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Here’s the scoop on the Dabbled Holiday Contest.
The theme for this season is Holiday (whichever holidays you celebrate, or do them all!) decor and gifts, recycled from something else. So your bag from recycled sweaters or your wreath from plastic bags, or whatever! You can enter as many items as you like (but you can only win with one), and we love tutorials…
HOW TO ENTER: This one will be flickr based, so you’ll need a flickr account to participate (it’s free, and I love flickr!). (This will make it easy for everyone to see all the entries, and easy…
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I know, I know, we just finished Halloween. And yes, it’s annoying that the stores already have Christmas stuff up! So, if you’re not ready yet, I apologize! But if you’re planning ahead, and going handmade for the holidays, you really do have to start thinking about it in November, so here we are.
We’ll have a couple of things going on for November and December (showcases and contests), so here’s a preview:
Best of Crafty “Upcycling” for Christmas, Thanksgiving, or your holiday of choice – Show off your recycling skills by making gifts or decor out of ‘trash’. Submit your tutorials…
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Here’s some adorable examples of recycling furniture into kids play kitchen equipment (remember Dabbled’s playstove?)
Jenny’s play oven ( at one of my favorite fun sites, ikeahacker) was made from a small laminated cabinet from the as-is department. If you are lucky enough to have an Ikea near you, the As-is department is a great source of material for projects (they give away broken glass you might use for a mosaic, plus you can buy cheaply broken furniture pieces or tabletops which can be used as wood) and also for almost complete items that just need a little love (like the toddler…
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In honor of earth day, i was going to ‘recycle’ some of my posts on using recycled materials for cool stuff. then i got busy and missed earth day. so even though it’s late, i hope you enjoy it!
Sweater recycling:
Old sweaters (and you know we all have them) are a fun and easy thing to recycle. They are forgiving of mediocre sewing skills as well..
here are some ideas…
The Ele-purse – great for little girls!
The easy peasy hostess gifty – the wine cozy!
The always adorable Octopuppet
Another cute toy, the sweater snake!
non-sweater related…
Recycling furniture into toys!
The uber-cool play stove-includes tutorial
