The Best of DIY

Upcycle wine corks into a corkboard used to hold notes and keys. I found this project on Green Upgrager. All you need are a bunch of wine bottle corks, a frame and some hooks if you’d like to use it to hold your keys. I’m going to start saving my wine corks from now on to make this project.

I had never heard of Furoshiki before until I came across a post on Betz White’s blog where she talks about an eco-friendly way to wrap a gift. Furoshiki is a Japanese technique for wrapping cloth. I found a really neat blog called My Furoshiki that talks about all the different techniques to use. This would be a great eco-friendly and creative way to wrap that next gift you give.

Create a grocery tote bag from an I Heart NY t-shirt. Generation T over at Cut Out + Keep has posted a tutorial on how to make a one of a kind grocery tote.

If you save your newspaper to recycle why not create something you can re-use out of it yourself? GreenUPGRADER has a tutorial on how you can actually handspin newspaper into yarn. Newspaper can be durable enough to construct a rug out of it. I’m sure this project would take a lot of patience, but the tools used to get it done are very minimal. Whatever you end up making from it would make for a nice conversation piece.

I absolutely hate when I receive the yellow pages at my door step! I never ever look at the yellow pages, that’s what I have the internet for. I usually get two really thick books a year, it’s such a waste of trees and money! They are so heavy and I hate throwing them out. Well, I found this really cool way to recycle your yellow pages into something that could be usable. Make it a card holder, holiday cards, birthday card, or business cards. Doug Gunzelmann at Green Upgrader has come up with a real creative way to recycle these nuisances that was inspired by the Industrial Designer Afroditi Krassa.