Trash to Treasure projects
At Create.Craft.Love., Jill shares a project that her sister, Jennifer undertook: repurposing wine corks into a kitchen backsplash. First off, Jill reassures us that her sister didn’t drink all the wine necessary to get these corks. ”Jennifer enlisted the help of all of her friends and some local wine stores/restaurants over the past year and they collected over 800 corks to pull this off!”
Did everyone get their taxes filed? I hope so! I’ve never come across a craft just for tax day, but this one from Carolyn at Moose Mouse Creations was just too good not to share. It’s a wreath made from tax forms! Hilarious, right? It makes perfect sense, though, once you know that Carolyn’s mom {…Read More…}
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s a project that’s green in more than one way. Lauren blogs at The Thinking Closet, and decided it was time to reorganize her craft drawers. Her budget was tight, so she had to use what she had to optimize her storage and organization.
At Cleverly Inspired, Tracie needed an overhead projector for one of her projects. Instead of trying to find one to buy, she repurposed a cardboard box and sheet protector to become an overhead projector.
At Eat.Sleep.Make., Shannon shares a great little upcycling project. She and her husband get monthly samples from Birchbox, and they arrive in these great little boxes. Something as cute as that couldn’t just get tossed, so Shannon’s been saving them until inspiration struck.
Jeanette from Creating A Life shares in my love for cereal and, therefore, never has a shortage of the colorful cardboard boxes. She was determined to put some of that cardboard to work for Valentine’s Day this year.
If you are quick to send your cardboard boxes packing, Emily from Namely Original shows just how much potential lies in those plain brown boxes. They may not be much to look at now…
At Namely Original, Emily has three younger siblings who need boxes for Valentines, this year. Remember making special boxes so that your classmates could deliver their Valentine cards to you? Well, Emily’s aunt gave her the idea of recycling tissue boxes for this project.
