Interesting reducing, reusing & recycling links
- With Halloween approaching, check out this fab tutorial on making mini skull lanterns out of little plastic bottles – she says “milk bottles” but from a British POV, they look more like little yoghurt drink bottles. Either way though, ace!
- SueAnn on Lil Bird Told Me has posted a great idea to make old carrier bags easier & neater to storage/carry around – fold them into triangles. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this since I do it obsessively with every crisp packet I see!
- Have gloves magically disappeared from your winter warmer collection over the summer? If so, you could use the remaining odd ones to make a cute animal plushie toy! Dinner for Mousci has a how-to.
- I love these chunky beads made from old cereal boxes – very fun!
- Finally, in case you didn’t see it, friend of Recycle This Petra made a clothes peg airer thing out of “some electricity pipe, an old iron coat hanger, some rope and pegs” – I want to make my own too now!
(Photo by Care for DollarStoreCrafts)
Here’s a link to making rolled plastic beads from bottles, very similar to the nifty cereal box beads.
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=147089.0
I don’t have a heat gun…I used a candle. It was tricky, and the beads weren’t perfect, but they looked very nice indeed! Colored mine with markers and colored pencils, rolled up with that as the inside layer.