More tennis-related repurposing:
Swing made from used tennis balls.
(via Danny Seo’s Daily Danny blog, mentioned previously here)
![DIY project du jour:
Upcycle old belts into coasters.
On the Daily Danny blog, Danny Seo describes three simple how-to steps:
Cut belts into strips.
Punch holes along the edges. (A leather cutter or an awl could be used.)
Bind strips together with twine.
This project is a great addition to Unconsumption’s series of posts on new uses for old belts, which includes an earlier upcycling project of Danny’s.
[Thanks, Danny!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx0n3p7LLb1qzv12bo1_r2_400.jpg)
DIY project du jour:
Upcycle old belts into coasters.
On the Daily Danny blog, Danny Seo describes three simple how-to steps:
- Cut belts into strips.
- Punch holes along the edges. (A leather cutter or an awl could be used.)
- Bind strips together with twine.
This project is a great addition to Unconsumption’s series of posts on new uses for old belts, which includes an earlier upcycling project of Danny’s.
[Thanks, Danny!]
![One of my favorite projects in the book [Upcycling: Create Beautiful Things with the Stuff You Already Have] is taking a dozen old leather belts — I bought these at my local Goodwill store — and simply stitching them together with hemp twine to make a leather door mat. All you need are the belts, a hole cutter (from the craft store) and some hemp twine and a needle. That’s it.
(via Daily Danny)
For other creative uses for worn leather belts, see earlier Unconsumption posts here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo0vn3ZTF11qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
One of my favorite projects in the book [Upcycling: Create Beautiful Things with the Stuff You Already Have] is taking a dozen old leather belts — I bought these at my local Goodwill store — and simply stitching them together with hemp twine to make a leather door mat. All you need are the belts, a hole cutter (from the craft store) and some hemp twine and a needle. That’s it.
(via Daily Danny)
For other creative uses for worn leather belts, see earlier Unconsumption posts here.
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) …
Which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing idea: Place corks in a shadow box and use as a mat. (Via Daily Danny; hat tip to Slow Fashioned (@slowfashioned) on Twitter.)
Here’s an earlier post showing a mat made with corks positioned horizontally. Other items in Unconsumption’s “wine o’clock” series — a semi-regular series of Friday afternoon posts — can be found here.
Cheers!
Green living advocate Danny Seo offers this repurposing idea:
Apply bubble wrap to windows to add thermal protection and help reduce heat loss during winter months. Danny’s brief tutorial includes spraying water onto window glass (the inside side!), then placing sheets of bubble wrap on top of it. (He says it sticks.)
Danny adds that the plastic layer “boosts the window’s efficiency by double because the air pockets in the bubble wrap insulate the windows and also allow the sun’s rays to still come through the window during the day to heat up the house.” (via Daily Danny » Bubble Wrap Upcycle)
