In a previous CRAFT post, we introduced you to the new Terracycle Green Up Shop that’s happening this month in NY from our friend, Tiffany Threadgould of Replayground. The space is now open for business! Tiffany shares with us some photos of Green Up Shop which is a combination exhibition area and boutique shop which […]
We’ve had a blast this month posting up all of our upcycle projects and posts in March’s UpCraft theme. Here’s a handy roundup to all the featured projects, videos, patterns, and more. Stay tuned as we start our gardening theme tomorrow with a project on making a tackle box planter! Projects Fused Plastic Shopping Bags: […]
I love low-tech emulations of high tech objects, and when they employ recycled materials, what could be better? This week’s Flashback comes from the pages of the very first volume of CRAFT, published back in 2006. Aram Bartholl showed us how to make a 16-pixel display from old cans, tea lights, paper, and wire. Check […]
John Boak’s blog Wrap Artist is filled with ingenious ways to wrap items by recycling materials you have around the house from foam meat trays to bottle caps. Pictured above is the recycled-bottle lily wrap where Boak used a kefir bottle and cut off the printed wrap to tranform it into a white lilly. John’s […]
The clever crafter at Paper Dolls for Boys hung up two smocks to use as curtains for a window in her craft room. She bought the smocks at a thrift store and kept them a whole year before deciding to use them this way. It makes me happy to see. I can blur my eyes […]
This month, with our UpCraft theme in full swing, we’ve seen a lot of really clever ideas for refreshing the old while keeping the landfills light on materials that can be reused. I love Natalie Friedman’s crafty project from CRAFT Volume 09 on how to transform a detergent bottle destined for (at best) the recycling […]
By Future Craft Collective When you embark upon your life as a runner, you swear you’ll never end up as one of those total geeks you see on the trail with their fanny packs slung oh-so-not-cool-ly on their hips, holding all their gear. But then you go out for your first big run and you […]
