UPDATE: This project has been Featured on Instructables.com! Thank you to the editors, for thinking this is neat.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Coffee Sleeve Transplant Pots
I had been playing idly with the coffee sleeve from my BF's morning joe on the train to Maker Faire, when I accidentally folded it in half the opposite way, giving it a more square appearance. Looking at it again, i realized it looked sort of like a plant pot. In the days following Maker Faire, I gathered more sleeves and came up with a simple way to fold four of them together into a transplant pot for gifting or using in the garden. Here's a link to the Instructable for this project.
UPDATE: This project has been Featured on Instructables.com! Thank you to the editors, for thinking this is neat.
UPDATE: This project has been Featured on Instructables.com! Thank you to the editors, for thinking this is neat.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Earth Day Projects
A bit late, but here they are, nonetheless.
For the past two years I've come up with projects that focus on recycling/upcycling things that my coworkers usually throw in the trash. A lot of people are doing this, but all too often the end result doesnt look like a quality item. Or its just plain ugly. I've decided the secondary requirement for these projects is that they must be things that my consumerist, non-hippy friends would want to have or use on a daily basis.
The first project was to construct a project out of the retired foam core that my company uses to print signs for the lobby. The signs are up for maybe a month, and then are tossed or given away. I was able to score 2 retired signs, and decided to make myself a jewelry board. I'd never thought of displaying my jewelry when I wasn't wearing it, but I came across the idea while browsing the Instructables site. I happen to think my jewelry is very attractive (which is why i have it), so why not display it for all to see? Besides, its much more organized than my previous solution, shown below. Here's a link to the Instructable I've created for the jewelry board I made.
For the past two years I've come up with projects that focus on recycling/upcycling things that my coworkers usually throw in the trash. A lot of people are doing this, but all too often the end result doesnt look like a quality item. Or its just plain ugly. I've decided the secondary requirement for these projects is that they must be things that my consumerist, non-hippy friends would want to have or use on a daily basis.
The first project was to construct a project out of the retired foam core that my company uses to print signs for the lobby. The signs are up for maybe a month, and then are tossed or given away. I was able to score 2 retired signs, and decided to make myself a jewelry board. I'd never thought of displaying my jewelry when I wasn't wearing it, but I came across the idea while browsing the Instructables site. I happen to think my jewelry is very attractive (which is why i have it), so why not display it for all to see? Besides, its much more organized than my previous solution, shown below. Here's a link to the Instructable I've created for the jewelry board I made.
For my second project I wanted to reuse some of the plastic bags that I've been collecting from coworkers for a while. I used the old stand-by, Plastic Bag crochet, to create a new trendy bag with a soft feel, but visually sharp corners. If you'd like the pattern, let me know and I'll write it up.
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