"Upcycled" Blogs & Blog Posts

I love watching these videos of Jack Spencer handcrafting eyeglass frames from used denim. Spencer, who owns and operates an eyewear company called Mosevic in Cornwall, England, provides an overview of his project: I have spen...

A cute egg carton craft idea to do with your kids. We’ve been saving up egg cartons for weeks to make some egg carton fish and Hayes loves them. We have a few in his room as decoration – hanging from the door knob and on the wall. And the...

For some reason, when it comes to jeans, jean jackets, etc I just can’t let them go no matter how long it’s been since I last wore them. Case and point…I currently have a pile of denim sitting in the bottom drawer of my dresser that...

It could get busy around here. The polarising struggle to argue out the sustainable consumption oxymoron often misses the point. Consuming more sustainably than we have done before has to be part of the real world incremental improvement process whil...

Last weekend, Jeff and I cleaned out our dresser and when we got to the pajama drawers, I realized that the pjs section is starting to consist almost solely of t-shirts that neither one of us really wanted anymore. So, we stacked them all up in a pi...

Something I’ve learned over the last few years is that tea towels make a surprisingly great resource for fabric-based projects. They usually have cool colors, patterns and textures, and I like that they’re a perfect size for smaller pr...

I’ve had this ceramic cat cookie jar for years. Seriously…YEARS! And it resurfaced again when we moved to the new studio. So I decided to give this little guy an update, and turn him into a planter. Why? Well, two reasons really. 1) Cats...