holiday projects

Recycled Cardboard Toy Kitchen

I am so amazed by Anna of forty-two roads who made this toy kitchen for her daughter entirely from scratch, using primarily corrugated cardboard that was salvaged from the dumpster. Anna covered the pieces in contact paper and joined them together using no glue, no nails, nothing but clever joining cuts, which makes the kitchen […]

Lego Costume Hack

OK, so Natalie and I just returned home from Saturday’s CBS Early Show taping last night, and already one of our Craftzine readers has made a costume from the segment! Jennifer Ramos of Textile Fetish created her own adult-sized version of Diana Eng’s Lego costume, and put a new twist on things by adding criss-cross […]

Recycled Denim iPhone case

Doctor Popular writes: Here are my newest iPhone cases made from recycled items. I do alterations for a high end denim shop in SF called Self Edge, instead of throwing away the scraps I try to recycle them into wallets and coffee cozies. The denim for this particular iPhone case came from a pair of […]