Upcycling

 'Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.'

we try to do what we can to live a green life. we use reusable grocery bags, and we recycle.

We even had our son on Earth day!!!

And I love to upcycle.

Some of the products I've used are...

CANS:

Ive made earrings from cans

I'm currently in progress making 'chainmail' from soda pop tabs

I even turned Pringles cans into a rainstick

Plastic Bottles

I found and idea for a jewelry display from a plastic bottle from this site...

http://mlinla.blogspot.com/2010/06/show-off.html

I recreated my own from a 2liter diet coke bottle( i love my diet coke)

I use it to display my upcycled can earrings

EGG Shells!!

I made candles from egg shells

T-SHIRTS

turned an old unworn tee shirt into art for my daughters room

Zippers

I turned old zippers into roses

Ive even upcycled an Aluminum foil holder!!

i used this empty aluminum fol box to organize my vast array of ribbons!

I started out by taping one end of the ribbon to the tube

Wrap the ribbon around the tube

Insert the tube back into the box

Voila! nice and neat ( and compact) ribbon organizer

now you can unroll you ribbon when you need it.

Decorate the box as you desire ( I'm planning on covering with scrapbook paper)

I'm even adding Velcro tabs to keep the lid closed

 i just realized..with all of the crafting supplies i own, and the many different glues (e6000, tacky, super glue, hot glue) i don't own a single tube of Elmer's glue of a glue stick. the simplest of items and i done have it..lmao how can i call myself a crafter!!

The are more upcycling projects on the way...