As much as you hate them, you’ve probably got credit cards sitting in your purse or wallet right now. And we all know that gift cards have become the easy and practical present for holidays, birthdays, and every celebration in between. But what happens to those pesky little pieces of plastic after they no longer [...]
Last week, we took a look at craft projects for empty wine and beer bottles, scrap paper, and empty glass jars. Really though, that’s just a small part of the things we trash that can be useful again! After the jump, we’ve got some projects for empty cans, plastic bottles, and laminated cardboard, but we’d [...]
I know, I’m about seven years late to the party here, but I’m just now reading Cradle to Cradle. As I made my way through the book, a terrible realization slowly dawned on me, and this one line from The Princess Bride has been running through my head since then: I am the Vizzini in [...]
Hello Craft is hosting the very first Summit of Awesome May 1-3 in Washington D.C.! What is the Summit of Awesome? It’s three days of workshops, seminars, and socializing for independent artists and crafters of all skill levels. Organizer Kelly Rand says it’s “a one way ticket to propel you and your craft to [...]
Here's a great opportunity for all you crafty green upgraders... Sublime Stitching's Upcycling Contest
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 [...]
Using 16 discarded blankets and 34 old wooden beams Jo Meesters created a room full of colorful, soft, and appealing furniture.
The Bombus Shop perfects decoupage, or the pasting of colored paper pieces onto an object or surface. Self proclaimed “hoarders” Bombus strives to save “the planet through decoupage!” With vintage fabrics, comics, maps and atlases, the Bombus studio, based out of the UK, produces colorful and visually rich crafts from gathered trash (carefully selected trash [...]
We feature reusable shopping bags all the time on greenUPGRADER and while they are an important staple in our sustainable lives, they are beginning to get boring. If you’ve seen one you’ve seen em all… except this bag (pictured on the right) that I found over at MyRecycledBags.com, which I can safely say I’ve [...]
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