Holiday Projects

Twister Raincoat

I’m in love with this Twister raincoat from Craftster user Nicoleeoliee_4_Life. Aside from being a brilliant example of reuse, it’s just plain old fun. She even used parts of the game board to create “fake” buttons on the cuffs of the coat. Brilliant! [via thedaintysquid on Tumblr]

Save My Oceans Top Five: Upcycled Corset

The projects submitted to our Save My Oceans contest were innovative and inspirational and were all great examples of the brilliant ways our readers reuse plastics. Each day this week, we’ll highlight one of our top five entries, and we’ll announce the Grand prize winner next Monday. Be sure to check out the entire Save […]

How-To: T-Shirt Panties

Haley Pierson-Cox upcycled an old t-shirt into a comfy pair of panties in a tutorial on her site, the Zen of Making. I recently rescued a whole stack of my husband’s old t-shirts from certain death in the trashcan. There were a few small holes in all of them, but the vast majority of the […]