DIY Green: Recycled Yellow Pages Card Holder

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Doug Gunzelmann .

It’s that time of year in my neighborhood, piles of phonebooks in yellow plastic bags on every porch. With the Internet at our disposal these pages of information are much less useful. Yet designer Afroditi Krassa has a simple solution that anyone can copy.

Recycled Beer Bottle Goggles

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Doug Gunzelmann .

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Beer bottles can be beautiful building block for upcycling, and if you are like me you might consume quite a few from time to time. Throwing them in the blue bin is the easy way out…why not make beer goggles a lasting reality without the failing liver? Make it your New Year’s resolution to upcycle [...]

Upcycled Beer Can Bracelets and Rings

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Doug Gunzelmann .

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This is one for the boys and the girls. Stylishly recycled beer can aluminum riveted over sterling silver to produce quirky alcohol imbued jewelry for the party-goer in all of us. The creators of D-Licious Metal Jewelry ensure they personally enjoyed the contents these bracelets and rings previously housed during their lives as containers [...]