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30

Altoids Tins (Because You Can’t Get Enough of Them)

August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I love the fact that there’s an entire category on MAKE magazine’s site that’s dedicated to repurposing Altoids tins. Most of the entries are over-my-head electronics-related, but there are a couple of entries I could actually relate to, including Girl on the Rocks‘ adorable felt-covered tins. Check out the tiny TV dinner!
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Aug

29

Board Game Makeover

August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Craftster’s monthly challenges are usually tons of fun for those who like to repurpose or recycle objects into crafts. This month’s challenge is no different: Total Board Game Revamp. Your challenge is to take an old board game and upcycle it — the board, the game pieces, all the accessories — into something craftlicious. Leah, [...]

Aug

27

Junk Mail Gems

August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Junk Mail Gems is an entire site dedicated to crafting useful objects from junk mail. Gretchen Fleener, an industrial designer from Minneapolis, does exactly as her credit card mailings demand: “Do Not Discard.” Instead, she turns the mail into eye-candy beads, magnets, handmade paper, wallets (shown), buttons, bookmarks, pocket mirrors and more. In addition to [...]

Aug

26

Postage Stamp Bowl

August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here’s an art show you can enjoy no matter where you live … “Repurposed: Art from Recycled Materials” is an EBSQ (an online art association) juried show that “opened” in April to benefit Environmental Defense. One of the art show pieces that stood out for me was Amanda Hone’s colorful “Postage Stamp Bowl,” which was [...]

Aug

25

Rosie’s Place

August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I first learned about Rosie’s Place a few years ago when I purchased a couple of vintage button bookmarks from J. Jill as gifts. Rosie’s Place, based in Boston, is a sanctuary for poor and homeless women, and the Women’s Craft Cooperative at Rosie’s Place helps “women help themselves by turning new and vintage [...]

Aug

22

ReadyMade (Recycled) Magazine

August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Visit the online shop of ReadyMade magazine — “a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff” — and you’ll find carefully selected must-haves that you probably wouldn’t find offered by other magazines: Blueprints for a small modular dwelling, museum wall text kits and shrinky sheet sets are a few of the unique [...]

Aug

20

A Blast-from-the-Past Book

August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A banner ad on Craftster prompted me to take my first in-depth look at the book The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts, published in 2006 by Leah Kramer, founder of Craftster.
The book is packed with so many fun projects (most of which are recycled or repurposed crafts), including a popsicle stick purse, [...]

Aug

19

Chopsticks Reincarnated

August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It’s unfortunate, but billions of single-use chopsticks are disposed of each year, a fact that prompted Bryan Parks to found Kwytza Kraft.
The company collects single-use chopsticks from restaurants in China, cleans them, sanitizes them at high temperature and pressure, and then uses them to make a handful of wonderful products, including [...]

Aug

18

A Tote for the Inner Geek

August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

What can you do with old floppy disks — I mean the REALLY old oversized, bendable floppies? Instructables contributor imanalchemist (yes, you read that right) shows us how he made a dashing tote bag from 18 old 5.25-inch floppies, canvas backing, machine-sewn stitching and recycled tote handles.
Unlike the smaller floppies, the 5.25-inch floppies are much [...]

Aug

16

Repurposed Rolodex

August 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Love to organize? Would you love to become organized? Christy Petterson at getcrafty.com transformed a hand-me-down Rolodex into a craft organizer. She’s especially fond of dyeing fabric and making jewelry, and she finds that she can keep track of tiny jewelry parts and their part numbers by attaching them to flip-through Rolodex cards.
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