2013 – Page 2 – Trashmagination

Cardboard Car Races

Who knew how much fun you could have recycling a few cardboard boxes into race cars?

Jen Athanas, from Jen-A-Fusion, recycles textiles into amazing purses and other fun accessories! She gave me lots of Trashmagination advice.

This year, we captured images of the Easter Bunny on a spy camera.

Our friend Juliene taught us how to crochet baskets from strips of old bed sheets.

Many wine cork mats are made only with glue, but I found they don’t last with kids. My design is “sewn.”

This rug reflects the nine colors of scarves at the Family Nature Summits, and it’s my first non-wool or yarn rug.

Do you have some ugly ties in your closet? Here’s how I taught myself to make crazy quilts from recycled ties.

We drew panels in a family comic book as a way to engage my children in our family history.

A presentation at my rug hooking guild about Newfoundland gets me wondering how much of trashmagination is cultural?

For our plastic animal toys, we wanted them to be strong, so we made them a spinal cord instead of using glue.

I made a giant Pacific octopus kit for my nephew’s birthday – all from recycled plastic caps.

Plastic caps can be a great material for recycled crafts.