I find the recyceled wrapping beautiful, but I fear that a lot of people I know would consider this as an affront ;-(
Category: Recycling
Sweater Turban
Well, I find the turban a simple yet elegant solution about what to do with an old cozy sweater ;-)
Links:
Sweater Turban (Last Minute Handmade Gift Idea #2: Cashmere Turband)
via: Tutorial – How to Make a Turband from an Old Cashmere Sweater
via: fingerhuetchen
Recycled Lamps
Well, aren’t these lamps great? ;-)
Links:
Recycled Lamps (Sagolikt svängiga lampor) (Swedish)
via: Stimmungsvolles Recycling
Toilet Paper Tube as Window Stopper
That’s no big deal, but helpful ;-):
To prevent our windows from slamming shut, we latterly fold two toilet paper tubes and squeeze them under the frame.
They have the advantage of not being too rigid and so not break the frame, but they are (although not beautiful) functional ;-))
Self-made Photo Frames
In the instruction they show how you can make a photo holder with few items.
Links:
Self-made Photo Frames (Photo Secrets: Show Off Your Photos Using Materials You Can Find for Free!)
Tea Lights
Recently you have collected tea cups for a bracelet, now you can make a lamp from your cups ;-)
Links:
Tea Lights
Here at unikatissima:
Teacup Bracelets
Beaded Stars on CDs
Somehow I liked the beaded stars on CDs very well, even though I usually don’t like crafting with CDs very much ;-)
I liked especially the beaded stars on CDs that are used on the main site as candle holders.
Links:
Beaded Stars on CDs (Stern auf CD-Rom ein Duo-Stern mit roten Perlen) (German) => with a good photo tutorial
via: main site: Stern auf Stern und Stern auf CD-Rom
Hand Made Soap
They say in the tutorial: melt the soap and pour into molds or something like that.
Haha.
Actually there seem to be soap and soap, on the photo you can see what happened to my soap: it didn’t melt at all and I only got a slobbery mass.
Well, another time I will look better what kind of soap I’m buying ;-))
Links:
Hand Made Soap (Handgemachte Seife) (German)
I found more tutorials where they ‘refine’ the soap with almond oil and dried herbs:
How to Rebatch Soap (Almond Oil Method) (English)
How to Rebatch Soap (Dried Herb Method) (English)
both via: Rebatching Ivory Soap (English)
Glass-in-Glass Votive
The tutorial is now unfortunately only to be find in webarchive (without photos), but I found the idea so good that I wanted to present it here anyhow.
I think that it should work as well with taping thin paper on the glass instead of frosting it.
Nice, isn’t it?
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Anleitung Votiv -Glas im Glas (German)
Advent Wreath in Glasses
I really like the idea of the Advent wreath which is assembled from tea glasses :)
Links:
Advent Wreath in Glasses (Adventkranz in 10 Gefäßen) (German)
Google translation of the article
If you want to know more about Advent wreaths in Germany and perhaps even want to make one yourself, check out Christmas Craft Projects – Advent Wreath and How to Make Natural Green Wreaths on the same site.