Whether it’s a 20″x24″ bath mat for your kid’s bathroom, or a couch-sized pom pom rug for your family room, the power to make your new favorite floor covering is in your hands!
Two Dozen Eco-Friendly Rugs, Mats, and Floor Coverings to Make Read More 👉
Sure, you can toss that boring bottle bottom into the recycling bin… except there are SO MANY awesome ways to upcycle even glass bottle bottoms! Check out my list of my favorite projects that just happen to do really cool things with the least likely parts of glass bottles.
Zero Waste Upcycling: One Dozen Glass Bottle Bottom Crafts Read More 👉
These glass bottle bottom ring holders are quick and easy to make, and don’t require any additional supplies other than several grits of sandpaper.
DIY Upcycled Glass Bottle Bottom Ring Holders Read More 👉
Think outside the (brand-new, laminated cardboard, single-use) gift box when it comes to ideas for eco-friendly gift packaging. Upcycled papers, stash supplies, and cardboard from the recycling bin can all be of service to create gift packaging that’s unique and fits your personality way better than anything you can buy new.
Two Dozen Ideas for Eco-Friendly Gift Packaging Read More 👉
A drawstring bag is a terrific go-to when you’re thinking about sustainable gift packaging. It’s customizable, re-usable, and easy to put to a huge number of alternate uses.
Make an Easy Drawstring Gift Bag with This Free Pattern Read More 👉
The solution for displaying your favorite treasures is that cardboard box hanging out in your recycling bin!
DIY Wall-Mounted Cardboard Box Shelves Read More 👉
Whether you’ve got a deck of playing cards that are past their prime or just a partial deck of survivors, I’ve got plenty of ideas for upcycling them! Playing cards are one of my favorite craft supplies to alter, and once you find your perfect project among the tutorials below, I think you’re going to like altered playing card crafts just as much as I do!
20 Altered Playing Card Crafts Read More 👉
Don’t let a wicker basket’s unfortunate appearance blind you to how versatile it can be for containing and organizing your clutter in an attractive way. Read on for a selection of easy tutorials that remake, remodel, and otherwise transform any ugly wicker basket into the perfect home accessory.
The Upcycled Home: Eighteen Wicker Basket Makeovers Read More 👉
Fortunately, that mate-less sock doesn’t have to live the rest of its life alone in my Socks Sans Partners basket, only to eventually be tossed out, years later, when I’ve finally admitted the truth to myself. There are SO many cute ways to upcycle orphaned socks.
Two Dozen Ways to Upcycle Socks That Have Lost Their Mates Read More 👉
I love how versatile raised beds and containers are for urban gardening.
20 Raised Garden Beds and Container Gardens for Every Space Read More 👉
What to do with serving ware that could go great together but is mismatched and also super ugly?
Spray paint it!
Make Matching Serving Ware with Spray Paint and Dish Soap Read More 👉
Upcycled denim quilts don’t have to be boring! Use upcycled denim to sew some of your favorite quilt blocks. It will take your recycled blue jeans quilt to the next level!
The Half-Dozen Best Quilt Blocks for Upcycled Denim Read More 👉
You can DIY cooking equipment every bit as good from two tin cans, a cardboard box, and candlewax.
Off-the-Grid Cooking Hack: Make a Tin Can Stove Read More 👉
Instead of tossing it into the waste stream and feeling bad about yourself because of it, give that broken dish a second life by upcycling it into something fun, beautiful, and useful.
20 Ways to Upcycle Broken Dishes Read More 👉
Whether you make your sewing table from scratch, or modify it from an existing piece of furniture, DIYing it is a great way not only to avoid buying something else new that will one day end up in the waste stream, but also to make yourself the exact custom sewing table that you need, exactly the way you want it.
18 DIY Sewing Table Plans Read More 👉
It’s shiny!
It’s free!
It’s environmentally unfriendly!
What it is?
It’s a drawstring backpack!
15 Ways to Upcycle a Drawstring Backpack Read More 👉
My favorite plant markers are the simplest ones you could make–they’re just wood burned sticks!
How To Make A Wood Burned Stick Plant Marker Read More 👉
These decoupaged cardboard trays are some of my favorite things to make.
How to Make a Decoupaged Cardboard Tray Read More 👉
If you’ve got some ribbon scraps in your stash (bonus points if they’re silk), then you, too, can try out kanzashi-style ornaments!
30 DIY Kanzashi Style Flowers And Ornaments Read More 👉
Corrugated cardboard is one of my favorite craft supplies, and after you check out my list of favorite corrugated cardboard projects, below, I think it’s going to be one of your favorite craft supplies, too!
30 Clever Corrugated Cardboard Crafts Read More 👉
Corrugated cardboard, sliced and stacked edges out, has a texture that cats adore, and they really will use them, play with them, and sharpen their claws on them!
How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Cat Scratcher: Two Tutorials! Read More 👉
Do you have a go-to method for sending out creative and eco-friendly snail mail?
30 DIY Envelopes to Save Resources (and Money!) Read More 👉
Here, I’m modding a steampunk snowman using the wooden gears from a child’s old DIY marble coaster kit and some wire pulled out of an analog clock.
Make A Steampunk Snowman From Upcycled Gears Read More 👉
I turned the vintage BINGO board into a jewelry organizer. It was a quick and easy project and it turned out great.
I Made A Jewelry Organizer From A Vintage BINGO Game Read More 👉
One of my favorite parts of windy weather is enjoying the sound of the wind chimes singing from my front porch and back deck.
Make an Upcycled Aluminum Can and Silverware Wind Chime Read More 👉
The key to this DIY slipcover project is lots and lots of upcycled denim.
How To Make An Upcycled Denim Slipcover For A Couch Read More 👉
If you’ve got an unloved clipboard that you wish you didn’t, check out this list of my favorite upcycled clipboard crafts.
20 Upcycled Clipboard Crafts Read More 👉
There’s nothing like a bunting to make a festive occasion just that much more special.
How To Make an Upcycled Playing Card and Upholstery Sample Bunting Read More 👉
Life is too short to guiltily hoard a drawer full of ribbon bits and bobs and scraps and ends (*awkwardly raises hand*).
30 Stash-Busting, Scrappy Ribbon Crafts Read More 👉
I did what I do with every single even vaguely container-shaped piece of junk that needs a second life around here–I turned it into a planter!
Turn An Old Blender Into A Planter Read More 👉
Storing your little treasures nicely is as easy as arranging them in a shadow box, and making that shadow box is as easy as cutting and pasting.
How to Make a Shadow Box from Corrugated Cardboard Read More 👉
Reclaim the was from jar candles and reuse it to make more crafts!
How to Remove Wax from A Candle Jar Read More 👉
It’s not too late to give a handmade valentine to all your loved ones–especially not when you can pull the supplies right out of your recycling bin or front yard!
30 Eco-Friendly Valentines To Make and Share Read More 👉
Regardless of whatever you hate about the hangers you have, the answer is rarely to throw them away.
Three Dozen Upcycled Hanger Projects Read More 👉
If you’re looking for an environmentally-friendly supply for paper crafting, tissue paper is a reasonable choice.
Three Dozen Eco-Friendly Tissue Paper Crafts Read More 👉
