Category: Thrift & Recycle

To thrift means buying second hand (used, discarded, vintage) items at flea markets or thrift shops. To Recycle is to take care of Earths limited resources. Let’s use our creativity and look for cheap finds and fun re-usable items together.

My First Textile Book of Scraps

Today I am sharing all the pages of a book project that falls (to me) in the category of “book art”….

Creativity & Life/Textile Art/Thrift & Recycle

Green hexagon flowers on a tote bag

With the tote bag for myself, I did the same as I did with the blue hexagon tote that I gave…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

The blue hexagon tote bag

One of my craft projects this year was to cover up the printed logo on a simple, white tote that I…

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Hello Kitty, hello thrifty book finds

Today I’m sharing my latest thrift haul (whereas my previous blog post was about a thrift haul from last year and…

Read a book/Thrift & Recycle

What I thrift: magazines & books to cut up

I mentioned in a previous post that I watched a lot of thrift haul videos on YouTube in the beginning of…

Thrift & Recycle

Thrift Shop Inspiration : Strawberry boy and rotary phones

I love visiting flea markets. I love scoring something unusual or useful, but I also really enjoy just looking at stuff….

Thrift & Recycle

Mend in March: Jeans

By shear coincidence I found some sewing inspirations on instagram when I came upon the hashtag “Mend March”, invented by Kate…

Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Greenery in an Altered Book

Greenery in an altered book or “How to start a themed glue book”, where my theme just happens to be “greenery”,…

Art journaling/Thrift & Recycle

Thrifter for Life

When I started blogging I wrote quite a lot about knitting – and then thrifting, as I was discovering its many…

iHanna philosophy/Thrift & Recycle

Very Chunky Altered Book [a video flip-through]

I altered a book so that it is no longer a book about ancient Egypt but instead a book of iHanna’s…

Art journaling/Thrift & Recycle

Collectible vintage Scrap die-cuts | Glanzbilder or Bokmärken

Oblaten, Glanzbilder, Victorian scrap diecuts, bokmärken, Sammelbilder, collectible glossy prints… What ever you call them, you’ll find a favorite image among…

Paper Crafting/Thrift & Recycle

Re-using an Unused Calendar

I have started a new project. It is about repurposing an unused and expired planner/ calendar, and giving it new life….

Journaling & Notebooks/Thrift & Recycle/Tutorials