DIY for Environmentalists: Crafting, Making, Project How-to's, and more!
You know how your soap gets all messy and goopey on a soap dish? It’s because the soap sits in water and it makes your fancy soap disappear faster. Make this little soap dish that keeps your soap dry, by allowing the excess water to drain away faster. EcoEtsy shares how you can make one of your own.
How would you use up your old bottle caps?
About Karen LeeKaren lives a simple, frugal, green life and shares her eco tips and news on ecokaren. She leads Eco Etsy Team, an awesome group of enthusiastic green business owners on Etsy. She sells green goodies in her Etsy shop and writes for various green blogs. When she's not leading the team or blogging, she is a chauffeur to two greenagers, wife to an accidental recycler, master chef to hungry locavores, seamstress, knitter, and dumpster diver, not necessarily in that order.
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Hello! My name is Bonnie Getchell and overall, I'm a craft nerd! I love making crafts, re-doing furniture, and anything along those lines. I especially love creating items that are from recycled materials like toilet paper rolls, bottles, etc.
I'm the lucky momma of two little blonde daddy-clones--we spend our days doing elaborate art projects, trashing the house, eating cheese cubes and oranges, and waiting for my partner to get home from his day job so we can pester him.
Kelly covers visual arts in and around Washington, DC for DCist and is editor of Crafting a Green World. Kelly has also been published by Bust Magazine and you can find her byline at Indie Fixx and Etsy’s Storque and has taught in Etsy’s virtual lab on the topic of green crafting.
how good does it get..
fantastic job!!
The soap dish is so cute ! I’m going to make one for my older sister who’s moving into her own apartment soon!
She’ll have the driest soap in the building! Seriously, it’s a great way to use up the caps while keeping her soap dry. Have fun making it!
Love all the ideas for recycled bottlecaps. I think I would glue them onto a piece of plexi glass, cut to the measurements of my bathroom window, and use as a privacy screen. Would be pretty, and private while letting in the sunshine.
Awesome idea! You’ll be surrounded with rainbow colors when taking a bath.
We put letters on our milk caps and use them to learn spelling words, spell names, make up spelling games. We also made a matching travel game with them. Two of each sticker on the top turn over to match.
I used some today to make some stamps for my two-year-old son. I glued/applied some small foam stickers to the outer side (the top) of several lids and then hot glued a small wooden spool to the inside to make a small handle. Once the glue dried, we had fun using the new stamps with different colored inks to stamp some paper sacks to use for Christmas wrapping paper!!
Actually, plastic bottle tops are recyclable. You can recycle them at Whole Foods.