Recycled Craft Projects

Recycle a Ribbon Spool Into a Gift Box

April 25, 2012
Gift wrap ideas

Mother’s Day is on May 13th. That is less than 3 weeks away. Earth Day was three day ago. To celebrate each I made a gift box in honor of my mom using recycled materials– empty ribbon spools that I normally would have thrown in the trash. My mom is no longer here on on [...]

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Faux Zinc Candy Jar Top Made With a Tuna Can

February 19, 2012
Faux Zinc painting technique step by step tutorial

If you have followed my blog for a while then you probably remember the post I did where I made a lantern using – a tuna can!  Well this project is another way I have found to re-purpose a tuna can.  I created a faux zinc top for a glass candy jar that was missing [...]

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Trash into Gift Giving Treasure

July 19, 2010
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I am collector of throw-away” stuff”.  Not junk, but honest to goodness – discards.  My friends and family know to give me  their throw-aways, which are different than cast-offs. Cast-offs are unwanted items like furniture and lamps.  Throw-aways are bits and pieces of packaging, parts of items – stuff that seems useless once it’s original purpose is complete.  Throw-aways [...]

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My Crafty Craft-Table Cachepot

February 17, 2010
Crafts made with Recycled Materials

What can your do with a soup can, curtain hooks, those pesky advertising inserts from magazines, and a few beads? You will soon find out. One of my favorite blogs is  Blah-to-TADA.blogspot.com.  Claire writes for a newspaper and was asked to write a column about how you could take stuff you would normally throw out and make something desirable from [...]

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