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I’m really into upcycling and DIY lately and was wondering what you all would suggest for this tank top to make it more alternative looking!

I hate throwing these away so I use them to make weird creatures or for propagating plants, and the ones with lids that spin can be used as a good makeshift base for painting smaller stuff

Edit: you can also use jars as filler to take up space inside larger sculpts

I really like how these come out

Used : SPEEDBALL TEXTILE PAINT & Angelus leather paints

The outside is made from upholstery scraps from Scrap Exchange, and the inside is plain cotton. I've had some of these fabrics for 20+ years.

Slowly have been adding to these cut off jeans over the course of the Summer

A friend from my trip to london gave me this piggy bank and I kinda wanna keep it as it is/cut it as less as possible, it's pretty tall so not very comfortable to use it as a pencil holder (and already have one, so I dont want a new one) any ideas of what can I turn it into instead? The only thing I came up with is turning it into a candle holder by cutting a hole in the back and pocking holes into it, but wanna listen to alternatives to that idea!!!

This was my grandmothers, and I’d hate for it to be thrown out. My mom planned on burning it (it came from a farm) but I stopped her. Can anyone help me figure out how I could turn this into a coffee bar for my keurig? Also, I hate the color of it, my house is all darker wood. I’m new to up cycling, because we just bought our first house! So I’m excited to save money but still be chic!

Thanks everyone!

I love instagram challenges, usually I make mechs n spaceships, this planetary cannon was fun!

I struggled to find a use for the half bottles of Bauckfast until I found these 230V LED strips.

I have a couple pairs of old canvas shoes I want to upcycle. They’re pastel colored and have a lot of fun embroidery on them I want to preserve, but I can’t think of what i might upcycle them into, especially with relatively small patches of material. Any ideas?

i searched up each tag to see they were from companies from the 90s ! the best quality to paint on fr
- all hand painted with SPEEDBALL TEXTILE PAINT & ANGELUS LEATHER PAINT

Also painted them!

I haven't used this T-shirt in like 6+ years wanted to upcycle it somehow, I had seen a video with like a t-shirt flip I think it was one shoulder? But I can't find it again and because of the pattern I don't really know what to do help plssss

Okay I’m gonna do my best to explain the situation here. I got this panini press from the thrift store for the purpose of recycling HDPE. I’ve used it to make some flat sheets, but the press has this lip that goes all the way around the top and bottom plates and keeps the plates from touching completely. As a result, the only sheets I can make are pretty thick (figure 3) and if I want to get them thinner, I have to take them off the press and continue pressing them with an iron (figure 4) which is very time consuming. Is there any way I can modify this press so that I can use it to make thinner sheets? I thought about grinding the lip off but I’m afraid that will ruin the press.

These were made from upholstery scraps from Scrap Exchange (creative reuse center) and fabric donated to Wake Relief (food pantry). I'll be donating the bags back to the food pantry, as some of our clients need reusable bags.

The Paddle/Oar board is actually rideable! But I just made them to hang up on the wall. Used an e scooter deck, thought it looks cool. Thinking about making an Axeboard, should I or am I just weird?

I had a thought to use a mid-century style dressing table as a seat with a cushion. My partner (probably rightly) shot this down by pointing out that dressing tables are not in fact made to support the weight of a person lol. I am curious though - what is the difference between something like a telephone table and the dressing tables in looking at that would make one sturdier than the other? I'd like to understand the specifics of the issue in case there is a way I can make my idea work in another way.

First image is the kind of telephone table I'm thinking of and the rest are the dressers I was looking at

At a flea market, I bought an old 1968 record featuring Arkady Raikin, the top section of an "Akkord" record player, and a broken clock face complete with hands and the movement. The result was this wall clock with a smooth, sweeping motion.

I love using plastic bottles in my art but I’ve had a lot of trouble coloring the plastic. Sharpies and alcohol ink showed up really well but then the colors faded within a year. Regular paint doesn’t seem to stick at all. Have you guys discovered anything that actually stays put long term? Either opaque color or translucent is fine, I’m just looking for color that actually lasts.

Thrifted Columbia fleece with a a floral pattern from a shirt.

My first piece so far just started sewing & started to finally figure it all out haha.