Monett Enriquez Collages

Images by Monette Enriquez via flickr. CC license.
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Sydney artist Monett Enriquez makes sweet collages cut from fragments of recycled illustrations torn from fashion magazines. See more here.

I love This Concept!

Upcycled Newspaper Rack Ready for Check Out

Variations on a Cloche

Photo via L'armolre D'Eolune

Photo via Aiguilles e Crayons

Last October I posted a pattern and tutorial for a cloche style hat I made from recycled sweater felt. This month I've gotten links from two lovely bloggers who have made their own versions from my pattern. It's very interesting to see other interpretations (and gratifying to know my pattern actually works for someone else's head). I think they are both adorable!

Photos (top to bottom): Eolune (visit her blog), Natcha visit her blog), me (in my cloche).

Thanks very much to Eolune for the original link to my tutorial on her blog (my cloche's portal into French cyberspace...).

If anyone else made a version, please send (or leave) me a link.

How to Properly Hem up Jeans

How to Hem Your Jeans with Style 

(found via Outsapop) 

I've never really known how to do this correctly. Now I do! If you have trouble seeing the whole embed, click on the Scribd Logo at the top and it will take you to the original document.

New Valentine Cards at Blue Snail Papers

New in our Blue Snail Papers Etsy shop today. I made these from the pages of an old book of Shakespeare comedies. 

Recycled Cardboard Tube Bracelets

Photos by Larissa Wilson via etsy. Buy here. 

Larissa Wilson makes jewelry out of recycled materials. These bracelets are made from recycled cardboard and found papers. In here own words:

"This bracelet is made from a recycled industrial cardboard tube. Each bracelet is lovingly decorated with recycled papers and acrylic paint, and carefully hand carved, sanded and distressed. Finally they are coated with several layers of acrylic varnish making them not only super glossy, but water and alcohol resistant."
(qoute taken from item description).
 
Visit her shop here and her brand new blog here. 

Recycled Leather Cuffs

Photos by Molly Heltsley via Etsy.

Molly Heltsley makes beautiful jewelry. Most of her work is in metals, but I really like her leather cuffs made from recycled belts and recycled silk ribbon. Visit her shop here.