Recycled and Upcycled Craft Projects

The end of a year is always a good time to harvest interesting designs from old calendars. The calendars can't be used again and will ob...

So I've been about the idea of recycling plastic containers into planters to hold small plants for some time now. I was inspired by a la...

Recycled/re-purposed items aren't just great materials for craft projects - they also make great storage containers too! :-) I should ...

A while ago we ordered new curtains for our windows. We selected a very pretty fabric, translucent off-white with gold markings. As it happe...

2017 has dawned bright and fresh ...and brought with it new ideas and inspirations :-) My first project for the year is an upcycled plasti...

Ho! Ho! Ho! It's the most wonderful time of the year again... yes, Christmas is upon us in all its commercialised glory, with retail out...

The other day something I bought was packed in a nice sturdy dark green paper bag... so I immediately ear-marked it for a Christmas upcyclin...

So, someone gave me a packet of caramel sweets - you know, caramel on the outside, a filling of some sort on the inside. Each piece came wra...

Tissue boxes have got to be among the most ubiquitous of household objects. There's usually 1 in the kitchen, the bathrooms and the bedr...

You know the routine -buy something, get a free paper carry bag. Some of these bags are pretty strong and durable, and it's a pity to th...

Today, I officially started my Christmas projects. A little early?? You might say. Well not really, given that this is strictly a weekend h...

So if you're anything like me, you probably have lots and lots of photographs. And, again, if you're anything like me, you'll ha...

Every time you buy a pair of shoes, you get a box. Most of the time, it’s a pretty well-made and hardy box. The trouble is, once you st...

Tried something a little different this time – instead of decorating an old jam jar, I just cleaned off the labels very carefully so as to ...

There’s nothing like receiving chocolates, biscuits or cake in an actual tin… it just seems like such a treat doesn’t it! Yumm....a  tin ...

Whenever we buy stuff, we  usually get a free paper bag from the vendor. More often than not, these bags aren’t really re-used as they have...

Latest jar craft projects below...first jar sponged over with grey glass paint (I just use a small piece cut out from a normal kitchen spong...

Today's paper craft project had a green theme, while I decided on brown for the jar. Both projects were created using scraps of paper,...

This time, I tried adding an extra layer of ribbon around the paper used in this project to create additional texture. It worked, more or le...

Tried out a new style of decorating glass jars recently, using mod podge as an adhesive and fixer. After having watched a lot of youtube vi...

Turns out that recycled jars make excellent vases... for these 2 projects, I used old Nescafe jars (washed, dried and with the labels remove...

It's that festive time of year again when craftsters get creative! :-) This year's upcycling project for office gifts for my colle...