Ideas for crafts and organizing using repurposed items. These are budget friendly ideas that save items from the landfill and encourage your creativity.
It’s end-of-the-year party time at schools all around the country. Can you hear the kids cheering? Here’s a quick and easy way to wrap cookies to take all those parties. Let me start by confessing that I’m a bit of a germaphobe. It gives me the heebie jeebies to think about 30 kids’…
Remember a couple of weeks ago when I decided I couldn’t part with on old, but favorite sweater? {here} Well, I couldn’t part with the sleeves of the sweater either (if you’ve been following my projects, I know you’re not surprised). I had a pretty pink striped sweater sleeve and an oatmeal container. It was…
I was at the store in the Fall and found these cute little tins with moisturizer in them. Both Nivea and Carmex make them. I just had to get a couple. Because I wanted to do a project with the tins. Because I needed to be able to carry moisturizer in my purse this…
As the weather warmed up I went through my winter clothes to see what items needed to be purged. This has been one of my favorite sweaters. My husband gave it to me 7 or 8 years ago and I loved the bright cheerful colors in the winter. But it has seen better…
Another quick and easy repurposed organizing project brought to by the lazy and tree-huggin’ lady at Organized 31. My friend, K, gave me 2 plastic Carnation Breakfast boxes the same day she gave me the cocoa cans that I repurposed {here}. But I had a tougher time envisioning a new purpose for the plastic Breakfast…
Back when I was doing all the sweater upcycling, Sweater Sleeve Easter Cups and Repurposed Sweater Valentine’s Pillow, I saw this skirt at the thrift shop. I immediately fell in love with the pattern (maybe because it was January and yucky cold). It was marked down for clearance. I used to feel badly buying…
I’ve been admiring the Graphics Fairy blog {here} for months now. She has the most amazing stock graphics (means us crafty folks can use them with no problems). I’m particularly in love with the look of the numbers she used in this project. I’d been ruminating on what project I wanted to do with…
Remember the sweater mittens I made? After I was done cutting out the mittens, I just couldn’t bring myself to throw out the sleeves. The sleeves were too narrow to use to make more mittens like I did with the sleeves from the pink sweater {here}. But I realized that the sleeves…
Do you remember the cute fabric baskets I made last week? I sat and admired them for about 2 days, before I realized that I could use two of them for St. Patrick’s Day. How lucky (little St. Patrick’s Day pun) that I’d used green fabrics! I’ve been planning on sending 2 college care packages out…
Discover creative ways to repurpose cloth napkin boxes into stylish and functional storage solutions. Get inspired with easy DIY ideas!