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31

Halloween Lantern

October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a truly sustainable jack-o-lantern: one that’s made from recycled materials, PLUS one that can be used year after year. You’ll find this silly pumpkin face, which is made from an antique sap bucket and holds a tealight candle, on sale at Uncommon Goods, a prime place to find — um — uncommonly good gifts.
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Oct

30

Junk to Funk Fashion Show

October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The submission deadline has passed for the second annual Junk to Funk fashion show in Portland, but you can still observe the recycled fashion action by attending the event. It’s set for Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Wonder Ballroom. All ticket sales will benefit Orlo, a nonprofit organization using the creative arts to explore environmental [...]

Oct

29

Recycled Journals

October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Etsy shop subu offers a multitude of pocket-sized personalized notebooks and journals, all made from discarded printer paper. Each handcrafted book is held together with hemp twine, and a number of books are embellished with vintage button closures. You can even custom-order a book by specifying cover color, stamp embellishments and closure type. Some [...]

Oct

28

Crushed Can Art

October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Artist Charles Kaufman’s work can be found on the pages of underground comic books and on gallery walls around the world. His colorful cartoonish paintings can also be found on used aluminum soda and beer cans.
“Using acrylic paints I create a painting on one side of the crushed can,” he writes. “My Crushed Can artwork [...]

Oct

26

Garden Hose Vase

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If you find yourself “fixing” your leaky garden hose with duct tape, then maybe it’s time to consider making it into something pretty. I learned about this industrial chic multi-pronged bud vase by Dan Pearlman (of Objects of Desire) from the Recycled Crafts Yahoo group. Just bend several pieces of hose as shown and attach [...]

Oct

24

Connect Four Photo Framer

October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Steven James, owner of macaroni and glitter, created a charming Connect Four Photo Frame and Calendar for Craftster’s monthly challenge of transforming an old board game into something new. (Alas, this wasn’t the winning entry, but it is in my book!) He writes:
“When my dog turned the checkers of a Connect Four game into several [...]

Oct

22

Leg Warmers — for Your Arms

October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

I’m in love with these handcrafted arm warmers, “Armies,” by Gaye Abandon. Made from recycled sweaters, the entire line of Armies gives wearers the mobility they need in their hands without the more-often-than-not ragged look found in fingerless gloves. Plus, they’re just so darn cute.
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Oct

21

A New Kind of Bottle Cap Craft

October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

Burned out on bottle cap crafts? Then maybe you haven’t seen this: Kawaii Crafter of zakka life presents a unique take on bottle cap functional art in her understated but artsy bottle cap bowl, made from the colorless plastic disks found inside soda bottle caps. She shows us how she laid out the disks in [...]

Oct

20

MacGyver Runners-Up

October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I hope ReadyMade magazine continues to show the MacGyver contest runners-up on its website, because there are lots of great ideas that unfortunately didn’t quite make the cut to be used in publication. For example, runner-up Brie Neel of Sophia, West Virgina, fashioned this creative, colorful lanyard for her glasses in the previous issue’s dead [...]

Oct

19

Mash-Up Contest

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Instructables / ReadyMade magazine Mash-Up Contest is a recycled artist’s dream. The idea is to take two unseemingly related objects and “mash” them into one “I never thought of doing that!” end result. The Instructables site even lists a few ideas to get you thinking, including such archived projects as Remote Control Drawer Pulls, [...]

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