Alley Cat is Kinetic Trash Art
An “Alley Cat,” made entirely from would-be-trash wood, is an entrant in the Project Remake Contest. Do you upcycle, remake, or reuse components in your projects? Submit your project and you too could win!
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Joan of Arc Armor Made from Cardboard and Bicycle Tubes
Grace Duval created this suit of armor by first hot gluing together a frame of cardboard, then priming and painting it. Atop this base she built out the exterior from upcycled bicycle tubes, stitched together with an awl and fastened with screws and capped nuts. The results are stunning and novel.
Upcycled Doily Pendant Light
This upcycled pendant light is a really lovely way to use those vintage doilies you have passed down from your grandmother.
How-To: Bubble Wrap Necklace, from Jewelry Upcycled, by Sherri Haab
Looking at the delicate discs that make up this pendant, I’ll bet you’d never guess they were made from humble bubble wrap. Potter Craft shares a PDF project excerpt today from Jewelry Upcycled: Techniques and Projects for Reusing Metal, Plastic, Glass, Fiber, and Found Objects. Click the link below to download your copy. You’ll learn […]
DIY guitar pick punch
Check out this awesomely practical little guitar pick punch. You could buy a huge pile of picks for what it retails for, but then you wouldn’t get the satisfaction of creating your own custom picks out of flat pieces of plastic and other pick-worthy scraps you’ve got laying around.
Save My Oceans Top Five: Upcycled Fused Plastic Coat
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 […]
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 […]
