How-To: Firewood Boomerang
Here’s an interesting woodworking project on Instructables: make a boomerang from firewood!
holiday projects
How-To: Handmade Paper
Instructables user thickneckarts has a guide to making your own homemade paper, similar to the video we did a few weeks ago. It’s easy, and a great way to have some recycling fun. More: CRAFT Video: Paper Making with Lisa Jacobs
Cereal Box Bookmarks
I love this quick craft to make these cereal box bookmarks by Plum Pudding. It’s great way to recycle and a fun project for kids too.
Weaving on the Cheap
Check out this great tutorial, Weaving on the Cheap at Corus Tristis that really caught my eye. Corvus writes: Recently I decided to teach myself to weave, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Just about everything for the project was re/upcycled, from the yarn (old t-shirts) to the loom (scrap wood from building […]
Checkin’ In: Recycling Maven Tiffany Threadgould
Giving voice to the voiceless, Tiffany Threadgould is a true advocate for junk. Not for making it, of course, but re-making it. In her own words, “After all, garbage has feelings, too.” The girl has a knack for taking overlooked items bound for the recycling bin, and making them useful as well as stylish. We […]
Cereal Box Lights
I am totally enchanted by these pin-pricked cereal box lights from designer Anke Weiss. I’m not always a fan of projects that use repurposed materials so prominently (at least from an aesthetic sense; of course it makes sense for the planet!), but these are so beautiful and so magical and so funny I’d be thrilled […]
Cashmere Sweater Stuffed Animals
A company called Teddylux turns old cashmere (moth holes, etc) into luscious stuffed animals. If I owned any cashmere, I’d certainly be inclined to make a cuddly bear out of it before throwing it away. Via Cool Hunting.