recycling Archives - RChrystal https://rchrystal.com/tag/recycling/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:51:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 211711421 The cost of free wood https://rchrystal.com/the-cost-of-free-wood/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:46:51 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=1551 One of the prevailing crafty themes on the internet (in keeping with rustic chic, like mason jars) is upcycling pallets. The best part, theoretically, is that the materials are all free – but the problem with this theory is that the project still isn’t free. Unless you’re someone with a garage of wood tools, or […]

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]]> 1551 Current project: jeans to rug https://rchrystal.com/current-project-jeans-to-rug/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:57:10 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=1494 In my latest recycling efforts, I’m making a braided rug out of old jeans which are too worn out to donate. It’s the first long-term project I’ve undertaken in a while; usually, long-term craft projects end up set aside and discarded somewhere down the line, but I have hopes for this one (and at least […]

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]]> 1494 When the endpaper is dragons https://rchrystal.com/when-the-endpaper-is-dragons/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:08:25 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=363 …you turn the book into a dice box. Sorry, Nora Roberts.

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]]> 363 Papermaking, reprised https://rchrystal.com/papermaking-reprised/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:06:54 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=314 After a few unsuccessful attempts at handmaking recycled paper on very large frames, I broke down and asked for help to resize my frames so they would fit in a bucket, like all the hobby-mommy bloggers have. Help was graciously given, and I found myself with a proper handmade mould and deckle for paper roughly […]

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]]> 314 Papermaking https://rchrystal.com/papermaking/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:37:58 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=291 I’m essentially turning into a millennial-hobby-crafting-mom, without the babies. My most recent experiment in the realm of arts and crafts was making paper by hand, which is to say, expending a lot of time and effort to make paper out of…paper. The idea was recycling. Could I turn junk mail into letter stationery? Could I […]

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