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Spotted: Vintage Suitcase Updated with Fabric

Spotted: Vintage Suitcase Updated with Fabric

By Becky Striepe on December 3, 2012

There’s something romantic about vintage suitcases, isn’t there? Who knows where they’ve traveled, and they always make me think of old-timey rail travel or taking a trip on an airplane when that was still a special way to travel.

Category: DIY | Tags: DIY, handmade, Mod Podge, reclaimed, repurposed, reuse, suitcase crafts, upcycling, vintage suitcase craft | 0

Spotted: Upcycled Shopping Cart Chair

Spotted: Upcycled Shopping Cart Chair

By Karen MacKay on May 15, 2012

Max McCurdo restores and recycles unwanted products into new and well-designed objects, from bathtub couches to washing-machine drum coffee tables. Similar to the work of Ramon Coronado, this cool reinvented shopping cart chair is another great upcycled piece by McCurdo’s company, Reestore.

Category: DIY, Furniture | Tags: Chair, DIY, Furniture, reclaimed, recycled, repurposed chair, restore, shopping cart chair, up cycled chair, up cycling, upcycled

Back to School at Etsy

Back to School at Etsy

By Becky Striepe on August 3, 2010

Are your kids getting ready to start classes again? Why not send them off with some of these eco-friendly, handmade finds!

Category: Bags+Briefcases, Clothes+Accessories, Gift Guides, Living | Tags: back to school, buy handmade, Etsy, handmade, reclaimed, recycled, repurposed

Bags Reincarnated by Juja and Stone

Bags Reincarnated by Juja and Stone

By LiveOAK Staff on July 21, 2009

Juja & Stone breath new life into old clothes and handbags creating these uniquely refashioned pieces.  Sourceing their materials from dontaions and thrift stores, each bag is one of a kind easy on the environment.

Category: Bags+Briefcases, Clothes+Accessories | Tags: fashion, hand made, handbag, reclaimed

DIY Vertical Herb Garden with a Shoe Organizer

DIY Vertical Herb Garden with a Shoe Organizer

By LiveOAK Staff on July 20, 2009

Confounded by vegetable digging cats and toiling in the vegetable patch, Instructables member pippa5 came up with this cool DIY vertical garden  solution.  In case you don’t recognize it, she used an old closet shoe organizer.  Meant to keep your shoes off the floor and save you some space, this new use saves some space [...]

Category: DIY, Yard+Garden | Tags: DIY, garden, gardening, reclaimed, reuse, shoe organizer, vertical garden

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