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What Do You Reuse?

You trip over many items in your household, garage, office and don't know what to do with them? Have you consider to give them new life? You know, many items CAN be reused! Well, almost everything! So next time before throwing something into trash,...

How to Reuse Old Mouse Pad?

On this page you'll find some cool ideas how to reuse old mouse pads but also links to many online sources with instructions and tutorials how to make your own homemade mouse pad. All mouse pad images on this page are from my Zazzle gallery - Will...

How to Reuse Popsicle Sticks?

Your kid just love to eat popsicles? Can't get out of the store without buying some? Who can blame them - I love them too! This page is a collection of possible uses for popsicle sticks and here you'll find how it can be reused in house, garden and...

Plastic Bags - Let's do something about them or with them!

Ah...the plastic bag. While they are found everywhere these days, there was a time when they were more difficult to find. Today they're found in the streets, tree branches and streams - in every corner of this planet.

How to create STEAMPUNK jewelry art

Wikipedia defines Steampunk as "a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century, and o...

How to Reuse Paper Rolls

Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consider what it can be used for? Never thought of that? Or you already reuse them? Although our society urges people not to throw out but recycle and reuse as many common household items as possible, we st...

How to Reuse Egg Cartons?

Well, you may ask yourself - what could be done with the egg cartons?!? Plenty of stuff as you will see when you read the rest of this article! Not just crafts for kids - egg crates can be reused in household, garden as well for some DIY projects......

CAST-OFF COUTURE

This light-hearted lens is devoted to cast-off couture. What's that you ask? Well, it's a funky fashion trend that's based on making garb from garbage. In this era of fast-food, fast-service, and fast-fashion, it's all about redesig...

Multifunctional Aluminium Foil

Is there a way to reuse aluminium foil? You bet! I've listed numerous household tips, gardening tips and craft projects with aluminium foil! Hope you'll find something useful! Enjoy!

What Can Be Done With Wallpaper Leftovers?

Do you put wallpapers on your walls? And what do you do with residues? Wallpapers aren't just for walls - they can be a free source for some of the most creative yet simple crafts.

Tips To Recycle Old Toothbrushes

Don`t throw out that old toothbrush! Gosh but it is worth it`s weight in diamonds and gold. Just because it is getting too threadbare to brush your teeth with don`t think that its life cycle has come to an end. Your toothbrush still has a hundred othe...

How to Reuse Old CD or DVD

Do you burn CD-ROMs on your computer and get errors, where you have to toss the CD-ROM? Do you get tons of CD-ROMs in the mail from Internet providers and trial programs? I do and all these unwanted CD-ROMs are piling up. You can recycle them but it...

How To Reuse Plastic Bags

How to Reuse Plastic Bags - How many times did we return home from shopping and not knowing what to do with those plastic bags? Well, apart from throwing them away, which I do not advice, this lens gives you loads of tips in how to reuse plasic bags....

What to Do With Your Old Soda Cans

What can you do with your used soda cans? pop cans? beer cans? What are your choices? Think your have two options: trash it or recycle it? I assure you, there are many more options than that. People worldwide are using aluminum cans in creative and a...

How to Reuse Paper Bags

What do you do with paper bags? Toss them into garbage? Recycle? Reuse? Renew? The obvious first option is to reuse them for your groceries and other goods. They likely won't hold up for as many reuses as the plastic bags, but remember even one reus...

Pull Tab Art & Upcycling

Upcycling is a component of sustainability in which the use of waste materials to provide new products. It is generally a reinvestment in the environment. This process allows for the reduction of waste and use of virgin materials. "Upcycling is the...

Creative Handmade Halloween Costumes

On this page, you will find some of the most creative costume ideas that you can make from items you already have! If you need a costume at the last minute, look no further for ideas that will make you stand out in a crowd of ghouls! Browse through...

HomeMade Drip Irrigation

Drip Irrigation System is created by grouping pipes, valves, sprinkler, hose and more. This is lens for home made drip irrigation system. How you can create sprinkler and irrigation system using un-use material in home, especially plastic bottles, j...

How I Refinished My Kitchen Cabinets for Free: Re-Use Recyled Trash and Junk Art

Info and Resources for and about Re-Use Creations, Recyled Trash and Junk Art, and the Creative Artists who make Art of of Stuff others Throw Away. Free Art Supplies are Everywhere! photos copyright 2008, Janienne Jennrich (no use without permissi...

Super Household Saving Tips

My daughter and I were talking about this the other evening. She collects dollhouses and, having recently bought one of the older Triang number 50s, she was comparing it to a 1960s one and discovered that the quality had dropped. Of course, there a...

Recycle and Reuse Christmas Greeting Cards

Everyone loves to receive postcards, and greeting cards for special occasions. They're simple, thoughtful, and beautiful - especially Christmas and holiday cards. They're so memorable and nice, that many people hold on to their greeting cards for yea...

Recycling sweaters into new accessories

Often a jersey or sweater will wear through at the elbows or develop a hole somewhere just through use. While smaller holes can be darned and elbows can be patched over, modern jerseys etc don't lend themselves to patching as it rather ruins th...

Crafty Recyling

Recycling is good for the environment and can also be a lot of fun. Get crafty and find ways create wonderful new things with recycled and repurposed items.

GO GREEN-COMPOST

It doesn't matter if you live in an apartment or a house, whether you lead a busy life or just sit around and play couch potato all day. It doesn't take a lot of time, money, or space to compost and it can make a huge difference to the health...

Swap Books and Save Money : Online Book Swapping and Exchange Sites

Book are expensive, especially if you have a habit of devouring them at the rate I do. Spending $1000 a year on books is easy to do and then what? They sit on the shelf gathering dust until the day when you just might want to read it again...which in...

Ways to Reuse Old Medicine Bottles

Prescription pill bottles can multiply quickly when you receive new ones at the pharmacy each month. Read on for a few ideas of how to reduce waste and find new uses for your empty medicine bottles!

Green Art in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio is one of the best places to find incredible recycled art. The green movement is very active in Cleveland in several areas, and the art community in Cleveland has welcomed recycled art, and green art wholeheartedly.  Take a jour...

Fun With Boxes: Cardboard Crafts for Kids

Recycling begins at home in a variety of simple, fun projects. In the beginning, you have two choices: You can either dump recyclables in a designated bin for pickup or deliver them yourself to a recycling center; or you can think creatively and find...

Fun With Cans: Creative Crafts for Kids

Most households have plenty of cans. Soup cans, veggie cans, spaghetti sauce, fruits. Add to the list other canned products--pet foods & coffee, for instance, and you have enough cans to start a small crafting supplies corner. Remember when people u...

Fun With Paper Bags: Creative Crafts for Kids

Hold it! Don't toss those perfectly good paper bags. Hang onto the plastic grocery bags, too. They're perfect for crafts, and what better way to teach recycling than to offer them to your children and grandchildren? Given the chance, most kids are cr...

Fun with Fabric: Craft Ideas for Kids

Hey! What do you think you're doing , tossing those worn-out jeans the trash? Haven't you thought about crafting? Fabric crafting is a good way to recycle old clothes. Don't worry about faded remnants or frayed edges. Nowadays, faded denim adds pizz...

Deby Cowdin--Turning Trash into Functional Art

Deby Cowdin is a close friend of mine and fellow entrepreneur. She has built a business called From The Blue Bag, based on recycling glass bottles from local Cleveland Ohio bars and restaurants and turning them into practical and functional recycled...

How to Make Reusable Grocery Bags

Into Living Green? Have Fun Sewing and Making Grocery Bags and Help the Environment! These Reusable Bags Make Great Gifts and are Beautiful, Useful, and Fun for Using when Shopping for Groceries and other Shopping Items. Why not Make Some Bags to...

Cool Ways to Reuse Those Greeting Cards - Christmas, Valentine's, Mother's Day

Ah, the card tree (or ring or other display option). So lovely and appropriate during a holiday season like Christmas or Easter, but just a pile of paper once the next month hits. Is there life for the greeting card beyond Christmas or Valentine's Da...

The Art of Xan

How can just one person change the world around her? Alexandra Underhill, also known as Xan, is definately influencing everyone who meets her. She is a fascinating individual, fiercely creative, and passionate about recycling. Her talent, her passio...

Recycle & Reconstruct Old Clothes Into a Fashionable Wardrobe

Clothes go in and out of style, get damaged and worn, but it's ecologically correct to reuse and recycle everything we can. Sometimes we even want to hold on to certain items because we love the patterns and textures of the fabric. There are lots of...

Kids Crafts from Recyclables

The economy is in turmoil, your piggy bank is empty, the environment is going downhill and the kids are screaming. What can you do?? Take these fun ideas about crafts to make with recyclable items. Keep your piggy banks full while helping the enviro...

10 Ways to Green Your Christmas

Homemade Hamster Toys

Do you want to know how to help your furry friend have some affordable fun? Do you know how to? If either you have come to the right place! On this lens I have listed how to make some hamster toys. If you have any more ideas write about them in the c...

How to Reuse Old Toothbrushes

In this lens I will list numerous and helpful ways in which you can reuse your old toothbrushes. It is recommended that we replace our toothbrushes every 3 to 4 months or when the bristles get frayed. However, they needed not go straight to landfil...

Inexpensive Eco-Friendly Christmas

With these difficult economic and ecological times are there ways to make this Christmas Season inexpensive and eco-friendly as well a memorable? Consider giving a toy that has been carefully passed on for years. Make your own recycled cards, orname...

Recycle Stick-On Bows

The gift wrap bow I wanted to use to wrap a present was squashed! Flattened! Compacted! What to do? I needed to wrap that gift now! No time to go to the store. Has this situation happened to you? Here is what I did: I cut each loop in half. I too...

Creative Valentine's Day Resources

There is one slight difference between this and all other pages offering links to different craft projects for kids: all of projects listed here are made of common household items you usually recycle or throw into trash! My goal while collecting all...

How I Saved the World 13 Times

All it takes is little changes to make big changes. Make our world a cleaner, better place. Care about it - you will not only save the air, water, electricity, money...you just may feel proud of yourself too. Call it what you want - a way to save mon...

The Very Many Uses for Eggshells

I recycle, reuse and repurpose as much as I can to prevent things from going to the landfills and for economic reasons also.There are many uses for eggshells some are more suited for industrial uses and some you can do at home.

Recycle those Old Jeans

What do you do with your old jeans? You know the ones that don't fit anymore. The ones that have a hole in the knee. How about that pair that started pulling apart at the back pockets? They aren't nice enough to donate to Goodwill or other ch...

Reduce, Reuse, REBAG!

No paper, no plastic, no thank you! Reusable shopping bags are the way to bag it now! These roomy, stylish 100% cotton canvas tote bags have plenty of room to carry everything you need when you are on the go! Reusable shopping bags with cute, origin...

Recycle those Eggs

So you boiled an egg, you peeled it, dumped the shell in the trash and poured the water down the drain right? Not anymore. This lens will show you all the great ways to recycle those eggs and the amazing impact eggs have on mother earth. Do I have yo...

50 Things you can Reuse

Recycling is very important, but even better is reusing. Recycling actually uses energy and transport time and fuel to get the items to where they need to go. If you can reuse an item yourself, that's more energy, time and fuel saved, as well as...

Cool Recycling and Salvage Crafts

Today's focus on the environment means that more people are getting into recycling. But with a bit of imagination you can make beautiful and unique products out of your waste. 'Upcycle' bits and pieces of garbage into decorative items for your home,...

BOTTLECAPS - How to flatten bottle caps into scrapbooking embellishments

This tutorial will show you step by step, two different and simple ways to flatten bulky bottle caps into nice, creative, thin embellishments for your scrapbooks, mixed media, altered art or even into jewelry, such as personalized photo pendants! Ho...

Creating a STAMPED DOMINO jewelry PENDANT

As you can see from my how to make a scrabble tile pendant lens, I love to create altered art jewelry from game tiles/pieces! In this tutorial I will show you step by step how to create a lovely stamped domino pendant. The dominoes provide a little...

Recycling cloth into new household items.

This lens is associated with my lens giving household savings tips as it made sense to expand on some of the specific subjects touched on. It's just a day since I started that lens and in that time I have made the item which features on this le...

How To Make Homemade Recyled Paper

Not many people has ever recycled any paper. After all, paper is the number 100 pounds of rubbish we throw, 35 pounds are papers. Papers consist of 14% of the landfill spaces, not including those used for packaging, of which consist an additional 15%...

How to make a Scrabble Tile Pendant

So you want to learn How to make a Scrabble Tile Pendant! Well, scrabble tile jewelry, and more specifically scrabble tile pendants are one of the latest/hottest crafting crazes! This free step by step Scrabble tile pendant DIY tutorial will show y...

Making Rag Dolls and Soft Toys from Scrap Fabrics

The lens photo is one of a number of dolls I've made using up scraps of material. Some were given away as presents, many were sold and I have more pictures of them to add as time goes on. But I want to get you started on toy making - it really...

Making old clothes into funky bags

This lens joins my other recycling lenses (links below the guestbook) to hopefully save you some money and keep the "trash" out of the landfill. I'll add more bags as I go along but there are only so many hours in the day. I hope the...

Fabric Trinket Boxes from recycled materials

I love to recycle everything and anything, sometimes it becomes a challange as to what I can do with items that would normally be disgarded. These little boxes were no exception, made from an empty tapegun core, a cd, some card board, scrap fabric...

Tutorial Altered Art Harvest Canning Jar Lids

The summer of 2006 brought us an incredible garden and fall harvest. I spent a good portion of August and September canning and preserving the yields of our bumper crop gardens. Salsa, tomatoe stew, pickles, beets, peppers and more! Though I am n...

Embellished Altered Keys Tutorial

These altered keys are fabulous to use for your altered books, collages and mixed media projects. Lovely embellishments to add on book and journal covers, even as new jewelery pieces!

How to make a propagator to start your seeds

A seed propagator can give seeds a really good strong start and allow you to grow them out of season. Using one will speed up germination and increase germination success. Full step-by-step illustrated instructions for building your own propagator...

Scrabble Tile Jewelry How To...

In my Scrabble Tile Pendant tutorial I showed step by step how to take a recycled Scrabble tile game piece and turn it into a personalized upcycled chic jewelry pendant. Well, now I've had requests to show even more Scrabble tile jewelry ideas...so...

Get Started with a Home Compost Bin

C omposting is easier than ever with the black plastic compost bin available now. No worms, no unsightly big contraption and mostly odorless, depending on your olfactories. Composting is a good landfill sensitive idea that can be in every backyard. ...

Making a Shoebox Diorama

The classic shoebox diorama is a childhood rite of passage. Although it can be used for school work, your children may enjoy making them just for fun. Make a diorama alongside your child today with this step by step tutorial.

How to Make a Shadow Puppet Theater

Making shadow puppets with your hands has been a pastime since the earliest of times as men sat around an open fire. Dress it up a bit by designing a small puppet theater and cardboard shadow puppets. Then dim the lights and treat your family and fri...

How To Make a Purse from Old Books

Let me tell you how to make a purse out of old books. This new use for old unwanted books really fascinates me. When I first read something about a woman who was selling them...I cringed. Being a collector and seller of old books, my first thought wa...

Reusable Bags - Cloth Wraps

Why furoshiki? It is reusable and multipurpose. Each year billions of plastic bags end up as litter; reusable bags, such as furoshiki can help reduce the impact to our environment. Its versatility allows you to wrap almost anything regardless of its...

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How to Restore a Tyco “Super Spirit of 76” Train Locomotive

The year was 1976, the day after Christmas, my dad brought home this large thin box containing the most spectacular train set I have ever seen. It was the Tyco "Super Spirit of 76" train set commemorating the 1776-1976 bicentennial. The loc...

Repairing Children's Toys

Children's toys are great until they stop working. Most people then put the toy to the back of a cupboard until it eventually goes in the bin. This is disappointing for the child, expensive for the parent and generally a waste of money. Unfortunatel...