How to Make an Ikea Plate Bird Feeder
Make an easy bird feeder out of Ikea bamboo plates. Perfect for sprucing up your garden while feeding our feathered friends.
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Another Tiny Yellow House
Derek “Deek” Diedricksen (Stoughton, MA) is back, with another episode of his Tiny Yellow House. This guy is such a natural, “endlessly entertaining,” as Letterman likes to say. In this episode, Deek gives us a tour of his mini-cabin/house built out of recycled junk (from dumpster diving/repurposing), and curbside materials. With a guitar tease/ guest […]
Smock Curtains
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 […]
Flashback: Reclaimed Vase
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 […]
R/C plane from trash
Twitter user ChristineMMTTM points us to this great video record of the process of building a remote control airplane that was built from junk that could be scavenged from most household trash.
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors By Wendy Tremayne With more people recognizing the value of scrap materials it can be hard to find great stuff in the waste stream. These days I rely on the surplus store as much as the curb. Surplus stores often carry industrial waste materials: tough, oversized items […]
Dragon made from dollar store plastic
This nifty Chinese dragon was made entirely from plastic cups, spoons, knives, and forks bought at the dollar store. It took the builder some 90 hours to complete. Yikes. [Thanks, Eric Cherry!] Chinese Dragon
