Can Your Varsity Letterman Jacket Be Saved?
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?!?
Vintage
Three Dozen Free Vintage Dress Patterns
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.
16 DIY Memory Quilts To Make For Your Loved Ones
For preserving memories big and small, DIY memory quilts made from your favorite clothing are both beautiful and practical.
25 Ways to Upcycle Doilies
Fortunately, there are a lot of beautiful ways to upcycle paper and yarn doilies.
17 Upcycled Teacup Crafts
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!
How to Make a Teacup Candle
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.
15 Awesome Sea Glass Crafts for Your Beach Vacation
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.
Artist Trading Blocks are a Thing, and I LOVE Them!
Why, oh why, has no one told me that Artist Trading Blocks are a THING?!?
12 Beautiful Ways to Display Vintage Photographs
Don’t be afraid to display your vintage photographs!
How to Display Vintage Photographs
If you truly want to display your actual vintage photographs, then I say go ahead!
Project Show-and-Tell: The Star Wars T-Shirt Quilt that Took Four Years to Make
I can’t wait to see what I’m going to accomplish in another four years!
Spotted: Vintage Wedding Dress Pendant from Little Red Window, and 4 other Wedding Dress Crafts
What do you say–would YOU be brave enough to cut into a wedding dress?
Card Catalogue into Studio Storage
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.
40 DIY Projects to Create with Vintage Sheet Music
Do you love vintage sheet music? We’re sharing 40 DIY projects that you can create with your favorite recycled paper!
Turn Your Vintage Camera into a Piece of Art!
Transform your vintage camera into an awesome piece of art for your bookshelf or table!
10 Incredible Ways To Upcycle a Vintage Camera
There are so many incredible ways to upcycle a broken vintage camera! Here are 10 DIY projects that will blow you away!
Spotted: Make a Vintage Camera Lamp
Want to create one-of-a-kind upcycled lighting? Try making a vintage camera lamp!
Tutorial + How-to: Clean and Polish the Metal Sled Runners on a Vintage Wooden Sled
Your kid’s vintage wooden sled is way more awesome than those new-fangled plastic ones.
Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate: Vintage Doorknob Jewelry Holder
Vintage doorknobs make beautiful jewelry holders.
How-to: Upcycled Toy Charm Necklaces–They’re Toys You Can Wear!
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: No-Sew Upcycled T-Shirt Grocery Bag (with Beads and Bells and Fringe!)
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.
Project Show-and-Tell: Upcycled Star Wars T-shirt Quilt Top
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.
Craft Project Show-and-Tell: Matching Dresses from One Vintage Snow White Flat Bed Sheet
For our upcoming trip to Walt Disney World, I sewed my two daughters matching dresses from one vintage Snow White-themed flat bed sheet.
St. Louis City Museum Turns Architectural Salvage into an Urban Playground
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.
Six Crafty Green Ways to Upcycle Flat Bed Sheets
Read on for six projects designed to make perfect use of a single upcycled flat sheet.
How-to: Another Way to Remove Labels from Glass Jars
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.
