Well, such a I-still-have-lots-of-brushes-from-my-last-painting-experiments-vase doesn’t look bad, does it?
Would it work with thread rests, too? ;-))
Links:
Paint brushes vase
Category: Recycling
CDSea
A good friend sent me the link to the entry about ‘CDSea’ (thanks, Brigitte!) and I found it great!
That may give you an idea about what to do with old CD’s ;-))
Links:
CDSea by Bruce Munro
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Entries with the tag ‘CD’
Plastic Bag Flowers
At first glance I thought that the flowers on the picture were real ;-)
Links:
Plastic Bag Flowers (#06 How-to make over sized flowers made of used plastic bags)
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Entries containing the word ‘plastic bag’
Cardboard Cuffs
Every time I see these bracelets I’m thrilled
I didn’t like her ‘old ones’ very much, where she simply glued paper on the cardboard tubes because I find them too massive, but I find the ones with the opening really great!
I still must have such cardboard tubes somewhere, then I only need some wall paper rests or other colourful paper.
Perhaps the paper from the travel brochure? ;-)
Links:
More cardboard cuffs, better design!
The ‘old ones’ (Cardboard cuff bracelet)
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Paper Shopping Bag
Lace Jewelry Frames
Isn’t this a great idea to put a knitted lace into a frame to hold jewelry?
In the instruction you can also find a frame with a nice crochet lace.
By the way: actually you can use bought lace, too, can’t you? It must only be a little robust.
If you don’t like it, check again the other jewelry holders in the links below ;-)
Links:
Lace Jewelry Frames to Knit or Crochet – Knit and Crochet Pattern
Here at unikatissima:
Necklace Bust
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand
Plaster and Doll Arms Jewelry Holder
Paper Rolls Wall Art
If you haven’t decorated your walls already with the yarn wall art you may want to try the paper rolls wall art ;-)
And if it’s not quite your cup of tea, you can make from your toilet paper rolls e.g. simple napkin holders, a cord holder, recycled gift tags and/or a hairpin lace loom ;-))
Links:
DIY : paper rolls wall art
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Yarn Wall Art
Simple Napkin Holders
Cord Holder
Recycled Gift Tags
Self-made Hairpin Lace Loom
Plastic Bag Beads
I presented already some entries to the subject plastic bags, but none made beads from.
The basic material is a ‘fabric’ from plastic, they’re making beads from just as paper beads.
I like this combination ;-)
Links:
Plastic Bag Beads (How-To: Turn Bags into Beads)
Here at unikatissima:
Fabric from Plastic Bags
Entries containing the words ‘plastic’ and ‘bead’
Wineglass Tea Light Holder
Don’t these wineglass tea light holders look nice?
Once I’ve seen an instruction for them (that’s only available now via web archive), which was meant for Christmas with little Christmas ornaments put in the glasses.
I can’t throw away anything and so I thought that it’d look nice to fill the glasses…
… with hand-dyed paper scraps or…
… with yarn and thread scraps that I kept for reasons I can’t understand anymore ;-)
I can imagine as well to put flowers into the glasses, or carved vegetables or the apple swan or the little hors d’oeuvres penguin ;-)
Note: Be careful to fix the tea lights or even candles so that they can’t slip or topple over!
Links:
Wineglass Candles in web archive
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Chillie Anthurium
Apple Swan
Penguin Hors d’oeuvres
Gift Wrap from Kraft Paper with Rubbing
Do you need a gift wrap in a short time, which should be individual nevertheless?
The instruction shows how to do it.
I like the wrappings very much ;-)
Links:
How-Tuesday: Kraft Paper Rubbings From The Art of Gift Wrapping
Paper Sun Mirror
This sun mirror is extraordinary, as I find!
I have to chose an appropriate book on the spot ;-)
Although the pages from the travel brochure from the paper shopping bag should look great, too!?
On the next occasion I’ll have to try it ;-)
Links:
Paper Sun Mirror (Make A Recycled Book Page Sunburst Mirror!)
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Paper Shopping Bag