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5 Wine Cork Crafts
Do you hoard wine corks like I do? Let’s bust that stash with some upcycled wine cork crafts!
5 Ways to Reuse Cereal Boxes and Organize Your Life!
Feeling guilty about the cereal boxes in your recycle bin? Pull ‘em out and try some of these upcycled projects to give them a new life!
Spotted: Mini Photo Album from Recycled Cardboard
That light cardboard from old cereal boxes, frozen pizza boxes, or six packs is endlessly useful for crafting. It’s sturdy, easy to cut, and flexible enough to use in all kinds of projects from gift boxes to sweet little toys. Over at Dollar Store Crafts, Rhonda shares another awesome craft you can make from reclaimed light cardboard: a mini photo album!
Tutorial: Turn an Old Playpen into a Laundry Sorter
I want to share an upcycling project that will help organize and simplify your life: upcycling an obsolete playpen into a lights and brights laundry sorter.
Spotted: Upcycled Packing Peanut Garland
Aren’t packing peanuts just the worst? They’re made of toxic Styrofoam, intended for a single use, and they get everywhere when you open a box that’s full of those suckers. Reader Hester Burch shared a beautiful, seasonal way to reuse those nasty little peanuts, so at least they’re not landfill-bound after you unpack a boxful of them: snow swag!
