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How to Make Pop Bottle Flowers

How to Make Pop Bottle Flowers

Have you seen those fantasy faux-glass flowers made from recycled pop bottles, and wondered how to make your own? Here’s a video tutorial to show you how it’s done.

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Bendy-Holdy Flower Vase

Bendy-Holdy Flower Vase

Today, I dashed into town to stock up on essentials, and while there stopped in at DJ’s mother’s house. Well, I’m ashamed to say that a parcel was waiting for me there since Christmas! (You know how it goes, never enough time in a day – especially when we seem to get a blasted snowstorm [...]

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Virginia Fleck Mandala Art

Virginia Fleck Mandala Art

Our evironmentalist blogger with an eye for beauty, Pelf Nyok, has dropped by to introduce her latest find — an American artist who creates huge mandala wall pieces with other people’s throwaway plastic bags. The works are both colourful and green! ~ Jen Plastic Artworks A lot of things are being said about China’s recent announcement [...]

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Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

A colourful wreath hand-sewn from sweater remnants gives an eco-friendly twist to a traditional holiday decoration, in one of the more imaginative recycling ideas of the season. It reminds me a bit of those wreaths made with tied strips of plastic bags that I’ve mentioned before, but only in the sense of an unconventional material [...]

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Karina’s Castle Playhouse

Karina's Castle Playhouse
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Kids' Playhouse from Plastic Milk Jugs

Kids' Playhouse from Plastic Milk Jugs

Home and Garden can suggest 35 uses for plastic milk jugs, but a young family in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada, has just come up with another way to recycle milk jugs that beats any we’ve seen so far! With the aid of a hot glue gun, Scott and Andrea McNeill turned 840 plastic milk [...]

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