DIY Wall-Mounted Cardboard Box Shelves
The solution for displaying your favorite treasures is that cardboard box hanging out in your recycling bin!
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DIY Crafts
20 Altered Playing Card Crafts
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!
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The Upcycled Home: Eighteen Wicker Basket Makeovers
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.
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Two Dozen Ways to Upcycle Socks That Have Lost Their Mates
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.
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20 Raised Garden Beds and Container Gardens for Every Space
I love how versatile raised beds and containers are for urban gardening.
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Make Matching Serving Ware with Spray Paint and Dish Soap
What to do with serving ware that could go great together but is mismatched and also super ugly?
Spray paint it!
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The Half-Dozen Best Quilt Blocks for Upcycled Denim
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!
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Off-the-Grid Cooking Hack: Make a Tin Can Stove
You can DIY cooking equipment every bit as good from two tin cans, a cardboard box, and candlewax.
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20 Ways to Upcycle Broken Dishes
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.
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18 DIY Sewing Table Plans
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.
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15 Ways to Upcycle a Drawstring Backpack
It’s shiny!
It’s free!
It’s environmentally unfriendly!
What it is?
It’s a drawstring backpack!
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How to Design and Create a Wood Star from Scratch
No matter how big you want your star to be, or how many points you want it to have, you can make the pattern for it completely from scratch, and the assembly is the same no matter which type you create.
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How To Make A Wood Burned Stick Plant Marker
My favorite plant markers are the simplest ones you could make–they’re just wood burned sticks!
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Twenty Burlap Flowers You Can Make
Burlap flowers look really cool!
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How to Make a Decoupaged Cardboard Tray
These decoupaged cardboard trays are some of my favorite things to make.
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30 Free Star Quilt Patterns
Here are some of my favorite, free star quilt patterns online.
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30 DIY Kanzashi Style Flowers And Ornaments
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!
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How To Sew Fat Quarter Cloth Napkins
Everybody knows that paper napkins are a wasteful use of resources, and we ought to ditch them for mealtimes. But the solution isn’t just to wipe your hands on your pants!
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30 Clever Corrugated Cardboard Crafts
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!
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How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Cat Scratcher: Two Tutorials!
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!
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A DIY Bunting For Every Occasion: 30 Projects
No matter the special occasion (or even no occasion at all!), I guarantee that there is a perfect bunting for you to make for that event.
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How To Make A Boutonniere: One Dozen Projects
There’s not a lot that’s more charming than a sprig of flowers and greenery and ribbon worn on one’s lapel.
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30 DIY Envelopes to Save Resources (and Money!)
Do you have a go-to method for sending out creative and eco-friendly snail mail?
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Make A Steampunk Snowman From Upcycled Gears
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.
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Two Dozen Hexagon Quilt Ideas
If you think the hexagons, themselves are cute, wait until you see all the absolutely adorable things that you can make from them.
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I Made A Jewelry Organizer From A Vintage BINGO Game
I turned the vintage BINGO board into a jewelry organizer. It was a quick and easy project and it turned out great.
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Make an Upcycled Aluminum Can and Silverware Wind Chime
One of my favorite parts of windy weather is enjoying the sound of the wind chimes singing from my front porch and back deck.
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36 Dried Flower Crafts
Whether you pick a project right from this list or use it to inspire you to create your very own project, you’ll find lots of wonderful ways to use dried flowers right here!
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How To Make An Upcycled Denim Slipcover For A Couch
The key to this DIY slipcover project is lots and lots of upcycled denim.
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20 Upcycled Clipboard Crafts
If you’ve got an unloved clipboard that you wish you didn’t, check out this list of my favorite upcycled clipboard crafts.
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20 Upcycled Yarn Art Projects
Sometimes you just need a little inspiration to help you upcycle your stash craft supplies.
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How To Make an Upcycled Playing Card and Upholstery Sample Bunting
There’s nothing like a bunting to make a festive occasion just that much more special.
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