After Kat of We Can Re-Do It made herself a fleece cat vest (!), she decided to convert her boots into booties, to complete the outfit vision she had in her head. She then used the cut off pieces of boot leather to make little leather pouches.
At MAKE we have covered a type of paper brick before, but it was used simply as a fire starter. Professors Rahul Ralegaonkar and Sachin Mandavgane of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India (VNIT) have come up with a process to make paper bricks designed for creation instead of destruction.
They’re sandals… they’re jeans… they’re boots. Don’t throw out your old jeans! They might not fit around your waist anymore, but I bet you can get them around your ankles.
Reuse a pair of jeans and a belt to make a cute lunch sack, makeup bag, or art supply holder!
In Senegal, whole families of crafters find ingenious ways to use recycled materials. They utilize non-working computer parts, discarded electronics, and old soda cans to make guitars, sculptures and furniture.
This chair for tikes is the creation of the boardgames crew on Etsy.
Nintendo controllers that are broken and about to call it quits get remade into functional wallets by Melissa Sidwell. Sadly, punching the Konami code will not dispense economic “power ups” from these wallets!
