upcycling

Welcome to the 'upcycling' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'upcycling'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “upcycling”

• Anne Miek Bibber - fun jewelry

  
  art design kitsch ... — Authority: 117
  Here is an exception to my rule of only using my own pictures. But these one-of-a-kind creations were so irresistible, I had to show it with permission from the artist for the use of her pictures . Mill Stone Collars and other necklaces made from medicine cups. Colourful, original, fun, and I think it ...
  19 hours ago

• Eco-Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway #7

  
  The EcoChic — Authority: 124
  Giveaway Alert! Win a $20 gift certificate from myEARTH360! Shop using the holiday coupon code below!You may be wondering if there are stores out there that specialize in items for the eco-junkie in your life…YES!  myEARTH360 has some really unique items mixed with regular items like your reusable bottles.  They ...
  1 week ago

• Robin Andreae Wildlife Felting Artist

  
  Craft Gossip — Authority: 164
      Robin lives in California and is an amazing wildlife artist using needle felting as her textile.  Her animals are so realistic and so anatomically correct that it is difficult to believe they are not existent.  She is a devoted wildlife advocate and communicates her concern through her art.  Robin sells ...
  1 week ago

• Make your holiday greener with Second Time Designs

  
  Great Lakes Green Pages — Authority: 425
  The holidays are almost here! Where did the year go, anyway? While the music, decorations, lights and gatherings can all be fun and exciting, they also generate a ton of waste. Anything that you can do to reduce your environmental footprint at this time of year is a good thing. That is why I am trying to feature ...
  1 week ago

• Encourage Your Children to Express their Creative Side

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 546
  Oh how I love art and crafting. Although all my kids have their own favorite activities, I am a watercolor fan. I truly wish I had a bit more time to develop my drawing and painting skills. When I lived up north I would take the littletons to art museums often. The true beginning of this activity began for me the ...
  1 week ago

• Art and giving back collide…

  
  Great Lakes Green Pages — Authority: 425
  I love glass art. I am working on some of my own designs right now! But there is one company who is doing great designs from recycled glass bottles that is really cool. The company is From the Blue Bag . Taking waste out of both the waste AND recycle stream, this company creates cool glass art that is functional. ...
  1 week ago

• Kris Kuksi’s Toy Sculptures are Nothing Like Toys

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 130
  Sculptor Kris Kuksi’s excellence makes itself evident with these sculptures. Amazing as they look, they are in fact upcycled examples of old, discarded toys. The sculptor uses discarded toys to create these haunting sculptures that carry a medieval-ancient look. Old toys do make a major part of the sculptures, but ...
  1 week ago

• Recycled Tea Light Holders

  
  Toxiferous Designs — Authority: 474
  Im really digging these recycled tea light holders made from bicycle parts! Theyve got a really great industrial look that makes them interesting to me.
  1 week ago

• Dyed Wool Flower Pin

  
  Craft Gossip — Authority: 164
  Edie of Edie’s Fashion Factory posted this wool flower how-to on Cut-Out+Keep .  She offers you complete instructions and I think you will be happy with the results.  Edie says: I love finding a use for every last scrap of fabric in my project pile. Here’s a bit of dyed wool leftover from a recon’d sweater ...
  1 week ago

• Kris Kuksi’s Recycled Toy Sculptures Will Scare the Kids

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 734
  The beautiful thing about upcycled materials is that the end results often bear no resemblance to the original items. Such is the case with sculptor Kris Kuksi ’s toy sculptures, which are constructed out of old toys, statues, and mechanical parts. Read the rest of Kris Kuksi’s Recycled ...
  1 week ago

• REVIEW: TerraCycle/Fashionation M&M’s Candy Wrapper Speakers

  
  The Impulsive Buy — Authority: 461
  The company TerraCycle is much like a music producer who has to deal with Britney Spears’ recording sessions, they both take trash and turn it into something that can be marketed and sold. TerraCycle calls what they’re doing “upcycling,” while Britney’s music producers probably like to describe what they do ...
  1 week ago

• Top Ten Recycling and Environmental Stories Of The Week (Nov.9-15) at Green Options

  
  Pacebutler Blog — Authority: 120
  Community urban garden in PhiladelphiaHere are the our top 10 pick of the most interesting and informative recycling and environmental stories at Green Options Environment:The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!)Do you dream of an organic garden, but don’t have a yard? A flock of chicks, ...
  1 week ago

• Felted Sweater Stuffed Pig

  
  Felting — Authority: 407
  This little pig is simply too adorable.  The instructions, template and sweater felting Instructions are clear and easy to follow.  This pig looks as if it were made with a patterns sweater which makes it cute.  But you could use a plain sweater and needle felt some embellishments using some wool roving.  Or you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recycled, Native, Socially Aware Eco Design from Argentina at Sustentable Festival [PHOTOS]

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photos: Paula Alvarado Argentine sustainable design was on the spotlight last week, when the second edition of Sustentable Festival took place in Buenos Aires featuring more than 100 products in an exhibition. Some of them familiar, some newish, we pick some of the objects and designs that called our attention in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interesting Argentine Eco Design at Sustentable Festival 09 [Photos]

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photos: Paula Alvarado Argentine sustainable design was on the spotlight last week, when the second edition of Sustentable Festival took place in Buenos Aires featuring more than 100 products in an exhibition. Some of them familiar, some newish, we pick some of the objects and designs that called our attention in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Felted Jellyfishin’ by Stephen Hartley

  
  Craft Gossip — Authority: 164
    This is the cutest tutorial on how to make and felt a Jellyfishen .  The pattern is free and well as the felting instructions.  Stephen says: This felted jellyfish pattern was inspired by too many SpongeBob episodes and my insatiable need to felt high-end yarns.  The pattern is fun, easy, and fast.  You ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crafty ways to creatively re-use leftover prescription bottles

  
  The eDrugSearch Blog — Authority: 100
  If you have a medication you take regularly, you’re familiar with the problem of waste created by prescription pill bottles. Some people go through several bottles a month —  and many municipalities do not recycle this type of plastic. Fortunately, some ultra-creative people have thought up some clever, thrifty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Felt Pencil Stub Case How to

  
  Craft Gossip — Authority: 164
  I found this very unique and fun project on “Instructables” that I know I would not have thought of myself. Pencils wear down. You get stubs. You don’t have anywhere to put them. But this designer does, because they made a felt pencil case with different sized slots for different sized pencils. Now all your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stump the Dump with Ubico Studio

  
  3rings — Authority: 434
  Terminology in any field can be nebulous at best, with popular words like “recycled” being thrown around carelessly. That’s why I have to exercise a large measure of skepticism when I read about a company’s “green” practices. Reading the fine print becomes a job requirement. In the end, we have to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Knit Picks Free Patterns and Felting Yarn sale

  
  Craft Gossip — Authority: 164
        Get-a-jump on your holiday knitting and felting with the help of Knit Picks .  There are many adorable patterns and the yarns are affordable so you can stock up.   They also sell all the products for your knitting needs.   I know a friend that needs the oven mitts and I will be making a ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about upcycling