Trash to Treasure projects
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.
Over at Project Lovegood, Aubrey tells us, “With the new year upon us I decided to make an easy peasy calendar
project. I took a calendar I got for free, a cardboard box and an old t-shirt and made a new calendar!”
Carolyn, of Homework, found this bookshelf sitting on the curb down the street at a neighbor’s house. she brought it home determined to rescue it. It found a new life at Carolyn’s house by becoming an organizer for her craft room.
It’s a familiar sight for the neighbors of KariAnne from Thistlewood Farm to see her bumping along in her beat-up pick-up truck with her latest find stashed in the back. KariAnne discovers all kinds of treasures in her country home, including this 40-pane window.
Linda from Those Crafty Sisters has a love for vintage suitcases. It was this hot pink baby that took her jewelry supplies from a big ol’ honkin’ mess to the picture of organization. Linda refabbed the interior of the suitcase with old parquet tile she had on hand and inspiring pictures from magazines. Then came {…Read More…}
One tangled mess of ribbon here. Another completely unraveled roll over there. At Prudent Baby, Helena from Craft and Creativity shares the solution to all your ribbon woes. Hopefully you have a mint lover in your life to help build up your Tic Tac container stash! Narrow ribbons can be rolled up and inserted into {…Read More…}
After completing a cubby storage project, Denise from A Sprinkle of This . . . . A Dash of That still had a stack of 1x12s to use. The boards had originated as a bookshelf Denise got through Freecycle. This time around it was the laundry room that needed organizing, and Denise followed Ana White’s {…Read More…}
Diane at In My Own Style finds no shame in pulling over to rescue a castoff from a curb… or in this case a field. Diane found this old dresser form with missing drawers just chilling in a field with no one to love it. Diane saw its potential to become a functional piece of {…Read More…}
