Y’all, what would YOU do with a treasured letterman jacket that you won’t wear but don’t want to get rid of and is actively oozing toxic substances?!?
Can Your Varsity Letterman Jacket Be Saved? Read More 👉
Even without the foundation garments, even without the advanced techniques, even without antique tissue paper patterns with an unreasonable waist to bust ratio, you can sew yourself a dress that LOOKS vintage.
Three Dozen Free Vintage Dress Patterns Read More 👉
For preserving memories big and small, DIY memory quilts made from your favorite clothing are both beautiful and practical.
16 DIY Memory Quilts To Make For Your Loved Ones Read More 👉
Fortunately, there are a lot of beautiful ways to upcycle paper and yarn doilies.
25 Ways to Upcycle Doilies Read More 👉
You have enough cups to drink tea out of–take a few teacups out of your stash and make some of these teacup crafts, instead!
17 Upcycled Teacup Crafts Read More 👉
If made correctly, a teacup candle is beautiful, useful, and endlessly refillable. You’ll love its warm light and gentle scent, and you’ll enjoy your teacup candle far more than you would a boring old store-bought container candle.
How to Make a Teacup Candle Read More 👉
Sea glass is especially intriguing because it’s a product of both nature and recycling, a rare, almost impossible scenario in which nature turns litter into something beautiful.
15 Awesome Sea Glass Crafts for Your Beach Vacation Read More 👉
Why, oh why, has no one told me that Artist Trading Blocks are a THING?!?
Artist Trading Blocks are a Thing, and I LOVE Them! Read More 👉
Don’t be afraid to display your vintage photographs!
12 Beautiful Ways to Display Vintage Photographs Read More 👉
If you truly want to display your actual vintage photographs, then I say go ahead!
How to Display Vintage Photographs Read More 👉
I can’t wait to see what I’m going to accomplish in another four years!
Project Show-and-Tell: The Star Wars T-Shirt Quilt that Took Four Years to Make Read More 👉
What do you say–would YOU be brave enough to cut into a wedding dress?
I LOVED my antique card catalogue from the second that I saw it in my local university’s surplus store, but I have to admit that it did look pretty janky.
Card Catalogue into Studio Storage Read More 👉
Do you love vintage sheet music? We’re sharing 40 DIY projects that you can create with your favorite recycled paper!
40 DIY Projects to Create with Vintage Sheet Music Read More 👉
Transform your vintage camera into an awesome piece of art for your bookshelf or table!
Turn Your Vintage Camera into a Piece of Art! Read More 👉
There are so many incredible ways to upcycle a broken vintage camera! Here are 10 DIY projects that will blow you away!
10 Incredible Ways To Upcycle a Vintage Camera Read More 👉
Want to create one-of-a-kind upcycled lighting? Try making a vintage camera lamp!
Spotted: Make a Vintage Camera Lamp Read More 👉
Your kid’s vintage wooden sled is way more awesome than those new-fangled plastic ones.
Tutorial + How-to: Clean and Polish the Metal Sled Runners on a Vintage Wooden Sled Read More 👉
Vintage doorknobs make beautiful jewelry holders.
Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate: Vintage Doorknob Jewelry Holder Read More 👉
These toy charms can be worn on a necklace or bracelet, one at a time or in a whole herd. They make fine jewelry on their own, but the secret trick to these little charms is the latch that allows you to release them from their jewelry status. In the blink of an eye, you’ve gone from having a necklace full of toy dinosaurs to a handful of toy dinosaurs, ready to make standing in line at the grocery store SO much more bearable.
Here’s how to make your own.
How-to: Upcycled Toy Charm Necklaces–They’re Toys You Can Wear! Read More 👉
I need all my stuff to be crazy awesome (or just crazy!), so I like to pretty up my thrifted dishes using the most simple, most brilliant craft supply that you’ve ever heard of: ceramics markers.
How-to: Refurbish Thrifted Dishes with Ceramics Markers Read More 👉
Want a re-usable cloth bag that’s branded with what YOU like, sized and shaped like a conventional plastic bag but stretchy, so that you can fill it even fuller?
Okay, and do you want to make it WITHOUT sewing?
You won’t have to sew a stitch to make these grocery bags out of your favorite old T-shirts.
How-to: No-Sew Upcycled T-Shirt Grocery Bag (with Beads and Bells and Fringe!) Read More 👉
For my partner’s 35th birthday, I made him a Star Wars T-shirt quilt in a log cabin style, pieced together with complementary fabrics from my fabric stash.
Project Show-and-Tell: Upcycled Star Wars T-shirt Quilt Top Read More 👉
For our upcoming trip to Walt Disney World, I sewed my two daughters matching dresses from one vintage Snow White-themed flat bed sheet.
Craft Project Show-and-Tell: Matching Dresses from One Vintage Snow White Flat Bed Sheet Read More 👉
The City Museum is formed primarily from the detritus of the city of St. Louis, using salvaged tiles to cover the walls and floors in mosaics, salvaged gargoyles to spray water into the two-storey indoor fountain, and two salvaged airplanes that are part of the outdoor jungle gym created with steel springs, iron walkways, an old trolley, and a giant ball pit.
And yes, you get to climb all over it.
St. Louis City Museum Turns Architectural Salvage into an Urban Playground Read More 👉
Read on for six projects designed to make perfect use of a single upcycled flat sheet.
Six Crafty Green Ways to Upcycle Flat Bed Sheets Read More 👉
You think you don’t have time to do a good job to get all the paper and all the glue completely off of your glass jars, but you really do. My method for removing the sticky labels from glass jars takes about twenty minutes, but you can do it with as many glass jars as you have, all at the same time. Gather up a big collection of jars that need to have their labels removed, and you can do the job in far less time than it would take to peel the labels off by hand.
How-to: Another Way to Remove Labels from Glass Jars Read More 👉
It’s flea market season, what will you be hunting for?
It’s Flea Market Season Read More 👉
Your first mental image when I mention doilies is probably of a stuffy old home, where those lacy mats adorn the table tops, but doilies definitely have a place in modern crafting, too.
Fab Fabrics: Vintage Doilies and Projects to Get You Started Read More 👉
One thing that I don’t think gets enough attention is the metal that we use in our crafting. Between chains, clasps, and wire for wrapping, metal plays a huge part in any handmade piece of jewelry, but that metal can have a huge impact on the environment.
