How to reuse an old or broken umbrella? Here 3 creative & unique ideas:
Umbrella’s box magazines holder – thanks to Recycled Crafts Gossip
“Umbrella dryers”: simply use an umbrella to dry your clothes “hang it upside down by the handle for use” by Things Your GrandMother Knew
Umbrella as a sun shade, reusing only the covers thanks to Craftzine
As you already know, at Refashinoso we are addicted to “Be Eco-Fashionoso” and Copenhagen Cycle Chic is one of the most amazing inspiration site talking about how to cycle chic!. I’m going to show you just an examble of the “Guide they’ve created so far!
On the Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site you can read: “Here in Copenhagen, our bicycles are just tools that we use to get around. We don’t give them names or fetishize about them, we just use them. However, if you going to spend half your life on your bicycle, you may as well personalise it a bit. We see the bicycle, above, quite often around Copenhagen and it is the ultimate personalised example. Simply gorgeous.
I suppose this isn’t really a How To Guide but more of a source of inspiration from the cyclists of Copenhagen to you. With love.
There are different reasons to personalise your bike. To make it look a bit nicer, to make it match your personal style, to hide the rust, to make it less attractive to thieves. Whatever the case, the sky is the limit and only you can make it your own.”
And now have a look at Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site to find out all the ideas they’ve collected to personalize your bicycle right now! have a green life.
That’s the amazing idea by Michele Made Me: she shares on her blog all the tips & tricks to create this great mirror and pencil case reusing old denim!
Below just an example to show you how simple and funny is to create your unique pieces of Art Tree for everyday life! And now have a look at Tree Mirror Tutorial or Tree Pencil Case Turoial by Michele Made Me.
And now have a look at Michele Made Me’s blog!
That’s the amazing idea by Michael Johansson: to get everything, regular and irregular, to turn into regularly ArtWorks. A kind of Tetris Art.
“I am intrigued by irregularities in daily life. Not those that appear when something extraordinary occurs, but those that are created by an exaggerated form of regularity. Colours or patterns from two separate objects or environments concur, like when two people pass each other dressed in the exact same outfit. Or when you are switching channels on your TV and realize that the same actor is playing two different roles on two different channels at the same time. Or that one day the parking lot contained only red cars” he writes.
“These irregularities, these coincidences, are another focus of my artwork.” And now have at Michael Johansson’s site to find out all his amazing ideas.
Few days ago “sailing” at etsy I found this amazing artist: Ann P. Smiths. “ANN SMITH spends her days making little robotic like figurines from broken electronics and machine parts. The sculptures are sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in magazines and brochures. Her Clients include Chevron lubricants division, Cricket Magazine, and Cicada Magazine.
“Ann’s illustrations have been selected to appear in the Communications Arts Illustration Annual #337, the American Illustration 25 Annual, and the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 7. Recently, She has received both local and international recognition from Wired Magazine (US), PBS Boston, DPI Magazine (Taiwan), Architectural Digest (Germany), GQ (Germany), and The Discovery Channel Canada. ”
Have a look at Ann’s “burrowburrow” website to find out all the details about her creations, to buy them or simply to get inspirations about how to reuse your everyday broken electronics and machine parts.
The lottery ticket creations were sculpted by Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, for their exhibition “Ghost of a Dream”: the two graduates in 2004 & 2005 from the Rhode Island School of Design were fascinated by the perpetual discarding of lottery tickets, and decided to turn fascination into art.
To know about Ghost of Dream upcoming exibithion have a look at their website!
Enjoy now your green life reusing your bus, train, daily tickets to create your own piece of art!
Oh, what a great wow when today I found out about Lamponi Slamps: from old stuff that we throw away every day they created amazing lamps. Look: how cool are they?
Instead of heading to the art supply store Lamponi Slamps just collect common trash and turn it into works of amazing art.
Look at Lamponi Slamps’s website and enjoy your green life!
Look at this funny and simple idea by Heidi Borchers: a smashed soda or aluminum can becomes a funny cow, pig, bear … and for the other animals simple use you fantasy!
You simply need – Materials (for 3 animals):
3 aluminum soda or cola cans
Matte spray paint: peach, white, brown
Acrylic paints: peach, lavender, turquoise, rose, yellow, white, brown
Paintbrushes
Cotton swab (cotton removed from one end)
Scraps of felt: off-white, tan, brown, rose, red, black, pink, white
Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™
Scrap of black paper
1/8” diameter hole punch
2 (3/8”) wiggle eyes
1/16” wide satin ribbon: 1 (8″) length print
2 (1/2” diameter) brown bear eyes
Fine-tip permanent black marker
12” length of ¼” wide print ribbon
2 (1/4” diameter) black beads
And now have a look at the Heidi’s tutorial and start to create that with your kids
Here the 2 cute ideas with the Tutorials from A Lemon Squeezy to create your own personal basket for cycling chic! You can use old clothes and stuff around to be 100% Eco Fashion Cool!
KIDS BASKET:
She writes: “My son D had his birthday on Wednesday. He wanted a bike basket. Walmart’s cheapest basket was $15.00, and with my sons being so close, I knew that my other one would eventually want one as well. So that’s why I decided to make one instead!” I give a pic of what you need to create this:
and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details! But this is not finish:
VINTAGE BASKET:
“I remember finishing boy basket, and thinking how pretty it could be for a girl with a few changes. So I re-designed the entire thing to fit an adult vintage style bike. *This basket actually fits my son’s child size bike, so it doesn’t even have to be only for an adult bike!”
I give a pic of what you need to create this and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details!
have a green life!
Look, how amazing is it? That’s from a collaboration between Mekanism and Space Invader in 2006: three unique and original skateboards covered by a mosaic of Space Invaders handmade from old magic cubes stickers!
It’s to late for buying this stunning limited edition, but it’s never to late for creating your own one! Thanks again to Mekanism and Space Invader for sharing this!
