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Craft Recycled: Greeting Cards and Wrapping Paper

Craft Recycled: Greeting Cards and Wrapping Paper

The gifts are unwrapped, the out of town guests have made their way home, and you’re probably staring at a mountain of gift wrap and cards feeling a bit of the old green guilt. Don’t you fret! With just a little crafty love, you can keep the spoils of Christmas day out of the bin!

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Craft Recycled: No-Sew Owl Ornament from Recycled Felt

Craft Recycled: No-Sew Owl Ornament from Recycled Felt

I thought it would be fun to take Craft Recycled in a new direction this week with a holiday-themed tutorial! It’s about time for tree-trimming parties, and ornaments make lovely hostess gifts. You could even get crazy and make a whole flock of wise little owls for your own tree! Ready to get crafting? [...]

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Craft Recycled: Corrugated Cardboard, Tofu Boxes, Socks and Stockings

Craft Recycled: Corrugated Cardboard, Tofu Boxes, Socks and Stockings

As much as we try to reduce, it seems like our recycle and trash bins still manage to slowly fill up. Rather than feel guilty, you can put your crafty skills to work and upcycle those materials into something useful! This week we’ve got projects for corrugated cardboard, empty tofu boxes, and worn out socks [...]

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Craft Recycled: Project Ideas Straight from the Trash Bin Part 1

Craft Recycled: Project Ideas Straight from the Trash Bin Part 1

I wish I had gotten a picture of this, but the whole thing happened so fast! At a craft show and outdoor festival this past weekend, I was gabbing with my pal Liz when a man came running through the park wearing a suit and mask made of garbage. He was moving quickly [...]

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Handmade Halloween: Easy Fabric Scrap Garland

Handmade Halloween: Easy Fabric Scrap Garland

Halloween is almost here, and I’ve been in spooky decoration-mode for a few weeks. The plan is to have all handmade decorations for our Halloween party this year. My fingers are crampy from cutting out bats and I’ll be honest - things were going a bit more slowly than I would have liked. That is, until [...]

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Gardening and Wine Drinking: A Match Made in DIY Heaven?

Gardening and Wine Drinking: A Match Made in DIY Heaven?

We love to entertain and hate to toss out anything that might prove useful later on. Of course, what that means is quite a little collection of empty wine bottles and the corks to match. Luckily, it’s time to get our Fall garden planted, and our boozy hoarding behavior might just pay off!

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DIY: Make Your Swiffer Guilt Free

DIY: Make Your Swiffer Guilt Free

Oh, Swiffer! You are so convenient; why must you also be so wasteful? The thought of all of those pads ending up in the landfill has had me racked with Swiffer Guilt. Our Swiffer has been living in the closet for quite some time now, but we recently pulled it out again.

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Craft Project: Treat Yourself with Home Made Sugar Scrub

Craft Project: Treat Yourself with Home Made Sugar Scrub

Sometimes, at the end of a long week your poor feet just need some love. Rather than hitting up the big box store for something to pamper your sore feet, give this easy peasey sugar scrub recipe a whirl! Sugar scrubs are a really simple bath product to make, and you can keep some trash [...]

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Craft Project: Wino Corkboard

Craft Project: Wino Corkboard

We love to entertain. Folks come over at least a couple of nights a week to hang out, and they almost always bring a bottle of wine. Combine that with my habit of saving anything that looks like it could possibly become part of a craft project, and you have a really, really [...]

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