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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I’m not a subscriber to Adorn magazine — a hip (fairly) new publication that features crafty ways to create and embellish clothing and home decor — but the cover of its fall issue has me running to the bookstore to buy…

Ruby Re-Usable, a.k.a. artist Diane Kurzyna, is the diva of the Olympia Dumpster Divers in Olympia, Wash. She dedicates her life to art and craft made from recycled materials, which she also blogs about. Her website includes a portfolio of offbeat works…

This weekend isn’t yet over, but it’s not too early to start planning for the next, which should be a good one for anyone in the Boston area: It’s the first-ever Recraft Fair, which features an afternoon of recycled craft…

Continuing with the theme of back to school, here’s a frugal — and green — idea for dorm room design: cardboard furniture. While you may not be able to craft Frank Gehry’s award-winning, high-design Wiggle Chair (retail $875, shown), I…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who sneaks a few paint chip samples just to have pretty colors on hand. Maia from Lollipoop Designs (no, that’s not a typo) creates these too-cute Paint Sample Notebooks in an array of colors.

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