Get started on your upycling journey with these tutorials
Upcycle, Don’t Discard: Revamp Your Silverplated Dishes This Year, 2 easy ideas
Upcycle, Don't Discard: Revamp Your Silverplated Dishes This Year Revamp Your Silverplated Dishes This Year. But why would you upcycle silverplated dishes? There is a plethora of silverplated dishes for sale every time I go secondhand shopping. I decided maybe making...
Decoupage a coffee cup DIY tutorial – updated
Decoupage a Coffee Cup DIY tutorial I love to decoupage and was looking to upcycle something different from the usual trays that I do. While at one of the local second hand shop recently I spied quite a few coffee cups for sale, the cogs in the brain started turning...
Learn To Sew A Lavender Bag Free Pattern
Upcycle a Box and Create a Notebook – DIY Tutorial
Upcycle a Box and Create a Notebook Upcycling is a great way to reduce waste and give old items a new purpose. Here is a tutorial on how to upcycle a box and create a notebook. The notebooks are ideal if you are looking for something unique for a special occasion like...
Transform Textiles: Master Sewing a Drawstring Bag with Upcycled Fabrics
You all know how much I love anything upcycled, and there are many different fabrics that can be used to make drawstring bags including new teatowels, and new fabrics, of course, you can upcycle fabrics like vintage bedsheets to create something unique but that could also be used time and time again.
A Free DIY Christmas Ebook With 3 Projects!
Upcycle Fabrics Project No. 3, Sew a Heat Pad with a removable cover
Upcycle Fabrics Project No. 3 In this upcycle fabrics project we look at making the classic heat pad or wheat pad. Here in NZ the weather is still a little variable so a heat pad is probably worth having at hand. I call mine heat pads because I have traditionally made...
Upcycle Fabrics, 2 ideas suitable as gifts, budget friendly
Upcycle Fabrics What do you do? You discover a favourite blouse has a stain and no amount of washing will remove the stain. Then there's nana's napkins that she gave to you, sentimental pieces. The dilemma on what to do with them, maybe they need to go in the bin?...
Paper Towel Holder Revamp, quick tutorial
Paper Towel Holder Revamp Hands up if you have a paper towel holder at home. They are plentiful and often found in many an op shop. Of course they don't just have to be used for paper towels, more on that soon. But after time they can become a little grungy/grimy so a...
Upcycle A Photo Frame – Tutorial
Decorate a Jar tutorial, with Holiday Stencils, bonus 4 designs to purchase – updated
Decorate a Jar This decorate a jar tutorial provides something a little special this Christmas or Easter to keep those sweet treats in. If you don’t want the kids overloaded on chocolate one option is having one treat jar for the whole family or if feeling a little...
Art Boredom Busters – Tree Rubbings -updated
If its the school holidays, rainy days or other reasons to keep the kids at home and you need things to keep them entertained then bust out the art boredom busters. If the kids are cooped up inside and getting a little bored and perhaps the caregivers are running out...
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