If you haven’t heard, etsy.com is a website that provides do-it-yourselfers a place to sell their homemade pieces, and many of them are absolutely beautiful. On the site you can get anything from furniture to homemade dog treats for your pup. The great thing about it is that people who partake in arts and crafts ...
Thanks to cell phones and the internet, phone book usage has diminished immensely, with most getting immediately thrown out, especially in areas where you get more than one each year! But as always, we have found a new, functional use for old phone books. Follow this tutorial to turn your old, useless phone books into ...
This idea is great for anyone who has a wall space to fill who doesn’t want to break the bank to fill it! You will need: several empty toilet paper rolls (and/ or paper towel rolls and gift wrap rolls, however, notice the different in width of the rolls because it will make a difference ...
You would never believe that this modern and beautiful lamp is a do-it-yourself project simply made out of large plastic cups! First you will need 200-250 large, recyclable plastic cups. As someone who just got out of college, I know from experience that you could probably collect enough cups for this project by gathering used ...
This is such a simple, beautiful project that can be recycled if you every get sick of it or it doesn’t turn out right. Besides, how many times have you had a birthday party or event and had to throw out all of the utensils. This project provides an alternate way to recycle these utensils ...
Most hard-core crafters like myself have drawers full of stray scraps of ribbon, buttons and other small items just waiting to be used for something.Well I’m going to give you a few ideas of alternative uses for your buttons and large paperclips and small scraps of ribbon and tool. First, there are plenty of things ...
The thing that is great about teaching craft projects to kids is that not only are you allowing them to be creative and come up with their own ideas, but it also gives you the opportunity to show them how to reuse and not be wasteful. The craft project that I am about to show ...
What a better way to organize your craft utensils and tools than to recycle empty tissue boxes and empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls?! Materials to do this project include cardboard paper towel or toilet paper tubes, an empty tissue box (rectangle or square depending on how many separate dividers you need), and if ...
Re-useable grocery bags are all the rage right now as we are becoming more and more eco-friendly. I have bought a few although I don’t grocery shop often but the other day I stumbled upon a DIY re-useable grocery tote idea using pillow cases. I thought this was a great idea seeing as though we ...
Empty mint tins can be used for several things: organizing the small nick-knacks in your craft closets, holding or even storing those marble magnets I wrote about in one of my earlier blogs. But recently I found a really cool idea to them and store your business cards. Because lets be honest, there’s nothing worse ...