Category Archives: Crafts

All kinds of crafts mostly created by recycling or upcycling waste and old objects.

Chichicastenango – Good Guipil Hunting

huipil motif

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Recycled baskets

Thanks to the wine I drink, I was able to make this basket (indicated by the pointing arrow). Most shops in Italy now use only biodegradable bags but not shops where wine is sold (wine bottles need sturdier bags).  Biodegradable … Continue reading

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Shoebox loom purse.

I have already posted about cardboard weaving but will do a Revival Gig because I recently finished a purse using, primarily, shoebox weaving. As you can notice, my technique is what you’d call Laid Back.  Because, not afraid of making … Continue reading

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Tutorial: how to make curtains from plastic bags

Below is the entrance to our house here on Paros. We’ve given it the name La Sussurrata – in Agatha Christie books, houses always seem to have a name so I decided our house needed a name, too. “Sussurrare” means, in … Continue reading

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Earrings for Paul McCartney’s ears

If you were listening to the radio while in New York October of 1969, you might have heard someone named “Tom” call in claiming that the real Paul McCartney was dead. As proof of Paul’s death,  “Tom” cited hidden clues … Continue reading

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