, they actually caught the eyes of ReadyMade editors as they were sorting through the entries of their latest monthly reader’s challenge, aka the “MacGyver Challenge”). See Lise’s instructions to create a [...]

Jul

24

Wine Cork Placecard Holders

July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

The online shop Bright and Bold, which offers mostly modish home décor accessories and other fun things you didn’t know you needed, offers this set of reusable wine cork placecard holders. Based on the pristine appearance of these resin corks, they haven’t actually touched a staining Merlot, and therefore aren’t recycled, but think how easy [...]

Jul

22

Coca-Cola Car

July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m sipping a Coke with my laptop hinged open, while my husband watches an Indy car race on TV. What a coincidence, then, that I run across this little Indy racer made from old Coke cans. Scott, the “TinCanMan,” has been creating airplanes, helicopters, race cars and more from aluminum soda and [...]

Jul

21

Go Green! Contest

July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

OK, crafters: Let’s make sure the crafting world is represented in the “Go Green!” Contest presented by Instructables, Popular Science and TreeHugger.
An overview of the contest: “We want to know how you’re reducing your environmental footprint, and hopefully saving some cash in the process! Are you modding your gear, simplifying your life, or building [...]

Jul

20

The Rebirth of Crayons

July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Just when I thought there was nothing more striking than a brand-new box of crayons, in walks these recycled crayon beauties I found at starkeyfeather’s etsy shop. They’re made from melting down the leftover little nubs that are typically banished from the crayon box, and then formed in molds to create [...]

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