DIY Kitchen Planner - Recycling Craft

It's been a while since I posted any recycling craft here.I'm a pack rat,as I've mentioned here .I can't throw away anything that I even remotely feel can be reused or recycled. So when I ended up breaking a photo frame when we moved house, I turned it into a kitchen planner. Before a few years a Kitchen planner would have been the last thing I would've crafted. I could pull out a shopping list right out of my head without even having to look into the Fridge and the cupboards. Well when you are a mother of two kids you reach a point where you miss to even buy things which are on the list you have in your hands ,let's not talk about forgetting to take that list ! Well there is an upside to the forgetfulness ,you'd become an expert at finding the substitute for things. Like when you forget to buy Flour to make a cake or make a makeshift envelope.Though I'm yet to find the substitute for salt which I sometimes manage to forget !

I added a few things to the old frame,which I found in my craft box and my daughter's pencil pouch .

A couple of buttons, some colourful tape, one of those pen caps which are always lying around with the pen missing and some post it notes.

It looks both decorative on the Kitchen wall and serves it's purpose, meaning I write the stuff I need on it before I forget them.

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Glass jar Craft - Recycling craft

I've been wanting to do glass painting for quite sometime and have collected a couple of glass jars. But I still haven't found any special paints for glass painting in the shops here.Those that I found online were pricey too,guess I'll have to wait for my next trip to India to buy them.Meanwhile I had some fabric paint lying around,so one rainy afternoon little girl and I decided to make something out of it to fight boredom. I just stuck two glass jars with their mouths together and did some simple designs on it ( scribbling actually :)).Then  Little girl stuck some stones on it with double sided tape :)

It looked pretty with sunlight filtering through it..

The Bottom of the jar

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Sketch Pen Birdhouse - Recycling Craft & A Makeover !

I had been concentrating on  my cooking blog and had totally neglected my poor craft blog.Neither did I like the name nor the appearance of it,so decided to give it a face lift today :) Collected all my craft supplies to make a colorful background ,found that I had so much that I had been accumulating over the past few years :)As for the name,it's easy to guess :) Was teaching my daughter to play Rock-Paper-Scissors,when I suddenly felt that Hook-Paper-Scissors sounds definitely more interesting than my previous title 'Get Crafting'.

Coming to today's post,I'm a person who can't simply throw away things unless I know that I can't make anything else out of them.Hubby feels that I have some problem with discarding things :) I have a huge carton full of things that I intend to recycle,hopefully ! Little Girl loves coloring and scribbling. It was like she suddenly took an interest to coloring and scribbling when she just crossed her first birthday and yes my beige color Sofa is full of marks now :( So we bought this big bucket of sketch pens so that it'll be easier to clean up and remove the marks.Now she's lost interest in coloring and I was left with a bucket of used Sketch pens.Seriously I couldn't get myself to throw those little colorful sticks in the bin :( So kept stocking them up until I came up with this simple idea.

 It's very simple to make .I just used an old face cream container,some cardboard and a double sided sellotape apart from the sketch pens.

 I used an old unused marker and the lid of an old box to connect both the parts of the bird house.

I wanted to make a small bird (something that resembled a bird actually :)) for the birdhouse.Guess that's easy to figure out.It's the box found in Kinder Joy Chocolate.Little girl loves it and sometimes I give in and get her one.She collects the toys inside while I collect the boxes.I just glued a pair of eyes and a straw to it :)

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