This week’s reducing, reusing & recycling link round-up
- We get a lot of tutorials on making random old textiles into bags or aprons – but this is the other way around: use a cute old apron as an instant cafe-style kitchen curtain. I also love Ki’s use of an old paint roller as a kitchen roll holder.
- Courtney of the Greenists linked to this TED Talk by Treehugger’s Graham Hill about becoming a weekday vegetarian.
- Crafting a Green World on how to upcycle plain tiles into pretty coasters.
- I’m a sucker for not throwing away those last couple of yards of yarn at the end of a ball/project – and here is a very mini project to use them up.
- Speaking of using up scraps, Sandra of sawdustandpaperscraps make a very nice pinstripe picture frame using scraps of wood.
- And finally use an old hardback book and a dull pad of paper to make a more hardwearing and fun notepad.
LOL funny the “use a cute old apron as an instant cafe-style kitchen curtain” is mentioned.
Recently I have been doing reverse. I have some yellow cafe-style curtains that had belonged to my grandmother. I have been making aprons out of them.
I made some new curtains for the kitchen recently and since it’s the same theme (Coke) used the old “Coke curtains” to make an apron as well as cloth napkins.
When I was growing up, my mom used to take our old dresses, skirts, aprons and shirts and turn these into quilts. When the quilt got a little worn out, she turned the quilts into covers for our dog’s basket and also book bags for my siblings and me!
Excellent post! I’m just starting out in community management/marketing media and learning how to get it done well – resources such as this post are incredibly helpful. As our organization is dependent in the US, it?s all a little bit new to us. The example above is something that I be concerned about as nicely, how to show your own genuine enthusiasm and write concerning the fact that your product is helpful in that position.
OMG I love the idea. I have been wanting an apron for a long time and never thought to look at window curtains. I am gonna have to look for some at the thrift store or see if anyone is getting rid of some on freecycle.
Go to local Freecycle online and offer you rounded items to someone who needs them.